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CHAPTER XXI SUMMARY
CHAPTER XXI SUMMARY
Agia and Severian visit the Jungle Garden where they seem to be in twentieth century Africa. They climb into a hut with a husband and wife team of missionaries and a naked native. The husband and the native seem to notice Agia and Severian's presence as ghosts. Agia urges Severian to leave, warning him that the hipparch will send assassins after him and those close to him if they perceive he is trying to avoid the duel.
TERMINOLOGY
TERMINOLOGY
Preceptor/Preceptress - a teacher or instructor.
Isangoma - a Zulu name for a diviner.
gowdalie - a three-pronged fishing spear.
hesperorn - a prehistoric fish-eating ostrich.
Numen - deity, divinity, divine or presiding power or spirit.
oreodont - a plant-eating prehistoric animal about the size of a sheep.
Theoanthropos - a variant of "theanthropos," a title given to Jesus Christ as being both God and man.
uakaris - short-tailed monkeys
margay - a kind of wild cat.
tokoloshe - a hairy, mischievous, lascivious dwarf common in folklore across equatorial Africa.
anacrisis - preliminary hearing, or interrogation accompanied by torture.
tambour - a small drum.
POST READING THOUGHTS
POST READING THOUGHTS
Devoted fans and scholars have posited that Robert, the husband of the missionary duo, is none other than Robert W. Chambers -- author of The King in Yellow. A preeminent weird fiction story.
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