Africa

Tortoise

Fertility, family |June 17, 2007
by: GiErre

Design Story

To some cultures, the world was founded on a tortoise shell, symbolizing the contact with earth, and today her eggs are still sometimes used in rites aimed to favor fertility, or to wish someone a long life with his dear ones, this undabtedly on account of their own longevity: giant tortoises can live more than a century!

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