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[36] [48] Human researchers find Gamera floating in the Pacific Ocean, encased in rock, and mistake him for an atoll. [49] Within the rock, they discover a large monolith explaining Gamera's origins, along with dozens of magatama made from orichalcum , which allow for a psychic link between Gamera and humans.
In the episodes "Born to Spawn" and "Fortune Cookie", he is referred to as Mr. Filburt Turtle. However, in the episode "High Five of Doom" [ 7 ] Rocko and Heffer read in Filburt's diary that his full name is Filburt Shellbach, which was officially considered his real name.
Various floating islands are featured in Genshin Impact. The most notable of these is the mysterious floating island known as Celestia (Chinese: 天空岛) which looms high in the skies over Teyvat, and is said to be "the realm of the gods." The Hydro nation of Fontaine has its entire continental plate elevated well above the sea level of other ...
The Discworld is the fictional world where English writer Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels take place. It consists of an interstellar planet-sized disc, which sits on the backs of four huge elephants, themselves standing on the back of a world turtle, named Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space.
Neidan Illustration of Bringing Together the Four Symbols 和合四象圖, 1615 Xingming guizhi. The Four Symbols are mythological creatures appearing among the Chinese constellations along the ecliptic, and viewed as the guardians of the four cardinal directions.
The World Turtle in Hindu mythology is known as Akūpāra (Sanskrit: अकूपार), or sometimes Chukwa.An example of a reference to the World Turtle in Hindu literature is found in Jñānarāja (the author of Siddhantasundara, writing c. 1500): "A vulture, whichever has only little strength, rests in the sky holding a snake in its beak for a prahara [three hours].
The eastern box turtle is the official state reptile of two U.S. states: North Carolina (which gives rise to the species and subspecies name carolina carolina) and Tennessee. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] In Pennsylvania, the eastern box turtle made it through one house of the legislature, but failed to win final naming in 2009. [ 30 ]
(video) Pig-nosed turtle swimming. The pig-nosed turtle is unlike any other species of freshwater turtle in its combination of traits. The feet are flippers, resembling those of marine turtles. The nose looks like that of a pig, having the nostrils at the end of a fleshy snout, hence the common name.