In the beginning of "The World on Turtle's Back," why did the husband become "terrified"? He was terrified the he might never see his wife again. He was terrified that his wife might fall through the hole in the sky. He was terrified that he would be punished for marring a sacred tree. He was terrified that the Great Tree would fall into the ocean.

In the beginning of "The World on Turtle's Back," we can see that a character named just as "husband" is terrified of being punished for having destroyed the sacred tree that lit up the world where he lived.

"The World on Turtle's Back," is a myth created by the Iroquois to explain the origin of the earth and living things. In this myth, we can see:

There was a realm above the heavens that was created even before the earth was created.
This realm was inhabited by magical beings who did not die, grow old, or get sick. They were called the people of heaven.
There was a tree in the center of that realm that was holy.
The tree lit up the entire kingdom, since the sun did not exist.

One day, one of the women of the heavenly realm discovered that she was pregnant with twins. She is very happy and tells her husband, but he is furious with the news, to the point of pulling the sacred tree from the ground. This causes a hole and he throws his pregnant wife into that hole.

The man is terrified, not because he threw his wife to an unknown end, but because he destroyed the sacred tree and is afraid of being punished.

Despite the fall, the woman survives and gives birth to the twins who will create all the elements of planet earth.

With this, we can conclude that the Iroquois also created myths to explain things they did not know, such as the origin of the planet and human beings.

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