![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, they find Istra herself, alive and well in the valley of the gods. Orual falls sick from despair on the night of the sacrifice, so she is unconscious while Istra is chained to a tree at the edge of the god's country and left for the Shadowbrute.Īs soon as she is back on her feet, Orual steals away with the soldier Bardia to give her sister a proper burial. The King agrees, over Orual and the Fox's objections (Istra herself is at peace with this decision). The high priest of the goddess Ungit declares that these calamities are divine punishment for blasphemy, and that they will end when Istra is sacrificed to Ungit's son, the god of the mountain, the Shadowbrute. Her happiness, such as it is, ends abruptly: after the people of Glome begin worshiping Istra's beauty, Glome is stricken by famine and plague. ![]() Her only friends in the palace are her beautiful half-sister Istra and her tutor, a Greek slave who she only knows as "the Fox". Her father, hot-tempered and prone to violence, has little love for his three daughters, least of all for ugly Orual. It is presented as the record - and the formal complaint against the gods - of Orual, daughter of the King of Glome, a pagan kingdom to the north of ancient Greece. It relates the myth of Cupid And Psyche (found in Apuleius' Latin novel The Golden Ass) from a very different perspective than the original. Lewis's last novel, and the one he considered his best and most mature. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) is C. ![]()
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