The Natural Sun
Announcements about our sun and its natural conditions
- Chapter 61 -
Man upon Miron; dwellings and villages
Concerning men upon this planet, they are not as large as upon Saturn, yet larger than those upon Uranus, although subject to great size fluctuation among themselves. Thus there are people of forty metres height and others of hardly twenty metres. In this respect the planet nearly resembles your Earth, where there are also great variations in physical size. This also applies to women.
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The physical shape of both sexes is one of great beauty although there are considerable deviations as well. To get the best picture, we shall keep to average types from which viewpoint all others can be surmised; we shall have a look at a man of sixty and a woman of fifty-six metres height.
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What does this man look like? He has a serious but by no means repulsive appearance. His limbs are fully masculine, like those of a perfect Earthman. His head is covered with long curly hair, dark-green in colour. His skin colour is white with occasional transition to light green. His lips, although red, have a greenish sheen. Eyes are never blue or grey but variants of green, with a rich green beard, somewhat lighter than his head. His fingernails have the look of solid green glass, whilst his fingers are completely white when clean, which is usually the case upon this planet. His teeth are of bluish mother-of-pearl and shine in various colours. His voice is tuneful but usually very deep, so that the average speaking voice would move in the region of your contra-basso and is of such sonority that it would be like thunder to your ears from even two to three miles away. Although the woman also speaks in a low pitch, her voice is nonetheless more pleasant, and more flexible as it were. Wherefore she is most attractive to the male of this planet and more so because this planet is the mother of musical art, so to speak. For here, art is practiced not only by the different and flexible human voices, amongst which the female excels over others, but also with diverse musical instruments.
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This tells us what the naked man looks like; and now we shall study the female without her clothing. It could be asked: why not with clothing on? The reason is the diversity of clothing, as with you yourselves, and so no representative fashion can be given. For here too, men wear miscellaneous coats, overcoats, leg covers, shoes and hats, depending on the country and custom and the women do likewise. Hence if you want any person dressed up, you have to do so yourselves, which should not be too difficult for you. You only have to transfer the more fashionable national dresses of your European and Asian folk on an enlarged scale of course, unto this planet's inhabitants and you have them before you, dressed! Knowing this, we can now look at a naked woman appropriately, to see her type.
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The woman is usually of exceptional beauty, and that sometimes to an amazing degree. She has a wonderful sweetness, charm, softness, tenderness and her build is almost always curvaceous. Her skin is exceptionally tender and of a brilliant white colour, like your freshly fallen alpine snow, with only her cheeks becoming soft green. Her hair is a blackish green, shimmering like your peacock feathers, together with the perspiration locks under her arms, which blink like diamonds; and similarly her pubic hair. Her fingernails are a most vivid green, shining like finely polished glass, giving a most exquisite appearance upon the round white fingers of this planet's woman.
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The woman's face has that shape which, in your vernacular, you call the most beautiful. A smooth high forehead, fairly ample eyebrows, big and very lively eyes with a pupil of a fiery green, with an occasional touch of red. Her nose is long and softly rounded with a well-proportioned mouth in accordance with all her other features. Her chin is neither too pointed nor too wide, but has a perfectly oval shape with an average dimple.
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Her neck is of average length and round, the nape being without prominences. Her breast is a full one and below it the woman is slim down to her hips after which her figure broadens sharply to shoulder-width toward the thigh joint. It goes without saying that her feet are well proportioned also.
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Now you can dress this woman as you like and get an idea of what a well formed woman looks like without making her into a Parisienne make-up doll however but, as said, with some national costume.
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Therewith you have the humans but without their dwelling however, which we shall now look at; for like yourselves, people on this planet live in houses. What do these houses look like and are they isolated or in clusters, like your villages? Whereupon we shall have provided our beautiful and big people of this planet with a private dwelling.
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The dwellings here almost resemble yours, but without storeys and usually no higher than a man's height and a half. The rooves likewise look like your country houses but are more pointed, somewhat like gothic houses of prayer.
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Each house has no more than three rooms, one for males, one for females and one, usually in the middle as a living room for everyone. What is their size? Relative to these people's size, neither too big nor too small, but easily able to accommodate a hundred people.
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What is their building material? Hewn stone throughout. Windows are high, but not too wide and glazed with elastic natural glass, similar to your mica, usually in metal frames; the colours are diverse, as nature's free workshops provide. The residents also have artificial glass, the purpose of which we shall discussed later.
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Besides private dwellings there are also business houses and houses for animals as well as for other domestic purposes. In front of the private dwellings there are also single room creches that are of similar height to the general dwelling although of less girth.
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It only needs adding that people generally live in villages and presently we shall look at their other arrangements.