Read this quotation from "The World on Turtle's Back." The woman placed the dirt on Turtle's back and performed a ritual to crea
te the earth. She walked around the dirt in the direction of the sun until the earth grew large enough. Then she planted the roots from the Great Tree and continued her ritual to keep the earth growing. Like the sun she kept moving around the earth, in the same direction the people still do in dance rituals today. The main purpose of this quotation is to
Answer: Describe the Iroquois belief of how the Earth was created.
Explanation: In this quotation from "The World on Turtle's Back" we can see the description of how a woman created the Earth by placing dirt on Turtle's back and performing a ritual, which consisted in walking around the dirt in the direction of the sun and waiting to the Earth to grow to her desired size. This story is a myth about the origin of the world, and it is based in the beliefs of the Iroquois people.
