False Aslan
Also known as Aslan and Tashlan, Tashlan, lion skin
Shift’s fraud of dressing Puzzle in a lion skin and issuing orders in Aslan’s name. The deception enables forced labor, felling of the Talking Trees, and the takeover at Stable Hill.
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The Last Battle12 cited passages⌄
- Chapter VI · paragraph 47
"The false Aslan," said Jill.
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 41
…Tirian had never dreamed that one of the results of an Ape's setting up a false Aslan would be to stop people from believing in the real one. He had felt quite sure that the Dwarfs would rally to h…
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 47
…all me King, I may well believe you are not a follower of the Ape and his false Aslan. I am glad of your coming."
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 10
…by what the Ape (and Ginger) had told them about this new angry Aslan--or Tashlan--to go near it except when they were called together for those horrible midnight meetings. And Calormenes are n…
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 49
"Tashlan, fool," whispered Rishda Tarkaan.
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 3
"And after a horrid thing like that, Aslan--Tashlan--is angrier than ever. He says he's been a great deal too good to you, coming out every night to be looked at, …
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 8
…ou of that wicked Ass. Do you think, because of him that there is no real Tashlan in the Stable! Do you? Beware, beware."
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 2
…isroc, may-he-live-for-ever. To me, all loyal Narnians, lest the wrath of Tashlan fall upon you!"
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 3
…oice of some monstrous bird. The Beasts moaned and howled and called out "Tashlan! Hide us from him!" and many fell down, and many hid their faces in their wings or paws. No one except Farsight…
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 16
…Tash! The great god Tash! Inexorable Tash!" (There was no nonsense about "Tashlan" now.)
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 37
…him no harm. Then the Cat was to come out and say he's seen their beastly Tashlan and pretend to be frightened to scare the other Animals. But what Shift never guessed was that the real Tash wo…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 3
…ht forth not the yellow thing, but said that all who desired to look upon Tashlan--for so they mixed the two words to pretend that they were all one--must pass one by one into the hovel. And I …
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