The Ento Record — Martian Poetics

The Ento Record

Automatic Verses from Mars

Journeys to the Planet Mars / Our Mission to Ento

mIEKAL aND
Astranola Press • Dao • MCMIII

Each plate is generated from the Ento poem on its page and from phrases drawn from Journeys to the Planet Mars / Our Mission to Ento (1903). The illustrations are not decorative: they are meant as ‘automatic diagrams’ for low-gravity reading.

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Plate I.

01. hrâôstoeu

A transmission recorded under low gravity conditions.

hauan, tevhavil rumseôdos.
sīyá risphra mliyohioo taiitceichiyo
zonti xandūmanávam tládāoeustad moanval
cánōovo baosbai tyeazo

Then hasten, oh, hasten to crown the days of the children of Ento with unlooked for gladness.

Plate II.

02. iigiltie

Extracted from the Martian narrative and set in the manner of 1903.

managentyodis dâŷoneuastreueâ mostisonris
dánitutol eyāîsmliátum.
zûatseos valmostme vacneeȳ apeegil báastrámtêon
doaloáp zuáâmoo tcarue laŷonoea zīdâao
hauteyivôea
eangēn eayazo trtîsēzuaozoeyem lyononleēayasen
ásop eactŷppostrchīi toantecvāîi fonhativavo xiiaeŷ
ooiity tfenmooeaen
hayandâapptoem meyánvōŷô loeyaieaenaongey
zolosi luenon
chiatuyohoo gilstaem
tērythaēazoyoi dáastrhauu fonlen táyanān

Plate III.

03. druevoevovod

A transmission recorded under low gravity conditions.

manaodo, onogeneumos.
zūáiyaostmac ooyodiseyávil fichinatrūa
báastrháonzáts toyochitrchi mānadistáfen
apvailootraneu eûneyafen

The atmosphere is composed of elements which, though not precisely similar, closely correspond to the gases of which the atmospheric envelope of the Earth is composed.

Plate IV.

05. liosāp

Facsimile plate: Martian topography / Ento inference.

dáyámanlen.
41.09 tsuáaostsáteyonzûlâ haapontru
haonchitrlu — oôeenodoey
62.54 noevomostneyaney oeá zīdâaooa
togilmacphra zoyávois
55.07 filoeyānneylao tsegilgen
48.37 diailonoeyàn dáaovaldmaaná
33.99 noomanvaltrūa tevoneeahau
otevvil — fenmaceyachi

Plate V.

09. tevomanilo

Diagram and verse received during a nocturnal sitting.

ooeaeychi, dáyanfon.
zūáiicamteôo oeedelapvil tāyango
mostuôeyaeochi hauáphauchidluba — fiestryan
eadelchifen

Our friends the astronomers will tell you that the axis of Mars is inclined to the ecliptic at a somewhat greater angle than the Earth’s axis.

Plate VI.

13. fenfenyodis

A transmission recorded under low gravity conditions.

tsaeyēuoongēn tuyoogáêilut hatêeāseastr
ecamdagil staîstrtsatáyan duoncryfi
tseatevola todāeyla
ápdávoonzoyô druovôá seyoveo

A large structure of gray stone, extending on either side of a central entrance for at least forty feet.

Plate VII.

21. eodelmanadru

Extracted from the Martian narrative and set in the manner of 1903.

iiluitaiha oonsā phráishieea laanneooimacva
zuaāhiyan.
mēastrpeyleeaem siāchia emvilsafen
zitāeodel hatêeāseastr lŷafêvāl

To other Bands of Spirits from other Planetary Spheres have been assigned special duties.

Plate VIII.

Diafon Evoiha

Spectral plate reproduction — Andumana Observatory, Mars, 1903.

Horizontal spectral bands with fine dark absorption lines. The marked occlusion notch ‘Quana’ records an eclipse event observed at dusk. Solemn cosmic evidence, spiritual science.

Plate IX.

24. vaidu

Diagram and verse received during a nocturnal sitting.

emgilevo eueeáne tashāeo.
evoemānogil
tseaiiumdûduem dáoeyyasîâs
finetevo
ooimeoomam ofenanasvod
hiossieachāue fenha
zouaquáeŷa otoenchi
lapstáoon
hāūoseômaeos yavalla
fieûfias
apnassi zuáinahau
telubadu daodiatsudo
sayattaobasiip
yángēn vaiooinayodeu
cêisaȳo
anofoneodelast
deotsáeuhāiiiey,
oonváotseivayo
vaiamost foneyagilto
todate ilolendá

How have the Entoans found the endurance or means to accomplish such gigantic works?

Plate X.

Tylu

Aerial plan of the impossible city — surveyed from a tethered balloon.

A radial street grid that curves inward and reconverges. Blocks nest inside other blocks. Canals cross over themselves via aqueducts. The geometry is subtly non-Euclidean. Scale in Ento units: ondo, vímu.

Plate XI.

Phra

Spirit Messenger — Andumana sitting, Nov. 1903.

The Ento death-messenger rendered as a pitch-dark silhouette against luminous overexposure. A figure of passage rather than menace. The faintest canal lines converge at the horizon behind.

Plate XII.

Endoinaa

Bridge-Network Lattice — multi-span elevation and junction detail.

A connected lattice of multiple spans crossing the Loisa Channel, with resonant chambers shown in cutaway. Fig. I — Elevation. Fig. II — Detail of junction at Cryfimo Abutment.

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The Ento Record: Automatic Verses from Mars
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Astranola Press — Dao — MCMIII.