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[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Galapagos

Lets talk about interesting gods! Unique gods, and what makes them that way. Cool gods you wouldn't mind sitting down and having a drink with(or crashing a palm wine god party with).

*note-wasn't sure if this should go in anthropology or theology... gods---errr, i mean mods-- relocate if you see fit

This put me in mind of Rabbit Boy, and while not a god per se, he is a creator of god-like repute. Here is just the start of the story to get the flavor of what it means to be descended from a kicked-around bloodclot of unknown origin. Just give me a kick if this is not what you had in mind. If I hit the mark however, I know some interesting turtle-god stories.

Originally Posted by Sioux

...In these far-gone days, hidden from us as in a mist, there lived a rabbit - a very lively, playful, good-hearted rabbit.

One day this rabbit was walking, enjoying himself, when he came across a clot of blood. How it got there, nobody knows. It looked like a blister, a little bladder full of red liquid. Well, the playful rabbit began toying with that clot of blood, kicking it around as if it were a tiny ball.

Now, we Indians believe in Takuskanskan, the mysterious power of motion. Its spirit is in anything that moves. It animates things and makes them come alive.

Well, the rabbit got into this strange moving power without even knowing it, and the motion of being kicked around, or rather the spirit of the motion - and I hope you can grasp what I mean by that - began to work on the little blob of blood so that it took shape, forming a little gut.

The rabbit kicked it some more, and the blob began to grow tiny hands and arms. The rabbit kept nudging it, and suddenly it had eyes and a beating heart. In this way the rabbit, with the help of the mysterious moving power, formed a human being, a little boy.

The rabbit called him "We-Ota-Wichasha", Much-Blood Boy, but he is better known as Rabbit Boy. ...

...rest of the story