Perelandra

The Two Oyarsa

Their bodies...were white. But a flush of diverse colours began about the shoulders and and streamed up the necks and flickered over face and head and stood out around the head like plumage or a halo.....The Oyarsa of Mars shown with morning colours, a little metallic - pure, hard and bracing. The Oyarsa of Venus glowed with a warm spendour, full of the suggestion of teeming vegetable life.