Our mythology was what it was - gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.

C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (p201)

On Mars the very forests are of stone; in Venus the lands swim. For now he thought of them no more as Malacandra and Perelandra. He called them by their Tellurian names. With deep wonder he thought to himself, “My eyes have seen Mars and Venus. I have seen Ares and Aphrodite.” He asked them how they were known to the old poets of Tellus. When and from whom the Children of Addam learned that Ares was a man of war and Aphrodite rose from the Sea Foam,

C.S. Lewis, Perelandra, P 200