Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for August 24, 2014

I prefer the mythology where the earth is on the back of a turtle, which is standing on a larger turtle, which is standing on a larger turtle. It’s nothing but turtles all the way down.

The great A’Tuin. (species Chelys galactica) The only creature in the universe who knows exactly where it’s going.

So some Hindu belong to the flat earth society.

Nope, that’s only Pratchet’s discworld.

@cabalonrye: Nope. Pratchett said that he got the idea from elsewhere (an “Indo-European sophistication”). If you search for “In Indian Myth Our World is Supported by Four Elephants Standing on the Back of a Giant Turtle” you can find a old poster that’s for sale that’s supposedly much older than the Discworld books.

Earthquake!

Don’t tell the animal rights activists about that. They have a cow over two iPads on a tortoise’s back.

I do wonder how the idea began.

After some marathon Discworld reading, I tried Stephen Hawking’s “Brief History of Time” as a change of pace. Of course that book had to start out with a world balanced on the back of a turtle too!

The art work here by T Lewis is exceptional!

Thank you Terry Pratchett

In any case, poor Verne’s got the world on his back.

Great art.