Why tortoise's neck is outstretched toward the sky: is looking for his wife, the star

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Why tortoise's neck is outstretched toward the sky: is looking for his wife, the star.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: trunk. · view the constellation · filed as A2351.5

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India Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Origin and nature of animal's neck.

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