Monday, November 14, 2011

Hadon of Ancient Opar








I'm not as happy with Hadon now, because I dislike the inclusion of the Sahhindar character and all he implies. Still, I find the book much more fun than I am displeased. Oh, this blog entry is very disjoiunted and is mostly a collection of links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Khokarsa-Opar.jpg
http://rnuninga.home.xs4all.nl/PJFab.htm#SongOf
http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=farmer08&Category_Code=PRE&Product_Count=15
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/books/ley-engineers-dreams-2009.html
http://www.xefer.com/image/congolake.jpg
http://www.xefer.com/2005/03/lake

Christopher Paul Carey got Farmer's permission to finally finish the novel. The title changed to The Song of Kwasin, and it was announced in July 2008 at Farmercon 90
http://www.pjfarmer.com/carey.htm
http://meteorhousepress.com/2011/09/28/kwasin-and-the-bear-god-read-the-opening-scene/

http://livearchive.org/2010/pdf/philip-jose-farmer-opar-02-flight-to-opar/

http://www.pjfarmer.com/secret/content/Contents.htm
http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/wnu12.htm

saasares mountains (Ahaggar + Tibesti)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculin

Flight To Opar by Phillip Jose Farmer
Foreword
Those unacquainted with Hadon of Ancient Opar , volume one of the Ancient Opar series, should refer to the map following. This shows the two central African seas which existed circa 10,000 B.C. At that time the climate was much more humid (pluvial) than now. What are now the Chad Basin and the Congo Basin were covered with fresh water, bodies whose area equaled and perhaps surpassed that of the present-day Mediterranean. The Ice Age was dying, but large parts of the British Islands and northern Europe were covered with glaciers. The Mediterranean was from one to two hundred feet lower than its present level. The Sahara Desert of today was then vast grasslands, rivers and freshwater lakes, and was host to millions of elephants, antelopes, lions, crocodile and many other beasts, some now extinct. The map also shows the island of Khokarsa, which gave birth to the first civilization of Earth, and the largest cities which grew around the Great Water, the Kemu, and the Great Water of Opar, the Kemuwopar. The prehistory and history of the peoples of the two seas are outlined in the Chronology of Khokarsa in volume one. The map is a modification of the map in volume one. That, in turn, was a modification of a map presented by Frank Brueckel and John Harwood in their article: Heritage of the Flaming God, an Essay on the History of Opar and Its Relationship to Other Ancient Cultures . This appeared in The Burroughs Bulletin , Vernell Coriell, publisher, House of Greystoke, 6657 Locust, Kansas City, Missouri 64131.

This series basically derives from the Opar books of the Tarzan series, and the author wishes to thank Hulbert Burroughs again for the permission to write these tales. There is a rumor that this series is based on the translation of some of the gold tablets described by Edgar Rice Burroughs in The Return of Tarzan . That speculation will have to be dealt with in an addendum to a later volume of this series.

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