Tash is a fictional character found in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. He appears in The Horse and His Boy, and in The Last Battle. He is the main deity of the land of Calormen, south of Archenland which forms a southern borderland for Narnia. Tash is represented as a creature with four arms and a head like a vulture. Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar, born into a Protestant family in Belfast, though mostly resident in England. ... The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. ... The Horse and his Boy The Horse and His Boy is a novel by C.S. Lewis. ... The Last Battle is the final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. ... In C. S. Lewiss Chronicles of Narnia series of novels, Calormen is a large country to the south and east of Narnia. ... In C. S. Lewiss fantasy novels the Chronicles of Narnia, Archenland is a nation to the south of Narnia. ... The Narnia books Narnia is a fantasy world created by the Anglo-Irish author C. S. Lewis as a location for his Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels for children. ...

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It is suggested in the book that he is opposed to Aslan; by implication, he is Satan to Aslan's Christ-like representation. This is illustrated by the reactions of the main characters to his presence: they talk of smelling a foul smell and of the air growing cold when he passes near to them. There is a common link between Tash and the various "pagan" deities which were worshipped in ancient Biblical times, such as Baal, Molech, Nisroch, and others. It is notable that Nisroch, depicted in a form similar to that of Tash, appears in Edith Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet, a book with which Lewis was familiar and from which he borrowed a number of other concepts that appear in the Chronicles of Narnia. 'Tash' and 'Aslan' are respectively the Turkish words for 'stone' and 'lion'. Here is a deliberate reference by C. S. Lewis to a false (stone) god and the true God (lion). Aslan the Great Lion is the main character in The Chronicles of Narnia a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. ... Gustave Dores depiction of Satan from John Miltons Paradise Lost Satan (שָׂטָן Standard Hebrew Satan, Greek and Latin Sátanas, Tiberian Hebrew Śāṭān; Aramaic שִׂטְנָא Åšaá¹­anâ; Arabic شيطان Shaitan: both words mean Adversary; accuser; derived from the Semitic root Å¡á¹­n, which carries the semantics of opposing, obstructing, and of being... This page is about the title, for the Christian figure, see Jesus Christ is the English representation of the Greek word Χριστός (transliterated as Khristós), which means anointed. ... Baal is a Semitic title and honorific meaning lord that is used for various gods, spirits and demons particularly of the Levant. ... Moloch or Molech or Molekh representing Hebrew מלך mlk is either the name of a god or the name of a particular kind of sacrifice associated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in north Africa and the Levant. ... According to the Bible, Nisroch is an Assyrian god in whose temple Sennacherib was worshiping when he was assassinated. ... Edith Nesbit (August 15, 1858 - May 4, 1924) was a British childrens author whose works were published under the asexual name of E. Nesbit. ... The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by E. Nesbit. ...

It should be also noted that those Calormenes who have sincerely honoured Tash are rewarded after their death for having really honoured Aslan; likewise those who do evil in Aslan's name are counted as having done it the name of Tash. This illustrates Lewis's belief that the idea being worshipped, and the honesty with which it is worshipped is more important than the name by which it is referred to. This is made clear in The Last Battle, where an honest Calormene soldier enters "Aslan's World". The Last Battle is the final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. ...