![]() In prison, they encounter a young man later identified as Carter's son Carthoris, with whom Carter is taken to a series of games wherein the previous year's handmaidens are eaten by Issus and her nobles. Thereafter Carter treats him with honor, and thus gains his friendship. Issus takes Phaidor as a handmaiden for one Martian year whereas Carter is imprisoned, with Xodar as his slave as punishment for being defeated by Carter. ![]() When their flier is recaptured by the First Born and taken to their realm of Omean, Carter is taken before Issus, the self-proclaimed goddess of Barsoom, who dictates the Therns through secret communications which they mistake for divine revelation. From the captured Pirate Xodar, Carter learns that the Black Pirates, called the " First Born", also think of themselves as gods, and accordingly prey upon the Therns and additionally identifies the captive Thern as Phaidor, daughter of the "Holy Hekkador" (high priest) of the Therns. During the attack, Tars Tarkas and Thuvia hijack a Black Pirate flier, while Carter fights his way aboard another, killing all but one of the Pirates, and rescuing a captive Thern princess. Most arrivals are killed by the beasts of Valley, and the survivors enslaved by Therns.Ĭarter and Tars Tarkas rescue Thuvia, a slave girl, and attempt to escape, capitalizing on the confusion caused by an attack by the Black Pirates of Barsoom upon the Therns. Having saved their own lives, Carter and Tars Tarkas discover that the Therns, a white-skinned race of self-proclaimed gods, have for eons deceived the Barsoomians elsewhere by disseminating that the pilgrimage to the Valley Dor is a journey to paradise. The lone survivor is his friend Tars Tarkas, the Jeddak of Thark, who has taken the pilgrimage to the Valley Dor to find Carter. After John Carter's arrival, a boat of Green Martians on the River Iss are ambushed by the previously unknown Plant Men. Eventually it turns out he is on Mars, but in the Valley Dor. ![]() The story begins with John Carter's return to Mars, initially the environment he is in is extremely unfamiliar and it worries him that he may have been transported accidentally to a world other than his beloved Barsoom. It relates the story of how John Carter returned to Mars to liberate it from the influence of the power-mad Holy Therns and their cannibalistic false goddess Issus. The Gods of Mars is the second book in Burroughs' Martian saga.
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