The woman placed the dirt on Turtle's back and performed a ritual to create the earth. She walked around the dirt in the direction of the sun until the earth grew large enough. Then she planted the roots from the Great Tree and continued her ritual to keep the earth growing. Like the sun she kept moving around the earth, in the same direction the people still do in dance rituals today.

The main purpose of this quotation is to

A. emphasize the importance of rituals in everyday life.

B. prove that animals played a major role in the creation of the Earth.

C. show why dancers move from east to west in rituals.

D. describe the Iroquois belief of how the Earth was created.

PS the answer is not B

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3 February, 12:15

The woman placed the dirt on Turtle's back and performed a ritual to create the earth. She walked around the dirt in the direction of the sun until the earth grew large enough. Then she planted the roots from the Great Tree and continued her ritual to keep the earth growing. Like the sun she kept moving around the earth, in the same direction the people still do in dance rituals today.

The main purpose of this quotation is to

A. emphasize the importance of rituals in everyday life.

B. prove that animals played a major role in the creation of the Earth.

C. show why dancers move from east to west in rituals.

D. describe the Iroquois belief of how the Earth was created.

PS the answer is not B

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The best answer is D) describe the Iroquois belief of how the Earth was created.

The passage describes the Iroquois belief of how the Earth was created, by walking around it in the direction of the sun, and spreading the earth until it gradually grew to its current size.