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The street was lined by throngs of Tuchuks and slaves. Among them,
too, were soothsayers and haruspexes, and singers and musicians, and,
here and there, small peddlers and merchants, of various cities, for
such are occasionally permitted by the Tuchuks, who crave their
wares, to approach the wagons. Each of these, I was later to learn,
wore on his forearm a tiny brand, in the form of spreading bask
horns, which guaranteed his passage, at certain seasons, across the
plains of the Wagon Peoples. The difficulty, of course is in first
obtaining the brand. If, in the case of a singer, the song is
rejected, or in the case of a merchant, his merchandise is rejected,
he is slain out of hand. This acceptance brand, of course, carries
with it a certain stain of ignominy, suggesting that those who
approach the wagons do as slaves.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 34 [b] |
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Finding this poor fellow in the Voltai, so far from the natural routes and fertile areas of Gor,
I suspected he might have escaped, if that was possible, from one of the Pits.
"What is your name?" I asked. "I am of the Afflicted," said the weird, cringing figure. "The Afflicted are dead. The dead are nameless." Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 151 [C] |
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agal raiment length of cord which is used to bind the
kaffiyeh to the head of the wearer, usually several loops secure it. The kaffiyeh is the head covering of the tribesmen of the Tahari, a folded, squarish cloth. [T]
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Cloth is measured in the ah-il, which is the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, and the ah-ral, which is ten ah-ils."
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 50 [C] |
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The shadows of the pasang stones had grown long, and, judging by the
angle of these shadows (for the stones are set in such a way as to
serve also as sundials) it was past the fourteenth Gorean Ahn, or
hour. The Gorean day is divided into twenty Ahn, which are numbered
consecutively. The tenth Ahn is noon, the twentieth, midnight. Each
Ahn consists of forty Ehn, or minutes, and each Ehn of eighty Ihn, or seconds.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 26 [b] There are twenty hours, or Ahn, in the Gorean day. The hands of the Gorean chronometers do not move as the hand of the clocks of the Earth. They turn in the opposite direction. In that sense, they move counterclockwise. This chronometer, tooled in Ar, was a fine one, sturdy, exact. It contained, too, a sweeping Ihn hand, with which the tiny Ihn could be measured. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 352 [b] |
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and the ah-ral, which is ten ah-ils.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 50 [C] |
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"I have no idea where this little gem comes from online. When used in
the books, its usage is quite clear. If it means 'yes,' then why do
Goreans use it, in the books, to often indicate negative emotion?
Whereas a Gorean will say, 'Aiii, she is beautiful' they ALSO use it
in a negative context, as in 'Aiii, I just dropped a twenty stone
sack of crushed marble on my sandalled foot! Aiii! Aiii!'"
-- Marcus of Ar -- as quoted in [S] |
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An alarm bar, a hollow metal tube struck by hammers, began to ring in frenzy.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 199 [C] |
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Periodically the shrill notes of Alarm Bugles would pierce the air, as forces from Ar emerged to do battle on the plains before the city.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 199 [C] |
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Genserix shrugged. That would remain to be seen. Feiqa knelt behind me. We were now within the laager of Genserix, a chieftain of the Alarsadic, wandering herding people, and one well known, like the folks of Torvaldsland, for their skills with the ax.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 42 [b] |
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An ax, a typical Alar axhandled, armed with its heavy iron blade, was handed to the girl.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 54 [C] |
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She looked at me, agonized. She rose to her feet and, scarcely able
to move, numbly, went to the alcove. She could not bring
herself to enter, through the red curtains. I took her by the left
arm and thrust her within, onto the furs at my feet. I then turned
about and drew shut the curtains, hooking them shut. I then turned to
face her. She sat, numbly, on the furs, her knees drawn up. I took
the ankle ring and chain which lay at the right corner of the
alcove, as you enter. the chain is about a yard long and runs
to a ring bolted in the floor. There are similar chains in the floor,
opposite the red curtains. In the left handed corner of the room, as
you enter, of course, on its chain, is another ankle ring. At the far
corners of the room, of course, the chains terminate with wrist
rings. In the centre of the wall, near the floor, opposite the
curtains, the chain terminates with a collar there are provisions for
lengthening and shortening the chains. All these devices work from
locks, answering to a common key, which hangs high on the wall,
toward the back and left, as you enter. Needless to say that key
cannot be reached by the prisoner if even one of the chains is
fastened upon her. Near that common key, which hangs on a peg, there
is a second peg. From the second peg hangs a slave whip.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 174 [tLi] |
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I rose to my feet and placed two copper tarsks on the table. I went
to the girl and, with the side of my foot, kicked her, "Get to the
alcove," I told her.
"Yes, Master," she said, and she scrambled up, hurrying with a rustle of jewelry and bells to a leather curtained alcove. There was more Gorean applause as I followed her and, turning, from the inside, drew shut the curtains of the alcove. When I had buckled them shut from the inside I turned to face the girl. She knelt in the position of the pleasure slave, back in the alcove, on the scarlet furs, in the light of the small lamp. I looked about. There were some chains in the alcove, and a coil of rope, and a whip. "If Master desires special equipment," she said, "it will be provided by Busebius." "There is more then enough here to tame you," I said. Book 15, Rogue: pg 13 [tLi] |
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When one brings a girl to an alcove one may keep her there for
most practical purposes for as long as one wishes. She is yours, for
most practical purposes, until one chooses to reopen the curtains.
After the tavern is closed an attendant will let you out and, taking
charge of the girl, see that she is properly chained at her ring by the girl wall or kenneled.
Book 13, Rogue: pg 20 [C] |
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"Stroke!" called Thurnock, in his rhythm. "Stroke!"
Book 8, Hunters: pg 74 [nineve{Rem}] |
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The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of
ale, which must have been of the measure of five gallons.
Over this he then closed his fist. It was the sign of the hammer,
the sign of Thor. The tankard then, with two great bronze
handles, was passed from hands to hands among the rowers. The men
threw back their heads and, the liquid spilling down their
bodies, drank ale. It was the victory ale.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 99 [C] Many were the roast tarsk and roast bosk that had roasted over the long fire, on the iron spits. Splendid was the quality of the ale at the tables of the Blue Tooth. Sweet and strong was the mead. Book 9, Marauders: pg 191 [C] "The Forkbeard greets you!" shouted Ivar. I blinked. The hall was light. I had not understood it to be so large. At the tables, lifting ale and knives to the Forkbeard were more than a thousand men. Book 9, Marauders: pg 194 [C] |
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... a metal frame with rollers at the top and bottom and, pushing a button, spun the scroll to its opening mark, a single sign. "Al-Ka!" said Torm, pointing one long, authoritative finger at the sign. "Al-Ka," he said. "Al-Ka," I repeated. I had begun to learn the Gorean alphabet. Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 38 [C] I nodded. The rest of it I did not need to be told. The expressions 'Al-Ka' and 'Ba-ta' are the first two letters of the Gorean Alphabet. In effect these men had no names, but were simply known as Slave A and B. Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 94 [C] |
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"Two societies are represented among the Kaiila here," said Grunt. "Most belong to the All Comrades,
and one belongs to the Yellow-Kaiila Riders."
Book 17, Savages: pg 314 [b] |
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... sometimes a Master encourages open defiance or rebellion on the part
of a girl, he then enjoying forcing her to serve, and perfectly,
so obviously, so visibly, against her will. Too, sometimes, he is
amused to indulge a girl's "secret" recalcitrance, well aware of
her games, her transparent reservations, her supposedly so
carefully guarded and secret resistance, letting her think it is
unknown, even unsuspected. When he tires of this sport, however,
he reveals to her, to her horror, that she had been all this time
as open to him as a book. She can then make the decision of the
slave girl, to be a true slave, a full slave, or die.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 142 [tLi] |
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The Gorean alphabet has twenty-eight characters, all of which, I suspect, owe their origin to one or another of the alphabets of Earth.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 9 [b] |
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Eta, for example, occurs two hundred times more frequently in the language than altron
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 384 [C] |
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"What did Grunt, who is your master, the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, call you?' I asked. "'Wicincala'," she said, "which means 'Girl', and 'Amomona', which means 'Baby' or 'Doll'." Book 17, Savages: pg 230 [b] |
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It would have been stored overnight, I assumed, in an amphora,
buried to the neck in the cool earth. Sometimes Earth girls, first
brought to Gor, do not understand why so many of these two-handled,
narrow-necked vessels have such a narrow, usually pointed base, for
they cannot stand upright on such a base. They have not yet learned
that these vessels are not intended to stand upright. Rather they are
commonly fitted into a storage hole, buried there to keep their
contents cool, the necks above the earth. The pointed base, of
course, presses into the soft earth at the bottom of the storage hole.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 257 [b] |
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The golden scarf fluttered to the sands of the arena and the Tatrix
resumed her throne, reclining upon its cushions. The voice speaking
through the trumpet said, "Let the Amusements of Tharna begin."
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 111 [C] |
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Anango, like Asperiche, is an exchange, or free, island in
Thassa, administered by members of the caste of merchants. It is,
however, unlike Asperiche, very far away. It is far south of the
equator, so far south as to almost beyond the ken of most Goreans,
except as a place both remote and exotic. The jungles of the Anangoan
interior serve as the setting for various fanciful tales, having to
do with strange races, mysterious plants and fabulous animals. The
"magicians of Anango," for what it is worth, seem to be well known
everywhere on Gor except in Anango. In Anango itself it seems folks
have never heard of them.
Book 10, Players: pg 130 [C] Shaba usually named his discoveries, incidentally, in one or another of the inland dialects. He speaks several fluently, though his native tongue is Gorean, which is spoken standardly in Anango, his island. Book 13, Explorers: pg 100 [yara{^B^}/tLi] |
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One of the wagons had an ankle bar, and the other one was fitted with the ankle bar from Targo's damaged wagon, which he then abandoned and burned to the grass.
Book 7, Captive: pg 65 [C] |
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"Bring an ankle rack," said Ulafi to one of the guardsmen. One was brought.
"Put her in it," said Ulafi. The guardsman removed his neck strap from her throat, freeing, too, her ankles. He untied her hands. Lifting her under the stomach he held her ankles near the rack; another guardsman placed her ankles in the semicircular openings in the bottom block and then swung shut the top block, with its matching semicircular openings, over them. He secured the top block, hinged at the left, to the bottom block, with a metal bolt on a chain, thrust through the staple on the lower block, over the hasp, swung down from the upper block. Book 13, Explorers: pg 46 [b] |
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He also purchased certain articles of slavers' equipment, a display
chain, various other sorts of chains, slave bracelets, ankle rings,
neck collars, binding fibres, branding irons and whips.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 166 [S] I was taught to kneel in a certain way, and, when inspected, to lift my head, smile, and utter a certain phrase. Targo, and the guards, made me practice it many times. I later learned that its meaning was "Buy me, Master." In displaying a girl, an ankle ring is placed on her left ankle. This locks on the ankle. There is also a smaller ring, projecting from the larger ring, which also locks. This smaller ring can either be snapped into a particular link in a chain, thus allowing the girls to be spaced at certain intervals, or it can be closed about the chain as a whole, thus permitting the chain to run freely through the ring without injuring or burning the girl's ankle. Book 7, Captive: pp 62-63 [C] |
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She was barefoot. About her left ankle there was, about two inches
high, a beaded cuff, or anklet. Her garb was doubtless
intended to suggest the distinctive, humiliating and scandalously
brief garment in which red savages are sometimes pleased to place their white slaves.
Book 17, Savages: pg 181 [b] |
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The red savages, themselves, incidentally, have their own names for
the new, small community. In Kaiila it is called 'Anpao'.... The expression 'Anpao' means 'Dawn' or 'Daylight.'
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 47 [W] |
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"Anptaniya" has a more complex meaning in translation. It means,
rather literally, "the breath of day." It is used to refer, for
example, to the first, lovely glimmerings of morning. The expression
is related, of course, to the vapors raised by the sun in the early
morning, these perhaps, poetically and beautifully, as is often the
case in languages of the red savages, suggesting, "the breath of day."
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 47 [Qah`ri] |
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The column of the marchers was something like a yard wide. I
did not know how long it might be. It extended ahead through the
jungle and behind through the jungle farther than I could see in
either direction. Such columns can be pasangs in length. It is
difficult to conjecture the numbers that constitute such a march.
Conservatively some dozens of millions might be involved. The column
widens only when food is found; then it may spread as widely as five
hundred feet in width. Do not try to wade through such a flood. The
torrent of hurrying feeders leaves little but bones in its path.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 399 [b] |
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A great spined anteater, more than twenty feet in length, shuffled about the edges of the camp. We saw its long, thin tongue dart in and out of its mouth.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 312 [b] |
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There was applause, the striking of the left shoulder, from the tables. The brute then crouched beside her and encircled her neck with the coils of his whip. He drew her to her knees then before him. She looked up at him, her neck in the whip coils, his. There was more applause. Then the brute looked to Policrates, who indicated a table. He then pulled the girl to her feet and, running her over the tiles, and then releasing the coils from her neck, threw her stumbling into the arms of waiting pirates who, with a cry of pleasure, sized her and began to work their lusty wills upon her. There was more applause, and laughter.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 191 [C] There was applause for this at the table, the gentle striking of left shoulders, for she had done it well, and the significance of a woman's unbinding her hair before a man is well understood on Gor. Book 16, Guardsmen: pg 247 [C] There was a shout of pleasure from the men. They were striking their left shoulders with their right fists, repeatedly, in Gorean applause. Book 8, Hunters: pg 94 [b] The girls howled with laughter, and slapped their left shoulders with the palms of their right hands. He bowed to them and, gravely, left the circle. They continued to slap their shoulders with pleasure. Book 7, Captive: pg 66 [tLi] There was some polite striking of the left shoulder with the right hand in the room, which is a common Gorean applause, though not of the warriors, who clash weapons. Book 6, Raiders: pg 173 [tLi] |
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I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 45 [C] |
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"The next most frequently occurring letters in Gorean," said Bosk, "are Tau, Al-Ka, Omnion and Nu. Following these in frequency of occurrence are Ar, Ina, Shu and Homan, and so on."
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 383 [C] |
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Ar is the largest city of known Gor, larger even, I am sure, than Turia, in the far south. She has some forty public gates, and I suppose, some number of restricted smaller gates, secret gates, posterns, and such. Long ago, I had once entered the city through such a passage.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 9 [C] "Yes," said the Older Tarl, "And there," he said, poking downward with his finger, "is the City of Ar, hereditary enemy of Ko-ro-ba, the central city of Marlenus, who intends to be the Ubar of all Gor." Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 64 [C] These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their individual cities, or, often also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and others. Book 22, Dancer: pg 102 [tLi] "And how many Arrans does it take to change a lightbulb," asked Oryx with a sly grin. No one answered. They looked at Him expectantly. "One," the Laran Innkeeper answered. "He holds the bulb, and the rest of the world revolves about him." Apocryphal [tLi] |
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Their left flank was held by the Raviri, and four minor tribes, the Ti, the
Zevar, the Arani and the Tajuks
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 307 [C] |
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He was records officer, or archon of records, for the
Metallan district, in which we were located.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 442 [b] |
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I stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of
eggs, those of the migratory arctic gant. They nest in the mountaim
of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs,
found here and there jutting out of the tundra. The bird cliffs
doubtless bear some geological relation to the Hrimgar chains. When
such eggs are frozen they are eaten like apples.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 196 [b] |
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To my right were the lines of the Aretai. The Aretai
themselves, of course, with black kaffiyeh and white agal cording,
held their center. Their right flank was held by the Luraz and the
Tashid. Their left flank was held by the Raviri, and four minor
tribes, the Ti, the Zevar, the Arani and the Tajuks. The Tajuks are
not actually a vassal tribe of the Aretai, though they ride
with them. More than two hundred years ago a wandering Tajuk had been
rescued in the desert by Aretai riders, who had treated him
well, and had given him water and a kaiila. The man had found his way
back to his own tents. Since that time the Tajuks had, whenever they
heard the Aretai were gathering, and summoning tribes, come to
ride with them. They had never been summoned by the Aretai, who had
no right to do this, but they had never failed to come.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 301 [C] I had failed to contact them in Kasra, as I had planned, but I had learned that they were in the region of Tor, purchasing kaiila, for a caravan to the kasbah, or fortress, of Suleiman, of the Aretai tribe, master of a thousand lances, Ubar of the Oasis of Nine Wells. Book 10, Tribesman: pg 47 [b] |
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"I spoke to her, Master," I said. I called him 'Master' for he, like
the young men who had caught me at the edge of the Viktel Aria, had
made it clear to me that I was to address, whether I was free or
not, with a slave's respect.
Book 19, Kajira: pg 217 [b] |
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On the floor itself are also found several varieties of animal life, in particular marsupails, such as the armored gatch, and rodents, such as slees and ground urts
Book 13, Explorers: pg 312 [C] |
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The Gorean sheaf arrow is slightly over a yard long, the flight arrow is about forty inches in length. Both are metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers, from the wings of the Vosk gulls. Mixed in with the arrows were the leather tab, with its two openings for the right forefinger and the middle finger, and the leather bracer, to shield the left forearm from the flashing string.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 68 [C] |
arrow, crossbow weapon See quarrelAr's Station location an outpost of Great Ar and trading station on the south bank of the Vosk River , founded four years after Pa-Kur's hordes gathered there, prior to their war against Ar. Ar's station was Ar's stronghold on the Vosk. When Cos landed at Brundisium , and moved its forces toward Ar's Station, Ar failed to act because of political treachery. Ar's Station eventually fell to Cos. It stands at the northern terminus of the Viktel Aria which leads to Ar, also known as the Vosk Road. [T]
arrow, flight weapon about forty inches in length, it is metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers from the wings of the Vosk gulls. This and the sheaf arrow is used with the gorean long bow. [T]
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I counted the arrows. There were seventy arrowns, fifty of which were sheaf arrows, twenty flight arrows. The Gorean sheaf arrow is slightly over a yard long, the flight arrow is about forty inches in length. Both are metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers, from the wings of the Vosk gulls.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 68 [b]
arrow, hunting weapon an arrow with a long tapering point fastened firmly to the shaft to assist in easy removal from prey [T]
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The hunting arrow, incidentally, has a long, tapering point, and this point is firmly fastened to the shaft. This makes it easier to withdraw the arrow from its target.
Book 17, Savages: pg 40 [C]
arrow, sheaf noun slightly over a yard long, metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers made from the wings of the Vosk Gulls. This, and the flight arrow, is used with the gorean long bow. (see flight arrow)[T]
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The Gorean sheaf arrow is slightly over a yard long, the flight arrow is about forty inches in length. Both are metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers, from the wings of the Vosk gulls.
Book 6 Raiders: pg 68 [b]
arrow, Torvaldsland war weapon dark and more than a yard long, its shaft is an inch thick. It is piled with iron and barbed. Its feathers of the black-tipped coasting gull are five inches long, set in the shaft on three sides. The arrows are carried in a cylindrical quiver. [T]
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It was more than a yard long. Its shaft was almost an inch thick with iron, barbed. Its feathers were five inches long, set in the shaft on three sides, feathers of the black-tipped coasting gull, a broad-winged bird, with black tips on its wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull. I lifted the arrow.
"What is this?" I asked the Forkbeard.
"It is a war arrow," he said.
"And what sign is this, carved on its side?" I asked.
"The sign of Torvald," he whispered.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 234 [b]
arrow, war weapon the head of this arrow has an angled, wider base that is not as securely connected to the shaft; if the shaft is pulled to attempt removal, the head is more likely to break off and remain in the wound. Used by the Red Savages. [T]
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The war arrow, on the other hand, uses an arrowhead whose base, is either angled backwards, forming barbs, or cut straight across, the result in both cases being to make the arrow difficult to extract from a wound. The head of the war arrow, too, is fastened less securely to the shaft than is that of the hunting arrow. The point thus, by intent, if the shaft is pulled out is likely to linger in the wound. Sometimes it is possible to thrust the arrow through the body, break off the point and then withdraw the shaft backwards. At other times if the point becomes dislodged in the body, it is common to seek it with a bone or greenwood probe, and then, when one has found it, attempt to work it free with a knife.
Book 17, Savages: pg 40 [b]
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I had gone from Lara to White Water using the barge canal, to
circumvent the rapids, and thence to Tancred's Landing. I had later
voyaged down river to Iskander, Forestport, and Ar's Station.
Ar's Station incidentally is near the site where there was a
gathering, several years ago, of the horde of Pa-Kur, of the Caste of
Assassians, who was leading an alliance of twelve cities, augmented
by mercenaries and assassins, against the city of Ar. This war is
celebrated, incidentally, in the Gorean fashion, in several songs.
Perhaps most famous among them are the songs of Tarl of Bristol. The action is reputed to have taken place in 10,110 C.A., Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar. It was now, in that chronology, the year 10,127. Ar's Station, incidentally, did not exist at the time of the massing of the horde of Pa-Kur. It was established four years afterward, as an outpost and trading station on the south bank of the Vosk. It also commands, in effect, the northern terminus of one of the great roads, the Viktel Aria, or Ar's Triumph, leading toward Ar. This is also the road popularly known as the Vosk Road, particularly by those viewing it from a riverward direction. Book 15, Rogue: pp 61-62 [tLi] |
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"Toward Ar's Station?" I speculated. This was Ar's
stronghold on the Vosk. It was situated on the southern bank, east of
Jort's Ferry and west of Forest Port, both on the northern bank.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 164 [b] My companion was Marcus Marcellus, of the Marcelliani, formerly of Ar's Station, on the Vosk. Book 25, Magicians: pg 16 [b] Jort's Ferry and Point Alfred lie west of Ar's Station and tend to follow the lead of Ar's Station, favoring generally the politics of Ar. Book 15, Rogue: pg 314 [tLi] "Why is Cos interested in Ar's Station?" "I am not fully sure," I said, "but there could be various reasons, and some of them would seem obvious. As you know much of the friction between Cos and Ar has to do with their economic competitions in the Vosk Basin. Taking Ar's Station would, in a stroke, diminish the major citadel of Ar's, the Salerian Confederation, and the Vosk League. Book 23, Renegades: pg 33 [tLi] |
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These mines were said to be almost as rich as those of Tharna, far to
the north and east of Corcyrus. The claim of Argentum, of course, was
that the silver mines were theirs.
Book 19, Kajira: pg 89 [eliandal/tLi] |
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"He picked up freight in Ar," she said. "He is taking it west."
"Where?" I asked. "To Argentum," she said... "What road is this?" I asked. "It is the road to Argentum," she said... I made my way eastward, gasping, and walking and running, on the Argenturn road, back toward the Viktel Aria. Book 19, Kajira: pg 248-9 [tLi] |
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At that moment in my horror a large, perhaps eight feet long and a yard high, multilegged, segmented arthropod scuttled near, its eyes waving on stalks
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 82 [C] |
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The fairs, too, however, have many other functions. For example, they serve
as a scene of caste conventions, and as loci for the sharing of
discoveries and research. It is here, for example, that
physicians, and builders and artisans may meet and exchange ideas
and techniques.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 48 [tLi] Most Gorean garments, other than those of artisans, do not contain pockets. Book 26, Witness: pg 429 [tLi] |
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"Do not fear," said Msaliti, "my askaris do not speak Gorean."
The word 'askari' is an inland word, which may be translated roughly as 'soldier' or 'guardsman.' Book 13, Explorers: pg 152 [b] |
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I saw the Kur leader, a huge, brown Kur, doubtless from one of the
far ships, lift his panga in salute to the black Ubar. Bila Huruma,
then, breathing heavily, raised his stabbing spear in his dark and
bloody fist. "Askari hodari!" he cried.
I shook with emotion. It was much honor he had done the beast, not even human, confronting him. The salute of the Kur commander had been acknowledged and returned. The words Bila Huruma had uttered were of course in the native tongue of Ushindi. One might translate them, in the context, I suppose, as 'Brave Soldier'. Book 13, Explorers: page 442 [b] |
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From Lydius goods may be embarked for the islands of Thassa, such as Teletus, Hulneth and Asperiche, even Cos and Tyros....
Book 7, Captive: pg 59 [C] Asperiche, incidentally, is an exchange island, or free island, in Thassa. It is south of Teletus and Tabor. It is administered by merchants. Book 20, Players: pg 129 [C] |
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You will see the black banner of the Caste of Assassins
Book 1, Tarnsman: page 175 [tLi] ...for he wore on his forehead, small and fine, the sign of the dagger. When he of the Caste of Assassins has been paid in gold and has received his charge, he affixes on his forehead that sign, that he may enter whatever city he pleases, that none may interfere with his work. Book 5, Assassin: pg 7 [C] "Well," I recounted, "in most places on Gor, when an Assassin walks down a street people slip indoors, or cross the street... anything to avoid contact and distance themselves from the Walking Death. In Lara, we are a bit different. Being a rough rivertown, virtually anyone could be an assassin... so the children come out and trail after the Black Brother, waiting to see who his victim will be and if he'll make a good accounting for himself." The Writings of Oryx con Lara [tLi] |
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In a moment or two the palanquin had been set down on its legs, in
the shady side of Aulus, near a wall covered with theater posters,
may of them faded, tattered, overlapping and half torn away.*
Book 25, Magicians: pg 377 [tLi] *Twice in the manuscript, later, Cabot refers to a "Flute Street." From the context it seems clear that this is "Aulus." I have accordingly edited the manuscript in the interests of consistency, changing "Flute Street" to "Aulus." My interpretation is supported by information supplied by a colleague in the Classics Department, to the effect that there is a Greek expression for a flute which might be transliterated as aulos. I think we may assume then, apart from contextual considerations, that "Aulus" and "Flute Street" are the same street bordering the great theater, that of Pentilicus Tallux. Lastly it might be mentioned that 'Aulus' can also occur as a Gorean masculine name. This sort of thing is familiar, of course, in all languages, as Smith, Cooper, Chandler, Carpenter, Carter, and such, stand for occupations, and names like Hampshire, Lake, Holm, Rivers, and such, stand for places, and names like Stone, Hammer, Rock , and such, stand for things. Book 25, Magicians: footnote, pg 377 [tLi] |
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"NO!" screamed the slave, "not serving that... that..."
"You'll serve anyone and anything I wish you to, My little slut," Oryx told the girl calmly. "...leaving here and not coming back! nothing You can do to STOP me," she insisted, petulance dripping from her cute upturned nose. "You may leave, My pretty, but then you won't be allowed back. Ever." The slave looked at the Scribe, aghast at His calm smile. "But you should really think before you autodeprobocificate." The Writings of Oryx con Lara [tLi] |
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"You realize," Oryx commented with a wry smile, "you'd present your argument in a much clearer fashion if you'd cease to
autoencephaloproctolificate."
"What's that," the self-righteous, so-called master queried. Tawl looked at him. "Putting yer 'ead where the sun don't shine, mate." The Writings of Oryx con Lara [tLi] |
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He threw back his head laughed with a wild roaring, the bloody ax in his hand.
I heard the beams of the two doors of the temples being thrown in
place, locking the people within. I saw their cloaks of the men of
Torvaldsland hurled from them and saw, gripped in their two hands,
great axes. I suddenly saw the large man of Torvaldsland, he of
incredible stature, seem to come alive, veins prominent on his
forehead, mouth slobbering, striking about himself almost blindly with a great ax.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 27 [b] |
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Kurii leapt down the long sides of the hall, slashing, cutting men
down as they fled to their weapons. The wooden shields of Torvaldsland
no more stopped the great axes than dried skins of larma fruit,
stretched on sewing frames, might have resisted the four-bladed
dagger cestus of Anango or the hatchet gauntlet of eastern Skjern.
More than once the blades of the Kurii axes bit through the spines of men, reaching for their weapons, and splintered, gouging, in the beams of the hall. Book 9, Marauders: pg 171 [b] |
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Its growth might be contrasted with that of Tetrapoli, much further
west on the river. Ragnar's Hamlet began as a small village and, from
this central nucleus, expanded. Tetrapoli, on the other hand, began
as four separate towns, Ri, Teibar, Heiban and Azdal, as legend has
it founded by four brothers. These towns grew together along the
river and were eventaully consolidated as a polity. The four
districts of the city, as might be supposed, reatin the names of the
original towns. The expression "Tetrapoli" in Gorean, incidentally, means "Four Cities" or "Four Towns."
Book 15, Rogue: pg 63 [tLi] |
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The oasis of Two Scimitars is an out-of-the-way oasis, under the hegemony of the Bakahs, which, for more than two hundred years, following their defeat in the Silk War of 8,110 C.A., has been a vassal tribe of the Kavars
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 151 [C] |
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I stayed for four days in the rooms above the shop of Dina of Turia, there I dyed my hair black and exchanged the robes of the merchant for the yellow and brown tunic of the Bakers to which caste her father and two brothers had belonged.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 237 [C] |
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He then took a long strip of the baleen, about fifteen inches in leagth, and, with this knife, shapened both ends, wickedly sharp.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 334 [W] |
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I went to the cave, Eta following. I lifted one of the chest's
covers. I took from the chest a string of pearls, then one of pieces
of gold, then one of rubies. "Bina?" I asked, each time.
Eta laughed. "Bana," she said, "Ki Bina. Bana." Then, from another box, Eta produced another necklace, one with cheap glass beads, and another with simple, small wooden beads. She indicated the latter two necklaces. "Bina," she said, pointing to them. Bina, I then understood, were lesser beads, cheap beads, beads of little value, save for their aesthetic charm. Indeed, I would later learn that bina were sometimes spoken of, derisively, as Kajira bana. The most exact translation of 'bina' would probably be "slave beads." They were valueless, save for being a cheap adornment sometimes permitted imbonded [sic] wenches. Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 82 [b] |
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Twelve "Kurs," the sense of military units, constitutes one "Band." This one hundred and eight animals, including subalterns leaders, and is itself commanded by a "Blood," whose rank is indicated by two rings on the left arm. Twelve of these Bands constitutes a March.
Book 17, Savages: pg 22 [C] |
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"No one will hunt until the great hunt," said Hci. "Then we will hunt. The
Isbu will hunt. The Casmu will hunt! The Isanna will hunt! The Napoktan
will hunt! The Wismahi will hunt! The Kaiila will hunt!"
The Isbu, or Little-Stones band; the Casmu, or Sand, band; the Isanna, the Little-Knife band; the Napoktan, or Bracelets, band; and the Wismahi, or Arrowhead band, are the five bands which constitute the Kaiila tribe. The origins of these names are not always clear. It seems probable that the Little-Stones and the Sand bands may have had their names from geographical features, perhaps those adjacent to riverside encampments. The Wismahi, or Arrowhead, band is said by some to have once made their winter camp at the an arrowhead. Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 10 [b] |
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At that moment a bar, struck in a certain pattern by an iron
hammer somewhere in the house, rang out, the sound taken up by other
bars, also struck, on various floors of the House of Cernus.
The day, I had discoved, was divided by such signals.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 85 [W] |
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"Bara, Kajira!" he said. She rolled quickly to her stomach, placing her wrists behind her, crossed, and crossing her ankles, ready to be bound.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 77 [C] "Bara!" he snapped. I flung myself to my belly in the grass, putting my hands behind me, wrists crossed, and crossing my ankles, too. I lay there in confusion, in obedience. He went to pick up the binding fiber which had been removed from my ankles by Tupita, from my wrists, a bit before, by himself. I had been spared! He returned to crouch over me. Tightly then were my wrists and ankles tied. He knew well how to tie women. "Oh!" I said, as my ankles were pulled up and fastened to my wrists. He then pulled me to my knees and I knelt helplessly, closely and perfectly bound, before him. He seemed amused" Book 22, Dancer: pg 415 [tLi] |
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Similarly, even should you learn to speak flawlessly such things as the fillings in your teeth
and the vaccination marks on your arms will continue to mark you as barbarian.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 20 [b] "There is another reason, a recent reason, why girls are so cheap in this area," said the young man. "What is that?" I asked. "Barbarians," he said. "Barbarians?" I asked. "Yes," he said, "unskilled, untrained, raw, luscious little beasts, many of whom can speak almost no Gorean." Book 17, Savages: pg 83 [b] It was an opened, steel slave collar. He held it before me. "Read the collar," said Rask of Treve. "I cannot," I whispered. "I cannot read." "Ignorant barbarian!" Book 7, Captive: pg 283 [tLi] |
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These barges, constructed of layered timbers of Ka-la-na wood, are
towed by teams of river tharlarion, domesticated, vast, herbivorous,
web-footed lizards raised and driven by the Cartius bargemen,
fathers and sons, interrelated clans, claiming the status of a caste for themselves.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 3 (footnote) [b] |
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The results of our trading had been two baskets of dried fish, a sack
of meal and vegetables, a length of bark cloth, plaited and pounded, from the pod tree, dyed red....
Book 13, Explorers: pg 287 [b] I cut a length from the red bark cloth, about five feet in length and a foot in width. I wrapped it about the sweetness of her slave hips and tucked it in. Book 13, Explorers: pg 334 [tLi] |
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Their [the Barrens] climate is significantly influenced by the Thentis Mountains and the absence of large bodies of water.
Prevailing winds in the northern hemisphere of Gor are from the north and West.
Accordingly a significant percentage of moisture-laden air borne by westerly winds is forced by the Thentis Mountains to cooler,
less-heated air strata, where it precipitates, substantially on the eastern slopes of the mountains and the fringes of the Barrens.
Similarly the absence of large bodies of water in the Barrens reduces rainfall which might be connected with large-scale evaporation and subsequent precipitation of this moisture over land areas, the moisture being carried inland on what are, in effect, sea breezes, flowing into low pressure areas caused by the warmer land surfaces, a given amount of radiant energy raising the temperature of soil or rock significantly more than it would raise the temperature of an equivalent extent of water. The absence of large bodies of water adjacent to or within the Barrens also has another significant effect on their climate. It precludes the Barrens from experiencing the moderating effects of such bodies of water on atmospheric temperatures. Areas in the vicinity of large bodies of water, because of the differential heating ratios of land and water usually have warmer winters and cooler summers than areas, which are not so situated. The Barrens, accordingly, tend to be afflicted with great extremes of temperature, often experiencing bitterly cold winters and long, hot, dry summers. Book 17, Savages: pg 64 [b] |
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"This is the basket hitch," I told her, gesturing for her to
put out one hand. "It is used for fastening a carrying basket to hooks on certain tarn saddles."
Book 5 Assassin: pg 81 [C] |
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"The least that might be done to Mistress," he said, "would surely be that she would be stripped, and tied, and lashed. Too, she might be bound, and subjected to the bastinado."
Book 25, Magicians: pg 445 [b] |
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Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one
of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two
men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands
of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the
referee's count of twenty; he may, however, throw it into the air,
provided it is thrown over his head, and catch it again himself; the
ball may be thrown to the partner, or struck to him with the bat; the
bat, of course, drives the ball with incredible force; the bats are
of heavy wood, rather broad, and the ball, about two inches in
diameter, is also of wood, and extremely hard; this is something like
a game of "keep away" with two men in the middle. I was pleased that
I was not involved in the play. Shortly after the first "knock off,"
in which the ball is served to the enemy, Gorm, who was Ivar's
partner, was struck cold with the ball, it driven from an opponent's
bat; this, I gathered, is a common trick; it is very difficult to
intercept or protect oneself from a ball struck at one with great
speed from a short distance; it looked quite bad for Ivar at this
point, until one of his opponents, fortunately, broke his leg, it
coming into violent contact with Ivar's bat. This contest was called
a draw. Ivar then asked me to be his partner. I declined.
"It is all right," said Ivar, "even the bravest of men may decline a contest of bat-and-ball." Book 9, Marauders: pg 140 [C] |
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I nodded. The rest of it I did not need to be told. The expressions
'Al-Ka' and 'Ba-ta' are the first two letters of the Gorean
Alphabet. In effect these men had no names, but were simply known as Slave A and B.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 94 [b] |
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...there were of course the bath girls of Ar, of which Nela was one, said to be the most beautiful of all Gor.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 165 [C] |
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"The Battles of Oxen," cried one of the silver masks, and her cry was
taken up by ten and then a hundred others. Soon the stands
themselves seemed to ring with the cry.
"The Battles of Oxen," cried the women of Tharna. "Let them begin!" Book 2, Outlaw: pg 112 [T] |
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From Lydius goods may be embarked for the islands of Thassa, such as Teletus, Hulneth and Asperiche, even Cos and Tyros, and the coastal cities, such as Port Kar and Helmutsport, and, far to the south, Schendi and Bazi.
Book 7, Captive: pg 59 [tLi] The Merchants, who control Lydius, under merchant law, for it is a free port, like Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, are more interested in having their port heavily trafficked than strictly policed. Book 8, Hunters: pg 43 [tLi] Their ships are seen as far to the south as Shendi and Bazi, as far to the north as the great frozen sea, and are known as far to the west as the cliffs of Tyros and the terraces of Cos. Book 8, Hunters: pg 257 [tLi] I saw the Voltai Range, and Glorious Ar, and the Cartius, and, far to the south, Turia, and near the shore of Thassa, the islands of Anango and Ianda, and on the coast, the free ports of Schendi and Bazi. Book 10, Tribesman: pg 7 [tLi] |
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To the oases caravans bring various goods, for example, rep-cloth, embroidered cloths, silks, rugs, silver, gold, jewelries, mirrors, kailiauk tusk, perfumes, hides, skins, feathers, precious woods, tools, needles, worked leather goods, salt, nuts and spices, jungle birds, prized as pets, weapons, rough woods, sheets of tin and copper, the tea of Bazi, wool from the bounding Hurt, decorated, beaded whips, female slaves, and many other forms of merchandise.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 37 [tLi] In turn, from the oases the nomads receive, most importantly, Sa-Tarna grain and the Bazi tea. Book 10, Tribesman: pg 37 [tLi] The Merchant's Caste, too, maintains certain free ports on certain islands and on the coasts of Thassa, such as Teletus andBazi Book 11, Slave Girl: pg 257 [tLi] "We [merchants of Teletus] now wish, as doubtless will other merchant holdings, such as our sisters, Schendi and Bazi, to accord you our best wishes and to sue for your favor, that our shipping and merchants may be permitted to prove themselves of service in your future ventures." Book 13, Explorers: pg 233 [tLi] |
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She was a small, delicate, brown-skinned woman, with a light yellow veil, common in Bazi.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 212 [tLi] "There will be delicacies from as far away as Bazi and Anango, she said, "and we shall open vessels of Falarian from the private stores of the Ubar." Book 25, Magicians: pg 156 [tLi] |
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The Physician would check the health of the crew and slaves, plague some years ago had broken out in Bazi, to the North,
which port had been closed by the merchants for two years.
In some eighteen months it had burned itself out, moving south and eastward.
Bazi had not yet recovered from the economic blow.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 117 [C] "We are going to test you for pox," he said. The girl groaned. It was my hope that none on board the Clouds of Telnus had carried the pox. It is transmitted by the bites of lice. The pox had appeared in Bazi some four years ago. The port had been closed for two years by the merchants. It had burned itself out moving south and eastward in some eighteen months. Oddly enough some were immune to the pox, and with others it had only a temporary, debilitating effect. With others it was swift, lethal and horrifying. Those who had survived the pox would presumably live to procreate themselves, on the whole presumably transmitting their immunity to their offspring. Slaves who contracted the pox were often summarily slain. It was thought that the slaughter of slaves had had its role to play in the containment of the pox in the vicinity of Bazi. Book 13, Explorers: pg 134 [C] |
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"It is the plague!" she cried. "It is the plague!"
I walked over to a mirror. I ran my tongue over my lips they seemed dry. The whites of my eyes clearly were yellow. I rolled up the sleeve of my tunic and saw there on the flesh of the forearm like black blisters open, erupted, a scattering of pustules. Book 13, Explorers: pg 135 [C] I simply did not feel ill. I was slightly drunk and heated from the paga, but I did not believe myself fevered. My pulse and heartbeat, and respiration, seemed normal. I did not have difficulty catching my breath. I was neither dizzy nor nauseous, and my vision was clear. My worst physical symptoms were the irritation about my eyes and the genuinely nasty itchiness of my skin. I felt like tearing it off with my own fingernails. I knew that I had not been in a plague area. Too, the Bazi Plague had burned itself out years ago. No cases to my knowledge had been reported for months. Book 13, Explorers: pg 136 [C] |
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Tea is extremely important to the nomads. It is served
hot and heavily sugared. It gives them strength then, in virtue
of the sugar, and cools the, by making them sweat as well as stimulating them. It is drunk in three small cups.
In turn, from the oasis, the nomads receive, most importantly, Sa-Tarna grain and the Bazi Tea.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 37 [C] "Is it ready?" I asked. I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 139 [C] Hot Bazi tea I wanted. This is an important trade item in the north. I now knew why. Book 12, Beasts: pg 209 [b] |
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"Well," I said, "let us return to the tent. The tabuk are gone and I
am soaked and freezing. I will well relish a hot cup of Bazi tea."
Book 12, Beasts: pg 212 [b] The real attendant was probably upstairs in the paga room, enjoying cakes and Bazi tea, a breakfast popular with Gorean on holidays. Book 23, Renegades: pg 117 [tLi] He then repeated the test, and bit each of the coins carefully, thoughtfully, expertly, not hurrying, as a connoisseur might sample varieties of Bazi tea or fine wines. Book 20, Player: pg 298 [tLi] |
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<kadi{JW}> may kadi be of service to You, Master Oryx <Oryx> bazi tea, girl. Full Ceremony. * kadi{JW} dark eyes peek up to Master Oryx <kadi{JW}> yes Master * kadi{JW} lifts slipping back, turning she moves off to the kitchen, hips sway softly, tresses play over her back... within the kitchen she washes her hands and takes out a tray, placing a small bowl of yellow and one of white sugar with small spoons to measure * Oryx watches kadi-cat carefully * kadi{JW} takes out a copper kettle making sure it is ready for use, sighs inhaling the pungeant aroma of the precious tea leaves, adds them to the kettle, then pours on boiling hot water and places it to the tray as well to brew, then searches the shelves for the three tiny cups * kadi{JW} smiles as she finds a set of three, reaches up taking each down in turn, runs a cloth about each of them making sure they are ready for use, then places each one in turn on the tray * kadi{JW} takes up the tray she moves back to Master Oryx, tiny bells about her ankle sing with each step, hips sway with a soft sultry rhythm as full breasts bounce with tresses playing over shoulders, she sinks to knees before Master Oryx setting the tray beside her Continues... |
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Bazi tea ceremony, part 2 * Oryx smiles down at the pretty slave * kadi{JW} thighs part wide as her body arches she measures to one cup two small spoons of white sugar, and pours the tea from the kettle to the cup watching as it blends with the sugar * kadi{JW} lifts the cup, holds it to her for a moment, then raises it in offering to Master Oryx, with dark eyes low a soft husky voice saying <kadi{JW}> Master Oryx, kadi brings You this first cup in the sweet memories of youth in hopes it stirs the fond memories of childhood * Oryx leans forward and slips the hot cup from the slave's small hands... murmurs something too low to be heard... and sips the hot fragrant beverage * kadi{JW} waits hands slightly lowered as Master Oryx savors the tea * Oryx finishes the first cup, then hurls it into the hearth, to explode there, never to be used for a lesser purpose. <Oryx> continue, kadi * kadi{JW} jumps as the cup explodes at the hearth Continues... |
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Bazi tea ceremony, part 3 * kadi{JW} lowers hands to the tray she measures in two small spoons of yellow sugar she fills the second cup with the hot tea watching it blend, she lifts it, holding it to her, dark eyes low, a soft voice saying as she lifts it to Master Oryx cradled within small hands <kadi{JW}> Master Oryx, kadi offers You this second cup in the bittersweet years of mature adulthood and the present, in hopes it prompts thughts of living, the good and not so good, blended into life * Oryx seduces the second cup from the slave's dainty hands... drinks the searing hot fluid lustfully, and casts the second cup where its younger brother went, hearing the resounding CRASH as the second cup also explodes in the hearth * kadi{JW} jumps at the crash! Continues... |
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Bazi tea ceremony, part 4 * kadi{JW} moves small hands to the tray, measures in 2 white and 1 yellow sugar to the third and final cup and pours the hot tea to it watching once again as it blends as it pours, taking the cup in hand, holds to her before lifting it up in offering to Master Oryx, dark eyes veiled by lashes as a tress falls across her cheek <kadi{JW}> Master Oryx, kadi brings You this final cup in offering for the golden years of eld, with a whisper of bittersweetness of lost years * Oryx leans forward, His mature body creaking with the accumulation of years, and slips the thrid cup from the slave's small hands * kadi{JW} small hands slip to thighs * Oryx contemplates the cup, and the slave, inhaling the aroma of the expensive Bazi tea... drinks the liquid, not quickly, but qwith a certain gusto... and pitches the cup into the hearth, causing yet another loud crsh of exploding crockery * kadi{JW} jumps softly at the crash of the cup dark eyes staying low <Oryx> that was very well done, kadi-cat Conversations in tLi, #the-Lara-inn |
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<Nemesys> And so, what do you propose Falaria and I found amusing?
<{trea}Mac> ummm that she issued an imperative? <Nemesys> Oh? And what imperative was that? * Oryx knows what people mistakenly THINK is imperative <{trea}Mac> "be well" <Kilronis> One of Zeb's pet peeves, too. * Oryx chuckles <Kilronis> Zeb was quite easily agitated when it came to slaves making use of the imperative mood of speech. Conversations in #GoreanTavern |
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"The beads are on the string," said the second fellow, he who was checking the security of the chain.
This was an oblique allusion to the "slaver's necklace," as a coffle of female slaves is sometimes called.
To be sure, the women on this chain, as they were merely free women, had only been referred to, in rude humor,
as "beads" and not "jewels." I did not doubt, however, but what in a few months time these same women, properly disciplined, trained and brought into touch with their most profound and fundamental realities would also, in the same fashion as other female slaves, become "jewels." Book 25, Magicians: pg 161 [b] |
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A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening,
is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported. At the oasis
will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the
desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, onion tuber
suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called
katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots,
radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large
brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually
some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 37 [b] |
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A typical Kurii foraging squad consists of six animals, called a "hand," with its "eye," or leader. Two such "hands" with their "eyes," constitutes a "Kur," or "Beast."
Book 9, Marauders: pg 241 [C] "In their military organizations," I said, "six such Beasts constitute a Hand, and its leader is called an Eye. Two hands and two eyes constitute a larger unit, called a "Kur" or "Beast," which is commanded by a leader, or Blood. Twelve such units constitute a Band, commanded again by a Blood, though of higher rank. Twelve bands, again commanded by a Blood, of yet higher rank, constitute a March. Twelve Marches is said to constitute a People. These divisors and multiples have to do with, it seems, a base-twelve mathematics, itself perhaps indexed historically to the six digits of one of the creature's prehensile appendages." Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 22 [b] |
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Two sorts of beasts are kept in domestication in the north; the first sort of beast is the snow sleen; the second is the white-skinned woman.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 53 [tLi] |
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I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and
there were small sheds, here and there, with sloping roofs of
boards...
Book 9, Marauders: pg 81 [b] |
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| Type of beer | Characteristics | Determining Ingredients | Examples |
| Ale | Rich flavor, full body | Top-fermenting yeasts | Molson's, Bass |
| Lager | Stronger hops flavor; "crisp" | Bottom-fermenting yeasts | Most German & British Beers |
| Weissbier | Rich flavor; cloudy white | Bottom-fermenting yeasts with white malt | Belgian Weissbier |
| Lambic Beers | Strong, unique | Wild yeasts | Probably Gorean beer |
| Pale Ale | Mild flavor | White, or light malt | Bud, Coors, Heinekin |
| Stout, Bock | Very rich flavor | dark malt | Stolichno Timne (Sofia), Guiness |
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One bottle of Ka-la-na among ten men is nothing. Ka-la-na is not paga or the strong beer of the north.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 123 [tLi] |
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If one shares a Home Stone with the victim, of course, the punishment is often more humane.
A common punishment where this mitigating feature obtains is to strip the victim, tie him to a post,
beat him with rods and then behead him.
Book 23, Renegades: pg 15 [b] |
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I had worked in the Belled Collar, and, later, in the Chatka and Curla, in Cos.
Book 11, Slavegirl, pg 414 [tLi] |
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"Belly," I said to Feiqa. Immediately Feiqa, trembling, went
to her belly on the stained, sooted stones near the fire.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 19 [C] "Now," I said, "for a third form of obeisance. You may 'belly' to me. "I do not understand," she whispered. "There are various forms of bellying," I said, "and bellying may be suitably and pleasingly combined with other forms of floor movements, approaching your master on all fours, turning to your sides and back, writhing before him, and so on. Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 410 [C] |
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The Forkbeard had had his girls drop their kirtles low upon their
hips, and hitch them high, that their beauty might be well
exhibited, from their collars to some inches below their navels,
and, too, that the turns of their calves and ankles might be
similarly displayed; I would have thought that they might have
groaned with humiliation and attempted to hide themselves among
us, but, instead, even Pudding and Thyri, they walked as proud,
shameless bond-maid; the exposure of the female's navel, on Gor,
is known as the "slave belly"; only female slaves expose their
navels....
Book 9, Marauders: pg 143 [A] "Do you understand the significance of the revealing of the navel?" she asked me. "I believe on Gor," I said, "it is called 'the slave belly'." "It is," she said. "But Gor, of course, does not exist." "Of course not," I said. "Now take the goblet," he said, "and hold the metal against your body, pushing inward." I took the goblet and held it, tightly, to my body. I held the round, heavy metal against me, below my brassiere. "Lower," he said, "against your belly." I then held the goblet lower. "Press it more inward," he said. I did so. I can still feel the cold metal against me, firmly, partly against the silk of my undergarment, partly against my belly. "Now," said he, "lift the goblet to your lips and kiss it lingeringly, then proffer it to me, arms extended, head down." Book 15, Fighting Slave: pg 10 [tLi] |
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The hair of the below-deck girls, mercifully, is shaved off;
indeed, our body hair, too, was shaved off, completely. These
precautions prevent, to a great extent, the nesting of ship lice.
After we were cleaned we were leashed and exercised for a few
minutes on the deck. Then each of us, for the remainder of our
time on deck, the precious half of an Ahn, was chained in a
kneeling position, our hands before our bodies.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 318 [b] |
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"Yes," I said. "Indeed, wars have been fought to obtain the beautiful slaves of a given city."
"The Slave Wars!" she said.... "I was thinking, rather," I said, "of various other wars, or conflicts, such as the second war between Harfax and Besnit...." Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 273 [jodi{JH}/tLi] Accordingly, the high-caste young women of Harfax were privately stripped and examined. Those deemed the most beautiful were then entered on records and given a locked bracelet to wear. A month later they were taken to Besnit and reduced to bondage. After this they were trained in Besnit by the slaves of men of Besnit. After their training they were sold, some from the city, some within it, these decisions made by lottery. Besnit and Harfax, since that time, have been staunch allies. The proceeds from the first sales of the girls, when they were first put up for auction, whether out of the city or within it, went to the public treasury of Besnit. Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 273 [jodi{JH}/tLi] |
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These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their
individual cities, or, often also, in well-known slaving centers, of
which there are many for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda,
Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax,
Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and others.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 102 [tLi] The paucity of women, relatively, rent slaves even bringing a copper tarsk a night, had largely to do with the coming and going of the slave wagons, which tended to carry off most of the captured, apprehended refugees, women who had fled from Ar's Station for food, giving themselves to a dozen or so scattered markets, markets such as Ven, Besnit, Port Olni, and Harfax. Book 23, Renegade: pg 143 [b] My friend, the actor, magician, impresario and whatnot, Boots Tarsk-Bit, once narrowly escaped an impalement in Besnit on the charge of using false dice. Book 25, Magicians: pg 59 [tLi] Some Gorean cities, for example, perhaps as a military measure, in effect isolate themselves by the refusal to allocate funds for good roads. Indeed, they often go further by neglecting the upkeep of even those tracks that exist. It can be next to impossible to reach such cities in the spring, because of the rains. Besnit is an example. Book 25, Magicians: pg 102 [tLi] |
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The Betrothal or Companion Journey, ceremonially, included the
circuit of the four villages, in each of which a feast was held, and
from each of which a wagon of produce was procured, to be added to
the dowry riches to be presented to Ebullius Gains Cassius, father of
Thandar of Ti, to be included in the treasury of Ti. I had seen four
wagons of produce in the camp, and knew independently from Eta, that
the four tributary villages had now been visited.
Book 11, Slavegirl: chapter 5 [b] |
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"Shaba himself, with his men and boats, pursued the river for only a hundred pasangs," I said, "when they were turned back by some falls and cataracts."
"The falls and cataracts of Bila Huruma, as he named them," said Samos. Book 13, Explorers: pg 19 [tLi] |
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She carried, in her hands, serveral strings of beads, simple
necklaces, with small, wooden, colored beads. They were not valuable.
She held the necklaces up for me to see. Then, with her finger,
moving them on their string, she indicated the tiny, colored, wooden beads.
"Da Bina," she said, smiling. Then she lifted a necklace, looking at it. "Bina," she said. I then understood the "Bina" was the expression for beads, or for a necklace of beads. Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 81 [C] I took from the chest a string of pearls, then one of the pieces of gold, then one of the rubies. "Bina?" I asked, each time. Eta laughed. "Bana," she said, "Ki bina. Bana..." The most exact translation of 'bina' would probably be 'slave beads.' They were valueless, save for being a cheap adornment sometimes permitted imbonded [sic] wenches. Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 82 [C] |
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"Your wrists were bound together before you," she said, "and a doubled rope put through them. When you were within our reach, and we could hold you, the other end of the rope was dropped, and it was then withdrawn. We removed your bonds," "Of what nature was the bond?" I asked. "Binding fiber," said Tupita Book 22, Dancer: pg 374 [C] The saddle pack contained the light gear carried by raiding tarnsmen -- in particular, rations, a compass, maps, binding fiber, and extra bowstrings. Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 64 [b] Instead I felt binding fiber cinched about my waist, and then my hands, wrists crossed, were, to this same fiber, tied behind my back. Book 22, Dancer: pg 375 [b] However, the camisks that I have personally seen, and those we were given, were belted with a long, thin strap of leather binding fiber. This passes once around the body, and then again, and then is tied, snugly, over the right hip.... The belt ofbinding fiber not only makes it easier to adjust the camisk to a given girl, but of course, the binding fiber serves to remind her that she is in bondage. Book 7, Captive: pg 64 [tLi] |
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"Standard binding position," he said.
I was prone. When a girl is prone, the standard binding position is to cross the wrists behind the back and to cross the ankles. I took this position instantaneously. Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 125 [C] |
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The golden straps she had used to simulate the footwear which she had
worn on Earth were golden binding straps. They were the
nearest thing she could find, within her limited resources, I
gathered, to what she had worn in the restaurant. I did not
object. They resembled somewhat, and well suggested, that
footwear. Such straps, incidentally, are commonly used to bind
the hands and feet of women. Sometimes, if it amused me, I could
tie her in them.
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 237 [b] |
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Such blood might attract the bint, a fanged, carnivorous marsh
eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water
variety of the much larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa
Book 13, Explorers: pg 267 [C] The danger, currently, of the bint and blue grunt, however, was not primarily due to any peril they themselves might represent, particularly as the grunt would not now be schooling, but due to the fact that they, drawn by shed blood, might be followed by tharlarion Book 13, Explorers: pg 271 [b] |
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I hurried to the pack kaiila and fetched from it the water bag.
Grunt, from his own stores, brought forth some dried, pressed
biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour
Book 17, Savages: pg 328 [b] |
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...on the second level, that of the canopies, is found and incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, and some varieties of parrot and many more.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 311 [C] |
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The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings, and the labor of the oar.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 13 [b] |
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"Another for the black chain of Ionicus," said one of my master's men.
Ionicus was a master of work chains. He had several, the "red chain," the "green china," "the yellow chain," and so on, each of which boasted several hundred men. Supposedly these were free work chains, "free" in the sense of not utilizing slaves. Goreans generally do not employ slaves for such labors as road construction, siege works, raising walls, and so on. Book 22, Dancer: pg 301 [b] |
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Guardsmen did not detain him, for he wore on his forehead the mark of the black dagger.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 6 [C] |
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Schendi was an equatorial free port, well known on Gor. It is also the home port of the League of Black Slavers.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 16 [tLi] On each side of us, five on one side, six on the other, the low, lean ships, straight-keeled and shallow-drafted, single-mailed, began to slide past us. I could see the oars lifting and dipping in unison, as they moved by... "Do they never prey on ships of Schendi?" I asked. "I do not think so," said Shoka. "If they do, I suppose the ship and its crew are destroyed at sea. One never hears of it..." The low, sleek ships continued to pass us. I could see the black faces of crew members here and there.... I turned again to watch the ships. They were now but specks on the horizon. They plied their way northward. In the northern autumn they would return, to be refitted and supplied again in Schendi, and would then, a few weeks later, in the southern spring, ply their way southward. Schendi, located in the vicinity of the Gorean equator, somewhat south of it, provides the ships with a convenient base, from which they may conduct their affairs seasonally in both hemispheres. I was pleased that I had seen the ships. I could not have conceived of a more pleasant way in which to have made their acquaintance. I had seen the passing of the fleet of the Black Slavers of Schendi. Book 13, Explorers: pg 101-102 [tLi] |
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The two slaves, their chains removed, now returned, and began to serve the black wine.
The voluptuous slave of Aemilianus, whom he had not yet named, placed the tiny silver cups, on small stands, before us.
The lovely little slave in bluish gauze, whom he had not yet named, holding the narrow spouted, silver pouring vessel in a heavy cloth,
to retain its heat and protect her hands, poured the scalding, steaming black fluid, in narrow, tiny streams, into the small cups.
She poured into the cups only the amount that would be compatible with the assorted sugars and creams which the guest might desire,
if any, these being added in, and stirred, if, and as, pertinent, by Aemilianus' slave, who directed the serving.
I had heard of black wine, but had never had any. It is drunk
in Thentis, but I had never heard of it being much drunk in other
Gorean cities.... Then I picked up one of the thick, heavy clay
bowls... It was extremely strong, and bitter, but it was hot, and unmistakably, it was coffee.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 106 [C] |
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Thentis does not trade the beans for black wine. I have heard of a cup
of black wine in Ar, some years ago, selling for a silver eighty
piece. Even in Thentis black wine is used commonly only in High Caste homes....
Originally, doubtless beans were brought from Earth, much as certain other seeds, and silkworms and such.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 107 [C] He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On it were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot black wine, steaming, with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards, Book 12, Beasts: pg 20 [C] I grinned, and washed down the eggs with a swig of hot black wine, prepared from the beans grown upon the slopes of the Thentis Mountains. This black wine is quite expensive. Men have been slain on Gor for attempting to smuggle the beans out of the Thentian territories. Book 12, Beasts: pg 21 [C] |
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From one side, a slave girl, barefoot, fled to him, with the tall, graceful, silvered pot containing the black wine... She knelt, replenishing the drink.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 88 [C] She carried a tray, on which were various spoons and sugars. She knelt, placing her tray on the table. With a tiny spoon, its tip no more that a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow, in the cup; with two stirring spoons, one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage after each measure. She then held the cup to the side of her cheek, testing its temperature; Ibn Saran glanced at her; she, looking at him, timidly kissed the side of the cup and placed it before him. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 89 [C] Black wine, except in the vicinity of Thentis, where most of it is grown on the slopes of the Thentis range, is quite expensive. Book 16, Guardsman: pg 244 [C] |
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"Second slave," I told her, which, among the river towns, and in
certain cities, particularly in the north, is a way of indicating
that I would take the black wine without creams or sugars, and as
it came from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas,
is handled by the "second slave," the first being the girl who puts
down the cups, takes the orders and sees that the beverage is
prepared according to the preferences of the one who is being served."
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 245 [tLi] I lifted the tiny silver cup to my lips and took a drop of the black wine. Its strength and bitterness are such that it is normally drunk in such a manner, usually only a drop or a few drops at a time. Commonly, too, it is mollified with creams and sugars. I drank it without creams and sugars, perhaps, for I had been accustomed, on Earth, to drinking coffee in such a manner, and the black wine of Gor is clearly coffee, or closely akin to coffee. Considering its bitterness, however, if I had not been drinking such a tiny amount, and so slowly, scarcely wetting my lips, I too, would surely have had recourse to the tasty, gentling additives with which it is almost invariably served. Book 16, Guardsman: pg 247 [C] |
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Eta piled several of the hot, tiny eggs, earlier kept fresh in cool
sand within the cave, on a plate, with heated yellow bread, for him.
I, grasping the pot with a rag and both hands, poured him a handled,
metal tankard of the steaming black brew, coffee or black wine.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 74 [C] |
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I then threw the second blanket, the top blanket over her, covering her completely. When a blanket, or cloak, or covering of any sort, is thrown over a slave like this she may not speak or raise. She must remain as she is, silent, until the master, or some free man, lifts the covering away.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 94 [C] |
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its libraries, its records and files; its cubicles for Smiths,
Bakers, Cosmeticians, Bleachers, Dyers, Weavers, and Leather Workers.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 111 [C] |
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I regarded the blindfold. It was efficient and Gorean. Most
blindfolds of a sort used on Earth are inefficient for one may see
under them. This is not the case with the common Gorean blindfold.
It consists of, commonly, three pieces, usually two rounded pieces of
soft felt, three to four inches in diameter and the binding, which
usualy consists of two or more turns of a dark, thick, folded cloth,
or scarf, knotted behind the head. The pieces of rounded,
face-hugging felt, the eyes coverings, in the girl's blindfold were
about three a half inches in diameter. They were yellow. The binding,
tightly behind her head, held the eye coverings securely in place. The
blindfold, of course, is seldom used in the transportation of a slave. Slave hoods are much more common in such a role.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 201 [b] |
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Approval from the crowd met this proposal. The reference to "block
melodies" had to do with certain melodies which are commonly used
in slave markets, in the display of the merchandise. Some were
apparently developed for the purpose, and others simply utilized for
it. Such melodies tend to be sexually stimulating, and powerfully so,
both for the merchandise being vended, who must dance to them, and
for the buyers. It is a joke of young Goreans to sometimes whistle,
or hum, such melodies, apparently innocently, in the presence of free
women who, of course, are not familiar with them, and do not
understand their origins or significance, and then to watch them
become restless, and, usually, after a time, disturbed and
apprehensive, hurry away. Such women, of course, will doubtless
recall such melodies, and at last understand the joke, if they find
themselves naked on the sales block, in house collars, dancing to
them. Some women, free women, interestingly, even when they do not
fully understand such melodies, are fascinated with them and try to
learn them. Such melodies, in a sense, call out to them. They hum
them to themselves. They sing them in private, and so on. Too, not
unoften, on one level or another, they begin to grow careless of
their security and safety; they begin, in one way or another, to
court the collar.
The "Hope of Tina," a melody of Cos which would surely be popular with most of the fellows present, on the other hand, was an excellent choice. It was supposedly the expression of the yearning, or hope, of a young girl that she may be so beautiful, and so feminine, and marvelous, that she will prove acceptable as a slave. As Temione was from Cos I had little doubt that she would be familiar with the melody. To be sure, it did have something of the sensuousness of a block melody about it. Yet I thought, even so, she would probably know it. It was the sort of melody of which free women often claim to be completely ignorant but, when pressed, prove to be familiar, surprisingly perhaps, with its every note. Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 37 [b] |
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The military Kur, in this sense a unit, is commanded by a
"Blood." This seems peculiar perhaps but is explained by
ancient Kurii belief, that thought is a function of the blood. One
"thinks" thus with one's entire body, not just the brain.
Contemporary Kurii understand, naturally, that cognitive processes
brain-centered, or largely brain-centered, but the ancient
terminology, in their songs, poetry, and even military lexicon,
remains. Analogously, humans continue to speak of affairs of the
heart, a man of good heart, that someone has a big heart, etc., which
terminology perhaps lingers from the when the heart was regarded not
as a chemo-mechanical pump but as the throne and home of the
emotions.
The commander of a military Kur, thus, might better be
thought of as the "brain" or "mind," but continues, in their
languages, to be spoken of as the "blood." A "blood" thus commands
the two eyes and the two hands. Twelve "Kurs," the sense of military
units, constitutes one "Band." This one hundred and eight animals,
including subalterns leaders, and is itself commanded by a "Blood,"
whose rank is indicated by two rings on the left arm. Twelve of these
Bands constitutes a March. A March thus consists of 2,160 animals,
or, counting the commanders of each Band, 2,172 animals. A March is
commanded by a Blood, whose rank is indicated by one ring on the left
arm. The rings of rank are quite plain, being of some reddish alloy,
and are distinguished from decorative rings, of which many Kurii are
fond. Kurii, generally, like men, seem vain beasts, there appears to
be an inverse correlation between height of rank and intricacy and
variety of ornamentation. The higher the rank the simpler is likely
to be the ornamentation.
The commander, or Blood, of a March wears
only a single, simple reddish ring. Whether or not this simplicity is
honored off duty, so to speak, or in their privacy, I do not know. I
further do not know the full significance of the rings. I do not
understand how they are earned, or what is involved in moving from
the "second ring" to the "first ring." I do know that rings are
welded on the wrists of the beasts. The iron files of the Goreans,
incidentally, will not cut the alloy.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 241 [C] |
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"Smaller parties can be more dangerous than larger parties, at such a
time," said Grunt. "The larger party has done its work and is
returning to its home, presumably under the command of a
blotanhunka, a war-party leader, usually a fellow of
mature and experienced judgment. He exerts control; he commands
restraint. The smaller party may consist of young men,
insufficiently disciplined, urging one another on to yet another
hazard or feat, fellows who are unwilling for the fun to be over,
fellows who are eager to try for yet one more killing, fellows
who wish to obtain yet one more trophy."
Book 17, Savages: pg 249 [b] |
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On the back of my tarn, I waited, not knowing if I was to be singled
out for the Flame Death, not knowing if I, like the mysterious blue envelope in the mountains of New Hampshire,
so long ago, was doomed to explode in a devouring blue flame.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 208 [b] |
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"Our friend," said Grunt to me, "is a member of the Blue-Sky Riders, a warrior society of the Fleer."
Book 17, Savages: pg 260 [b] |
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Some of the Tuchuks began to sing the Blue Sky Song, the
refrain of which is that "though I die, yet there will be the
bosk, the grass and sky."
Book 4, Nomads: pg 263 [b] |
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"Chain them on the boards," cried another. That is a similar form of punishment.
In it the victim is fastened, by collars and shackles, on structures
of parallel, upright boards, vertical platforms, in effect, mounted
on posts. These structures are most common in harbor cities, near the
wharves. The fellow who had made the suggestion was probably from the
river port of Ar's Station. In the country, impalement is often used,
the pole usually being set up near a crossroads.
Book 23, Renegades: pg 15 [b] |
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...Slowly, singing in a guttural chant, a Tuchuk warrior song, he began to swing the bola. It consists of three long straps of leather, each about five feet long, each terminating in a leather sack, which contains, sewn inside, a heavy, round metal weight. It was probably developed for hunting the tumit, a huge, flightless carnivorous bird of the plains, but the Wagon Peoples use it also, and well, as a weapon of war. Thrown to low the long straps, with their approximate ten-foot sweep, almost impossible to evade ,strike the victim and the weighted balls, as soon as resistance is met, whip about the victim, tangling and tightening the straps. Sometimes legs are broken. It is often difficult to release the straps, so snarled do they become. Thrown high the Gorean bola can lock a man's arms to his sides; thrown to the throat it can strangle him; thrown to the head, a difficult cast, the whipping weights can crush a skull. One entangles the victim with the bola, leaps from one's mount and with the quiva cuts his throat...
Book 4, Nomads: pg 24 [C] In the south, the Wagon Peoples sometimes use the bola in such captures, the cords and weights, whipping about the girls legs and ankles, pinning them together, hurling her to the ground, where, in an instant, before she can free herself, the captor, leaping from the saddle, is upon her. Book 25, Magicians: pg 299 [tLi] |
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On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing
to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon
occasion to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally
established and culturally well understood. I shall mention two such
devices. There is, first, the bondage knot. The bondage
knot is a simple looped knot tied into the girl's hair and worn
at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. The girl
approaches the master naked and kneels, the bondage knot soft,
curled, fallen at the side of her right cheek or before her right
shoulder. Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to
kneel before the master and put her head down and lift her arms,
offering him fruit, usually a larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe
and fresh. These devices, incidentally, may be used even by a slave
girl who hates her master but whose body, trained to love, cannot
endure the absence of the masculine caress.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 27 [C] |
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Two of the men of Torvaldsland had, from their left shoulder to their right hip, that their right arms be less I impeded, a chain formed of slave bracelets; each pair of bracelets locked at each end about one of the bracelets of another pair, the whole thus forming a circle. Now they removed this chain of bracelets, and, one by one, removed the pairs, closing them about the small wrists, behind their backs, of the female captives, now bond-maids.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 46 [C] |
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He then drew with the handle of his ax a circle, some twenty feet in diameter, in the dirt floor of the circle. It was a bond-maid circle.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 44 [C] |
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Like the bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold Sa-Tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 56 [C] The bond-maids did not much care for their gruel, unsweetened, mud-like Sa-Tarna meal; with raw fish. Book 9, Marauders: pg 65 [C] Another of the bond-maids was then freed to mix the bond-maid gruel, mixing fresh water with Sa-Tarna meal, and then stirring in the raw fish. Book 9, Marauders: pg 64 [C] |
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NOTE: The term "bones" is never used in the Scrolls for this game, rather, it
is a word coined by TmbrWolf of Turia for the game Imnak and I sat across from one another, both cross-legged. He dropped a tiny bone to the fur mat between us. Each player, in turn, drops a bone, one of several in his supply. The bone Imnak had dropped was carved in the shape of a small tabuk. Each of the bones is carved to resemble an animal, such as an arctic gant, a northern bosk, a larl, a tabuk or sleen, and so on. The bone which remains upright is the winner. If both bones do not remain upright there is no winner on that throw. Similarly, if both bones should remain upright, they are dropped again. A bone which does not remain upright, if its opposing bone does remain upright, is placed in the stock of him whose bone remained upright. The game is finished when one of the two players is cleaned out of bones. Book 12, Beasts: pg 185 [C] |
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I have won," said Imnak.
"What are you gambling about?" asked Arlene. She was folding her garments. "Put away the garments," I said, "drop to all fours, and come here." Arlene put the folded garments to one side in the tent, and, in fury, on her hands and knees, crawled to where we had played. I put my hand in her hair and pulled her to her stomach. "Here she is," I told Imnak. "Master!" she cried. Imnak took her and turned her over, pulling her on her back across his legs. "Master!" cried Arlene. "Imnak has won your use, until he chooses to leave the tent," I told her. "Obey him as though he were your own master." "Please, no!" she cried. "Obey him," I said, sternly, "as though he were your own master." "Yes, Master," she said, miserably. Imnak then dragged her to the side of the hide tent. Book 12, Beasts: pg 186 [b] |
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In several cases tarns have devoured their own masters, and it is not unusual
for them, when loosed for feeding, to attack a human being with
the same predatory zest they bestow on the yellow antelope, the
tabuk, their favourite kill, or the ill-tempered, cumbersome
bosk, a shaggy, long-haired wild ox of the Gorean plains.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 125 [tLi] Though similar in build to the yak of earth the bosk bears the heavier form of the buffalo of earth and like him, provides, food, leather and many of the needs of the people of Gor. The meat may be roasted or broiled, dried,stewed or served in a myriad of ways. Book 4, Nomads: pg 4 [C] |
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The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 168 [b] |
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Our bosk horns rang out and my brave Thousand, worn in the saddle, weary, on spent kaiila, without a murmur or a protest, turned and following my lead struck into the center of the Paravaci forces.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 259 [b] |
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The guard handed me a piece of meat and I took it in my teeth kneeling beside him, where he sat cross-legged, I lifting and squeezing the bota of paga, filled from one of the large jugs, guiding the stream of liquid into his mouth. I bit through the charred exterior of the meat, into the red, hot, half-raw, juicy interior
Book 7, Captive: pg 113 [b] |
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She wore the "bonds of the master's will." Grunt had put her in them. She could not rise to her feet. Yet there was not a rope or strap on her body. She was "bound by the master's will." She could not move from this position unless, at the word of a free person, she was freed from it. To break the position otherwise is to be instantly slain.
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 248 [C] "Yes, Master," I said. I must now keep my hands or wrists in contact with one another, and behind my back. I was now "bound by the master's will." I could not separate my hands or wrists from one another now without permission." Book 22, Dancer: pg 227 [b] |
bow, cross weapon (see crossbow )bowls noun eating utensils
bow, horn, of the Innuit weapon bow formed with split pieces of tabuk horn, bound with sinew which is not effective beyond thirty yards, used in the land of the Innuit to hunt tabuk on the tundra.[T]
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I followed Imnak's example, crawling on my belly, after him, the horn bow in my hand, an arrow loose at the string. I was very cold, and was soaked through. The tundra is cold, and much of it is boglike in nature.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 205 [b]
bow, horn, of the Wagon peoples noun favored by the Wagon peoples, it hangs from their saddles. Not effective over 30 yards, it lacks the range and force of the more powerful long bow or cross bow. However, it is a fearsome weapon at close range. The young men of the Wagon Peoples are not given a name until they have mastered the bow, the lance and the quiva. [T]
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He was very erect in the saddle. His lance remained on his back, but he carried in his right hand the small, powerful horn bow of the Wagon Peoples and attached to his saddle was a lacquered, narrow, rectangular quiver containing as many as forty arrows.
Book 13, Nomands: pg 11 [b]
The sides of the wagon box, incidentally, are, here and there, perforated for arrow ports, for the small horn bow of the Wagon Peoples can be used to advantage not only from the back of a kaiila but, like the crossbow, from such cramped quarters.
Book 13, Nomads: pg 66 [b]
bow, long weapon a bow of the height of a tall man, having a flat back and a round belly and may be made of supple Ka-la-na wood. A proficient bowman should be able to loose 19 arrows in a Gorean ehn. It is not as popular among Goreans because of some impracticalities of use. It cannot be used from the saddle, and the warrior must be standing or kneeling to aim, making him a target. It is favored by the peasants who make them and is also known as the peasant bow. [T]
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Well used, the long bow is a far more devastating weapon than its rival, the crossbow; but few men had the strength and eye to use it well; I prided myself on my skill with the weapon....
It is the weapon of a peasant, I heard echoing in my mind, and again smiled. The Older Tarl, my former master-at-arms, had so spoken to me years before in Ko-ro-ba, my city, the Towers of the Morning. I looked down at the long, heavy, leather-wrapped bow of supple Ka-la-na wood in the bottom of the rush craft....
It was true that the long bow is a weapon of peasants, who make and use them, sometimes with great efficiency. That fact, in itself, that the long bow is a peasant weapon, would make many Goreans, particularly those not familiar with the bow, look down upon it.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 3 [b]
The long bow cannot well be used except in a standing, or at least kneeling, position, thus making more of a target of the archer; the long bow is difficult to use from a saddle; it is impractical in close quarters, as in defensive warfare of in fighting from room to room; and it cannot be kept set, loaded like a firearm, as can the crossbow; the crossbow is the assassin's weapon, par excellence; further, it might be mentioned that, although it takes longer to set the crossbow, a weaker man, with, say, his belt claw or his winding gear, can certainly manage to do so; accordingly, for every man capable of drawing a warrior's long bow there will be an indefinite number who can use the crossbow; lastly, at shorter distances, the crossbow requires much less skill for accuracy than the long bow.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 3 [b] Too, the Gorean peasant tends to be a master of the "peasant bow," a weapon of unusual accuracy, rapidity of fire, and striking force
Book 22, Dancer: pg 303 [b]
bow, northern weapon a short bow, with short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, it is accurate with a short range of a hundred and fifty yards. It somewhat resembles the Tuchuk bow of layered horn in its accuracy and striking ability, which is about a hundred and fifty yards. It is useful for close combat on a ship, and can easily be fired through a hole port with the oar withdrawn. [T]
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Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but at short range, within a hundred and fifty yards, it can administer a considerable strike.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 52 [b]
bow, peasant weapon (see bow, long ) [tLi]
bow, ship weapon short stout maneuverable bow, easy to use in crowded quarters easy to fire across the bulwarks of galleys locked in combat. [T]
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The bows were put to their feet. They were short, ship bows, stout and maneuverable, easy to use in crowded quartes, easy to fire across the bulwarks of galleys locked in combat. I had seen only such bows in the holding of Policrates. Their rate of fire, of course, is much superior to that of the crossbow, either of the drawn or windlass variety.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 307 [b]
bow, short weapon This weapon is heavily used upon Gor for hunting, sport and warfare. Among its adherents are the warriors of the Wagon Peoples, the panther girls (or Talunas), the Red Hunters and the Red Savages. It is much smaller in size than the great bow, and is better suited for use from the back of a kailla, tharlarion or tarn. It is often carved from a single, flexible piece of tem wood or ka-la-na wood, though such peoples as the Wagon Peoples and the Red Savages can craft shortbows of layered wood and horn, which gives such bows much greater strength and durability. Among the Red Hunters, it is a common practice to treat such bows against inclement weather by smearing them with liquefied blubber taken from the carcass of the Hunjer whale. The shortbow can fire as many different types of arrowheads as can its larger cousin, though with substantially less range and penetrating power. The arrows used by the shortbow are also much shorter than those employed by the great bow, due to the shorter range of the weapon's "pull." These bows come in all shapes and sizes, and are found throughout Gor.
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... at his back was a quiver containing arrows, and a short bow of sinew-bound, layered horn. Such men are seldom seen on Gor. They are the natives of the polar basin.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 48
bow, small weapon used with great skill by the Red Savages from kaiila back. No Gorean weapon can match its rate of fire. A skilled warrior can fire ten arrows into the air, the last leaving the bow before the first has returned to the earth. It is highly maneuverable and easy to conceal. It can easily be swept from one side of the kaiila to the other. [T]
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The range and striking power of the small bow, while not negligible, do not compare with that of the peasant bow, or long bow. The red savage, accordingly, whenever possible, attempts to maximize the possibilities of an effective hit by decreasing the distance between himself and the target. This fits in, incidentally, with his glorification of close combat.
Book 17, Savages: pg 46 [b]
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Seems that slave girls mostly ate their gruel from troughs or from
bowls, using their fingers. I shared breakfast with Elizabeth who
informed me that it was better than the porridge below in the
trough in the feeding room for female staff slaves....
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I did not care particularly for the wooden bowls of stew and bread we commonly had at the public pens, but I was hungry and ready to eat even such, and with enthusiasm.
Book 7, Captive: pg 163 [tLi] We knelt in a circle, eating from the wooden bowls of bread and stew. We were given no utensils. Our fingers served to pick out meat and bread, and the gravy we drank. Book 7, Captive: pg 167 [tLi] I had scarcely touched the stew in the wooden bowl. "We will wear the nose rings," said Ute, "until our training is finished. Then, when we leave Ko-ro-ba, they will be removed. Book 7, Captive: pg 168 [tLi] |
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The slender blond girl, who had been giving the men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bond-maids.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 32 [tLi] We were knelt outside the cook shack. We were given wooden bowls. We were served gruel, mixed with thick chunks of boiled tabuk, by the blond, she who had once been Barbara Benson, now Thimble, and the dark-haired girl, who had once been the rich girl, Audrey Brewster, now the slave girl, Thistle. Book 12, Beasts: pg 162 [tLi] I wore a light, rep-cloth slave tunic. On the floor, on straw, was a blanket which I had been given. Though the cell door was locked, I was not chained. On the table was a bowl of cheap wine, some wedges of yellow bread and a wooden bowl containing vegetables and chunks of meat. Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 87 [tLi] |
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She then, like the others, after having been issued her slave gruel, and after having finished it, and washed the wooden bowl, would be assigned her chores for the day.
Book 17, Savages: pg 16 [tLi] The blond girl ahd brough out wooden bowls and spoons. "Each here serves themselves, in turn," said Radish. "Your porridge, Master," said Mira. Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 351 [tLi] "We were days in our hoods," said Iwoso. "They were lifted only a bit, at irregular intivals, I think to permit the placing of food in our mouths, the holding of a wooden bowl of water to our lips Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 400 [tLi] In a few moments be returned with a small wooden bowl filled with dried, precooked meal. He poured some water into this. I was then handed the bowl. Some of the women laughed. "Mix it with your fingers," said the first man. Book 19, Kajira: pg 257 [tLi] |
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"Bracelets," he snapped. She put her head in the air and placed her hands behind her back.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 146 [b] "Bracelets!" I said in Gorean, harshly. The girl snapped to position, hands behind the small of her back, head lifted, chin up, turned to the left. In such a posture she may be conveniently put in bracelets, and leashed. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 78 [b] |
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"Yes, Master," I said, putting my head down to his feet.
He then left me, to return the bracelets and keys to the counter. I rose to my feet and went to the slave room to fetch the hook bracelets, leather cuffs with locks on them, and snaps; they are soft and the snaps, as opposed to the cuffs, require no key; some men enjoy them on their slaves; by means of the snaps the girl may be variously secured by the locked cuffs, her hands being fastened behind her or before her, or perhaps to her collar. Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 297 [b] |
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"How?" I asked. "Like this," she responded, kneeling before me, lowering her head and lifting her arms, the wrists crossed. She laughed. "Now you must take me with you or slay me," she said, "and I know that you cannot slay me." I cursed her, for she took unfair advantage of the Warrior Codes of Gor. "What is the submission of Talena, the daughter of the Ubar, worth?" I taunted. "Nothing," she said. "But you must accept it or slay me." Furious beyond reason, I saw in the grass the discarded slave bracelets, the hood and leading chains. To Talena's indignation, I snapped the slave bracelets on her wrists, hooded her, and put her on a leading chain. Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 109 [tLi] |
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The other girl cried out in anger at her, but did not dare rise.
"Chain her," said Hassan, indicating the kneeling girl. One of the men, from behind, put ankle rings on her, joined by about a foot of chain. I heard the two heavy snaps of the locks. He then unbound her wrists and coiled the tether. Before her body he locked her wrists in three-link slave bracelets. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 156 [C] |
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Then Ho-Hak took, from among the arrows on the mat, the leather bracer and
fastened it about his left forearm, that the arm not be lacerated
by the string, and took the small tab as well, putting the first
and second fingers on his right hand through, that in drawing the
string the flesh might not be cut to the bone.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 60 [tLi] |
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Branches of this plant are nailed over doors during the Waiting Hand
to discourage bad luck from entering the house in the New Year.
Almost all doors, including that of the House of Cernus, had nailed
to them some branches of the Brak Bush, the leaves of which, when
chewed, have a purgative effect. It is though that the branches of
the brak bush discourage entry of bad luck into the houses of the citizens.
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brand noun An identification symbol burned into the flesh of
animals and slaves to mark them as property as required by the
Merchants Law . Specific brands include the
kef (common kajira brand), Dina, Palm, mark of
Treve, mark of Port Kar, mark of the Tahari, mark of
Torvaldsland etc., as well as personal brands, such as the Sigil of Oryx
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When an individual captures a girl for his own uses, he does not
always mark her, though it is commonly done. On the other hand,
the professional slaver, as a business practice, almost always
brands his chattels, and it is seldom that an unbranded girl
ascends the block.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 189 [b] The man, placing heavy gloves on his hands, withdrew from the brazier a slave iron. Its tip was a figure some inch and a half high, the first letter in cursive script, in the Gorean alphabet, of the expression Kajira Book 8, Hunters: pg 51 [C] With a heavy glove, Hassan pulled an iron from the brazier. "What do you think of this brand?" he asked. It was the Taharic slave mark. "It is beautiful," I said. "But let us assure ourselves that this will be a common slave, one fit to sell north." "A good idea," said Hassan. He returned the one iron to the brazier and reached for another. It glowed red. It was a fine iron, clean and precise. At its tip, bright red, was the common Kajira slave mark of Gor. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 337 [C] |
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I had seen the design at the tip of the iron. It was a small flower,
stylized;it was circular, about an inch and a half in diameter;
it was not unlike a small rose; it was incredibly lovely and delicate.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 32 [C] The girl is commonly shown the iron, that she may understand its might, its heat and meaning. Book 13, Explorers: pg 72 [tLi] Most girls wear their brands on the left thigh, where they may be conveniently caressed by a right-handed master. Some girls, on the other hand, are right-thigh branded. Some, too, though very few, are branded on the lower left abdomen. Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 147 [tLi/nineve{Rem}] I felt her left thigh. Most girls are branded on the left thigh. Perhaps this is because most masters are right-handed. The brand, then, as one controls the slave, may be easily caressed. But her left thigh wore no brand. Her right thigh, too, as I soon noted, did not wear the slave mark, nor did her lower left abdomen. These are the three standard marking places, following the recommendations of Merchant Law, for the marking of Kajirae, with the left thigh being, in practice, the overwhelmingly favored brand site. Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 312 [tLi] |
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The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant Law.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 349 [tLi] The most common brand site on a Gorean slave girl is the outer side of the left thigh, closely beneath the hip. In this brand site the identificatory mark is thus placed high enough to be covered by a brief cloth of a common slave tunic and is available for convenient and immediate inspection if the tunic is lifted. Book 17, Savages: pg 109 [C] "It was put on me in Cos," she said, "with a white-hot iron, two years ago." Terrible," I whispered. "Girls such as I must expect to be marked," she said. "It is In accord with the recommendations of merchant law." Book 19, Kajira: pg 46 [tLi] "Take her below," said Samos to he who was first of the two guardsmen. "Mark her, left thigh, common Kajira mark. Collar her, common house collar." "Yes, Captain," he said. In the case of the girl, Rowena, of course, as she was already a self-pronounced slave, the brand and collar were little more than identificatory formalities. Nonetheless she would wear them. They would be fixed visibly and clearly upon her. This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law. Too, for all practical purposes, they make escape impossible for the Gorean slave girl. Book 20, Player: pg 36 [tLi] |
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I had seized her, half lifted her, and turned her from side to side,
examining her slim, attractive thighs for the tiny brand which
would confirm the matter. The most common brand sites, that on
the left thigh, the favorite, and that on the right thigh, lacked
slave marks. This determination, given the nature of her
gamenture, could be instantly made. I then put her on her feet.
"Oh!" she said. She was not branded on the lower left abdomen. That is perhaps the third most favored brand site. I then checked several other brand sites, such as the inside of the forearms, the left side of the neck, behind and below the left ear, the backs of her legs, and her buttocks. I even examined the insteps of her left and right feet. Her body was not branded. Book 23, Renegades: pg 124 [C] "Some fellows do not brand their slaves," I said. "That is stupid!" she said. "It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, "and to merchant law, as well." "Of course," she said. Gorean, she approved heartily of the branding of slaves. Most female slaves on Gor, indeed, the vast majority, almost all, needless to say, are branded. Aside from questions of legality, compliance with the law, and such, I think it will be clear upon a moment's reflection that various practical considerations also commend slave branding to the attention of the owner, in particular, the identification of the article as property, this tending to secure it, protecting against its loss, facilitating its recovery, and so on. The main legal purpose of the brand, incidentally, is doubtless this identification of slaves. To be sure, most Goreans feel the brand also serves psychological and aesthetic purposes, for example, helping the girl to understand that she is now a slave and enhancing her beauty. Book 24, Vagabonds: pp 119-120 [tLi] |
branding rack noun a device to which a new slave girl is chained for branding; her hands are chained above her head but the rest of her body is free to move except for whichever thigh is to be branded this being held motionless in a large vise.
brand, bond-maid noun described as a half circle about an inch and a quarter in width, adjoined at its right tip by a steep, diagnonal line an inch and a quarter in height. In the north, the bond-maid is referred to as a woman whose belly lies beneath the sword. [T]
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The brand used by Forkbeard is not uncommon in the north, though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters than in the south, where the merchant caste, with its recommendations for standardization, is more powerful. All over Gor, of course, the slave girl is a familiar commodity. The brand used by the Forkbeard, found rather frequently in the north, consisted of a half circle, with, at its right tip, adjoining it, a steep, diagonal line. The half circle is about an inch and a quarter in height. The brand is, like many, symbolic. In the north, the bond-maid is sometimes referred to as a women whose belly lies beneath the sword.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 87 [C]
brand, Kassar noun The Kassar brand their women and kaiila with a brand that symbolizes the three-weighted bola, three circles connected by lines in the center [tLi]
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The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves;
Book 4, Nomads: pg 106 [tLi]
brand, Kataii noun The Kataii brand is described as a bow, facing left [tLi]
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Book 4, Nomads: pg 106 [tLi]
brand, merchant noun a tiny brand in the form of spreading bosk horns for any wishing to do business with the Wagon Peoples that allows their passage over the plains; the stigma connected with this brand is that it suggests that any approaching the wagons do so as slaves. Also called "passage brand" [T]
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The street was lined by thongs of Tuchuck and slaves. Among them, too, were soothsayers and haruspexes, and singers and musicians, and, here and there, small peddlers and merchants, of various cities, for such are occasionally permitted by the Tuchuck, who crave their wares, to approach the wagons. Each of these, I was later to learn, wore on his forearm a tiny brand, in the form of spreading bosk horns, which guaranteed his passage, at certain seasons, across the plains of the Wagon Peoples.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 34 [W]
brand, Paravaci noun The Paravaci brand is a symbolic representation of a bosk head, a semicircle resting on an inverted isoceles triangle. [tLi]
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Book 4, Nomads: pg 106 [tLi]
brand, passage noun See brand, merchant
brand, penalty noun small 1/4 inch brands that mark a convicted liar, thief, traitor etc.
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"Sometimes, too" she said, "a girl may be branded as punishment, and to warn others against her."
I looked at her, puzzled.
"Penalty brands," she said. "They are tiny, but clearly visible. There are various such brands. There is one for lying and another for stealing."
Book 7, Captive: pg 277 [C]
"Four men held me, naked, near the brazier. I could feel the heat blazing from the canister. The sky was very blue, the clouds were white.
"Please, no!", I wept.
I saw Rask, with a heavy glove, draw forth one of the irons from the fire. It reminated in a tiny letter, not more that a quarter of an inch high. The letter was white hot.
"This is a penalty brand," he said. "It marks you as a liar".
"Please, Master!", I wept.
"I no longer have patience with you," he said. "Be marked as what you are".
I screamed uncontrollably as he pressed in the iron, holding it firmly into my leg. Then, after some two to four ihn, he removed it. I could not stop screaming with pain. I smelled the odor of burned flesh, my own. I began to whimper. I could not breathe. I gasped for breath. Still the men held me.
"This penalty brand," said Rask of Treve, lifting another iron from the brazier, again with a tiny letter at its glowing termination, "marks you also as what you are, as a thief."
"Please no, Master!" I wept. I could not move a muscle of my left leg. It might as well have been locked in a vise. It must wait for the iron. I screamed again, uncontrollably. I had been branded as a thief.
"This third iron," said Rask of Treve, "is, too, a penalty iron. I mark you with this not for myself, but for Ute".
Through raging tears I saw, white hot, the tiny letter.
"It marks you as a traitress," said Rask of Treve. He looked at me, with fury. "Be marked as a traitress," he said. Then he pressed the third iron into my flesh. As it entered my flesh, biting and searing, I saw Ute watching, her face betraying no emotion. I screamed, and wept, and screamed. Still the men did not release me.
Rask of Treve lifted the last iron from the fire. It was much larger, the letter at its termination some one and a half inches high. It, too, was white hot. I knew the brand. I had seen it on Ena's thigh. It was the mark of Treve. Rask of Treve decided that my flesh should bear that mark.
"No, Master, please!" I begged him.
"Yes, worthless slave," he said, "you will wear in your flesh the mark of the city of Treve".
"Please," I begged.
"When men ask you," said he, "who it was that marked you as a liar and a thief, and traitress, point to this brand, and say, I was marked by one of Treve, who was displeased with me".
Book 7, Captive: pg 310 [C]
brand, thief's noun See thief's scar
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The girl was brought into the shop and stood in the branding rack,
which was then locked on her, holding her upright. The metal
worker placed her wrists behind her in the wrist clamps,
adjustable, each on their vertical, flat metal bar. He screwed
shut the clamps. She winced. He then shackled her feet on the
rotating metal platform.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 71 [C] At the height of the festivities the cage was opened and its occupant, a former free woman, whose name had been Melinda, now a naked slave in sleen collar was ordered froth on her hands and knees. A sleen leash was attached to her collar, and she was marched, as a she-sleen, crawling abused, to the branding rack in which I had been earlier confined. Therein she was fastened, the beams locking her ankles and neck, and wrists in place and, as her left thigh was held by strong men of Tabuk's Ford. She screamed wildly, branded, and, her thigh released, clearly marked, moaned and twisted on the wood. Her head was then shaved. Then she wept, her head back, softly moaning, held in place by the heavy beams, forgotten, as men and women returned to their feasting. Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 238 [b] |
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brazier noun small portable grill, used for boiling black wine and making shish-ke-bob [tLi]
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A brazier is a container for fire, generally taking the form of an upright standing or hanging metal bowl or box. Used for holding burning coal as well as fires, a brazier allows for a source of light, heat, or cooking. Rose and grapevine trimmings make very good charcoal for braziers and when burned moist give out even greater aroma. The brazier used in the Japanese tea ceremony is called a hibachi. |
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I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot
Book 2, OutLaw: pg 76 [C] He removed my hand from the binding fiber. I reached out for him. He thrust a huge piece of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread into my hands. Book 6, Raiders: pg 114 [C] ... he gave me two generous pieces of bread, two full wedges of Sa-Tarna bread, a fourth of a loaf. Such bread is usually baked in round, flat loaves, with eight divisions in a loaf. Some smaller loaves are divided into four divisions. Book 19, Kajira: pg 216 [C] |
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Such a man as Marlenus can never be second in a city, and the men of Ar
were determined that he should never again be first. Accordingly,
the Ubar, tears in his eyes, was publicly refused bread and salt,
and, under penalty of death, was ordered to leave Ar by sundown,
never again to come within ten pasangs of the city.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 216 [tLi] Marlenus, because he had lost the Home Stone and because the men of Ar feared him and his ambitions, had been publicly denied bread, salt and fire, exiled from the city and forbidden to return on pain of death. Book 5, Assassin: pg 142 [tLi] |
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When the girl is taken to the breeding cell or breeding stall,
she is normally hooded. Her selected mate is also hooded. In this
fashion personal attachments are precluded. She is not there to
know in whose arms she lies, or piteously, and in misery, to fall
in love, but to be impregnated.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 175 [b] |
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In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste
of physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring
a releaser for its remission, usually administered to a slave
in which is called the breeding wine, or the "second wine." When
this is administered she usually knows that she has been
selected for crossing with a handsome male slave.
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 319 [C] The active ingredient in the breeding wine, or the "second wine," is a derivative of teslik. Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 320 [b] |
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"Is that not the paga of Ar?" I asked.
"Is it not one of your favorites?" he asked, "See," he said, "It has the seal of the brewer, Temus." Book 12, Beasts: pg 463 [tLi] Tasdron had arranged them in Victoria, on the pretense of fetching a consignment of Sa-Tarna from Siba, to be brought to the Brewery of Lucian, near Fina, east of Victoria, with which brewery he occasionally did business. Book 12, Rogue: pg 242 [tLi] |
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If you wish, they are bound in honour to grant me to you, without bride price.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 71 [b] |
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Tarnsmen, riders of the great tarns, called Brothers of the
Wind, are masters of the open sky, fierce warriors whose
battleground is the clouds and sky; they are not forest people;
they do not care to stalk and hunt where, from the darkness of
trees, from a canopy of foliage, they may meet suddenly
unexpectedly, a quarrel from the crossbow of an invisible assailant.
Book 7, Captive: pg 63 [C] In Gorean, these birds are sometimes spoken of as "Brothers of the Wind." Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 51 [C] |
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There must be an incredible amount of men, I surmised. I knew, of
course, that considerable forces had been landed at Brundisium.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 38 [b] "This is Brundisium!" said one of the girls, peeping out of the wagon. "I am sure of it!" Book 22, Dancer: pg 101 [b] "Ah," I said. I had turned over some of the small carpets in the tent and discerned that in one place there was an irregularity in the earth. With the point of a knife I dug there and found a small cache of coins. There were five pieces of gold there, three staters of Brundisium and two of Telnus, eleven silver tarsks, of various cities, for such circulate freely, and some smaller coins. Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 19 [b] |
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In the wagon ahead, briefly illuminated, I saw, swinging from its
strap, slung over a hook on the rear axle housing, a narrow,
cylindrical, capped "grease bucket," the handle of the brush
protruding though a hole in the cap.
Book 23, Renegades: pg 19 [b] |
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Ho-Tu, his hook knife dripping, a buckler on his left arm now stood beside us.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 346 [tLi] ... the primary defense is a small round buckler... Tribesmen of Gor, page 302 [tLi] ... buckler and dagger, ax and buckler, dagger and whip, ax and net, or the two daggers... Book 4, Nomads: pg 124 [tLi] The crowd is fond of seeing various types of weapons used against others, and styles of fighting. Buckler and short sword are perhaps most popular, but there are few weapons on Gor which are not seen over a period of three or four days of the games. Book 5, Assassin: pg 189 [C] |
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The Gorean, having little idea of progress in our sense, takes great
care in his building and workmanship. What he builds he expects
men to use until the storms of time have worn it to dust. Yet
this road, for all the loving craft of the Caste of
Builders which had been lavished upon it, was only an
unpretentious, subsidiary road, hardly wide enough for two carts
to pass. Indeed, even the main roads to Ko-ro-ba were a far cry
from the great highways that led to and from a metropolis like Ar.
Book 2, OutLaw: pg 14 [b] In the streets of Tharna shortly after the end of the revolt the caste colours of Gor began to appear openly in the garments of the citizens. The marvelous glazing substances of the Caste of Builders, long prohibited as frivolous and expensive, began to appear on the walls of the cylinders, even on the walls of the city itself. Graveled streets are now being paved with blocks of coloured stone set in patterns to delight the eye. The wood of the great gate has been polished and its brass burnished New paint blazes upon the bridges. Book 2, OutLaw: pg 211 [b] In order, the ascending tiers; blue, yellow, green and red were occupied by representatives of the Scribes, Builders, Physicians, and Warriors. Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 62 [C] |
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The new Administrator of Ar was a man named Minus Tentius Hinrabius,
an unimportant man except for being of the Hinrabian family,
prominent among the Builders, having the major holdings in
the vast, walled Hinrabian kilns, where much of Ar's brick is produced.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 9 [b] For example, a woman in the Metalworkers does not, commonly, work at the forge, nor is a woman of the Builders likely to be found supervising the construction of fortifications. Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 210 [b] Inside, the tunnel, though dim, was not altogether dark, being lit by domelike, wire-protected energy bulbs, spaced in pairs every hundred yards or so. These bulbs, invented more than a century ago by the Caste of Builders, produce a clear, soft light for years without replacement." Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 197 [b] |
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I strode to the stern castle and, with a builder's glass, looked back
toward Lydius. I noted, to my interest, the large, yellow medium
galley from Tyros, too, was casting off. I thought little of this
at the time.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 74 [b] I stood in the swaying basket at the height of the mast of the Dorna, the glass of the builders in hand.... I snapped shut the glass of the builders and descended the narrow rope ladder to the deck of the Dorna. Book 6, Raiders: pp 259-260 [b] On the heights of distant Turia itself I could see the flutter of flags and pensions. The walls were crowded, and I sup- posed many upon them used the long glasses of the Caste of Builders to observe the field of the stakes. Book 4, Nomads: pg 82 [b] I snapped open the builder's glass again. Book 6, Raiders: pg 197 [C] |
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Their garments are loose and voluminous, yet closely woven. The outer
garment when in caravan, usually the burnoose, is almost
invariably white. This color reflects the rays of the sun.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 73 [b] |
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Yesterday night we had lit a great bush beacon which we had prepared. This beacon, whether used for the emisson of smoke in daylight hours, or its flame at night, could be seen for pasangs across the prairie.
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 432 [tLi] |
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For all she knew she was being taken to a butcher shop, there to be dismembered for sleen feed. Such may be done to a girl, if it be the will of her master.
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 137 [tLi] In moments a sack was brought and the fellow, his eyes wild, was thrust, bound and gagged, into it. I then saw it tied shut over his head, and saw it being dragged behind two peasants toward the far side of the market, to the area where the butchers and meat dressers have their stalls. Book 25, Magicians: pg 251 [tLi] |
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"Olga," he said, "there is butter to be churned in the churning shed"
"Yes, my Jarl," said she, holding up her skirt, running from the place of our exercise. Book 9, Marauders: pg 101 [C] "These females," she said, indicating the Forkbeard's girls, who knelt at her feet, their heads to the turf, "could be better employed on your farm, dunging fields and making butter." Book 9, Marauders: pg 156 [C] In some such sheds might craftsmen work, in others fish might be dried or butter made. Book 9, Marauders: pg 81 [C] |
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I saw too, fields, fenced with rocks, in the sloping area. In them
were growing, small at this season, shafts of Sa-Tarna; too,
there would be peas, and beans, cabbages and onions, and
patches of the golden sul, capable of surviving at this latitude.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 81 [b] |
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It is not improbable that the beans from which the firstcacao trees
on this world were grown were brought from Earth
"Do the trees grow near here?" I asked. "No, Mistress," she said. "We obtain the beans, from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who in turn, obtain them from the tropics." Book 19, Kajira: pg 61 [C] |
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I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean;
the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by
energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the
exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were now
empty; they are used, from the tenth to the fourteenth Ahn of a given day,
to display the goods that will be sold that evening; access to the
exposition cage area is free to the public prior to the sale, but, after
the fourteenth Ahn, the Curulean is cleared and made ready for the
evening's work; after that time a citizen must pay to enter the market; the
cells themselves, and the corridors on each side surrounding them, are
carpeted; the bars are set rather widely; inside the cells there are
cushions and silks; on each cell there is a lot number and its date of
sale; in the cells the girls are exhibited unclothed; moreover, they must
be shown precisely as they are, absolutely without makeup; the only
exception to this, interestingly, is that perfume is permitted; even the
slave collars are removed, lest they be used to conceal a scar or blemish;
the girl is simply washed, brushed and combed, and perfumed, and turned
into the cage where, at the prospective bidder's pleasure, she may be
examined; she is also expected, upon command, to walk, to assume postures,
or otherwise to present the properties of her beauty for discernment and
comparison; as Elizabeth had once said to me, it is sometimes difficult to
make an assessment from the high tiers; on the block, of course, the girl
is under the command of the auctioneer; moreover, on the block, the slave will
customarily be made up; if the bidder does not recall that a particularly
dazzling girl on the block was actually rather less dazzling in the
exhibition cage, that is the responsibility of the bidder and not of the
house; I suspect that, in the excitement of the sale, and in the marvelous
presentation on the block of the Slaver's wares, the more careful, more
dispassionate, assessments of the exhibition cages are often forgotten.
Book 5, Assassins: pg 287 |
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Outside the Curulean also, on sale days, actual slave girls are
exhibited, some in suspended plastic cages fastened to the roof
of the portico, others in a tier of cages lining the interior
wall of the portico; these are not, however, the exposition cages
within the Curulean; they are merely, so to speak, advertisements
and attractions to lure customers; on the other hand, of course,
such displays, along with many others, will be offered for sale.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 286 [b] |
Leap year is not mentioned anywhere in the Scrolls that I or anyone
I know could find; however, it is remarkable that the following
description appears on many websites, source unknown:
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There are twelve twenty-five day Gorean months, incidentally, in most
of the calendars of the various cities. Each month,
containing five five-day weeks is separated by a five-day period,
called the Passage Hand, from very other month, there being one
exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is
separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the
Vernal Equinox, not only by a Passage Hand, but by another five
day period called the Waiting Hand.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 78 [C] "What's today's date, Scribe of Lara?" "The twelfth of Never, O denizen of Great Ar" "But you said that yesterday was the 14th..." Oryx grinned at the perplexed Arran. "...and tomorrow may be the 5th" The Writings of Oryx con Lara [tLi] |
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Chronology, incidentally, is the despair of scholars on Gor, for each
city keeps track of time by virtue of its own Administrator Lists; for
example, a year is referred to as the Second Year when so-and-so was
Administrator of the City. One might think that some stability would
be provided by the Initiates who must keep a calendar of their feasts
and observances, but the Initiates of one city do not always celebrate
the same feast on the same day as do those of another city. If the
High Initiate of Ar should ever succeed in extending his hegemony over
the High Initiates of rival cities, a hegemony which he claims he
possesses already incidentally, a unified calendar might be
introduced. But so far there has been no military victory of Ar over
other cities and, accordingly, free of the sword, the Initiates of
each city regard themselves as supreme within their own walls.
Book 2, OutLaw: pp 178-179 [tLi] In the chronology of Port Kar, it was early in Year 3 of the Sovereignty of the Council of Captains. In the chronology of Ar, which serves, generally, to standardize chronology on Gor, it was 10,122 C.A., or Contasta Ar, from the founding of Ar. The battle of the 25th of Se'Kara had taken place in 10,120 C.A. In that same year, in its spring, in Port Kar, the Council of Captains had assumed its sovereignty, thus initiating Year 1 of its reign. Most Gorean cities use the Spring Equinox as the date of the New Year. Turia, however, uses the Summer Solstice. The Spring Equinox, incidentally, is also used for the New Year by the Rune-Priests of the North, who keep the calendars of Torvaldsland. They number years from the time of Thor's gift of the stream of Torvald to Torvald, legendary hero and founder of the northern fatherlands. In the calendars of the Rune-Priests the year was 1,006. Book 9, Marauders: pg 58 [tLi] |
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In the thinking
of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the
Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which
occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon
Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the
Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure the year from
summer solstice to summer solstice; Goreans generally, on
the other hand, figure the year from vernal equinox to vernal
equinox, their new year beginning, like nature's, with the
spring; the Omen Year, or season, lasts several months, and
consists of three phases, called the Passing of Turia, which
takes place in the fall; the Wintering, which takes place
north of Turia and commonly south of the Cartius, the
equator of course lying to the north in this hemisphere; and
the Return to Curia, in the spring, or, as the Wagon Peoples
say, in the Season of Little Grass.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 12 [tLi] |
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He did so late in spring, on the sixteenth day of the third month, that month which in Ar is called Camerius, in Ko-ro-ba Selnar.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 235 [b] |
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Camisks are favored in some cities. The common camisk
is a simple rectangle of cloth, containing, in its center, a
circular opening. The girl draws on the garment over her head and
down upon her shoulders; it is worn, thus, like a poncho; it is
commonly belted with biding fiber or a bit of light chain,
something with which the girl may be secured, if the master wishes.
Book 16, Guardsmen: pg 109 [C] One city in which the common camisk is favored, generally, is Tharna. Book 16, Guardsmen: pg 108 [C] As I gazed on her she lowered her eyes shyly. She wore only a single garment, a long, narrow rectangle of rough brown material, perhaps eighteen inches in width, drawn over her head like a poncho, falling in front and back a bit above her knees and belted at the waist with a chain. "Yes," she said with shame. "I wear the camisk" "You are lovely," I said. Book 2, OutLaw: pg 102 [tLi] |
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She wore only a single garmet, a long, narrow rectangle of rough,
brown material, perhaps eighteen inches in width, drawn over her
head like a poncho, falling in front and back a bit above her
knees and belted at the waist with a chain.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 102 [C] The camisk is a rectangle of cloth, with a hole cut for the head, rather like a poncho. The edges are commonly folded and stitched to prevent raveling. The camisk, I am told, normally falls to the knees... The camisk, I am told, was at one time commonly belted with a chain. However, the camisks that I have personally seen, and those we were given, were belted with a long, thin strap of leather binding fiber. This passes once around the body, and then again, and then is tied, snugly, over the right hip.... The belt of binding fiber not only makes it easier to adjust the camisk to a given girl, but of course, the binding fiber serves to remind her that she is in bondage. In a moment it may be removed, and she may be secured with it, leashed, or bound hand and foot.... The camisk, in its way, is an incredibly attractive garment. It displays the girl, but provocatively. Moreover, it proclaims her slave, and begs to be torn away by the hand of the master. Men thrill to see a girl in a camisk. Book 7, Captive: pg 64 [C] |
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The women in bondage present, who served us, each wore four golden
rings on each ankle, and each wrist, locked on, which clashed as
they walked or moved, adding their sound to the slave bells that
had been attached to their Turian collars, and that hung from
their hair; the ears of each, too, had been pierced and from each
ear hung a tiny slave bell. The single garment of these women was
the Turian camisk. I do not know particularly why it is called a
camisk, save that it is a simple garment for a female slave. The
common camisk is a single piece of cloth, about eighteen inches
wide, thrown over the girls head and worn like a poncho. It
usually falls a a bit above the knees in front and back and is
belted with a cord or chain. The Turian camisk, on the other
hand, if it were to be laid out on the floor, would appear
somewhat like an inverted "T" in which the bar of the "T" would
be beveled on each side. It is fastened with a single cord. The
cord binds the girl at three points, behind the neck, behind the
back, and in front at the waist. The garment itself, as might be
supposed, fastens behind the girls neck, passes before her,
fastens between her legs, and is then lifted and, folding the two
sides of the "T's" bar about her hips, ties in front. The Turian
camisk, unlike the common camisk, will cover the girl's brand; on
the other hand, unlike the common camisk, it leaves the back
uncovered and can be tied, and is, snugly, the better to disclose
the girl's beauty.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 90 [C] |
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The Turian camisk was also now occasionally seen. It is rather like
an inverted "T", the bar of the "T" having beveled edges. It
passes from the girl's throat, in front of her body, between her
legs, and is then lifted, pulled tight, and wrapped about the
thighs. Its single cord fastens the garment behind the girl's
neck, behind her back and then, after passing about her body once
or twice, ties in front. It conceals her brand but exposes her
back. The cord makes it possible to adjust the garment to a given
girl. Tightening the cord accentuates her figure. The Turian
camisk is worn tightly.
Book 7, Captive: pg 160 [b] |
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He yelled something raucous and ribald. It had to do with "tastas" or
"stick candies." These are not candies, incidentally, like
sticks, as for example, licorice or peppermint sticks, but soft,
rounded, succulent candies, usually covered with a coating of
syrup or fudge, rather in the nature of the caramel apple, but
much smaller, and, like a caramel apple, mounted on sticks. The
candy is prepared and the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up,
deeply, into it. It is then ready to be eaten.... These candies
are usually sold at such places as parks, beaches, and
promenades, at carnivals, expositions and fairs, and at various
types of popular events, such as plays, song dramas, races,
games, and kaissa matches. They are popular even with children....
The expression was sometimes used by men for women such as we.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 81 [C] |
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Grunt went again to his stores and brought forth some packages, wrapped in
waxed paper. "Canhanpisasa," said Grunt. "Canhanpitasaka. Canhanpitiktica."
He then began pass out, to the Dust-Leg men and women about, pieces candy, lumps of cake sugar and flakes of dried molasses. The woman with whom I was dealing, too, received a palmful of molasses flakes. She smacked her lips. Grunt and she then exchanged what I took to be appropriate civilities and compliments. Book 17, Savages: pg 146 [b] |
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At the left side of Hci's face, at the chin, there was an irregular, jagged
scar, some two inches in length. This dated from several years
ago, when he had been seventeen, from the second time he had set
the paws of his kaiila on the warpath. It had been given to him
by a Yellow Knife in mounted combat, the result of a stroke by a
long-handled, stone-bladed tomahawk, or canhpi.
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 9 [tLi] |
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"Kajira canjellne!" said the newcomer.
Though he indicated me peremptorily with his spear, it was at the two other men that he looked. He did not now take his eyes from them. The bearded man looked angry. "Kajira canjellne," he acknowledged. "Kajira canjellne," said the other man, too, soberly. Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 21 [b] |
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The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on
Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the
females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women
or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission,
the securing of a female, preferably free, from an enemy city, to
enslave, that his sisters may be relieved of the burden of
serving him; indeed, his sisters often encourage him to be prompt
in the capture of an enemy wench that their own tasks may be made
the lighter; when the young tarnsman, if successful, returns home
from his capture flight, a girl bound naked across the saddle,
his sisters welcome her with delight, and with great enthusiasm
prepare her for the Feast of Collaring.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 159 [tLi] |
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"On your back," he said, "knees raised, heels on the floor."
I then lay before him, in a standard, supine capture position. Book 19, Kajira: pg 422 [C] |
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I then swept her from her feet and carried her across the
threshold and put her down on her feet, near the side wall to the
left. "Why have you carried me into the house as a capture slave?"
Book 15, Rogue: pg 127 [tLi] "And now I have been put in whipping position. I am being introduced into a house, in which I am to be a slave. My mysterious master must, thus, be of Victoria, or of some other city in which are practiced the customs of the capture carry and the initiatory whipping!" The point of these customs, of course, is clear. Book 16, Guardsman: pg 205 [tLi] |
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The net and the room doubtless constituted a capture cubicle, simpler
perhaps, but not unlike those in certain inns, in which a woman,
lulled by the bolting on the doors, and feeling herself secure,
may complete her toilet at leisure, bathing, combing her hair,
perfuming herself and such, before the trap doors, dropped from
beneath her, plunge her into the waiting arms of slavers.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 42 [b] |
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"It is a capture knot" I said.
"Oh," she said. "It is used for binding slaves and such," I remarked." Book 5, Assassin: pg 82 [C] "When the assailants were brought to the praetor's desk, too," said he, "it was seen that their wrists had been bound with capture knots." "I see," I said. "Such knots are tied by a warrior," he said." Book 13, Explorers: pg 58 [b] |
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"Uncork it for me, you sleen," said she.
I wondered if I had, in my life, seen ever so scornful, so proud, so cold a woman. I uncorked the vial. "Hold it beneath my nostrils," she said. She bent forward. I held the vial beneath her delicate nostrils. She closed her eyes, and breathed in, deeply, expectantly. She opened her eyes, and shook her head. "What is this?" she said. "Capture scent," I said. Book 9, Marauders: pg 115 [C] |
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I then swept her from her feet and carried her across the
threshold and put her down on her feet, near the side wall to the
left. "Why have you carried me into the house as a capture slave?"
Book 15, Rogue: pg 127 [tLi] |
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Dice and cards and game boards and drinking goblets scattered to the
rocky floors of the guard chambers as Whip Slaves and guardsmen
looked up to find at their throats the blades of desperate and
condemned men, now drunk with the taste of freedom and determined
to free their fellows.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 167 [C] |
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It was at the foot of the stairs, where the slop pots could be emptied into.
Such vats are changed once or twice weekly, the old vats loaded
in wagons and taken outside the city, where their contents are
disposed of at one of the carnarii, or places of refuse pits. Book 23, Mercenaries: pg 273 [tLi] "You could have retrieved it from a carnarium," I said. This was one of the great refuse pits outside the walls. Book 25, Magicians: pg 38 [b] It would be only too easy, in the dead of night, to bury the box somewhere outside the walls, in some remote place, or to cast it into one of the carnariums, the refuse pits outside the wall, into which garbage, and excrement, and all filth, as from the emptying of the giant vats of the insulae, might be thrown. Book 26, Witness: pg 669 [tLi] |
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I returned to the girl and, carefully, washed out the wound. She winced. I then cut some leaves and wrapped them about it. I tied shut this simple bandage with the tendrils of a carpet plant.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 347 [b] |
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From the Sardar I had gone largely Cart, sometimes Vask, then
Cart again until I had come to the Plains of Turia, or the
Land of the Wagon Peoples
Book 4, Nomads: pg 3 (footnote) [b] |
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Some Gorean "coaches," and fee carts, not many, are slung on layers
of leather. This gives a reasonably smooth ride but the swaying,
until one accommodates oneself to it, can induce nausea, in
effect, seasickness
Book 23, Renegades: pg 20 [b] |
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...the rush-grown banks of the Cartius, a broad swift flowing tributary...
Book 4, Nomads: pg 2 [C] I had heard it sung some two years ago by the bargemen on the Cartius, a tributary of the Vosk, far to the south and west of Ar. Book 5, Assassins: pg 207 [C] |
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My case was a transparent plastic cube of perhaps eight feet
square, with ventilation holes and a sliding plastic door. There
was no lock on the door and thus I could come and go as I pleased.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 111 [C] |
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"The Yellow-Kaiila Rider," said Grunt, "is Kahinotkapa, One-Who-Walks-Before, of the Casmu, or Sand, Band."
Book 17, Savages: pg 315 [W] The lands of the Casmu, or Sand band of the Kaiila, lie to the west of the Isanna, and to the north and west of the Isbu, above the descending northern branch of the Northern Kaiila. Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 24 [b] |
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The caste structure... is relatively immobile, but not frozen,
and depends on more than birth. For example, if a child in his
schooling shows that he can raise caste, as the expression
is, he is permitted to do so. But, similarly, if a child does not
show the aptitude expected of his caste, whether it be,
say, that of physician or warrior, he is lowered a caste.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 42 [C] I knew that Gorean caste lines, though largely following birth, were not inflexible, and that a man who did not care for his caste might be allowed to change caste, if approved by the High Council of his city, an approval usually contingent on his qualifications for the work of another caste and the willingness of the members of the new caste to accept him as a Caste Brother. Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 71 [C] A slave, of course, in one sense, has no caste. In being enslaved, she is robbed of caste, as well as of her name. She belongs to her master in all respects, as an animal. He may call her what he wishes, and do with her what he pleases. Book 7, Captive: pg 60 [tLi] |
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There, at various benches, attending to their work, measuring and
stirring, were apprentice perfumers. Though one is commonly born
into a caste one is often not permitted to practice the
caste craft until a suitable apprenticeship has been
served. This guarantees the quality of the caste product.
It is possible, though it is seldom the case, that members of a
caste are not permitted to practice specific caste
skills, though they may be permitted to practice subsidiary
skills. For example, one who is of the Metalworkers might not be
permitted to work iron, but might be permitted to do such things
as paint iron, and transport and market it. Caste rights,
of course, such as the right to caste support in time of
need and caste sanctuary, when in flight, which is theirs
by birth, remain theirs. The women of a given caste, it
should be noted, often do not engage in caste work.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 209 [C] |
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The average Gorean would think no more of altering his caste
than the average man of Earth would of altering his citizenship,
from, say, American to Russian, or French to Chinese... The clan
structures are kinship groups. They function, on the whole, given
mating practices, within the caste structure, but they are
not identical to it. For example, in a given clan there may be,
though often are not, individuals of different castes.
Many Goreans think of the clan as a kinship group within within a
caste. For most practical purposes they are correct. At
least it seldom does much harm to regard the matter in this way.
Clans, because of practical limitations on mobility, are usually
associated with a given city; the caste, on the other
hand, is tranmunicipal or intermunicipal.
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The ethical teachings of Gor, which are independent of the claims
and propositions of the Initiates, amount to little more than the
Caste Codes - collections of sayings whose
origins are lost in antiquity.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 40 [b] |
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"Caste sanctuary!" cried Portus, shaking himself free of the guards
and stumbling forward and falling on his knees before the wooden dais
on which sat the table of Cernus. Cernus did not look up from his game.
"Caste sanctuary!" screamed Portus. Book 5, Assassins: pg 209 [b] |
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A heavy stone, from some catapult, struck down through the deck near me, fired doubtless from some other galley
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 10 [b] |
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They make a practice of it, much as they might sell their hair to
hair merchants or to the weavers of catapult ropes.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 302 [b] |
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Others faced one another, kneeling, and, with string and their
fingers, played an intricate cat's-cradle game. Others
played "Stones," where one player guesses the number of stones
held in the other's hand. I tried the cat's-cradle game but I
could not play it, I always became confused, trying to copy the
intricate patterns. How beautifully they would suddenly, in all
their complexity, appear. The other girls laughed at my
clumsiness. The northern girls, incidentally, were very skilled
at this game. They could beat us all.
Book 7, Captive: pg 107 [C] |
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What was once said as a joke is now said in seriousness. We have
moved on from lumpy paga and the immortal celane melon, and have
entered the era of irc deaths and cyberfighting/bragging,
conducted under the yoke of honour, as defined in a million
different ways by a million different gamers.
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cestus weapon four-bladed dagger weapon of Anango [tLi]
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chain, common noun arrangement of slavegirls, tied together on a chain, arranged from tallest to shortest; sometimes called a "march chain" or "trekking chain" [tLi]chain2 noun Any of several types of chain used to bind or display a slave. See also chain1 [tLi]
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Usually the tallest girls lead the slave chain, the height decreasing gradually toward the end of the chain, where the shortest girl is placed. This was a "common chain," sometimes called a "march chain" or "trekking chain"; it was not a "display chain"...
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 14 [b]
chain, display noun kajirae who are sold in groups are arranged in a chain which may be fastened at either end; the girls, always nude, are spaced on the chain so that they don't crowd together and be more easily displayed [tLi]
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...in the "display chain," or "selling chain," the arrangement of the girls may be determined by a variety of considerations, aesthetic and psychological; for example, blondes may be alternated with brunets, voluptuous girls with slim, vital girls, aristocratic girls with sweet, peasant wenches, and so on; sometimes a girl is placed between two who are less beautiful, to enhance her beauty; sometimes the most beautiful is saved for last on the chain; sometimes the chain is used as a ranking device, the most beautiful being placed at its head, the other girls then competing with one another constantly to move to a new wrist-ring, snap-lock or collar, one higher on the chain.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 14 [b]
In displaying a girl, an ankle ring is placed on her left ankle. This locks on the ankle. There is also a smaller ring, projecting from the larger ring, which also locks. This smaller ring can either be snapped into a particular link in a chain, thus allowing the girls to be spaced at certain intervals, or it can be closed about the chain as a whole, thus permitting the chain to run freely through the ring without injuring or burning the girl's ankle. In the "display chain," we were spaced on the chain, and the chain stretched rather taut and fastened at both ends, sometimes to trees, sometimes to two large metal screws, more than two feet in length, which screwed into the ground, beyond the reach on each end of the first and last girl. Thus, not only would we be secured, but we were unable to crowd together, as girls, particularly unexperienced girls, have a tendency to do when not prevented. In the display chain, it might be mentioned, as would be expected, we are exhibited, unclothed.
Book 7, Captive: pg 62 [tLi]
chain, march noun see chain, common
chain, selling noun see chain, display
chain, trekking noun see chain, common
chain, work noun see work chain
chain, body noun closely meshed length of chain about 5 feet in length which can be used in a variety of ways to bedeck or secure a slave. Some are decorated with semi-precious stones and wooden beads. Detachable lock and snap clips allow the chain to be transformed from slave jewelry to slave restraint.[T]chain luck noun the attempt to capture a slave girl without having a particular target in mind.
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The loop of the body chain was some five feet in length. It was made to loop the throat of a woman several times, or, by alternative windings, to bedeck her body in a variety of fashions. The chain was not heavy, but too, it was not light. It had a solid heft in one's hand. It was closely meshed and strong. It could be used, if a man wished, and perfectly, for purposes of slave security. It was decorated sensuously with colorful wooden beads, semiprecious stones and bits of leather. Detachable, but not attached to the chain at one point were two sets of clips one of snap clips and one of lock clips.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 72 [b]
She saw now that the chains had been the loops of a single, graceful body chain, sinuous and glossy, closely meshed and dark, ornamented with colorful beads of wood, semiprecious stones and bits of leather. Its full loop is some five feet in length, and it can be wound and looped, and twisted and strung about a woman's body in a variety of intricate fashions. It is light and the closeness of its meshing allows it to follow closely the contours of a woman's body. It is unbreakable. It may be worn with or without clothing. By means of small clips, snap clips or lock clips, it may be used to secure as well as adorn a woman. It is to be worn, of course, only by a slave.
"It is beautiful, my Master!" she said. "Is it mine?"
Book 16, Guardsman: pg 281 [b]
chain, dancing adjective a chain, attached to wrists and collar, used in a dance [tLi]
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A wrist ring was fastened on her right wrist. The long, slender, gleaming chain was fastened to this and, looping down and up, ascended gracefully to a wide chain ring on her collar, through which it freely passed, thence descending, looping down, and ascending, looping up, gracefully, to the left wrist ring. If she were to stand quietly, the palms of her hands on her thighs, the lower portions of the chain, those two dangling loops, would have been about at the level of her knees, just a little higher. The higher portion of the chain, of course, would be at the collar loop. The musicians began again to play. There is much that can be done with such a chain. It was a dancing chain. Its purpose was not to confine the girl but to allow her to incorporate it in her dance, enhancing the dance with its movements and beauty.
Book 19: Kajira: pg 117 [tLi]
chain, position noun chain used to guide a slave's position to enhance their worth during a slave auction
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The auctioneer did not strike her with his whip. He merely took her arms and lifted them, so that the position chain, attached to each side of the sales collar lay across her her upper arms. Then he had her clasp her hands behind the back of her neck, so that the chain, on each side of the collar, was in the crook of her arms, and she was exposed in such a way that in such a way that she could be properly exhibited.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 36 [C]
chain, walking noun an adjustable chain fastened on the ankles of a slavegirl to train her to walk with the length of stride preferred by her master; common in the Tahari [tLi]
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The use of a light walking chain, tethering the ankles, meant to be worn abroad, accompanying the master, incidentally, is not uncommon in the regions of the Tahari. A beautifully measured gait is thought, in the Tahari, to be attractive in a woman.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 45 [b]
I paused before a given stall, where light walking chains were being sold. They were strung over racks rather like parrot perches. Without much haggling, I bought one, which seemed to me pretty. They are adjustable, with rings, from a length as small as two inches, for security, to a stride length of about twenty inches. Two keys are provided, each of which fits both ankle-ring locks.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 49 [b]
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"That is interesting," said Harold, "for I had thought I might try
chain luck in the Pleasure Gardens of a Turian merchant named Saphar."
Book 4, Nomads: pg 187 [C] I wondered if many of Treve's women were as beautiful as Vika. If they were it was surprising that tarnsmen from all the cities of Gor would not have descended on the place, as the saying goes, to try chain luck Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 47 [b] |
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...she wore the sashed chalwar, a sashed, diaphanous trousered garment, full but gathered in, closely, at the ankles...
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 105 [C] |
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The Chamber of the Council is the room in which the elected representatives of the High Castes of Ko-ro-ba hold their meetings.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 61 [C] |
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This was an oasis of the Char, also a vassal tribe of the Kavars. Its name had been given to it centuries before, when thirsty men, who had moved at night on the desert, had come upon it, discovering it.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 105 [C] I stood in the stirrups. I could see the Kavar center, white. On the left flank were the pennons of the Ta`Kara and the purple of the Bakahs. On the right flank were the golden Char and the diverse reds and bright yellows of the Kashani. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 307 [tLi] |
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His stature and burden proclaimed him a member of the Caste of
Carriers of Wood, or Woodsmen, that Gorean caste which, with the
caste of Charcoal Makers, provides most of the common fuel
for the Gorean cities.
Books 2, Outlaw: pg 27 [C] |
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Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajira means, for a girl, to wear
four articles, two red two black; a red cord, the curla, is tied
about the waist; the chatka, or long, narrow strip of black
leather, fits over the cord in front, passes under, and then
again, from the inside, passes over the cord in back; the chatka
is drawn tight; the Kalmak is then donned; it is a short
sleeveless vest of black leather; lastly the koora, a strip of
red cloth, matching the curla, is wound about the head, to hold
the hair back, for slave women, among the Wagon Peoples, are not
permitted to braid, or otherwise dress their hair; it must be,
save for the koora, worn loose. For a male slave or Kajirus, of
the Wagon Peoples, and there are few, save for the work chains,
to be clad Kajira means to wear the Kes, a short, sleeveless work
tunic of black leather
Book 4, Nomads: pg 30 [C] |
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The red cord, or Curla, was knotted about my waist, tightly, the
knot, a slip knot which might be loosened with a single tug, over
my left hip. Over the Curla in front, slipping under the body and
between the legs, and passing over the Curla in the back, was the
Chatka, or narrow strip of black leather, some six inches in
width, some five feet or so in length; it was drawn
tight; when a girl wears the Curla and Chatka, the brand, whether
on left or right thigh, is fully visible, for the inspection of
masters.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 254 [b] |
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I had worked in the Belled Collar, and, later, in the Chatka and Curla, in Cos.
Book 11, Slavegirl, pg 414 [tLi] |
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"Does Master enjoy my taste?" she asked.
"The lipstick is flavored," I said. "I know," she said. "It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros," I said. "I do not know what the flavor is," she said, "but it is lovely, is it not?" Book 12, Beasts: pg 349 [b] |
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"No, Mistress," she said. "We obtain the beans, from which the
chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who, in turn, obtain
them in the tropics."
Book 19, Kajira: pg 42 [b] |
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There are various ways in which pemmican may be prepared, depending primarily
on what one adds into the mixture, in the way of herbs,
seasonings and fruit. A common way of preparing it is as follows.
Strips of kailiauk meat, thinly sliced and dried on poles in the
sun, are pounded fine, almost to a powder. Crushed fruit,
usually, chokecherries, is them added to the meat. The
whole, then, is mixed with, and fixed by, kailiauk fat,
subsequently, usually, being divided into small, flattish,
rounded cakes. The fruit sugars make this, in its way, a
quick-energy food, while the meat, of course, supplies valuable,
long-lasting stamina protein.
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pg 46 [tLi] |
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Chronometers exist on Gor, but they are rare and valuable. Marcus and
I did not have any, of intent, at the time, among our belongs.... The average Gorean has a variety of simple devices at his disposal for marking the passage of time. typical among them are marked, or calibrated, candles, sun dials, sand glasses, clepsydras and oil clocks. Book 25, Magicians: pg 358 [b] |
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"You would like to know," he asked,"what will happen to you then?"
I nodded. "Curiosity," he said, "is not becoming in a Kajira." Book 7, Captive: pg 14 [W] "You are in great danger," said Vella. "You must flee." I sheathed the dagger I had held her in obedience with. "Those in the kasbah are in greater danger then I," I smiled. "How did you get in?" she said. "Is there a secret entrance?" I shrugged. "I entered unobserved," I said. I looked at her. "Curiosity is not becoming in a Kajira," I said. She stiffened. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 329 [W] |
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"All right," said Verna, "go to the circle."
The girl turned and sped across the carpeting of leaves.... After some hundred yards I came to the edge of a clearing. It was some twenty-five to thirty yards in diameter, ringed by the lofty trunks of Tur trees. The floor of the clearing was lovely grass, thick and some inches in height, soft and beautiful. I looked up. Bright in the dark, star strewn Gorean sky, large, dominating, seemingly close enough to touch, loomed the three moons of Gor.... The girls of Verna's band stood about the edge of the circle. They did not speak. They were breathing deeply. They seemed restless. Several had their eyes closed, their fists clenched. Their weapons had been discarded. She had blond hair. Her head was down, and shaking. Then she threw back her head, moaning, and reached up, clawing for the moons of Gor. The other girls too, responded to her, whimpering and moaning, clenching and unclenching their fists. The first girl began to writhe, crying out, stamping in the circle. Then another girl joined her, and another, and another. And then another! Stamping, turning, crying out, moaning, clawing at the moons, they danced.... The first girl, throwing back her head to the moons, screamed and tore her skins to the waist, writhing. Then, for the first time I noticed, in the center of the circle, there were four heavy stakes, about six inches in height, dark in the grass. They formed a small, but ample, square. I shuddered. They were notched, that binding fiber might not slip from them. Book 7: Captive: pg 132-133 [tLi] |
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He had won his freedom though it had, as the Goreans say, led him to
the Cities of Dust, where I think, not even the
Priest-Kings care to follow. He had, as a man, lifted his fist
against the might of the Priest-Kings and so he had died,
defiantly, though horribly, with great nobility
Book 4: Priest-Kings: pg 14 [C] "Returned from the Cities of Dust" gasped the warrior. "No," I said, "I am a living man as you." Book 2: Outlaw: pg 61 [C] |
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Young men and women of the city, when coming of age, participate in a
ceremony which involves the swearing of oaths, and the sharing
of bread, fire and salt. In this ceremony the Home Stone of the
city is held by each young person and kissed. Only then are the
laurel wreath and the mantle of citizenship conferred.
This is a moment no young person of Ar forgets. The youth of
Earth have no Home Stone. Citizenship, interestingly, in most
Gorean cities is conferred only upon the coming of age, and only
after certain examinations are passed. Further, the youth of Gor,
in most cities, must be vouched for by citizens of the city, not
related in blood to him, and be questioned before a committee of
citizens, intent upon determining his worthiness or lack thereof
to take the Home Stone of the city as his own. Citizenship in
most Gorean communities is not something accrued in virtue of the
accident of birth but earned in virtue of intent and application.
The sharing of a Home Stone is no light thing in a Gorean city
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 394 [C] |
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"Lo Rask," said he. "Rarius. Civitatis Trevis."
Book 7, Captive: pg 266 [b] |
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Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajira means, for a girl, to wear
four articles, two red two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied
about the waist; the Chatka, or long , narrow strip of black
leather, fits over the cord in front, passes under, and then
again, from the inside, passes over the cord in back; the chatka
is drawn tight; the Kalmak is then donned; it is a short
sleeveless vest of black leather; lastly the koora, a strip of
red cloth, matching the Curla, is wound about the head, to hold
the hair back, for slave women, among the Wagon Peoples, are not
permitted to braid, or otherwise dress their hair; it must be,
save for the koora, worn loose. For a male slave or Kajirus, of
the Wagon Peoples, and there are few, save for the work chains,
to be clad Kajira means to wear the Kes, a short, sleeveless work
tunic of black leather.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 30 [C] |
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The average Gorean would think no more of altering his caste
than the average man of Earth would of altering his citizenship,
from, say, American to Russian, or French to Chinese... The clan
structures are kinship groups. They function, on the whole, given
mating practices, within the caste structure, but they are
not identical to it. For example, in a given clan there may be,
though often are not, individuals of different castes.
Many Goreans think of the clan as a kinship group within within a
caste. For most practical purposes they are correct. At
least it seldom does much harm to regard the matter in this way.
Clans, because of practical limitations on mobility, are usually
associated with a given city; the caste, on the other
hand, is tranmunicipal or intermunicipal.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 213 [tLi] |
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"When I have time," said Harold, "I will call one from the Clan of
Scarers and have the scar affixed. It will make me look even
more handsome."
Book 4, Nomads: pg 274 [C] |
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The Wagon Peoples, of all those on Gor that I know, are the only ones that have a clan of torturers, trained as carefully as scribes or physicians, in the arts of detaining life.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 9 [tLi] "For what you have done," he said, "it is common to call for one of the Clan of Torturers." Book 4, Nomads: pg 142 [C] |
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clepsydra noun water clock, mentioned but not described
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A horological instrument of great antiquity, known among the Egyptians and other eastern nations, probably predating sun-dials. The name of the original inventor is lost in the mists of time, and although the construction has varied in different ages and countries, the basic principle of the continual dropping, or running of water through a small aperture, out of one vessel into another, has remained the same. |
chronometer noun (see chronometer )Cloth Workers caste This caste has many different sub castes such as Rug Weavers and others
clepsydra noun (see clepsydra )
clock, oil noun mentioned as an example of the chronometer technology available on Gor. [T]
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The average Gorean has a variety of simple devices at his disposal for marking the passage of time. typical among them are marked, or calibrated, candles, sun dials, sand glasses, clepsydras and oil clocks.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 358 [b]
clock, sand noun large, cylindrical and re-set at midnight, the twentieth ahn, and perhaps at noon, as well. [T]
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One of the inn boys, sitting in an apron, on a bench near the large, cylindrical sand clock, glanced at it. "Past the nineteenth hour," he said."
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 180 [b]
The inn boy stood by the sand clock, looking wildly about.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 185 [b]
clock, sand (kiasa) noun a device used for timing kaiisa moves, it has a spigot arrangement to enable the flow of sand. When it is open for one player, it is off for the other. Each player enables it, as his play is completed. [T]
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I saw now upon the stage Reginald of Ti, who was the elected administrator of the caste of players. A fellow with him carried the sand clocks. These clocks are arranged in such a way that each has a tiny spigot which may be opened and closed, this determining whether sand falls or not. These spigots are linked in such a way that when one is open the other must be closed; the spigot turned by a given player closes his own clock's sand passage and opens that of his opponent;
Book 12, Beasts: pg 85 [b]
clock, water noun mentioned, but not described. May also be called a clepsydra. [T]
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"It is now the fourteenth Ahn," he said, casting a meaningful glance at the water clock on the counter to his right.
Book 14: Fighting Slave of Gor , page 212 [b]
The average Gorean has a variety of simple devices at his disposal for marking the passage of time. Typical among them are marked, or calibrated, candles, sun dials, sand glasses, clepsydras and oil clocks
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 358 [b]
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The Carders and Dyers, incidentally, are sub castes separate from the
Weavers. All are sub castes of the Rug Makers, which itself,
interestingly, perhaps surprisingly, is accounted generally as a
sub caste of the Cloth Workers. Rug Makers themselves,
however usually regard themselves in their various sub castes, as
being independent of the Cloth Workers. A rug maker would not
care to be confused with a maker of caftans, turbans, or djellabas.
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 50 [C] I was the daughter of a Cloth Worker. Book 5, Assassin: pg 317 [C] |
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Further, members of castes such as the Physicians and Builders use
the fairs for the dissemination of information and techniques
among Caste Brothers, as is prescribed in their codes in spite of
the fact that their respective cities may be hostile. And as
might be expected members of the Caste of Scribes gather here to
enter into dispute and examine and trade manuscripts.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 9 [C] |
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pl. noun these are the rules and ideals that a warrior lives his life by
The ethical teaching of Gor, which are independent of the claims and propositions
of the Initiates, amount to little more than the Caste
Codes -- collections of sayings whose origins are lost in
antiquity. I was specially drilled in the Code of the Warrior
Caste. The Code of the Warrior was, in general, characterized by
a rudimentary chivalry, emphasizing loyalty to the Pride Chiefs
and the Home Stone. It was harsh, but with a certain gallantry, a
sense of honor that I could respect. A man could do worse than
live by such a code.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 41 [tLi] |
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It was extremely strong, and bitter, but it was hot, and, unmistakably, it was coffee.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 7 [tLi] |
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The collars had front and back rings, were hinged on the right and
locked on the left. This is a familiar form of coffle collar. The
lengths of chain between the collars were about three to four
feet long. Some were attached to the collar rings by the links
themselves, opened and then reclosed about the rings, and some of
them were fastened to the collar rings by snap rings. Another
common form of the coffle collar has its hinge in the front and
closes behind the back of the neck, like the common slave collar.
It has a single ring, usually on the right, through which,
usually, a single chain is strung. Girls are spaced on such a
chain, usually, by snap rings. An advantage of the first sort of
coffle arrangement is that the chain may, as girls are added or
subtracted, be shortened or lengthened. A chain which has been
borne by fifty girls would, of course, be impracticably heavy for
five or six. An advantage of the second arrangement is that girls
can be easily spaced on the chain, more or less closely together,
and can be conveniently removed from, and added to, the chain.
Which chaining arrangement is best for a given set of girls
depends, of course, on the particular intentions and purposes of
their master.
Book 17, Savages: pg 135 [C] |
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woe to the girl who does not return with a jangling coin-box attached to her neck chain.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 90 [C] It is called the Street of the Writhing Slave. It is dark and narrow, and not far from the wharves. It has its name from the fact that most renters of, and dealers in, Coin Girls in Victoria, keep their kennels on this street. The girls of the day, designated by a coiled whip pressed against their left shoulder, wearing their neck chains, with the attached bell and coin box, are sent into the streets in the late afternoon and expected to return before the nineteenth ahn. And woe to the girl who does not return with a jangling coin box on her neck chain! Some girls, once designated, and locked in their accouterments, kneeling, weeping, scratch even at the insides of the stout gates of their masters' houses, hoping to be sent into the streets early, that their chances of turning a profit for their master, and thus avoiding a beating or torture, may be enhanced. Such a lenience, however, is seldom shown to the girls, as it is against an agreement binding the entrepreneurs engaged in this trade. Sometimes the girls are sent into the streets with their hands braceleted behind their backs. Sometimes they are sent into the streets with their small hands free, that they may use them to please their master's customers. Sometimes a new girl is sent into the streets on a leash, with an older girl, that she may learn how a Coin Girl behaves. Book 16, Guardsman: pg 143 [C] |
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To date, however, this has not been accomplished. I did not feel it
was really fair of Boots to call attention to my possible lack of
expertise in these matters. I was not, after all, of the
merchants, nor, among them, of the coin merchants.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 411 [b] |
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The brand is to be distinguished from the collar, though both
are a designation of slavery. The primary significance of the
collar is that it identifies the master and his city. The collar
of a given girl maybe be changed countless times, but the brand
continues throughout to bespeak her status.
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor" pg 187 [C] On the throat of each, was a lustrously polished silver collar, and on the left wrist of each, locked, with a chain loop should one desire to secure them, a matching bracelet. Both girls of course were barefoot. Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 276 [C] ...about her throat she wore a matching collar, yellow enameled over steel. Book 5, Assassin: pg 7 [tLi] |
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She approached me. From my pouch I drew forth a leather Kur collar,
with its lock, and sewn in leather, its large, rounded ring.
"What is it?" she asked apprehensively, I took it behind her
neck, and then, closing it about her throat, thrust the large,
flattish bolt, snapping it, into the locking breech. The two
edges of metal, bordered by the leather, fitted closely together.
The collar is some three inches in height. The girl must keep her
chin up.
"It is the collar of a Kur cow," I told her. "No!" she cried. I turned her about and, taking a pair of the rude iron slave bracelets of the north, black and common, with which bond-maids are commonly secured, locked her wrists behind her back. I then, with the bloodied Quiva, the Tuchuk saddle knife, cut her clothes from her. Then, by a length of binding fibre, looped double in the ring of her collar, tied her on her knees to the foot of the Kur. Book 9, Marauders: pg 323 [C] |
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The small, heavy lock on a girls slave collar, incidentally,
may be of several varieties, but almost all are cylinder locks,
either of the pin or disk variety. In a girls collar lock there
would be six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each
letter of in the Gorean word for female slave, kajira; the male
slave, or kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band
of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in
chains, usually with other male slaves.
Book 5, Assassins: pg 51 [C] I noted her throat was encircled by a collar of gray metal. I supposed it indicated that she was a state slave of Tharna. Book 2, Outlaw: pg 102 [C] "Do not move your head, Bond-maid," said the smith. Then, with great blows of the iron hammer, he riveted the iron collar about her throat. A man then pulled her by the hair from the anvil and threw her to one side. She lay there weeping, a naked bond-maid, marked and collared. Book 9, Marauders: pg 106 [C] |
collar, coffle noun various types of steel collars with rings front and/or back to hook 3 to 4 ft lengths of chain between them; some hinged in the back.collaring position Also called "the Posture of Female Submission," used when a Master wishes a kajir (or FreeWoman) to submit to them. She kneels at the Master's feet and leans her body back, sitting upon her heels, with her arms extended upward, crossed at the wrists, and her head beneath them lowered in supplication. Often confused with submission [tLi]
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The collars had front and back rings, were hinged on the right and locked on the left. This is a familiar form of coffle collar. The lengths of chain between the collars were about three to four feet long. Some were attached to the collar rings by the links themselves, opened and then reclosed about the rings, and some of them were fastened to the collar rings by snap rings. Another common form of coffle collar has its hinge in the front and closes behind the back of the neck, like the common slave collar.
Book 17, Savages: pg 135 [b]
collar, cord noun made of cord fashioned from the rence plant it is worn by rencer slaves and carries a small disk to identify the owner. [T]
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These are usually kept in cord collars, with small disks attached to them, indicating the names of their masters.
Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 341 [G{gia}G]
collar, dance noun (see chain, dancing ) [tLi]
collar, four purposes concept a slave collar has four common purposes, plus one:
1. It designates the wearer as a slave
2. It impresses the kajir's slavery upon them
3. It identifies the kajir's master
4. It makes it easier to leash the slave
5. It makes it easier to put the slave in various ties
[tLi] “” C
"The collar has four common purposes, Master," she said. "First, it visibly designates me as a slave, as a brand might not, if it should be covered by clothing. Second, it impresses my slavery upon me. Thirdly, it identifies my master. Fourthly-fourthly-"
"Fourthly?" he asked.
"Fourthly," she said, "it makes it easier to leash me...."
An additional utility of the collar, though it did not count as one of its four common purposes, was that it made it easier to put the girl in various ties. For example, one can use it to tie her hands before her throat, or at the sides or back of her neck. One can use it with, say, rope or chain, to fasten girls together. One can tie her feet to her collar, and so on. If the feet are tied to the collar the knot is always in the front, so that the pressure will be against the back of the girl's neck and not the front. The purpose of such a tie is to hold the slave, not choke her. Gorean men are not clumsy in their binding of women.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 77 [caro{DE}/tLi]
collar, leather leash noun a leather slave collar with attached which may be used when the slave is to be led, usually for reasons of security. [T]
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He then turned her about and put a leather leash collar, with its attached lead, now dangling before her, on her neck
Book 25, Magicians: pg 33 [b]
collar, Kur noun a heavy leather collar, high, heavily sewn, with a large ring, worn by Kuriian slaves over their metal collars [tLi]
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Over her iron collar she wore a heavy leather Kur collar, high, heavily sewn, with its large ring.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 261 [tLi]
collar, lock noun a hinged collar easily removed by the use of a key; usually of flat stock c. 1-1/2 inches to 2 inches high; usually worn by trained slaves; the lock has one pin for each of the letters in the word 'kajira'.
“” C
The small, heavy collar lock on a girls slave collar, incidentally, may be of several varieties, but almost all are cylinder locks, either of the pin or disk variety. In a girl's collar lock there would be six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter of in the Gorean word for female slave, kajira; the male slave, or kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually with other male slaves.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 51 [C]
collar, message noun worn by slaves who convey messages, it is a thick, high, leather collar, fashioned by Turians, literally sewn around her throat. Sewn inside, within the leather itself is a message, written on a small piece of rolled rence paper. The slave girl often does not know that her collar carries a message and of course would never know its contents. [T]
“” C
Did you note the collar she wore?" I asked. He had not seemed to show much interest in the high, thick leather collar that the girl had had sewn about her neck.
"Of course," he said.
"I myself," I said, "have never seen such a collar."
"It is a message collar," said Kamchak. "Inside the leather, sewn within, will be a message."
Book 4, Nomads: pg 40 [b]
collar, necessity of IRCism many feel that a collar is the sign of ownership, and no collar = no owner. It's different in the Scrolls, where an owned slave of little worth may not necessarily be collared [tLi]
“” C
Yet I knew that beauty on a world such as Gor was not without its risks. I suddenly wished I wore a name collar, like Eta, that would make it clear to whom I belonged. My master had not even bothered to put a collar on me. I was a collarless slave.
Book 11, Slave girl: pg 135 [tLi]
collar, northern noun (IRCism; Turia) a utilitarian sounding collar made of black iron with an iron ring to be used if a chain is attached. Used primarily in Torvaldsland, it is riveted around the neck of the bond-maid. [T]
“” C
About her neck, riveted, was a collar of black iron, with a welded ring, to which a chain might be attached.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 85 [b]
collar, plank noun a two-piece board hinged at one end and capable of being locked at the other. It has two or more semi-circular holes cut in each side so that it may fit around the necks of more than one slave girl or captive free woman at one time.
“” C
Nearby there were four girls in a plank collar. This is formed from two boards into which matching semicircles have been cut. The two boards are connected and supported by five flat, sliding U-irons; when the U-irons are slid back, the collar is opened. When they are slid into palce, and the two leaves are bolted together, the collar is closed. Two hasps with staples, secured with padlocks, occur, too, at opposite ends of the planks. These lock the collar. The four girls in the plank collar were kneeling, waiting for their master to conduct some business. he was of the peasants. They were nude. Their hands were tied behind their backs.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 69 [b]
collar, plate noun collar of flat stock which is hammered about a slave's neck; usually worn by untrained slaves.
“” C
Ho-Tu grinned. "Call the smith!" said he to the guard. "Plate collars!"
When the smith arrived, he took, from a rack in the wall, two narrow, straight bars of iron, not really plates but narrow cubes, about a half inch in width and fifteen inches in length. The girls were then motioned to the anvil. First Virginia and then Phyllis laid their heads and throats on the anvil, head turned to the side, their hands holding the anvil, and the smith, expertly, with his heavy hammer and a ringing of iron, curved the collar about their throats; a space of about a quarter of an inch was left between the two ends of the collar; the ends matched perfectly; both Virginia and Phyllis stepped away from the anvil feeling the metal on their throats, both now collared slave girls.
Book 12, Assassin: pp 86-87 [b]
I could see the heavy metal collar hammered about the man's neck, not uncommon in a male slave. His head would have been placed across the anvil, and the metal curved about his neck with great blows.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 13 [W]
collar position position See submission position
collar-right noun the right under Gorean Law for a Master to do what He wills with His collared property [tLi]
“” C
I would be his, by collar-right, by all the laws of Gor, to do with as he pleased.
Book 7, Captive: pg 279 [tLi]
collar, shipping noun a temporary collar showing that the slave girl is part of a cargo. [T}
“” C
"I have a collar here," said Ulafi, lifting a steel slave collar. It was a shipping collar. It had five palms on it, and the sign of Schendi, the shackle and scimitar. The girl who wore it would be clearly identified as a portion of Ulafi's cargo.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 79 [b]
collar stocking/sleeve noun a small piece of cloth worn around the collar [C]
“” C
"I reached out, timidly, towards her throat. I touched the object there. "What is this?" I asked.
"The silk?" she asked. "That is a collar stocking, or a collar sleeve. They may be made of many different materials. In a cooler climate they are sometimes of velvet. In most cities they are not used."
Book 19, Kajira: pg 46 [C]
collar, transport noun a collar with a metal tag attached listing destination or other vital information, to be used during transport of a slave.[T]
“” C
We all, too, had new collars on our necks, probably transport collars. They had metal tags attached to them.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 73 [b]
collar, Turian noun a collar which fits more loosely and resembles a hinged ring looped about the throat. A man can get his fingers inside a Turian collar and use it to drag the girl to him.
“” C
The Turian collar lies loosely on the girl, a round ring, it fits so loosely that, when grasped in a man's fist, the girl can turn within it; the common Gorean collar, on the other hand, is flat, snugly fitting steel band. Both collars lock in the back, behind the girl's neck. The Turian collar is more difficult to engrave, but it, like the flat collar, will bear some legend assuring that the girl, if found, will be promptly returned to her master.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 16 [C]
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He took his strap off her throat, and unbound her hands.
"Submit," I told her. She knelt before me, back on her heels, arms extended, head down, between her arms, wrists crossed, as though for binding. "I submit to you, Master," she said. I tied her hands together; she then lowered her bound wrists; I pulled up her head. I held before her an opened collar, withdrawn from my sea bag. I had had one prepared. "Can you read?" I asked her. No, Master," she said. "It says," I said, "'I am the girl of Tarl of Teletus."' "Yes, Master," she said. I then collared her. Book 13, Explorers: pg 74 "Assume the posture of female submission," I told her. She did so, kneeling back on her heels, her arms extended, wrists crossed, her head between them, down. She was weeping.... Hassan handed me the collar. It was inscribed 'I am the property of Hakim of Tor'. I showed it to the girl. She could not read Taharic script. I read it to her. I put it about her neck. I snapped it shut. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 359 |
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The ceremonial taking of food from the hand of the man, as it had
been done this evening in the camp, would prove to be somewhat
unusual, though it would be reasonably common to be handfed, when
it amused him, or thrown scraps of food. Among many men, it might
be mentioned, however, the monthly anniversary of a girl's
acquisition as a slave would be marked by this, and similar
ceremonies. A slave girl is a delight to a man; she is extremely
prized and precious; that the day of her acquisition should be
celebrated each month with special ceremonies and rites is not
surprising. These numerous anniversaries are deliciously
celebrated, as they may be with a girl who is only a slave, and
seldom forgotten; should such an anniversary be forgotten, should
it be such that it is commonly celebrated, the girl redoubles her
efforts to please, fearing she is to be soon sold.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 66 [C] |
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Today Elinor Brinton would be collared.
I had been coached in the simple collaring ceremony of Treve. Ena, the high girl, who wore the garment of white, had not been much pleases that I did not have a caste, and could not claim a familiar city as my place of origin. Accordingly, it had been decided that I should identify myself by my actual city, and by my barbarian title and name. Book 7, Captive: pg 269 [b] |
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Something of the nature of the institution of capture, and the
Gorean's attitude toward it becomes clear when it is understood
that one of the young tarnsman's first missions is often the
capture of a slave for his personal quarters. When he brings
home his captive, bound naked across the saddle of his tarn, he
gives her over, rejoicing, to his sisters, to be bathed, perfumed
and clothed in the brief slave livery of Gor.
That night, at a great feast, he displays the captive, now suitably attired by his sisters in the diaphanous, scarlet dancing silks of Gor. Bells have been strapped to her ankles, and she is bound in slave bracelets. Proudly, he presents her to his parents, his friends and warrior comrades. Then, to the festive music of flutes and drums, the girl kneels. The young man approaches her, bearing a slave collar, its engraving proclaiming his name and city. The music grows more intense, mounting to an overpowering, barbaric crescendo, which stops suddenly, abruptly. The room is silent, absolutely silent, except for the decisive click of the collar lock. Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 36 |
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In the combing circle we kneel in a circle, each girl combing
the hair of the girl in front of her. Making us comb our hair
before we were fed, incidentally, is typical of the manner in
which Gorean men treat female slaves.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 112 [b] |
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Cos and Port Kar, of course, are enemies, but, if the Companion
Price offered Lurius were sufficient, I would not expect him
to hesitate in giving me the girl.
Book 8, Hunters: pg 174 [b] |
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compass, Gorean noun Gorean directions were based on the
Sardar Mountains , which
was analagous to the Earth "north", and went 'round the compass from
there. Due south was "Verus Var", or away from Var. There is also a
system of latitude and longitude based on the
Ahn, Ehn, and Ihn
of the Gorean clock. [tLi]
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For purposes of convenience I am recounting directions in English terms,
thinking it would be considerably difficult for the reader to
follow references to the Gorean compass. Briefly, for those it
might interest, all directions on the planet are calculated from
the Sardar Mountains, which for the purposes of calculating
direction play a role analogous to our north pole. The two main directions, so to speak, in the Gorean way of thinking are Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki-Var, or as one would normally say, Var and Ki-Var; 'Var' means a turning and 'Ki' signifies negation; thus, rather literally, one might speak of 'turning to the Sardar' and 'not turning to the Sardar', something like either facing north or not facing north; on the other hand, more helpfully, the Gorean compass is divided into eight, as opposed to our four, main quadrants, or better said, divisions, and each of these itself is of course subdivided. There is also a system of latitude and longitude figured on the basis of the Gorean day, calculated in Ahn, twenty of which constitute a Gorean day, and Ehn and Ihn, which are subdivisions of the Ahn, or Gorean hour. Ta-Sardar-Var is a direction which appears on all Gorean maps; Ta-Sardar-Ki-Var, of course, never appears on a map, since it would be any direction which is not Ta-Sardar-Var. Accordingly, the main divisions of the map are Ta-Sardar-Var, and the other seven; taking the Sardar as our 'north pole' the other directions, clockwise as Earth clocks move (Gorean clock hands move in the opposite direction) would be, first, Ta-Sardar-Var, then, in order, Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (sometimes spoken of as Verus Var, or the true turning away), Cart, Klim, and Kail, and then again, of course, Ta-Sardar-Var. Book 4, Nomads: pg 3 (footnote) [tLi] |
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Time is reckoned 'Contasta Ar', or 'from the founding of Ar.'
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 179 |
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Time is reckoned 'Contasta Ar', or 'from the founding of Ar.'
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 179 [b] |
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Contests of arms, fought to the death, whereas they may not
take place at the fairs are not unknown on Gor, and are popular
in some cities.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 11 [b] |
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She built up the fire. I watched her. She unfolded and adjusted a
single-bar cooking rack, placing it over the fire. From this she
suspended a kettle of water. The single bar, which may be
loosened in its rings, and has a handle, may also function as a
spit.
Book 23, Renegades: pg 150 The suspension of the meat reminded me of the way peasant women sometimes cook roasts, tying them on a cord and dangling them, before a fire, then spinning the meat from time to time. In this way, given the twisting and untwisting of the cord, the meat will cook rather evenly, for the most part untended, and without spit turning. Book 23, Renegades: pg 120 Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans. Book 6, Raiders: pg 44 [C] |
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"Corcyrus," said the girl, "is south of the Vosk. It is south-west of the city of Ar. It lies to the east and somewhat north of Argentum."
Book 19, Kajira: pg 39 [eliandal] These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their individual cities, or, often also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and others. Book 22, Dancer: pg 102 [tLi] |
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Both lie some four hundred pasangs west of Port Kar, Tyros to the
south of Cos, separated by some hundred pasangs from her....
Cos is also a lofty island, even loftier than Tyros, but she has
level fields to her west. Cos had many terraces, on which the Ta
grapes are grown.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 139 [b] Near her, on night, lying off her shore, silently, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 7 [C] "Farther even than the islands of Cos and Tyros?" he asked. Book 4, Nomads: pg 39 [C] ... had come out the vast, wall-encircled harbors of Telnus, which is the capitol city of the Ubarate of Cos. There are four major cities on Cos, of which Telnus is the largest. The others are Selnar, Temos and Jad. Book 6, Raiders: pg 173 [tLi] |
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The wingfish is a tiny blue salt-water fish with 3-4 slender
poisonous spines on its dorsal fin. Its liver is a delicacy in Turia.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 85 [C] I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish. This is a small, delicate fish; it has three of four slender spines in its dorsal fins, which are poisonous. It is called the wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt to flee small sea thalarion, who are immune to the poisonous spines. It is also called a songfish, because, in their courtship rituals, males and females thrust their head from the water, uttering a kind of whistle. Book 6, Raiders: pg 139 [C] |
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Certain gangs of youths, young ruffians, roamed the streets,
affecting Cosian garments and haircuts. These were called
"Cosians."nmaO Book 25, Magicians: pg 168 [b] |
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...its libraries, its records and files; its cubicles for Smiths,
Bakers, Cosmeticians, Bleachers, Dyers, Weavers, and Leather Workers.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 111 [C] |
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Free women in Ar commonly use cosmetics, but, outside of Ar, usually it is only the bolder women who resort to them. My Mistress, for example, did not use cosmetics either. Many free women regard cosmetics as only for slave girls. Slave girls, of course, use them often.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 224 [tLi/nineve{Rem}] |
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I waited my turn before the mirror and applied the cosmetics of the Gorean slave girl. I knew well how to do this, for I had been trained.
Book 7, Captive: pg 322 [tLi] |
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"I am sure you are familiar with the law," said the first fellow,
flanked by two magistrates.
"No!" she cried. The magistrates were ex offico witnesses, who could certify the circumstances of the capture. The net was a stout one, and weighted. "Any free women who couches with another's slave, or readies herself to couch with another's slave, becomes herself a slave, and the slave of the slave's master. It is a clear law." "No! No!" she wept. "Think of it in this fashion, if you wish," he said. "You have given yourself to Milo, but Milo is mine, and can own nothing, and thus you have given yourself to me. An analogy is the coin given by a free person to a street girl, which coin, of course, does not then belong to the girl but to her master. What is given to the slave is given to the master...." We were in a street of Ar, a narrow, crowded street... Book 25, Magicians: pg 7 [C] |
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I took my seat in the Council of the Captains of Port Kar.... In the
council, in effect, was vested the stability and administration
of Port Kar.... There are commonly about one hundred and twenty
captains who form the council, sometimes a few more, sometimes a
few less. Admittance to the council is based on being master of
at least five ships.... The five ships, it might be added, must
be of at least medium class. In a round ship this means she would
be able, in Earth figures, to freight between approximately one
hundred and one hundred and fifty tons below decks... the
Council of Captains who are responsible for maintaining
and managing the great arsenal, as well as the fleets of Port Kar.
Book 6, Raiders: pp 126-127 |
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It is thus understandable that touching an armed enemy with the open
hand counts among most tribes as a first coup. The second
and third man to accomplish such a deed would then receive second
coup and third coup. Killing an enemy with a bow
and arrow from ambush, on the other hand, might be counted as
only a fifth or seventh coup. Needless to say, the
counting of coup, which is reflected in the feathers and
adornments to which one is entitled, is a matter of great
importance to the Red Savages.
Book 17, Savages: pg 45 [T] |
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At that time I could read only the top scar, the red, bright, fierce
cordlike scar that was the Courage Scar. It is always the
highest scar on the face. Indeed without that scar, no other scar
can be granted. The Wagon Peoples value courage above all else.
Each of these men facing me wore that scar.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 16 [tLi] Without the Courage Scar one may not, among the Tuchuks, pay court to a free woman, own a wagon, or own more than five bosk and three kaiila. The Courage Scar thus has its social and economic, as well as its marital, import. Book 4, Nomads: pg 113 [C] "And while you are remembering things," remarked Harold, "you might recollect that we two together won the Courage Scar in Turia." "No," I said, "I will not forget that either." Book 4, Nomads: pg 340 [C] |
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In a sudden flash of lightning, showing the driving rain, the wagons, the crowd on the road, I saw ahead, above me, and to my left, about a half of a pasang forward, on its stony plateau, the inn of the Crooked Tarn....
Ahead, and on the plateau of the inn, I saw the large wooden sign, on its chains, jerked in the wind, striking about, pelted with rain. It was in the form of a malformed tarn, its neck crooked, almost vulturelike, the right leg, with its talons, much larger than the left, and outstretched, grasping.
Book 23, Renegades: pg 8 [jodi{JH}/tLi] I looked up. In a new flash of lightning I saw the stony plateau, surmounted by the inn of the Crooked Tarn. Book 23, Renegades: pg 8 [jodi{JH}/tLi] I noted that her hair had grown out somewhat, in the weeks since I had last seen her, a free woman on the chain of Ephialtes, a sutler whom I had met at the inn of the Crooked Tarn, on the Vosk Road. Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 7 [jodi{JH}/tLi] |
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Described as having heavy cable and leaves of steel it can be loaded and kept loaded like a firearm. Comes in two varieties, drawn and windlass. [tLi]
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...the crossbow is the assassin's weapon, par excellence; further, it
might be mentioned that, although it takes longer to set the
crossbow, a weaker man, with, say, his belt claw or his winding
gear, can certainly manage to do so; accordingly, for every man
capable of drawing a warrior's long bow there will be an
indefinite number who can use the crossbow; lastly, at shorter
distances, the crossbow requires much less skill for accuracy than the long bow.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 2 [C] "My weapon," he said, simply extending his hand. A crossbow was immediately placed in his grip. It was a large steel bow, wound and set, the iron quarrel placed in the guide. Book 10, Tarnsman: pg 138 [C] |
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Incidentally, speaking of the crossbow and longbow, ... The Older
Tarl, my redoubtable instructor in arms, did not care for them,
regarding them as secondary weapons almost unworthy for the hand of a warrior.
Book 10, Tarnsman: pg 49 [C] Indeed, the Gorean spear is such that many warriors scorn lesser missile weapons, such as the longbow or crossbow, both of which are not uncommonly found on Gor. Book 2, Outlaw: pg 21 [C] I mounted my tarn ... On each side of the saddle hung a missile weapon, a crossbow with a quiver of a dozen quarrels, or bolts, on the left, a longbow with a quiver of thirty arrows on the right. Book 10, Tarnsman: pg 64 [C] |
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Some hundreds of yards from the wall, just beyond crossbow range.
Book 10, Tarnsman: pg 163 [C] the bolt of a crossbow struck the door and splintered through it, its head projecting some six inches on my side. Book 4, Nomads: pg 227 [C] Their [ship bows] rate of fire, of course, is much superior to that of the crossbow, either of the drawn or windlass variety. Book 15, Rogue: pg 307 [tLi] |
| Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajira means, for a girl, to wear four articles, two red two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka, or long , narrow strip of black leather, fits over the cord in front, passes under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the cord in back; the chatka is drawn tight; the Kalmak is then donned; it is a short sleeveless vest of black leather; lastly the koora, a strip of red cloth, matching the Curla, is wound about the head, to hold the hair back, for slave women, among the Wagon Peoples, are not permitted to braid, or otherwise dress their hair; it must be, save for the koor |