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It isn’t made totally explicit, but I think we are meant to take this to mean ‘God’. Looming behind and above the eldila and each planet’s oyarsa appears to be the highest power of all, which the hnau refer to as Maleldil. It is symptomatic of Lewis’s goal of sacramentalising the universe that he says we must learn to refer to space not as ‘space’ – it is not empty space – it is teeming with mystical life forms and replenishing energy – it should be referred to as ‘Deep Heaven’.

Movement in and out of the silent planet was banned eons ago, to prevent the rest of the solar system from becoming ‘infected’ with its wickedness.

Thus Earth has been ‘enemy’-occupied territory since before history began (Chapter 15).

(And hence the title of the book, ‘Out of The Silent Planet’.)

Hence Earth’s name in their culture is Thulcandra, which means ‘the silent planet’. But that some kind of primeval disaster afflicted the Earth way back in its history, so that its spirit became wicked, or ‘bent’ as the hnau (intelligent creatures) of Mars put it.That each planet in the solar system (or ‘Field of Arbol’ as it is called) is ruled by a kind of tutelary spirit and that these spirits can communicate across space.What humans call space should really be referred to as ‘Deep Heaven’. That what humans take to be the empty space between planets is in reality teeming with spirits which the human eye can barely detect, named eldila.he also learns fellowship from the otter-like hrossa, hears wisdom from the tall, willowy sorns, and is taken to the sanctuary of the master spirit or oyarsa who rules Mars which, he learns, is called Malacandra in the local language. Escaping from his captors Ransom discovers that Mars is inhabited by three very different but intelligent life forms who have forged a peaceful working relationship – the Pfifltriggi, the Hrossa, and the Sorns.Įlwin (it’s only in this second book that we learn his first name) Ransom – being a philologist by trade – swiftly learns the language of Mars which is called Hressa-Hlab. In the first novel the Cambridge philologist, Ransom, was kidnapped by the physicist Weston and his partner Devine, and flown in their space ship all the way to Mars. Perelandra (also known as Voyage to Venus) (1943).Lewis’s theological science fiction trilogy, which consists of: But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue.