01-03-2006, 07:11 PM
GenericKen,Jan 3 2006, 11:37 AM Wrote:When did this story get a hindu woman?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
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From the link to Wikipedia that you provide, reading the last paragraph in the first section:
"A version of the story also appears in Clifford Geertz's, 'Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture,' in his 1973 book The Interpretation of Culture, with the scientist and old woman replaced by an Englishman and an Indian respectively. This version may be a reference to various Hindu beliefs, including the myth that Vishnu's second avatar was Kurma, a tortoise on whose back the Mandara mountain rested, or that the tortoise Chukwa supports the elephant Maha-pudma who upholds the world."