Stuff you found out by reading the Magicans Nephew which showed up in later books

As for Jadis being a descendent of Lillith, how soon we forget! How did the first humans come into Narnia? They weren't CREATED there but became an integral part of that world throughout its entire history.

Are we to assume that in the entire history of all possible Existance-worlds, only Uncle Andrew ever discovered how to go from one to another deliberately?

I'm quite comfortable with the idea that other beings experimenting with magic found their way to the World Between Worlds. After all, what would the purpose of such a place be except as an interface for intelligent life to journey from Existance-world to Existance-world, a term I coined to separate the notion of space travel (e.g. Star Trek) from tranferring from one plane of existance (e.g. polydimensional "Brane") to another.
 
I agree that Lillith could have easily gone through the Wood to become the progenitor of the Charnians.

Corin, it would be interesting to know how the Beavers found out that Jadis was descended from Lilith and a djnn.

MrBob
 
That was the point I was trying to put across, Mr Bob. In my opinion, it is quite feasible that what the Beavers told Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy about the white witch's ancestry may well have been a story handed down through many generations, and perhaps embellished for propoganda purposes. Interestingly, C.S.Lewis himself, in 'The Magicians Nephew' whilst speculating that there may be giantish blood in the royal family of Charn, does not specifically say there is, despite what he had already written in the first book, through what the Beavers said. It is quite possible she may well, therefore, have been at least part human.
 
Jadis was not part human. Of that we know. How the Beaers knew she was half Lillith and half djinn is the question. Did she tell her allies before and then try to convince her enemies later that she was part human?

MrBob
 
The fact that she lies about her actual lack of human ancestry really discredits anything else she would have told anyone. So to me speculation of her claims to any other kind of ancestry has no real significance. The fact that Lewis uses Mr. Beaver, someone with whom she probably did not generally associate with and someone who would not take her at face value, to tell the Pevensies who she really is, leads me to believe that he acquired that knowledge some other way. I agree Bob; it would be interesting to know how Mr Beaver knew the truth. I also like your idea of Lilith in the Wood Between the Worlds. How would she have gotten there if not by rings?
 
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Andrew used dirt from the Woodd that he found in an Atlentean box. Someone obviously had to bring it. That, of course, begs the question of who the first person to get to the Wood was as they had to do it without the use of the dirt.

Maybe Lillith was originally a Charnian who found her way into the Wood by some other magic.

MrBob
 
Lillith, according to the Kabalah, was Adam's first wife made equally and identically from the dust of the ground who, after an arguement with God about things I would not dare say here, was cast out of the garden and another wife made for Adam from one of his ribs so she would be "of him".

As a separate but equal human being, she represented a different line of humanity not descended from Adam. The demon Asmodeus took up with her and she had children by him who had both human appearance and demonic elements. That was how the Kabalah explained beings like werewolves and vampires that could assume human form or change themselves into other forms at will.

Because Jadis is supposedly a descendent, she is a different sort of human, but not a son of Adam nor a daughter of Eve. She is also not fully human.
 
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