Great A'Tuin has been mentioned to frequently roll on its belly to avoid asteroid and comet collisions, or even to snatch these projectiles out of the sky which might otherwise destroy the Disc. Whether this was the event the Great A'Tuin was looking forward to or merely one step towards its ultimate goal is not mentioned. The little turtles have since gone off on their own journeys. Eric shows Great A'Tuin being made instantly from nothing, seemingly in support of the "steady gait" theory however, the events in The Light Fantastic, in which the Great A'Tuin attended the hatching of eight baby turtles, each with four baby elephants and a tiny discworld of their own, would seem to support the Big Bang hypothesis. The other theory, described as being popular among the Discworld's academics as the Discworld version of the steady state theory, which in-universe is known as the "steady gait" theory, is that he/she came from nowhere and is going to keep swimming through space to nowhere forever. All they have been able to discern is that the Great A'Tuin is looking forward to something. Attempts by telepaths to learn more about Great A'Tuin's intents have not met with much success, mainly because they did not realise that its brain functions are on such a slow timescale. The hypothesis is that all stars in the sky are obviously also worlds carried by giant turtles, and that when all the turtles meet they will mate passionately, for the first and only time from that mating, it is hypothesized that new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. If, as the Discworld version of the popular " Big Bang theory" states, Great A'Tuin is moving from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, then at the point of mating the civilizations of the Disc might be crushed, simply slide off, or else the entire world will end. The sex of the World Turtle is pivotal in proving or disproving a number of conflicting theories about the destination of Great A'Tuin's journey through the cosmos. Great A'Tuin's sex is unknown to the inhabitants of Discworld (though in The Colour of Magic Pratchett describes the turtle as male), but the subject of much speculation by some of the Disc's finest scientific minds. The narration has described A'Tuin as "the only turtle ever to feature on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram". Great A'Tuin is the Giant Star Turtle (of the fictional species Chelys galactica) who travels through the Discworld universe's space, carrying four giant elephants (named Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen) who in turn carry the Discworld. Pratchett first explored the idea of a disc-shaped world in the novel Strata (1981). The Disc has been shown to be heavily influenced by magic and, while Pratchett gave it certain similarities to planet Earth, he also created his own system of physics for it. It consists of a large disc (complete with edge-of-the-world drop-off and consequent waterfall) resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle, named Great A'Tuin (similar to Chukwa or Akupara from Hindu mythology) as it slowly swims through space. The Discworld is the fictional setting for all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels. The Colour of Magic (24 November 1983 ( )) doi: 10.22122/ Discworld as it appears in the SkyOne adaptation of The Colour of Magic A Review of Alcohol-Related Harms: A Recent Update. Cabergoline in the treatment of male orgasmic disorder-a retrospective pilot analysis. Hollander AB, Pastuszak AW, Hsieh T-C, et al. Multiple orgasms in men-what we know so far. Normal male sexual function: emphasis on orgasm and ejaculation. Boston: Butterworths 1990: Chapter 216.Īlwaal A, Breyer BN, Lue TF. Clinical methods: the history, physical, and laboratory examinations. In: Walker HK, Hall WD, Hurst JW, editors. Is it normal for girls to release fluid during orgasm?īrecher EM. Relationships among cardiovascular, muscular, and oxytocin responses during human sexual activity. doi: 10.1007/BF01541570Ĭarmichael MS, Warburton VL, Dixen J, Davidson JM. doi: 10.1111/j.īohlen JG, Held JP, Sanderson MO, Ahlgren A. Disorders of orgasm and ejaculation in men.
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