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Read the excerpt from "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

He went North, Best Beloved, and he found All-the-Elephant-there-was digging with his tusks and stamping with his feet in the nice new clean earth that had been made ready for him.

‘Kun?’ said All-the-Elephant-there-was, meaning, ‘Is this right?’

‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician, meaning, ‘That is quite right’; and he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth that All-the-Elephant-there-was had thrown up, and they became the great Himalayan Mountains, and you can look them out on the map.

He went East, and he found All-the-Cow-there-was feeding in the field that had been made ready for her, and she licked her tongue round a whole forest at a time, and swallowed it and sat down to chew her cud.

‘Kun?’ said All-the-Cow-there-was.

‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the bare patch where she had eaten, and

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Hello. You forgot to ask the question associated with that text. The question is:

What are the supporting details that support that this is a story about the creation of the world?

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The details that state that this text presents a story about the creation of the world is the presentation of the magician creating the mountains, islands and deserts with his divine power, in addition to creating the first animals.

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Ancient civilizations used to create legends and tales about the creation of the world and of human beings. These stories showed how the first things were created and these cravings were always associated with divine, magical and mystical beings who used their powerful skills to create. The text shown in the question above is an example of this, since we can perceive the presence of a magician who with his powers creates the first mountains, islands and deserts, together with the first animals, using his own breath.

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