Deeper Heaven · the world of the Ransom Trilogy
The Field of Arbol
Lewis’s heavens are not empty space but a lit, peopled house, and the three novels move through it: Mars, then Venus, then the gods come down to Earth. Choose a world.
Infortuna Minor
Malacandra
Mars · captain of a cold orb
Courage, justice and sturdy hardiness; the god of war and also of farmers. An old, cold world of high country and deep canyons, home to three kinds of hnau: the hrossa, the séroni and the pfifltriggi.
MetalIron
Its OyarsaMalacandra, met at Meldilorn
In the novels
Out of the Silent Planet, the first novel, where Ransom is kidnapped and carried here.
In Deeper Heaven
Part I, chapters 4–13, above all chapter 9, “Grey-Eyed & Keen: The Martial Influence”, and chapter 12, “Devils in Disguise: Hell on Malacandra”.
Old Solar
A short glossary
The book’s Appendix B has the whole language, with every character and place.
- hnau
- Rational creatures with souls: men, hrossa, séroni, pfifltriggi.
- eldil, eldila
- The angelic beings of the heavens; some good, some bent.
- Oyarsa
- The ruling eldil of a world.
- Maleldil
- The Triune God; Maleldil the Young is Christ.
- hross, hrossa
- Malacandra’s poets and water-workers, black-coated and whiskered.
- sorn, séroni
- The tall, feathered philosophers of the high country.
- pfifltrigg
- The makers and craftsmen of the old ocean beds.
- handramit
- The low, watered country; a gorge or canyon.
- harandra
- The high country.
- hnakra
- The snapping beast the hrossa love to hunt.
- thulc
- Silent. Thulcandra: the Silent Planet.
- wondelone
- To long for what is past while content that it is gone.
- hluntheline
- To yearn for something that cannot come again, and strive for it anyway.
- hnakrapunt
- A slayer of the hnakra, which Ransom becomes beside Hyoi and Whin.
- crah
- The last part of a poem.
- Arbol hru
- Gold: “the Sun’s blood”.
Keep going
The map is the first page of the book. The other 411 are the journey.
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