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Tter the name of Esenale, to which Hélène replies in a soft, feeble, somewhat melancholy, voice: “Esenale has…

Date of account: English edition published 1900
Source: From India to the planet Mars: A study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia
Reference: From India to the planet Mars: A study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia · selected passage 144
Rights: public_domain
Language: English translation from French
Translation: English translation of Théodore Flournoy
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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tter the name of Esenale, to which Hélène replies in a soft, feeble, somewhat melancholy, voice: “Esenale has gone away

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tter the name of Esenale, to which Hélène replies in a soft, feeble, somewhat melancholy, voice: “Esenale has gone away ... he has left me alone ... but he will return, ... he will soon return.... He has taken me by the hand and made me enter the house [that which she saw in her vision, and of which she made the drawing a month ago—see Fig. 12].... I do not know where Esenale is leading me, but he has said to me, ‘=Dodé né ci haudan té méche métiche Astané ké dé mé véche=,’ but I did not understand; ... =dodé=, _this_; =né=, _is_; =ci=, _the_; =haudan=, _house_; =te=, _of the_; =méche=, _great_; =métiche=, _man_; =Astané=, _Astané_; =ké=, _whom_; =dé=, _thou_; =mé=, _hast_; =véche=, _seen_.... This is the house of the great man Astané, whom thou hast seen.... Esenale has told me that.... Esenale has gone away.... He will return ... he will soon return ... he will teach me to speak ...

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