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.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteA 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