The Earth on the Turtle's Back

This story is trying to explain that way back when the Earth was created, the ancient chief was represented as God and the people in heaven. One day when his wife has a dream something is telling her that she needs to get rid of the giant tree because there is something special about it. They uprooted it after a couple of tries since no one could do it because it was too hard for everyone except for the strongest one, they saw that where there once was great big roots was now a land which is known as Earth. The wife went to go look and happened to fall through where she was caught by two birds. The animals realized she wasn't like them and that she couldn't live on water so they had all the animals try to go find "Earth" burried deep in the water. Only one little animal came up with a small piece of Earth that they put on the back of a turtle that later became more spreadout and grew to be the completed Earth. The seeds she held onto from when she fell from the sky became the soil that everything grew from to create what we have now today. This story was a little confusing to me about how the trutles helped explain the origin myth. It made me feel that i could understand thar when the tiny piece of earth fell on the back in the turtle that it grew larger and larger and thats why it became the whole world. I didn't exactly enjoy reading this passage but I did what I needed to do.