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| Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ Aug. 31 2009,14:26) | the last battle i thought made it clear that Tash was Allah and Aslan the christian god.
in this analysis then what of Tash?
Tashlan?
there are biblical precedents for those ideas in Lewis. i'm not sure how to think about these things under the scheme above.
ETA on second thought its all just another jack tell bull shite and the green knights and the pips. if it aint revelations there i don't know what.
i really did think that there were a bunch of turks and moors and scimitars in that last narnarnia book thar. and they bowed on rugs and what-all, with camels and stuff. or not, i don't rememb.er but i always thought it was antichristophoric histrionics told from the perspective of great mums wet nurse. the mistress's son of the first imperial whoremongler |
Your memory is correct about Tash. My daughter and I read all seven books aloud this past year. They are pretty good stories, but the depictions of the darker skinned, clearly Arab people is embarrassing. This is mostly in "A Horse and His Boy" and "The Last Battle." One of the things you want to skip through as you read the series. I don't feel like digging through the books to find some tasty examples, but I know there were sentences I skipped over due to the racism.
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