Pagan Imagery in C.S. Lewis: From Demons to Icons of Divine Grace

With Christ, Bacchus will move us closer to the merriment of the Wedding Feast.

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When I first read The Chronicles of Narnia, the abundance of pagan gods didn’t strike me as something odd. I grew up on Russian fairy tales that involved lots of pagan characters. However, when I got to Lewis’s Space Trilogy, the question arose in my mind — why? Why would he use pagan deities so profusely as the main characters in the stor…