In the World on the Turtle´s Back the Iroquois wanted to emphasize how there was a Sky World, with people that had extravagant beliefs that explained how good and evil balanced everything in their life. This peculiar place had different gods, like Iroquois. They believed in weird thing for example they believed that a Great tree was the center of their universe. The Great Tree wasn’t a habitual tree, it was huge and had been in that place forever. In this Sky World, there was this woman that seemed to break the rules and desire things that are off limit. She practically forced her husband to get her what she wanted from the Great Tree, ending in an unfortunate event in which the pregnant woman felt from the Sky World. This stubborn woman got pregnant by a bizarre man that placed two arrows across her body. What she didn’t know is that she was expecting opposite twins, the white side and the dark side. Since the moment the twins where in their mother´s belly they caused her trouble.
The left-handed twin, also referred as the Devious one, was the extravagant one he wanted to be born through the left armpit. The way this twin believed he should not be born the normal way influenced his behavior and how he followed the dark path. No baby is born through the armpit so it caused some
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Even though the twins had a constant rivalry between them they still needed each other to create new things on their World and to keep a balance in their World. The Master of Life created humans who are the main thing in the World. The Devious One who lives in the world below knows how the human world works and finds content in it. People had rituals to honor the right-handed twin during the day and the left-handed twin at night. The comparison between The Master of Life and The Devious One shows how good and evil compliments each