Controlling the Silver

Creation Story: Why Our Island is Shaped Like a Turtle

26 Creation Story: Why Our Island is Shaped Like a Turtle On the Shell gas station map, Jamaica, big-up and large over broad Caribbean sea. The pin head of our village turns up and pricks your finger so a drop of blood spots Harvey River. We’re really on the map now you say, then wonder why our island is shaped like a swimming turtle. A possible explanation: Swimming turtle smitten with hot sun paddles up from water bottom in search of light become her love object. Turtle call is ska beat, turtle tail licks riddim, tail of turtle, nine miles long forms sea-side of Negril. Turtle implores Creator, leave me here. I choose to fall from heaven under the water to be with hotsun. So creator strikes turtle with stick, her shell cracks, in rush big rivers, hills and high mountains swell up. 27 Turtle strikes bargain with Creator to remain above water, housing Taino, Europe, Africa, India, Asia and China just to be with sun, and tell the world that Jah Mek Ya, so Jah said, Yah. ...