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.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I 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
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