5/11/2023 0 Comments Plant men of barsoom![]() ![]() The Zodangan who brought food to John Carter in the pits of Zat Arras. Surrounding the Valley Dor and the Lost Sea of Korus. A black and yellow striped Arctic monster. A Martian kingdom in the eastern hemisphere. Goddess of Death, whose abode is upon the banks of the Lost Sea of Korus. The empire of the grandfather of Dejah Thoris. John Carter's Martian name, from the surnames of the first two warrior chieftains he killed. Son of Kantos Kan padwar of the Fifth Utan. The head bears a slight resemblance to that of a frog, except that the jaws are equipped with three rows of long, sharp tusks. About the size of a Shetland pony and has ten short legs. Their skin has the appearance of polished ebony. The iris is extremely black while the eyeball itself is quite white and clear. Have clear-cut and handsome features their eyes are well set and large, though a slight narrowness lends them a crafty appearance. It has enormous protruding eyes of green.(See THE GODS OF MARS.) Its long, lithe body is supported by ten powerful legs, its enormous jaws are equipped with several rows of long needle-like fangs, and its mouth reaches to a point far back of its tiny ears. It is almost hairless, having only a great, bristly mane about its thick neck. ![]() A fierce beast of prey that roams the low hills surrounding the dead seas of ancient Mars. Each ocellus is furnished with its own lid, and the apt can, at will, close as many of the facets of his huge eyes as he chooses. Its two huge eyes extend in two vast oval patches from the centre of the top of the cranium down either side of the head to below the roots of the horns, so that these weapons really grow out from the lower part of the eyes, which are composed of several thousand ocelli each. Its head and mouth are similar in appearance to those of a hippopotamus, except that from the sides of the lower jawbone two mighty horns curve slightly downward toward the front. A huge, white-furred creature with six limbs, four of which, short and heavy, carry it over the snow and ice the other two, which grow forward from its shoulders on either side of its long, powerful neck, terminate in white, hairless hands with which it seizes and holds its prey. An aisle leading to the court-room in Helium. 192163 Thuvia, Maid of Mars - Glossary of Names and Terms Used In The Martian Books Edgar Rice Burroughs
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