CS Lewis imagined that Earth's Moon was:
"'...as the shield of the Dark Lord of Thulcandra - scarred with many a blow.'"
-CS Lewis, Perelandra IN Lewis, The Cosmic Trilogy (London, 1990), pp. 145-348 AT 17, p. 338.
Thus, Lewis incorporates lunar craters into his fictional mythology. He also finds a place for the "canals" of Mars and the supposed oceans of Venus. In haste. Back here later.
Addendum
Correction: It was not a Ramnuan moon but Ramnu itself that became a shield:
"Hooligan curved around and departed from Ramnu. The planet became a shield, emblazoned azure, argent and sable, against the stars."
-A Stone In Heaven, XII, p. 166.
The emphasis is on the appearance of Ramnu as an emblazoned shield, not on the planet as shielding Hooligan.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
A very HERALDIC description by Anderson!
More prosaically, of course, our Moon was scarred by the impact of all those asteroids smashing into it.
Ad astra! Sean
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