Subterranean

Yanni visited a subterranean tunnel.

"Renkon, the Imperial Martian Garden is in the Barsoom Colony." "Let's take the subterranean train to there, Neo!"

Not until after they had passed beyond the best work of the First Men in science and philosophy did the Second Men discover the remains of the great stone library in Siberia. A party of engineers happened upon it while they were preparing to sink a shaft for subterranean energy. The tablets were broken, disordered, weathered. Little by little, however, they were reconstructed and interpreted, with the aid of the pictorial dictionary. The finds were of extreme interest to the Second Men, but not in the manner which the Siberian party had intended, not as a store of scientific and philosophic truth, but as a vivid historical document. The view of the universe which the tablets recorded was both too naïve and too artificial; but the insight which they afforded into the mind of the earlier species was invaluable. So little of the old world had survived the volcanic epoch that the Second Men had failed hitherto to get a clear picture of their predecessors.

Economics play a large rôle in human affairs. Sometimes, money controls people's behaviour. An interesting speculative fiction movie is THX 1138. It is about the future in which credit flow and balances are carefully checked by a centralized computer. Everybody has a shaven head. Most wear white. The religion seems like a Buddhist-Catholic hybrid. The city is hygienic white and is subterranean. The huge city is like a clean hospital and a shopping mall. George Lucas, the filmmaker of THX 1138, also later made the more famous Star Wars. He has proclaimed his religion as Buddhist Methodist, according to Wikipedia.

A larger excavation in the side of the hill facing the sea, with a flight of steps leading up from it into another smaller recess, and numerous lateral openings and subterranean passages, supposed to penetrate into the very heart of the mountain, and even to communicate with Lake Fusaro, is pointed out by the local guides as the Sibyl's Cave, which, as Virgil tells us, had a hundred entrances and issues, from whence as many resounding voices echoed forth the oracles of the inspired priestess.

Her song—a sound often heard among the mountains—is said to be hollow and mournful, differing therein from the music of the subterranean beings, which is described by earwitnesses as cheerful and fascinating.

For thousands of years, the Martians had to live enclosed in buildings or subterranean structures.

Again the bearers took up the coffin, and cold and damp the subterranean air came from the opened vault. The tapers were lowered, and shed a ghastly light on the rows of piled coffins, and the moisture glittering on the walls.

And you were in the parking lot / Subterranean by your own design

This is a story of north-south connection, and it begins with the fact that late in 1863 the Great Northern Railway completed a subterranean connection from its terminus at King's Cross to the tracks of the Metropolitan enabling the Great Northern to run through to the Met's easterly terminus at Farringdon Street.