To some they appear a little contrived and hokey given the increasing strangess of naming conventions by fantasy writers in recent years, but in 1911-1920, names like Hor Vastus, Thuvan Dihn, Gahan of Gathol, Thuvia, etc, were quite exotic-yet familiar and easy to pronounce. Like all the other races of Barsoom, the Okarians are forever at war with all peoples as a matter of survival on this world of dwindling resources.ĮRB's Barsoomian names roll off the tongue. They have an advanced science based on electromagnetics. The north pole is the land of the yellow race, the Okarians. Burroughs has major fun debunking Martian religions as represented by the First Born Issus and the tenets of the Holy Hekkadors of the Therns. The south pole is ruled by the Therns (a white race) and the First Born (a black race). Quite human in appearance, though the female lays eggs rather than giving birth of infants, it is among these peoples that John Carter gains acceptance which matches his admiration for their finer qualities. Hereditary enemies of the green martian is the red man. These creatures, averaging 14-15 feet in height, often take a deserted, ancient city as a gathering point, tribes up to 60,000 strong with a possible world population of 5 millions. Hordes of nomadic green martians rule the dead sea bottoms. Though Barsoom is smaller than Earth, it has more land surface than the third planet! Ed Burroughs populated this vast desert world with some of the oddest and most interesting alien races ever to spring forth from his fertile imagination. At one end of the spectrum is a science so evolved that it exceeds anything on Earth, yet at the other it is a world of savage barbarity unlike anything found on our planet. A BARSOOM GLOSSARY BARSOOMIAN FLIERS BARSOOMīereft of once mighty oceans and a natural atmosphere, Barsoom is a world of strange and dangerous contradictions.
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