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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Yes, and also the noise which alarmed you the first night you wandered here. The music comes from his head, and the noise is from his tail. That is why we call him Siloo." The word, as nearly as I can translate it, means harmony, order, measure, proportion, in the Womla tongue. "Does he always live in this cave?"
"I am more than ever persuaded they are breaks in the photosphere caused by eruptions of heated matter, chiefly gaseous from the interior eruptions such as might give rise to craters like that of Womla, or those of the moon, were the sun cooler.
The territory of Womla may be divided into three zones, namely, a central plain under cultivation, a belt of undulating hills, kept as a park or pleasaunce, and a magnificent, nay, a sublime wilderness, next to the crater wall. The natural wealth of the country is very great. Some of its productions resemble and others are different from those of the earth.
Inebriated with the cup of bliss which I had only tasted, I began to repent me of my promise to leave Womla. "To-morrow Alumion will be mine," I reflected, "but for how long? A few days at the most. It is too bad!" An idea struck me. "Gazen," said I that night as soon as I had a convenient opportunity to speak with him, "I have married Alumion."
The welkin was wholly overcast with dense, murky vapours, which totally hid the sun, and the air was excessively hot, moist, and sultry as before a thunderstorm an unusual phenomenon in Womla. Black boulders and crags, speckled with lichens, and carpeted with coarse herbage, shut out the prospect on every side but one, where the edge of the platform on which the car was resting ran along the sky.
"You remember, too, how we explained the growing altitude of the sun in the heavens which culminated on the great day of the Festival, by supposing that the axis of the planet swayed to and from the sun so as to tilt each pole towards the sun, and the other from it, alternately, thus producing what by courtesy we may call the seasons in Womla?" "Yes."
In the meanwhile, and afterwards, we learned a good deal about the country, and the manners and customs of its inhabitants. Womla, or Woom-la, which means the "bowl" or hollow-land, is evidently the crater of an extinct volcano of enormous dimensions, such as are believed to exist upon the moon.
In addition to the slow swinging of her axis which produces her 'seasons, she has a quicker nodding, which gives rise to day and night in some favoured spots like Womla." "After all," said I, "tis a feminine trait. Souvent femme varie." "Oh, she is constant to her lord the sun," rejoined Gazen.
We foreigners must have been objects of the liveliest curiosity to them, yet they never showed it in their conduct; they never stared at us, or stopped to enquire about us, but courteously saluted us wherever we went, and left us to make ourselves at home. We never saw an ugly or unbecoming gesture, and we never heard a rude, unmannerly word all the time we stayed in Womla.
His followers believe that He came from Heaven, and yet after nineteen hundred years I am afraid that some of them do not fully understand the plain meaning of His words, or else find it convenient to ignore them." "But many of us will go there. We will bring the sinful and the suffering over here to Womla and make them happy."
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