C.S. Lewis names the great lion in The Chronicles of Narnia Aslan.
Aslan is the central figure of the Narnia books and is portrayed as the creator, ruler, and deepest source of authority in that fictional world. He appears in all seven published Narnia novels, although his role and the amount of time he spends on the page vary from book to book.
The name is drawn from Turkish: “aslan” means “lion.” Lewis used the familiar Turkish word rather than inventing an entirely new name, giving the character a title that is simple, memorable, and closely tied to his animal form.
Readers often describe Aslan as an allegorical representation of Jesus Christ, especially because of events in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Lewis, however, generally described the Narnia stories through the idea of “supposal”: he imagined how Christ might appear in another world rather than writing a direct one-to-one allegory.