within these caves was burned the body of edward rolles weston a learned hnau of the world which those who inhabit it call tellus but the eldila thulcandra hb was born when tellus had completed one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six revolutions about arbol since the time when maleldil blessed be he was born as a hnau in thulcandra he studied the properties of bodies and first of the tellurians travelled through deep heaven to malacandra and to perelandra where he gave up his will and reason to the bent eldil when tellus was making the one thousandth nine hundredth and forty-second revolution after the birth of maleldil blessed be he .