Mars Literature — Index of Downloaded Texts
TL;DR: Mars Literature — Index of Downloaded Texts: Where multiple authors independently describe the same or closely related elements, convergence is noted. Bold = strong convergence (2+ authors). Only Burroughs in this collection describes polar forbidden zones in detail: Purpose: Summarise all Mars-related fiction in the wget collection and highlight convergence of facts across authors. Assumes fiction-as-disclosure: repeated, independent descriptions of the same elements may encode suppressed truth.
I. Sources in This Collection
| Author | Work(s) | Location | Type |
| Edwin Lester Arnold | Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905) | arnold/pg604.txt | Full text |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Barsoom series (7 novels indexed) | burroughs/barsoom/*-index.md | Clue indexes |
| H.G. Wells | “The Crystal Egg” (1897) — Mars surveillance crystal | wells/ (in Tales of Space and Time) | Index only |
| C.S. Lewis | Out of the Silent Planet (1938) — Mars as Malacandra | cslewis/ | Index only |
Barsoom Indexes (full clue extraction)
princess-of-mars-index.md— First novel; dead seas, atmosphere plant, Korad, telepathic beastsgods-of-mars-index.md— Valley Dor, River Iss, Holy Therns, First Born, Plant Menwarlord-of-mars-index.md— North pole Okar, Yellow Martians, Kadabrathuvia-maid-of-mars-index.md— Lotharians (telepathic remnants)chessmen-of-mars-index.md— Kaldane/Rykor, Bantoom, Gatholmaster-mind-of-mars-index.md— Ras Thavas, brain transferfighting-man-of-mars-index.md— Jahar, extends geography
II. Convergence of Facts Across Authors
Where multiple authors independently describe the same or closely related elements, convergence is noted. Bold = strong convergence (2+ authors).
Life on Mars
| Author | Description |
| Arnold | Human-like Martians: Hither people (aesthetic, languid); Thither-folk (warlike). City of Seth. |
| Burroughs | Multiple human races: Red, Green, White (Therns), Black (First Born), Yellow (Okar). Red Martians “essentially indistinguishable from Earth humans.” |
| Lewis | Three intelligent species on Malacandra: hrossa, séroni, pfifltriggi. All rational, moral, civilized. Planet governed by Oyarsa. |
| Wells (Crystal Egg) | Martians visible through crystal — embodied, winged; later WotW: bodiless brains in machines. |
Convergence: All describe intelligent, human or humanoid life on Mars. Arnold and Burroughs both use Earth soldiers transported to Mars. Arnold (1905) predates Burroughs (1912).
Great Recent Catastrophe
| Author | Description |
| Arnold | Ruined cities (Seth “ruins,” Queen Yang’s haunted city); River of the Dead carrying corpses; necropolis of frozen dead; heat catastrophe at climax; decadent, dying civilization. |
| Burroughs | Drying seas compelled migration; “dead sea bottoms”; lost archives, records, literature; “dying planet”; atmosphere plant built to sustain life; “waning resources.” Collapse over “centuries” of readjustment — rapid in geological terms. |
| Lewis | Earth is “Silent Planet” — quarantined; Mars (Malacandra) still living. Implied cosmic catastrophe on Earth, not Mars. |
Convergence: Arnold and Burroughs both describe a recent civilizational collapse: ruined/dying world, lost knowledge, catastrophe within living memory of the survivors. Burroughs: rapid sea drying. Arnold: heat catastrophe, ruined cities, River of Dead.
Systems of Compliance and Control
| Author | Description |
| Arnold | Yellow-robed slave caste — “slaves, a race apart, despised by all”; porter slaves; annual tribute (Heru seized by Thither envoys); King Ar-hap demands proof tasks. |
| Burroughs | River Iss pilgrimage — all Martians taught journey to “paradise” leads to death; Holy Therns and First Born prey on pilgrims; religious fraud as control. Layered conspiracy: Therns think they rule; First Born rule Therns. North pole Okar: Salensus Oll, tyrannical jeddak. |
| Lewis | Oyarsa governs Malacandra; Bent One (Satan) has quarantined Earth. Moral hierarchy, not oppressive—but control structure present. |
Convergence: Arnold and Burroughs both describe slave/underclass and tyrannical or tribute-extracting rulers. Burroughs adds religious fraud (pilgrimage trap). Arnold: slave caste doing all manual labour; tribute exacted by Thither-folk.
Telepathic Technology
| Author | Description |
| Arnold | An learns language via hypnotic mind-to-mind transfer. No explicit telepathy elsewhere. |
| Burroughs | Thoats and calots controlled telepathically; Lotharians (Thuvia) — ancient race surviving by telepathic projections that can kill; “civilization reduced to debating philosophy, nearly extinct.” |
| Wells | Crystal Egg — paired crystals enable two-way visual surveillance between Earth and Mars. “En rapport” — sympathetic link. Martians observed through crystal. |
| Lewis | Oyarsa as planetary intelligence; Malacandrians rational and communicative. |
Convergence: Telepathy or mind-link appears in Arnold (language transfer), Burroughs (beast control, Lotharian projections), and Wells (crystal rapport). Burroughs’ Lotharians = telepathic remnant civilization — aligns with “telepathic purge” thesis in wotw-telepathic-purge.md.
Plant Life
| Author | Description |
| Arnold | Flowers, trees, shrubberies; “carpet of small red flowers”; gardens; “gigantic pink blossoms”; flowery lanes; gardens “coming into leaf”; trees budding. Carnivorous/mobile flora in forest: color-shifting plants, ambulatory vegetation, predatory birds eating mobile blossoms. |
| Burroughs | Ochre moss on dead sea bottoms; mantalia (milk-plant) — distills from soil, air, sun; Plant Men at south pole (Valley Dor) — vegetative beings, predatory. Valley Dor: “red grass,” “park-like” cultivation. |
Convergence: Both describe unusual flora — Burroughs: moss, milk-plant, Plant Men. Arnold: fast-growing flowers, carnivorous/mobile plants. Plant Men (Burroughs) and animated predatory plants (Arnold) = vegetative beings as threat.
Animal Life
| Author | Description |
| Arnold | Giant swimming stag tows Jones to shore; enormous rat-like creatures in nocturnal battle; mobile/carnivorous plants; birds devouring blossoms. |
| Burroughs | Thoat — 10 ft, 8 legs, slate colour, telepathically guided; Calot — frog-like head, 3 rows of tusks, 10 legs, obeys telepathically; banths (lion-like); white apes; Plant Men. “Only one mammal on Mars”; “multiplicity of legs” characteristic. |
Convergence: Both use non-human fauna — Burroughs: systematic (multi-limbed, telepathic beasts). Arnold: giant stag, rat-creatures. Multiplicity of limbs (Burroughs) and exotic creatures (Arnold) = distinct Martian zoology.
City Locations
| Author | Cities / Geography |
| Arnold | Seth — Hither city, canals, booths, ruins; Queen Yang’s ruined city (necropolis); Thither capital (thatched); port with gourd-canoes. |
| Burroughs | Helium, Zodanga (Red Martian city-states); Korad — ancient harbor city, stranded by receded sea; Okar / Kadabra — north pole, Yellow Martians; Bantoom — Kaldane territory; Gathol — mountain city, crept down as ocean receded. |
| Lewis | Malacandra has handramits (canals/valleys) and habitation; no city names given in index. |
Convergence: Canals in Arnold (Seth) and Burroughs (Martian canals as “ultimate salvation”). Harbor/port cities stranded by receded water — Arnold: Seth decaying; Burroughs: Korad, Gathol. Ruined or ancient cities — both.
Government Styles
| Author | Description |
| Arnold | Prince Hath — nominal ruler of Hither; King Ar-hap — Thither warlord; Government (capitalised) — Hither bureaucracy; annual lot marriage; slave caste beneath free citizens. |
| Burroughs | Jeddaks (kings) of city-states; Holy Therns — white priestly caste, religious hierarchy; First Born — Black Martians, rule Therns; Salensus Oll — jeddak of Okar. City-state principalities (Helium, Zodanga, etc.). |
| Lewis | Oyarsa — planetary angel/intelligence governing Malacandra; three species with distinct roles. |
Convergence: Monarchical (kings, princes, jeddaks) and hierarchical (priests, castes). Arnold and Burroughs: tribute, conquest, captive-taking (Heru; pilgrims). Burroughs: multi-layered religious/political conspiracy at poles.
III. Poles as Forbidden Zones (Burroughs Only in Collection)
Only Burroughs in this collection describes polar forbidden zones in detail:
- South pole: Valley Dor, River Iss, Holy Therns, Plant Men, First Born. Pilgrimage = death trap.
- North pole: Okar, Kadabra, Yellow Martians. Concealed kingdom. “Hothouse cities” — last habitable zone.
Arnold has River of the Dead (one-way, carries corpses to falls) and ice valley necropolis — thematically similar (death-flow, frozen dead) but not explicitly polar. Convergence of motif: death-river, frozen dead, hidden/forbidden regions.
IV. Cross-References
- Jonathan Swift — Mars moons & Gulliver framing — Laputan satellites (1726) vs telescopic discovery (1877); travel-hoax paratext
- mars-fiction-survey.md — full Mars literature survey
- mars-stock-market-correlation.md — Mars/Dow Jones correlation (1896–2020); Ares Le Mandat appendix
- ares-le-mandat-mars-direct-earth-influence-investigation.md — Ares Le Mandat hub: book thesis, Israel–Gaza Mars–node audit, Zenodo/IA mirrors
- ../ares-le-mandat-first-edition-chapter-index.md — Ares Le Mandat 1st ed. TOC + chapter summaries
- anthony-of-boston-mars360-investigation.md — Anthony of Boston: Ares Le Mandat, Mars 360, sources and third-party citations
- arnold-gullivar-jones-reference.md — Arnold reference
- wotw-telepathic-purge.md — telepathic purge motif
- mars-earth-reincarnation-investigation.md — Mars–Earth reincarnation; mass death on Mars, souls reborn on Earth, time-period correlation (open)
- Barsoom README — Barsoom index overview
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