The Cabby and Aslan

[Motrax]

I recently re-read the Magician's Nephew, and wondered about the meaning of one part in particular. In chapter 11, there is the following conversation when the Cabby (the first King of Narnia) meets Aslan:

"Son," said Aslan to the cabby. "I have known you long. Do you know me?"
"Well, no, sir," said the cabby. "Leastaways, not in an ordinary manner of speaking. Yet I feel somehow, if I may make so free, as 'ow we've met before."
"It is well," said the Lion. "You know me better than you think you know, and shall live to know me better yet." ...

Following the description in the later books that Aslan is a presence known in our world by a different name (Lewis clearly, in my opinion, meant God), it follows that Aslan has known the cabby for a long time. Does the cabby's knowledge simply indicate that he was a religious man, or do you think he had perhaps travelled to some other world as a child, meeting Aslan there?

[The Prince]

Most Likely he Aslan meant that the cabby new him by another name in our world as you stated as CSL liked to emphesize things like that

[kirke]

prince said my thoughts

[DeplorableWord]

Yes, I believe that the Cabby knew Aslan by a different name in our world, which is God/Jesus.

[PrinceOfTheWest]

I agree with Deplorable Word and the others - the comment meant that the Cabby had known Christ in this world (as proven by his piety at the prospect of having died, and his wonder at the creation of Narnia unfolding before him.) This is the inverse of what Aslan says to Edmund and Lucy at the end of Dawn Treader, where He says they have to learn Him by His name on earth.