2.1 Aslan’s Creation of Narnia vs. The Genesis
According to Genesis, the first book of the Bible, God created the world in six days. God first created light. He said, 搣Let there be light,攠 and there was light. Then God divided the light from the darkness and made day and night. That was the first day. On the second day, God divided the sky from the earth, and put one on top of the other. On the third day, God gathered all the water together to make the seas, so that dry land appeared. He made grass grow on the land, plants give seeds and trees bear fruit. God spent the fourth day creating the sun, the moon and stars to shine in the sky. God devoted the fifth day to the creation of sea animals and birds flying in the sky. During the sixth day, God made land animals and human beings. By the seventh day God stopped working. He made the day holy, because he had a rest on the day.
The beginning of Narnia is described in The Magician’s Nephew. Here, one finds an empty world which is 搮uncommonly like nothing. There were no stars 厎 and certainly no grass or wood. The air was cold and dry and there was no wind (page 48).攠 At the same time, just as light, form and life came into existence through God’s spoken words, a Narnia is given birth through the sublime singing of Aslan.
搣THE Lion was pacing to and fro about that empty land and singing his new song. It was softer and more lilting than the song by which he had called up the stars and the sun; a gentle, rippling music. And as he walked and sang the valley grew green with grass. It spread out from the Lion like a pool. It ran up the sides of the little hills like a wave. In a few minutes it was creeping up the lower slopes of the distant mountains, making that young world every moment softer. The light wind could now be heard ruffling the grass. Soon there were other things besides grass. The higher slopes grew dark with heather. Patches of rougher and more bristling green appeared in the valley. Digory did not know what they were until one began coming up quite close to him. It was a little, spiky thing that threw out dozens of arms and covered these arms with green and grew larger at the rate of about an inch every two seconds. There were dozens of these things all round him now.攠 (page 51)
It is convenient for us to find the parallel between the Narnia Chronicles and the Bible. The magical Narnia world created by Aslan actually is the human world created by God, which is in the author’s subconscious philosophy.