A BARSO O M GLO SSARY DAV ID BRUC E BO ZARTH HTML Version Copyright 1996-2001 Revisions 2003-5 Most Current Edition is online at http://www.erblist.com PD F Version Copyright 2006 C O PYRIGH TS and O TH ER IN FO The m ost current version of A Barsoom G lossary by D avid Bruce Bozarth is available from http://www.erblist.com in the G lossaries Section. SH ARIN G O R DISTRIBUTIN G TH IS FILE This file m ay be shared as long as no alterations are m ade to the text or im ages. A Barsoom G lossary PD F version m ay be distributed from web sites AS LO N G AS N O FEES, CO ST, IN CO ME, O R PRO FIT is m ade from that distribution. A Barsoom G lossary is N O T PU BLIC D O MAIN , but is distributed as FREE- WARE. If you paid to obtain this book, please let the author know w here and how it w as obtained and w hat fee w as charged. The filenam e is Bozarth-ABarsoom Glossary-illus.pdf D o not change or alter the filenam e. D o not change or alter the pdf file. RO LE PLAYERS and GAM E C REATO RS O ver the years I have been contacted by RPG creators for perm ission to use A BARSO O M G LO SSARY for their gam es as long as the inform ation is N O T printed in book form , nor any fees, cost, incom e, or profit is m ade from m y intellectual property. If gam e creators wish to discuss inclusion of A Barsoom G lossary in a print version, contact D avid Bruce Bozarth at the following em ail address: tangor@ erblist.com TABLE O F C O N TEN TS CO PYRIG HTS and O THER IN FO . 2 SHARIN G O R D ISTRIBU TIN G THIS FILE . 2 RO LE PLAYERS and G AME CREATO RS . 2 TABLE O F CO N TEN TS . 3 Foreword . 5 A Brief Bio of Edgar Rice Burroughs . 6 PEO PLE . 9 G reen Martians . 10 G reen Population . 13 Anatom y of the G reen Martian . 18 Red Martians . 23 O rigin of the Red Race . 23 The Red Culture . 23 Black Martians . 32 White Martians . 35 Yellow Martians . 40 N on-hum an Martians . 42 The Kaldanes . 42 The Kangaroo Men of G ooli . 45 Hom ads . 45 The Plant Men of Valley D or . 46 O ther World Races . 46 Masenas . 47 Tarids . 48 Morgors . 48 Savators . 48 Barsoom ian Characters . 49 Bozarth's Hypothesis Regarding the Extraterrestrial O rigins of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars . 69 PLACES . 75 Planets . 77 Cities & N ations . 78 Map Locations . 78 G eographic . 84 Martians Listed by Cities or N ations . 87 Man-m ade . 89 / eneral Construction . 89 Maps of Barsoom . 94 Edgar Rice Burroughs' Map . 94 Heins Map with Fanfic Locations . 97 A N ASA Based Map . 98 THIN G S . 99 Weights & Measures . 100 Linear . 100 Tim e . 100 N um bers . 100 Currency . 101 Weights . 101 Custom s & Titles . 102 Custom s . 102 Language . 104 Martian Proverbs . 105 Titles of Royalty . 105 Titles of Military . 105 Titles of Religion . 106 Religious Phrases . 106 Yano . 107 Jetan . 109 Religion . 112 The Tree of Life . 112 Issus . 114 Kom al . 116 Tur . 116 Religion on O ther Worlds . 118 Technology . 120 Airships . 120 N am ed Airships . 122 N am ed Technology . 122 Plants, Anim als & Minerals . 128 The N ovels . 134 Word Count/Frequency . 141 Barsoom ian Fan Fiction . 143 About the Author . 145 A BARSO O M GLO SSARY - DAV ID BRUC E BO ZARTH 5 Forew ord This glossary began as a writing aid for m y D ead Cities of Mars pastiche I once hoped to m arket via print channels. That didn't happen; however, since 1996 A BARSO O M G LO SSARY has becom e an internationally recognized on-line reference for the Martian works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. What originally started as research to write a Barsoom ian Spoof soon becam e an obsession to detail Edgar Rice Burroughs' wondrous Martian Saga. Perhaps m y m anuscript ead C ities of M ars will be available one day (it is, on the web at erblist.com ). When it is I hope you will enjoy it—until then m y research produced a rather handy glossary of Barsoom ian facts which should interest old and new fans of Burroughs' adventure tales set on the planet Mars. I first read the Martian series between 1960 and 1965. When I began work on D ead C ities of M ars in 1982 I re-read the entire series and took notes. O thers have done authoritative works on Barsoom but I have not read them as of yet. I felt it was neces- sary to do this research independently to avoid having their influences or observations obstructing m y com pilation and com m ents. I am not a scholar, so don't look for scholarly work. I'm just a plain old Texas boy who likes a little fantasy when he can. N owadays it seem s that m ost fantasies involve two or m ore of the opposite sex, a kilo of coke in a locked room or som ething else artificial. G ive m e Barsoom any day of the week! G et high on your own im agination. And the best of the im aginative writers of any generation is Edgar Rice Burroughs. D avid Bruce Bozarth Houston, Texas tangor@ erblist.com A BARSO O M GLO SSARY - DAV ID BRUC E BO ZARTH 6 A Brief Bio of Edgar Rice Burroughs 8hen Mary Evaline Burroughs gave birth to the fifth of six sons to husband G eorge Tyler Burroughs on Septem ber 1, 1875, little did she know what the future held for Edgar R ice Bur- roughs. Ed attended Chicago's Brown elem entary and later the Harvard School at 18th and Indiana Avenue. Young Burroughs learned G reek and Latin at an early age. D uring the 1891 Chicago influenza epidem ic ERB's parents sent him to Idaho where his brothers Harry and G eorge owned a ranch in Cassia County. Ed thrived in the new environm ent, becom ing an expert horsem an. Fall 1891, he attended Phillips Academ y at Andover, Massachusetts. Ed was elected class president. U nhappy there, he ran away. G eorge, a U nion cavalry officer in the Am erican Civil War, sent Ed to Michigan Military Academ y in 1892. Captain Charles King, the com m andant, was an early influence for Edgar Rice Burroughs. Ed played football and participated on the cavalry team s. He was the editor and artist for the student newspaper. When he graduated in 1896 Ed stayed on as Assistant Com m andant and Professor of G eology, Cavalry and G atling G un. Burroughs failed the West Point entrance exam . He then enlisted in the arm y. He served at Fort G rant, Arizona, "B" Troop, 7th Cavalry. The duty was less than sterling. Ill with dysentary, ERB received an honorable discharge. He returned to Idaho. Shortly thereafter, he started his own stationary store business in Pocatello (1898). A year later he called it quits. Returning to his brothers' ranch Ed soon decided ranching was not his vocation. He returned to Chicago in 1898 and was em ployed to work at his father's Am erican Battery Com pany. Ed m arried his childhood sweetheart Em m a Centennia Hulbert on January 31, 1900. Em m a and Ed m oved to Idaho in 1903 to help operate a Burroughs' brothers' gold dredge in the Stanley Basin. Ed held a political office for a year, the dredging com pany failed, and he and Em m a then m oved to Salt Lake City, U tah A BARSO O M GLO SSARY - DAV ID BRUC E BO ZARTH 7 where Burroughs worked as a railroad cop. U nhappy with the work, the couple auctioned everything and returned to Chicago. Burroughs tried his hand at m any jobs from 1904 to 1908. Tim e-keeper, light bulb and candy sales, peddling Stoddard's lectures, E. S. Winslow Com pany accountant and even at- tem pted to enlist in the Chinese arm y. In 1908 he m anaged the clerical departm ent at Sears, Roebuck & Com pany, with som e success but, ever restless, he resigned in August 1908. Self-em ploym ent ventures put a strain on the young couple. Hocking Em m a's jewelry helped, but life becam e m ore com pli- cated with the birth of Joan (Jo-Ann) in January 1908. First sone Hulbert was born in August 1909. Ed's job as office m anager for Physicians Co-O perative Association evaporated when the FD A shut the com pany down. ERB (Stace-Burroughs Com pany) tried selling booklets on expert salesm anship. Burroughs next em barked on selling pencil sharpeners. Running ads in the pulp m agazines, he read som e of the fiction and decided "if people are paid for writing such rot, I can write som ething just as rotten." Ed penned a tale based on the theories of astronom er Percival Lowell in 1911. Thom as N ewell Metcalf, editor of All- Story, accepted Burroughs' tale im m ediately.