“They say the world is flat and supported on the back of four elephants who themselves stand on the back of a giant turtle.

They say that the elephants, being such huge beasts, have bones of rock and iron, and nerves of gold for better conductivity over long distances.

They say that the fifth elephant came screaming and trumpeting though the atmosphere of the young world all those years ago and landed hard enough to split continents and raise mountains.

No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical question: when millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there is no one to hear it, does it- philosophically speaking- make a noise?

And if there was no one to see it hit, did it actually hit?” - Terry Pratchett ‘The Fifth Elephant’.

The idea of a giant elephant losing its footing and going into orbit around its old ‘body’ and falling into its own world is an amazing thing to imagine. I wonder if A"tuin and its fellow elephants would have noticed or been bothered about losing a part of itself? If indeed of course it did fall.