For the witches, and most likely shamans, this is at a specific canyon underneath the earth in Lyra's world.

Lyra's brightest stars include the following:

Pullman has published two short stories related to His Dark Materials: " Lyra and the Birds ", which appears with accompanying illustrations in the small hardcover book Lyra's Oxford ( 2003 ), and " Once Upon a Time in the North " ( 2008 ).

Lyra's inevitable betrayal can be interpreted as two separate occasions and either occurs when Lyra leads her friend Roger to Lord Asriel on Svalbard at the end of the first book, in the chapter titled " Betrayal ", or when Lyra leaves her dæmon on the shore of the lake in the Land of the Dead.

Cover of Knopf hardback edition of " Lyra's Oxford ", engraved by John Lawrence.

It transpires that Lyra's destiny is to be the second Eve and fall into the temptation of the serpent, represented by Mary Malone.

Mrs. Coulter tricks Sir Charles into revealing the secret of the knife, then after murdering him, uses the Spectres which she has learned to control to torture a witch into revealing the prophecy about Lyra as well as Will and Lyra's location and the manner of their protection by the witch clans.

However by the third book she finds herself torn, ultimately feigning loyalty to betray the Church and finally giving up her life for Lyra's sake.

It is then revealed that Coulter is in fact Lyra's mother by her love affair with Lord Asriel ( her title of " Mrs ." comes from her widowed marriage to Edward Coulter, who died before the events in the book.

In Philip Pullman's less well-known little book " Lyra's Oxford " there is a pull-out map which clearly shows the building we know as Exeter College to be Jordan College.

They all exchange stories of what has happened, and Mary's story of why she decided not to be a nun anymore plants a seed in Lyra's mind.

In Northern Lights, Lord Asriel reveals the origins of the term " Dust " to be from a passage from the slightly alternate version of the Bible in Lyra's World: " In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground ; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Lord Asriel is the first to realise that this energy can be used to open up the invisible doorways between the different universes and intends to use the operation on Lyra's friend Roger Parslow.

Lyra's dæmon, Pantalaimon, is her dearest companion and the embodiment of her soul.

Dr. Malone quits her job, but returns later that night to follow Lyra's suggestion that she attempt to communicate with the Shadows she is studying.

Lyra is confronted with her death when she and Will enter the underworld in an attempt to contact the ghost of Lyra's dead friend, Roger.

When Lyra asks why Mrs. Coulter herself saved her, Mrs. Coulter eventually reveals that she is, in fact Lyra's mother.

Mrs. Coulter also struggles with her identity of being Lyra's mother due to her attachment to the church.

Lyra's dæmon, Pantalaimon ( often called Pan ), is still capable of changing shape at the beginning of the trilogy, and is portrayed as a cautious and level-headed counterpoint to Lyra's impulsive, inquisitive, and sometimes reckless character.

A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

The most famous document that comes out of this dispute is perhaps Sir Philip Sidney's An Apologie For Poetrie, published in 1595.

The most surprising thing about the Twenty-second Congress of the Soviet Communist Party is that it is surprising -- perhaps quite as much, in its own way, as the Twentieth Congress of 1956, which ended with that famous `` secret '' report on Stalin.

The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.

One of the most damaging tsunami on record followed the famous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755 ; ;

Of course, 1600 Pennsylvania, the White House, is the most famous address of the free world.

The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.

The 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

The famous Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook stated that love is the most important attribute in humanity.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

The Vikings, the Portuguese, and the Spaniards were the most famous among early explorers.

This was expressed by Korzybski's most famous premise, " the map is not the territory ".

Nobel held 350 different patents, dynamite being the most famous.

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.

Probably the oldest, and most famous, list of axioms are the 4 + 1 Euclid's postulates of plane geometry.

Conium maculatum has been used as a sedative and in treatments for arthritis and asthma in addition to its most famous use: as a “ humane ” method of killing criminals and philosophers.

Miss Marple, another of Christie ’ s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.