Outside reading

Journeys such as the one in The Chronicles of Narnia often have underlying meanings. In Landscapes of the Sacred, Belden C. Lane states that "The sacred place becomes the point at which the wondrous power of the divine could be seen breaking into the world's alleged ordinariness. As a result, that fixed point becomes the center of that world, the navel of the earth or axis mundi by which passage can be obtained to the cosmic region beyond, from where all meaning derives. Here the real could unveil itself in space." (20) This quote describes Narnia in that it is where the power of the divine, being Aslan, helps the children continue their sacred journey. The center of the children's world for the time being is now Narnia. Aslan, the wholly divine, breaks the ordinariness of the children's lives by appointing them the new leaders of Narnia. The axis mundi or connection between heaven and earth is Aslan himself because he is portrayed as Christ, the Almighty.