The mysterious region in Lyra’s world is called Karamakan, the name of no known place in our world.
Taklamakan Desert, north of the Tibetan Plateau and east of the Gobi Desert. We also hear about a mysterious structure in a desert in Central Asia where these roses are said to grow, where separated dæmons are reputed to congregate and where other mysteries abound. In The Secret Commonwealth we heard more about the oil from particular roses, Rosa lopnoriensis, which seems to function in a similar way to the oil Mary Malone used for her telescope in The Amber Spyglass to allow her to see Dust. You may remember from Serpentine that Lyra and her dæmon Pantalaimon had become somewhat estranged subsequently the two - along with Lyra’s friend Malcolm Polstead and the sinister Olivier Bonneville - have all been making their individual ways across Europe to the Levant. The diviners can hear the whispering immortals This is how I choose to dispose the words from the music of the opening credits, and below is how I think it could be translated. The series continues at 8pm on Sunday, November 10th.Western Temple in the Erdene Zuu Monastery, Karakorum (Marcin Konsek / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0)
The BBC’s adaptation of His Dark Materials will likely explore this more as the series progresses. The Magisterium, the all-power religious authoritarian regime in His Dark Materials, seeks to destroy Dust as they believe it to be linked to humanity’s original sin. According to Philip Pullman’s original books, Dust forms around adults as they have matured and grown a full conscience whereas children, being the innocent little things they are, remain free from it. The reason why Dust is only attracted to adults, however, is linked to His Dark Materials’ religious undertones.
This happens because, as it will become apparent later in the series, Dust is the key to travelling between Lyra and Asriel’s world and a whole swathe of new dimensions. In a picture of an adult and child, we see that the adult is surrounded by particles of Dust whereas the child is untouched by the substance and more crucially, the Dust reveals an unknown city in the sky amidst the northern lights.
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