The Mahars dominate Pellucidar primarily through their developed power of mass telepathy<sup class='text_citation' source_id='1' start_phrase='Half-bird, half-lizard, the Mahars kept their savage world in a grip of icy fear through their developed power of mass telepathy.' end_phrase='mass telepathy.'>. This ability is described as a 'sixth sense' that allows them to project their thoughts into a fourth dimension, which is then perceived by the sixth sense of their listener<sup class='text_citation' source_id='1' start_phrase='Among themselves they communicate by means of what Perry says must be a sixth sense which is cognjzant of a fourth dimension.' end_phrase='fourth dimension.'><sup class='text_citation' source_id='1' start_phrase='What they do,” said Perry, “is to project their thoughts into the fourth dimension, when they become appreciable to the sixth sense of their listener.' end_phrase='of their listener.'>.

They also employ hypnotic powers, an 'uncanny art,' to control their victims, compelling them to walk to their doom without resistance<sup class='text_citation' source_id='1' start_phrase='The Mahar sank now till only the long upper bill and eyes were exposed above the surface of the water, and the girl had advanced until the end of that repulsive beak was but an inch or two from her face, her horror-filled eyes riveted upon those of the reptile.' end_phrase='of the reptile.'><sup class='text_citation' source_id='1' start_phrase='The poor creatures on the islands awaiting their fate tried to cover their eyes with their hands to hide the fearful sight, but now I saw that they too were under the hypnotic spell of the reptiles, so that they could only crouch in terror with their eyes fixed upon the terrible thing that was transpiring before them.' end_phrase='before them.'>.

What unique power do the Mahars use to dominate Pellucidar?

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