See Inside Perun.
Some details missed earlier:
"Perun" is the highest Slavic deity (see image and here);
the glass-smooth passage has an "ogive" vault and inset panels of differently colored minerals;
there is barely audible flute and violin music;
there are bittersweet odors;
doors open onto a cafe, a foodstore and workshops;
the population, not yet large enough to fill these carved caverns, is colorfully dressed.
I had missed the usual Andersonian appeal to at least three of the senses.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI did think puzzling the Alpha Centaurian Lunarians would have named their new home after so obscure a pagan god as Perun. He does not exactly spring to mind the way better known "gods" like Amon-Ra, Baal, Moloch, Zeus, Jupiter, Odin, Thor, etc., do.
Sean