In a Japanese myth, Urashima caught one of these creatures, who transformed into one of the Pleiades and took him to heaven, and in a Mayan myth, Chaac accidentally killed Tactani's daughter when the Sun took the form of one of these creatures. In a Sumerian myth, one of these creatures was placed as a guardian before the Apsu and, after quickly digging a pit, pushed Ninurta into it after that god tried to reacquire the Tablets of Destiny from Enki. In an Iroquois myth, one of these creatures is smeared in mud in order 
In a Japanese myth, Urashima caught one of these creatures, who transformed into one of the Pleiades and took him to heaven, and in a Mayan myth, Chaac accidentally killed Tactani's daughter when the Sun took the form of one of these creatures. In a Sumerian myth, one of these creatures was placed as a guardian before the Apsu and, after quickly digging a pit, pushed Ninurta into it after that god tried to reacquire the Tablets of Destiny from Enki. In an Iroquois myth, one of these creatures is smeared in mud in order to give a heavenly woman a place to (*) live, thus creating the earth. One of these creatures morphs into a beautiful girl named Mohini in a Hindu story in which this creature facilitated an effort to obtain divine nectar from Mt. Mandara. Vishnu's second avatar, Kurma, took the form of this creature during the churning of the ocean, in which it bore the Mountain on its back across the sea. Shang dynasty oracle divinations and the original lyre created by Hermes relied on, FTP, the shell of what kind of animal, which races against a hare in a famous Aesop fable?
In a Japanese myth, Urashima caught one of these creatures, who transformed into one of the Pleiades and took him to heaven, and in a Mayan myth, Chaac accidentally killed Tactani's daughter when the Sun took the form of one of these creatures.
{Turtle} [or {Tortoise} or {Terrapin}]