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Wait that’s not… where are the elephants?
QUICKEDIT: Turns out I’m the dumb one here. I was massively misreading this as a Discworld reference before catching on. My bad.
I came here looking for this comment! You are not dumb at all for having the association! :D
I’m not aware of discworld. I was under the impression from irl flat earthers that the turtle was actually part of it for some of them.
Besides backing up what Savarosa said, I think this impression of a flat disc on the back of a giant space turtle with the sun kinda hanging around is probably borrowed from Discworld (as it has shown up on the cover of a few of them), but I think Discworld initially borrowed the concept from various older theories about the shape/structure of the Earth.
Earth being on the back of a turtle is an old myth developed independently a few times. It probably has its origins in people viewing hibernating turtles emerging from under the soil.
The Disc of Discworld is also supported on the back of four elephants (possibly five since one book, The Fifth Elephant is devoted to finding the lost titular elephant), which I believe is tied to Hindu myth?
This is a great discworld drawing but it needs more elephants.
If you like fantasy and smart, quick comedy, I wholeheartedly recommend those books - or some old point and click games. :)
I’ll check out the books for sure!
The world being born from a turtle is no more stupid then a man coming back to life and flying around in the sky. Or the prophet that predicted his return then was eating by dogs. Or a 8 handed man with the head of an elephant. Or a man that throws lightning.
You’re right. It’s obvious that it was all drunkenly assembled by a flying spaghetti monster!
Pastafarianism, I’m familiar and supportive. Have you heard of the church of Satan? Better deal then all of those
Looks like NZ is on there. Nice.
Is that red thing the “O” from the end of “Dumbo”?
It’s the sun
Ah, that makes more sense. TY
