Word: pfifltriggi
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...hnau. I am hnau. The séroni are hnau. The pfifltriggi are hnau...
...Pfifltriggi?' said Ransom...
...hnauness of the pfifltriggi turned out to be the least of Elwin Ransom's worries when he arrived on Mars in a space machine...
Hyoi, the hross, explained the neat divisions of labor in Martian life. The seallike hrossa did the fishing and wrote the poetry. The séroni, pretty much like men except that they were covered with feathers, took care of philosophy and science. The froglike pfifltriggi handled building and sculp ture. The eldila (unfortunately invisible to the sinful eye of hmãn) represented the spirit world and carried out the orders of Oyarsa, God of Mars...
...eons ago Thulcandra, the earth, had been taken over by a satanic eldil with Hitleresque ambitions and had since lost touch with the rest of the solar system. Consequently hmãn had lost the virtues of the other inhabited planets - the ability of hrossa, séroni and pfifltriggi to live happily together, each contributing his special mite to the common good. Hmãn had also lost his willingness to welcome death as a beautiful redirecting of divine energy, his faculty for recognizing the "shape" of the spirit, and of distinguishing between appearance and reality. The evil spirit...
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