Aslan represents the divine creator in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia.
Aslan is the great lion who appears throughout the seven Narnia books. He creates Narnia through song in The Magician’s Nephew, guides its history, and serves as its highest moral and spiritual authority. His name is derived from the Turkish word for “lion.”
Lewis’s portrayal of Aslan includes deliberate Christian symbolism, especially in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Aslan gives his life to save Edmund after Edmund’s betrayal, then returns to life. Lewis described Aslan not as a simple allegorical code but as a fictional embodiment of what Christ might be like in another world.
Aslan is sometimes confused with ordinary Narnian kings or with the series’ human heroes. He is neither: he is the central supernatural figure whose presence connects the separate adventures across Narnia’s chronology.