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  • An ex-space officer, looking for his Shanga addicted ex-girlfriend.

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  • In Brackett's story, a Martian named Kor Hal tells protagonist Burk Winters that, despite having inaugurated Shanga as an escape from war and violence, the people of Caer Dhu quickly "perished" and "in one generation ... vanished from the face of Mars."

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  • He instigates a conflict between the Shanga beasts and their guards, allowing the pair to escape, but wondering if they can truly get away from the drug, or if it can be stamped out.

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  • The sacred objects of the cult, the Jewels of Shanga, date back reputedly to "a half a million years ago" (14) when the priests of Caer Dhu carved them by a science now lost.

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  • "The Beast-Jewel of Mars" revolves around Shanga, translatable as "the return" or "the going-back" (The Coming of the Terrans 8), a cult "forbidden centuries ago by the city-states of Mars" (9), which has reappeared with the arrival of the earthmen.

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  • Martian Low Canal city, also site of the Shanga operation and Kings.

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  • Winters quits the ship he is on to go back to the Shanga organisation on Mars, to try and find Leland, an old lover.

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  • Queen of the Martian Catacombs would happen around these times as mention is made of the Shanga trade in that story: Stark realized now what secret vice Kala sold here.

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  • It was supposed to have been stamped out when the Lady Fand's dark Shanga ring had been destroyed.

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  • Shanga – the going back – the radiation that caused temporary artificial atavism and let men wallow for a time in beasthood.

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