Good ol’’ A’tuin
All these people worried about the flat earth and not a single one worried about the real issue here: Our turtle here, is it a male or a female? Because the outcome when it finds another wandering turtle can be extremely different depending on this.
I do believe the Great A’Tuin is male but don’t think he’s ever seen another turtle
Weren’t they trying to establish that in the first Rincewind book? I thought they determined it to be unknowable, but it has been a long time since I read it.
I find it amusing that more than once I’ve seen this picture of A’tuin, the space turtle from Discworld, used to represent Maturin, the space turtle from Stephen King’s books. I don’t remember Maturin having elephants or a disc-shaped world on his back!
At least it’s better than when they cast Paul Bettany as Maturin in that movie opposite Russell Crowe. He’s not even a turtle, he just studied them.
They’re both based off a real life series of deities from like Hinduism to some Chinese folk stuff to American Indian tribal lore.
“See the TURTLE of Enormous Girth”
“On his shell he holds the Earth.”
“His thought is slow, but always kind.”
“He holds us all within his mind.”
“On his back all vows are made;”
“He sees the truth but mayn’t aid.”
“He loves the land and loves the sea,”
“And even loves a child like me.”
GNU Sir Terry
If I may, could you add to the transcript that its a flat planet on the backs of elephants on the back of a turtle, in a reference to discworld?
updated
Thanks!
Every time I’ve seen this, it’s been on my phone and I’ve always thought it was the shadow of a drone.
Now I’m seeing it on a bigger screen and can finally tell what it is.
Wait, the turtles don’t go all the way down?!?
A metamodern reference?! Noice.
After the 🐘🐘🐘🐘 it’s all Turtle. But The Great A’Tuin doesn’t stand on anything. It/She/He/They swims through space, with a purpose and destination unknown to us.
There’s just the one but he’s pretty big.
I knew it!
I knew the world was flat! F U Round Earthers! Now the 4 elephants on the back of a turtle did surprise me.
Another perspective of presumably the same event by Josh Kirby…
So moon turtles are a thing now?
Always have been
i thought it was only moon rabbits who lived on the moon. /j
