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WinterCat8/11/2009 9:27:30 am PDT

re: #1128 buzzsawmonkey

What I find odd about Lewis’s Narnia is that while it is designed as an introduction to Christianity, it relies to a great degree on classical pagan figures like fauns, satyrs, dryads, Bacchus, etc.

Of course this may merely reflect the familiarity with Greco-Roman culture which is an adjunct of traditional British public-school education.

Aren’t all of these creatures subordinate to the Christ figure in the story though?