World Turtle

English

Alternative forms

• world turtle

Noun

World Turtle (plural World Turtles)

1. The mythical giant sea turtle or tortoise that upholds the World in various cosmologies.
   • 1970, Hubert Sieben, Ian Fraser Grant, Bali: Morning of the World, page 6:

     In the underworld beneath the lid on the back of the world turtle, where the god Batara Kala and the goddess Setesuyara lived, there was perpetual darkness.

Translations

a mythical giant turtle

• Balinese: Bedawang, Bedawang Nala
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鰲／鳌 (zh) (áo)

• Sanskrit: अकूपार (sa) (ákūpāra)
• Ukrainian: Світова черепаха (Svitova čerepaxa)