From the preface to Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento (1903), originally published as Journeys to the Planet Mars, or, Our mission to Ento (Mars): Being a Record of Visits Made to Ento (Mars) by Sara Weiss, Psychic, Under the Guidance of a Spirit Band, For the Purpose of Conveying to the Entoans a Knowledge of the Continuity of Life, Transcribed Automatically by Sara Weiss, Under the Editorial Direction of (Spirit) Carl De L’Ester:

With occasional brief interruptions, our journeys to the Planet, astronomically known as Mars, but to its inhabitants as Ento, which in the Ento language signifies “chosen, or set apart,” extended from October 6, 1892, to September 16, 1894. During this period, through a rather rare phase of mediumship, which we term semi-automatism, the objective, or soul consciousness of our instrument was controlled to write certain observations and experiences….Our mission to Ento was undertaken for a specific purpose, the record of its various features being a secondary affair, but of sufficient importance to induce us to undertake the task, which to all concerned, has been purely a labor of love. Largely, it has been written for the purpose of affording our Earthians information which only through the mediation of discarnated spirits can be obtained. To scientific inquiry, in whatsoever direction, there is a limit beyond which the physically embodied man cannot penetrate, but to freed, most exalted spirits from whom we receive instruction, the depths of unthinkably boundless space are accessible. To spirits less exalted as we are, the planets of our solar system afford free fields of observation, and in some far distant time you and we, dear reader, through loving service for Humanity, may find ourselves so purified, through earnest investigation and lofty aspiration, so learned, so exalted, that together we may journey beyond suns and worlds of which your photographers catch imprints, as faint as smiles on the white faces of your dear dead. And may we hope that in reading of our mission to Ento, you may find some expression of thought, some lesson which may aid you in ascending the heights, ever leading toward exalted states of being, thus nearer to a realizing sense of the all pervading, infinite spirit of an infinite universe.

Here is the book’s glossary, with the elaborate diacritical marks of the Ento language omitted:

A.
Andumana — Supreme One. Creator of all things.
Acclinum — Zoological collection.
Acrocusteno ingolavion — Amphibious flesh eater.
Angossa — Hornless animal. Hornless.
Astranola — Realm of Deific ones.
A-Muista — Manlike Anthropoid.
Andomah — Primary school.
Azeon — God of Love.
Alista — Mountain. Very lofty, etc.
Alzoytas — Sacred bird of Astranola, whose wings over-shadow the Death Realm.
Avon muya — Good bye, or may the Gods protect you.
Anadillo Pylo — Scaly armored amphibian.
Anadillo akedon — Scaly armored reptile.

B.
Bomuz himmu — Manlike tree climber,
Birrsch — Trowser.
Birrscha — Trowsers.
Bomuz — Man.
Brillo — Froglike creature.
Bendolu — Rainbow.
Bendolu iffon — Rainbow hued.
Budas — Tremulous.
Budas lota — A gigantic tree, whose palmlike foliage trembles incessantly.

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