Myths of Tschaï

the Cycle of Tschaï (original title Planet off Adventure ) is a novel of Science-fiction in four volumes, written by the American author Jack Vance between 1968 and 1970. The cycle is composed of four following volumes: Chasch, Wankh, Dirdir, Pnume.

Myths and ritual of the world of Tschaï

the Aiwaïle of Yaos . Yaos in prey with a feeling of shame or humiliation subject to the tradition awaïle : they must kill the most possible people, whatever their sex, their age and their degree of relationship. Then, when it is with end of force, Yao humility puts itself at the torment, at the time of a great festival of the very spectacular pain where it gives itself finally death.

the Balul Zac Ag of the Lokhar people is literally the “Time of the factitious dream”. It is about a kind of trève which prohibits any individual from proceeding to massacres, with abductions of slaves, plunderings or arsons on the plate of Lokhara.

the Échange of the hearts is a sexual rite of the Khor people. These people regard the coupling as against-nature and authorizes it only at the time of the exchange of the hearts, a sexual ritual which proceeds in a crowned wood where were installed a low platform surrounded by cottages. The trees all around this crowned space are carved explicit erotic scenes. Khors, males and women, arrive one by one in crowned wood and enter the cottages. They are stripped and passed from long white tunics surmounted of male or female masks, according to their sex. The women move then towards central space, strip themselves and go up on the platform. Naked, they start to sing to call their companions who join them soon and turn around the platform. The children of Khors are not considered to have a déteminés father and a mother: they are judicious to go down from the prototype of the Man and the Woman.

Legend of the Men-Chaschs . Chasch Bleus inculcated to the Men-Chaschs who dead allows them in true Chasch to be born in their brain-pan and which they are thus only one intermediate stage in the evolution of Chaschs. This is why, with his death, a Man-Chasch is carried in a building reserved for the births of Chaschs. Chaschs which officiates open them cranium using surgical instruments and extract a Chasch baby from it.

the native World of the Burning Wait and see advocator . Yaos wait and see advocator think that the Men are originaies of a remote paradisiac planet. Their vision of the “native World” of the Men is perfectly idyllic. They see it like a generous world, where the air delights the lungs, where the mountains are out of gold, where the forests are a dream, where death is a strange accident and not a fate. According to them, the men walk there in the joy and in peace and everywhere there is abundance of succulent mets. The Wait and see advocator think that the only means of communicating with the native World is telepathy. The sect of the Wait and see advocator, simply tolerated at Yaos, is at the origin of the message sent in space and collected a few hundred years later by the vessel of Adam Reith. Fearing for the balance of the races on Tschaï, the Men-Wankhs had simulated a Dirdir attack to destroy two of the richest cities of the Yao world as a warning. Since, this religious thought is tolerated, but regarded as potentially dangerous.

the Myth of the two moons . The Man-Emblems think that the men were precipitated on Tschaï following the collision of the two moons Az and Braz . Az sheltered the good men, while Braz was the world of the bad men. On Tschaï, the two races of men mixed, it is the reason for laquel, with died of Kruthe, magicians of the tribe, called the “Jugeurs”, determine if the late one came originally from Az or Braz and make dispatch its ashes on one of the two moons using a gigantic catapult. When the two moons cross in the sky, ill omen, the carrier of the emblem surprême, “Onmale”, must return its trophy and die.

Mythology of the Men-Dirdirs . The legend of the Men-Dirdirs tells that the “Large Poisson” formerly laid an egg on Sibol, the native planet of Dirdirs. The egg failed on a beach and broke into two. One of its halves rolled towards the sunlight and was transformed into Dirdir, while other half remained in the shade, giving rise to the Man-Dirdir. The Men-Dirdirs regard themselves as the “Brothers of Egg” of Dirdirs.

the Scorpions of Gozed . On the island of Gozed, the population lives in huts hung in the trees. This tribe voluntarily leaves all the free beach of any construction, because she venerates scorpion-fishes which have the size of a man. At a certain period of the year, during the night, these giant scorpions leave water and come to lay their eggs on the beach. But they is necessary a biological host for them to deposit their eggs there. Although they can lay in the body of an animal, the inhabitants of Gozed sacrifice an especially selected woman to them who is then called the “Mère of the gods” - an great honor. She exposes herself naked on the beach and awaits the arrival of the large scorpions. To the blossoming of eggs, a pain interfered extase leads this woman to be thrown in the ocean.

the Zsafathriens , of the humanoïdes, think that the men come from the union of the bird crowned xyxyl and Rhadamath, the marine demon.

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