Red Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Vocabulary
Arabic
Geological Terms
- (9)akaba: steep slopes around volcanoes,
- badia: world dunes,
- nefuds: deep sand,
- seyl: dry riverbeds
Sufi terms
- (311) talib -- seeker (?hero in Campbell's sense?)
- (311) tariqat -- seeker's path on the road to reality
- (311) ru' yat al-qalb -- the vision of the heart
- (312) nafs -- one's evil self , Shadow
Japanese
(109) Shikata ga nai -- there is no other choice; it's all we can do -- the only possible thing
(229) kami -- spiritual power of landscape; this-ness of particular, unusual objects
(235) giri -- face, obligation, status (similar to shiftgrethor)
(240) Senzeni Na -- What Have We Done?
Martian
(211) Viriditas -- Latin for greening power, term invented by Hildegard of Bingen, medieval woman mystic, to describe energy of natural growth processes; 229
(228) areophany -- ceremony to worship/ celebrate Mars
(313) -- Boone reciting names of Mars while dancing wi Sufis
(253) areoformation -- process by which Mars transforms humans
(295) areobotany -- science of genetically engineering plants to grow on Mars
Linguistic
(217-221) Greimas semantic rectangle
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