Other functions of the Kaldane society, beside the controlled breeding of the rykor which had one time eons past had been naught but a burrowing animal which the kaldanes learned to ride, is the production of food to be placed beneath the planet's surface in the eventual hope the kaldanes would one day evolve into the pure brain requiring no body whatsoever. Note that rykors, an animal, may succumb to illness while the sentient races usually enjoy vigorous health (speculation, this is not mentioned in the texts).
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* This is one of the few mentions of disease in the Barsoomian Saga. that there might not perish from the planet Nature's divinest creation - the perfect brain." We are preparing for the time when the last vestige of atmosphere is spent - when food and water are gone. Far beneath the surface is water that will flow for countless ages after the surface water is exhausted. There we have stored vast quantities of food in hermetically sealed chambers. There the air-breathing rykor would perish as you would perish. is a vast network of burrows where the real life of the kaldane is lived. We have no lungs, for we do not require air. We have only the simplest of vital organs and they are very small for they do not have to assist in the support of a complicated system of nerves, muscles, flesh and bone. "Ninty per centum of our volume is brain. If he is hurt, I would suffer if I remained connected with him, but the instant one of them is injured or becomes sick we desert it for another.* As we could suffer the pains of their physical injuries, similarly do we enjoy the physical pleasures of the rykors. I feel what the rykor would feel if he had a head and brain. Immediately I control every muscle of the rykor's body-it becomes my own, just as you direct the movement of the muscles of your body.
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Into this aperture I insert my tentacles and seize the spinal cord. "This is an aperture just back of the rykor's mouth and directly over the upper end of his spinal column. "Do you see this thing?" and he extended what appeared to be a bundle of tentacles from the posterior part of his head. On his spider legs he walked toward the girl. Then he detached himself from the body, which lay as a thing dead.
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"I will show you," he (Ghek) said, and lay down on the floor. This unusual symbiotic relationship is described by Burroughs: The Kaldanes have domesticated and bred the rykor, a one time burrowing animal, into a brainless body which has the physical characteristics and appearance of the Red Man as a method of transportation and vehicle for tending their fields and towers.
#Creatures of barsoom free
The aspiration of the kaldane race is to evolve into pure intellects, to be free of the constraints of flesh and blood exisitence. ERB outdid himself with the kaldane race sentient creatures who are all head and very little body able to exist in a near vacuum at the planetary core. Of Barsoom's many wonderful races surely the Kaldane of Bantoom is the most unusual in both physical appearance and society. All are memorable, and one or two characters are actually endearing! THE KALDANES Others are cold and distant, completely lacking in any form of human sensitivities. A few have sentiments similar to terrestrial humans, a sense of honor and emotion. There is an inherent world logic and sense of evolution distinctly Barsoomian in these "people" of the planet Mars.
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A few of these races are right out of horror films, created long before films even got started! Some embrace super science or intellect, others appear to be evolutionary nightmares, and at least one appears to be a nothing more than cosmic comic relief. Modiphius Entertainment My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon.While the major human (Black, Red, White, Yellow) and the near human Green are the most frequently described of the various races of Barsoom, Edgar Rice Burroughs also introduced readers to some very strange and alien cultures. Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse.