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-P- paga - (abbr. of Pagar-Sa-Tarna, lit. 'pleasure of the life-daughter'): A grain-based, fermented drink made from Sa-tarna. It is served, in a footed bowl. kantharos, cups or goblets. Kept in a vat over the fire's flames or in bottles. "Did not they teach you how to serve paga as a paga slave?" I asked. ”Do you have the
paga of Ar, of the brewery of Temus?” “Woe,” smiled Shaba. “We have here
only Schendi paga, but I think it is quite good. It is, of course, a matter of
taste.” “What would you
like?” asked my hostess. I had been considering a glass of paga, perhaps, if
it were available in a place such as this, of the brewery of Temus. I now,
considering the rather revealingly clad free female, changed my mind. “I
think, upon reflection,” I said, “that I shall order later.”
paga attendant: a male employee of a paga tavern, who supervises the serving of paga by slavegirls, and collects payment for the paga and the use of the slavegirls: Rogue of Gor, page 78 paga tavern: an establishment where food and alcoholic beverages, especially paga, is sold. In addition, the use of the serving slave is included in the price of the paga bought: Assassin of Gor, page 7 From where she knelt she could see the low hanging tharlarion oil lamps of the main portion of the paga tavern, the men, the girls in silk who, in a moment, belled, would move among them, replenishing the paga. In the center of the tables, under a hanging lamp, there was a square area, recessed, filled with sand, in which men might fight or girls dance. Beyond the area of the sand and the many tables there was a high wall, some forty feet or so high, in which there were four levels, each containing seven small curtained alcoves, the entrances to which were circular, with a diameter of about twenty four inches. Seven narrow ladders, each about eight inches in width, fixed into the wall, gave access to these alcoves. Assassins of Gor, page 8-9 At a gesture from the proprietor, the grimy man in the tunic of white and gold, one of the serving slaves, with a flash of her ankle bells, hurried to the Assassin and set before him a bowl, which she trembling filled from the flask held over her right forearm. Assassins of Gor, page 8-9 She was then conducted top the small side door, through which the paga attendant had emerged. Beyond it , I gathered , would lie such things as the kitchens, the offices, the cellar's and pantries, the storage rooms, the dressing rooms, the discipline chamber and the kennels. Rogue of Gor, page. 22 The men who had come into the tavern were roistering but order, to some extent, had been restored. Two of the ship's lanterns had been broken. There was glass, and spilled paga about, and two broken tables. but the musicians were again playing and again, in the square of sand, the girl performed, though not now the Whip Dance. Nude slave girls, wrists chained, hurried about. The proprietor, sweating, apron, was tipping yet another great bottle of paga in its sling, filling cups, that they might be borne to the drinkers. There was an occasional scream from the alcoves, bringing laughter from the tables. I heard the flash of a whip somewhere, and the cries of a girl. Raiders of Gor, page105 "`Paga!' called the standing man. `Paga!' A blonde girl, nude, with a string of pearls wound about her steel collar, ran to the table and, from the bronze vessel, on its strap, about her shoulder, poured paga into the goblet before the seated man. The fellow who stood by the table, scarcely noticing the girl, placed a tarsk bit in her mouth, and she fled back to the counter where, under the eye of a paga attendant, she spit the coin into a copper bowl. Rogue of Gor. page 77 "I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple Paga Tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, one might, curled in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of Paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter." Outlaw of Gor, page 74 pagar: pleasure: Outlaw of Gor, page 75
palm tree: More than 1500 varieties of palm trees exist in the rainforest, one of which is the Fan Palm, more than 20 ft high, and spreads it leaves in the form of a an opened fan, it is an excellent source of pure water, as much as one liter of water being found, almost as though cupped, at the base of each leaf's stem: There is an incredible variety of trees in the rainforest, how many I cannot conjecture. There are, however, more than fifteen hundred varieties and types of palm alone. Explorers of Gor, page 310 palm wine: type of wine drank in the Schendi region. Mentioned in the books but no description. Schendi's most significant exports are doubtless spice and hides, with kailiauk horn and horn products being of great importance. One of her most delicious exports is palm wine. Explorers of Gor, page 115, 429 panga: two-foot-long, heavy, curve-bladed bush knife “. . .the jungle is not a maze of impenetrable growth, which must be hacked through with machete or panga.” Explorers of Gor, page 313 “. . .pangas two-foot-long, heavy, curve-bladed bush knives. . .” Explorers of Gor, page 287 “The keen steel of our pangas smote apart thick vines.” Explorers of Gor, page 382 “I seized up the panga which had been carried by the beast I had slain. It was heavy. I must needs use two hands to wield it.” Explorers of Gor, page 437 panther, jungle: Less dangerous to man, than the northern variety, inhabitant of the rainforest: On the jungle floor, as well, are found jungle larls and jungle panthers, of diverse kinds, and many smaller catlike predators. Explorers of Gor, page 312 Panther Girl: They are freepersons by virtue of their cleverness and skill with weapons. Though many are escaped slaves, they maintain their freedom by hiding and dwelling in the great uncharted forests of unexplored Gor. They rarely venture too far from their forest home, where the capture noose of the civilized slavers might ensnare them. Disdaining the laws of Gorean custom, they refuse to clothe themselves in traditional feminine garments, preferring to wear skimpy outfits sewn from the furred skin of the forest panther, and adorn themselves with various crude ornaments they fabricate from the teeth and claws of such beasts.
They are typically highly intelligent, dangerous, and quite skilled with the spear and
bow, which are their weapons of choice. Occasionally wild bands of such girls will capture
men who venture too far beyond the borders of civilization. Such captive males are used
for the sexual pleasure of their captors for a brief period. The heads of a kajiri are
shaven with a two-inch wide bald stripe from forehead to the nape of the neck ("the
stripe of degradation") revealing them to all as men who have fallen captive to
women. Such males are then typically traded into slavery, in exchange for such necessities
as arrowheads and spear tips, as well as candy, highly prized by the wild forest girls. Some call them the forest girls," said Ute. "Others call them the panther girls, for they dress themselves in the teeth and skins of the forest panthers,
which they slay with their spears and bows." I looked at her. Parade of Slaves: a presentation of beauty and attractions in which the slaves present themselves one by one, usually accompanied by music, for the inspection of the guests. Commonly takes place in paga taverns and brothels, but may take place elsewhere. Free women are usually not present: Vagabonds of Gor page 29
Paravaci: one of the 4 tribes of the Wagon Peoples; also called the Rich People; their standard is a boskhead-shaped banner made of jewels strung on gold wire: Nomads of Gor, page 14 Parrots: A bird found in the emergent level of the rainforest, some varieties are also found in the level of the canopies of the rainforest, Explorers of Gor, page 310 parsit fish: Are small silverish, striped with brown, that inhabit the waters of Northern Gor "The main business of Kassau is trade, lumber and fishing. The slender striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of the town, and may there, particularly in the spring and the fall, betaken in great numbers." Marauders of Gor, page 27 "The men with the net drew it up. In it, twisting and flopping, silverish, striped with brown, squirmed more than a stone of parsit fish. They threw the net to the planking and, with knives, began to slice the heads and tails from the fish." Marauders of Gor, page 61 "The men of Torvoldsland are skilled with their hands. Trade to the south, of course is largely in furs acquired from Torvoldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish." Marauders of Gor, page 28 "The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width. 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." Marauders of Gor, pages 63-64
"Tomorrow night," said Ivar Forkbeard to her, " I shall have your ransom
money." She did not deign to speak to him, but looked away. Like the bond-maids, she
had been fed only on cold Sa-Tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish."
Marauders
of Gor, page 56 "The pasang is a measure of distance on Gor, equivalent approximately to 0.7 of a mile." Tarnsman of Gor, page 58 Passage Hand: the 5-day period between Gorean months, which consist of 5 5-day weeks: Assassin of Gor, page 78 pasang stone: similar to a highway marker giving distances to cities, etc: Outlaw of Gor, page 35
passion slave: a slavegirl who has been bred, rather captured;
specifically, one that has been bred for a particular trait, such as beauty or slave heat
or the shape of her lips: pasties: No description but they are mentioned in the books. Sometimes given to kajirae as treats. "On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small, spiced
custards." Guardsman of Gor, page 239 peaches, Gorean: No description but they are mentioned in the books "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 .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." Tribesmen of Gor, pages 27-28 peas, Gorean: No description but they are mentioned in the books "I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, gorean peas, and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine." Assassin of Gor, page 87
Peasants, Caste of: The lowest and most common of the castes of Gor, which is concerned with the
maintenance, planting and harvesting of the vast lands surrounding most cities which have
been divided into plots and set aside for agricultural use. These are the free farmers of
Gor; although a Low caste they refer to themselves as "the Ox on Which the Home Stone
Rests" due to their vital role in the production of raw foodstuffs for Gorean
society. They have rather strict caste codes, and are considered the masters of several
forms of distinctive peasant weaponry, including the quarterstaff and the Great Bow, or
"Peasant Bow." "Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste." Tarnsman of Gor, page 43 People: a division of the Kur military.. twelve Marches makes up a People: Savages of Gor, page 22 Physicians - Fourth of the High Castes - This is the those who concern themselves with the healing arts. Surgeons, apothecaries, medical researchers and health practitioners are all members of this caste. Universally recognized as non-combatants during time of war. Their caste color is Green. These tiers shared the color of that portion of the wall behind them, the caste colors. The tier nearest the floor, which denoted some preferential status, the white tier, was occupied by the Initiates, Interpreters of the Will of the Priest Kings. In order, the ascending tiers; blue, yellow, green and red were occupied by representatives of the Scribes, Builders, Physicians, and Warriors." Tarnsman of Gor, page 61 On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians" Tarnsman of Gor, page 41 pierced-ear girl: a slavegirl whose ears have been pierced; as piercing a girl's ears is consider the ultimate degradation, it virtually guarantees that the girl will never be freed; the practice first became popular in Turia The piercing of the ears of women, only of slave girls of course was a custom of distant Turia, famed for its wealth and its nine great gates. It lay on the southern plains of Gor, far below the equator, the hub of an intricate pattern of trade routes. Some two or three years ago it had fallen to barbarians, nomadic warriors, and many of its citizens, in the flight from the city, had escaped north. With them had come certain articles, techniques and customs. One could tell a Turian because he insisted on celebrating the New Year at the summer solstice, for instance. They also used very sweet syrupy wines, which were now, in many cities, available. The Turian collar, too, a looser ring of steel, large enough for a man's fist to grasp on the girl's throat, was occasionally seen now in the northern cities. The piercing of ears of slave girls, that they might have earrings fastened to them, was another Turian custom. It had been known on Gor before, but it was only with the flight of the escaping Turians that it became more widespread recently. Captive of Gor page 160 I turned her head, from side to side. How exciting were the earrings, penetrating the soft flesh of her ear lobes. I looked at the tiny wires vanishing in the minute punctures and then emerging, looping the ears, as though in a slave bond, making them the mounting places from which, thus fastened upon her, but my will, dangled two golden rings, barbaric ornaments enhancing the beauty of the slave. I smiled to myself. On Earth I had thought little of earrings. Yet now, in the Gorean setting, how exquisite and exciting they suddenly seemed. Perhaps then, for the first time, I truly began to sense how the Gorean views such things. Surely these things are symbolic as well as beautiful. The girl's lovely ears have been literally pierced; the penetrability of her sweet flesh is thus brazenly advertised upon her very body, a proclamation of her ready vulnerability, in incitement to male rapine. And when she wears the earrings, he can see the metal disappearing in the softness of her ear, literally fixed within it. Her flesh is doubly penetrated, her softness about the intruding metal, before his eyes. The wire loop, too, or rod, when it emerges from the ear and, by one device or another, fastens the ring upon her, may suggest her bondage. Too, if the ring itself is closed, perhaps it suggests her susceptibility to the locked shackle, say, a wrist ring or slave bracelet; would there not, in the two rings, be one, so to speak, for each wrist? It is little wonder that Gorean free women never pierce their ears; it is little wonder that, in the beginning, it was only the lowest and most exciting of pleasure slaves who had their ears pierced; however, it is not uncommon on Gor for almost any pleasure slave to have her ears pierced; the custom of piercing the ears of a slave has now become relatively widespread: it has been done in Turia, of course, for generations. Too, of course, the ring is an obvious ornament. The girl placed in it has thus been ornamented. Ornamentation is not inappropriate in a slave. Lastly, the ring is beautiful. This it makes the slave more beautiful. Explorers of Gor page 202
Pillar of Exchanges: about one hundred pasangs northwest of Tharna, lonely white column of solid marble, 400 feet in height and 100 feet in diameter. The solid pillar offers an almost ideal place for the exchange of prisoners: Outlaw of Gor, page 141 pit fruit: hard larma, a firm, single-seeded, apple-like fruit unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called the pit fruit, because of its large single stone: Players of Gor, page 267 plank collar: a two-piece board hinged at one end and capable of being locked at the other, similar in operation to the stocks of 18th-century America and England; it has two or more semi-circular holes cut in each side so that it may fit around the necks of more than one slavegirl or captive free woman at one time: Savages of Gor, page 60 Planting Feast of Sa-Tarna: A complex feast celebrated by most Gorean cities early during the growing season, and believed by many to ensure a plentiful harvest for the year ahead. Numerous rituals are performed during the three days of the feast (April 16th-18th) by members of the caste of Initiates, and members of each of the five high castes perform their own part of the ceremony during that three-day period. Most of these rituals consist of sacrifices or prayers to the Priest Kings conducted in the presence of the city Home Stone. On the final eve of the feast, the Home Stone is placed beneath the sky, typically atop the tallest cylinder in the city, and sprinkled with sa-tarna grain and ka-la-na wine by a dignitary of the city, often the Administrator, Ubar, or a member of the ruling family. "The Home Stone of a city is the center of various rituals. The next would be the Planting Feast of Sa-Tarna, The Life-Daughter, celebrated early in the season to insure a good harvest. This is a complex feast, celebrated by most Gorean cities, and the observances are numerous and intricate. The details of the rituals are arranged and mostly executed by the Initiates of a given city." Tarnsman of Gor, page 68
Players, Caste of: This caste, thou not offically considered not a caste, nor a clan, is made of those who have dedicated their lives to the furtherance of the Gorean game of Kaissa. A rare caste, but one which is found and supported in almost any city. A sub-the Artisans, dues to the fact that most Goreans consider the playing of Kaissa to be an art form. Members of this caste are granted blanket immunity to prosecution and slavery, and are highly regarded based upon their level of skill. They wear distinctive hooded robes in their caste colors. Caste colors: Checkered, Red and Yellow. "In most cities it is regarded, incidentally, as a criminal offense to enslave one of the Caste of Players." Beasts of Gor, page 44 "he wore the garb of the Player, but his garb was rich and the squares of the finest red and yellow silk." Assassin of Gor, page 322 Pleasure Garden: an area in which wealthy Gorean men keep their slavegirls; roughly akin to the harem of the Arab countries of Earth: Nomads of Gor, page 217 pleasure rack: a device, ranging in complexity from a grid of ropes in a wooden frame to a moveable, adjustable frame with chains, for the display and sexual use of slave girls and captive free women: The pleasure rack is an interesting device," I
said pleasure silk: sheer, clingy form of silk worn only by slave girls; wraps like a pareau, with a disrobing loop at the left shoulder: Captive of Gor, page 322
pleasure slave: a slave girl whose main function is sexual servitude to her master; traditionally, she kneels with her knees spread wide, and her hands either resting on her thighs or, in some cities, crossed behind her, ready for binding I looked to one side and was startled. Watching us was a woman in Pleasure Silks, of remarkable beauty, yet with a subtle
hardness and comtempt about her. She wore a yellow collar, that of the House of Cernus, and yellow Pleasure Silk. The slave
bells, a double row, were locked on her left ankle. About her throat there hung a slave whistle. From her right hand, looped about
the wrist, there dangled a slave goad. She was fairly complected but had extremely dark hair and dark eyes, very red lips; the
movement of her exquisite body was a torment to observe; she looked at me with a slight smile, regarding the black of the tunic,
the mark of the dagger; her lips were full and magnificently turned, probably a characteristic bred into her; I had no doubt this
black-haired, cruelly beautiful woman was a bred Passion Slave. She was on of the most rawly sensuous creatures on which I had
ever looked. plums: No description but they are mentioned in the books "I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums." Tribesmen of Gor, page 45 Poets, Caste of: One of the low castes. On Gor, the singer, or poet, is regarded as a craftsman who makes by telling stories thru sayings, he has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and death, lest they should forget that they are men: Outlaw of Gor, page 103 "It could have been worse, I thought. After all, though the Caste of Singers, or Poets, was not a high caste, it had more prestige than, for example, the Caste of Pot-Makers or Saddle-Makers, with which it was sometimes compared." Outlaw of Gor, page 103 porcupine, long-tailed: animal of the canopy level of the rainforest: Explorers of Gor, page 311 Port Cos: A freshwater river port town on the Vosk originally established as a river colony and tributory of the Ubarate of Cos. Recently it has split away from the Ubarate and follows its own political agenda, even allying with the enemies of Cos itself. It is considered an ally of Ar's Station. Port Kar: A port city located on the shores of the Tamber gulf, at the coastal edge of Thassa (the sea). Its precise location is open for conjecture, as it guards its privacy tenaciously. Surrounded on the landward side by the vast Vosk Delta Marshes, it is virtually inaccessible except by ship or tarnback. Known as a den of thieves and pirates, its raiding fleets are among the most feared upon Gor. The city itself is squalid, decadent, and often virtually lawless. Similar to the pirate cities of the Barbary coast during the Golden age of Piracy on Earth, and to Dakar on the Gold Coast of Africa during her slave trading heyday. "Port Kar, squalid, malignant Port Kar, scourge of gleaming Thassa, Tarn of the Sea, is a vast, disjointed mass of holdings, each almost a fortress, piled almost upon one another, divided and crossed by hundreds of canals. It is, in effect, walled, though it has few walls as one normally thinks of them. Those buildings which face outwards, say, either at the delta or along the shallow Tamber Gulf, have no windows on the outward side, and the outward walls of them are several feet thick, and they are surmounted, on the roofs, with crenelated parapets. The canals which open into the delta of the Tamber were, in the last few years, fitted with heavy, half-submerged gates of bars. We had entered the city through on such pair of gates. In Port Kar, incidentally, there are none of the towers often encountered in the northern cities of Gor. The men of Port Kar had not chosen to build towers. It is the only city on Gor I know of which was built not by free men, but by slaves, under the lash of masters. Commonly, on Gor, slaves are not permitted to build, that being regarded as a privilege to be reserved for free men. Politically Port Kar is a chaos, ruled by several conflicting Ubars, each with his own following, each attempting to terrorize, to govern and tax to the extent of his power. ...There is even in Port Kar, a recognized caste of Thieves, the only such I know of on Gor.....The nearest solid land, other than occasional bars in the marshes, to Port Kar lies to her north, some one hundred pasangs distant." Raiders of Gor, page 103 - 104 Port OlniI: A large freshwater port on the Olni River, which is a tributory of the mighty Vosk river. Walled and well defended, it guards the mouth of the Olni where it joins the Vosk. This city is a member of the Salerian Confederation. a city located on the North bank of the Olni River. A member of the Salerian Confederation. Savages of Gor, page 88 Pot Makers, Caste of: Mentioned in the books. "Hup's rag might once have been of the Caste of Potters." Assassin of Gor, page 10 "was not a high caste, it had more prestige than, for example, the Caste of Pot-Makers." Outlaw of Gor, page 103 pot girl: a slavegirl whose main function is cooking and other menial tasks; used disparagingly: Assassin of Gor, page 164
Prayer Ring: ring with several tiny knobs on it has circular knob (like the golden circle at the termination of the Initiates staff notifies that one cycle of prayer has been completed: Magicians of Gor, page 20 Pride: a military unit consisting of 100 Warriors: Tarnsman of Gor, page 27 pride veil: the third veil worn by free women; worn under the house veil and over the veil of the citizeness: Slave Girl of Gor, page 107 Priest-King: They are a race of super intelligent, insectoid beings with a highly evolved society and technology, who are rumored to reside in the rocky Sardar mountains in the northern hemisphere of Gor. It is their technology, which controls the planet, even to its rotation and location in space.
Through a millenia-long sequence of experimentation they have slowly selected and
transplanted certain species of life to the planet, among them the species of Homo
Sapiens, or man. For hundreds of centuries, the Priet Kings have controlled every part of
the process of evolution, including the cultural development of the transplanted humans.
These humans, as well as all other life on Gor, were presumably transplanted to the planet
by the Priest Kings through use of "the Silver Ships", disk-shaped vehicles
which could make the long trip to other worlds and stars. These journeys are known as
"Voyages of Acquisition" and it is unknown how frequently the Priest Kings
authorize them, or to where. To one side there was a small altar to the Priest Kings, where burned a small fire. On this fire, at the beginning of the feast the feast steward had scattered some grains of meal, some salt, some drops of wine. "Ta-Sardar-Gor," he had said, and this phrase had been repeated by the others in the room. "To the Priest Kings of Gor." It had been the general libation for the banquet. Incidentally, there are many brands on Gor. Two that almost never occur on Gor, by the way, are those of the moons and the collar, and of the chain and the claw. The first of these commonly occurs in certain of the Gorean enclaves on Earth, which serves as headquarters for agents of the priest kings. Although one may not be enslaved at the fair (Sardar Fairs), slaves may be bought and sold within its precincts, and slavers do a thriving business, exceeded perhaps only by that of Ar`s Street of Brands. The reason for this is not simply that here is a fine market for such wares, since men from various cities pass freely to and fro at the fair, but that each Gorean, whether male or female, is expected to see the Sardar Mountains, in honor of the Priest-Kings, at least once in his life, prior to his twenty fifth year. Priest Kings of Gor, page 12 It is said that the Priest-Kings know whatever transpires on their world and that the mere lifting of their hand can summon all the powers of the universe. I myself had seen the power of Priest-Kings which had twice carried me to this world; I had seen their power so subtly exercised as to alter the movements of a compass needle, so grossly demonstrated as to destroy a city, leaving behind not even the stones of what had once been a dwelling place of men. It is said that neither the physical intricacies of the cosmos nor the emotions of beings are beyond the scope of their power, that the feelings of men and the motions of atoms and stars are as one to them, that they can control the very forces of gravity and invisibly sway the hearts of human beings, but of this latter claim I wonder, for once on a road to Ko-ro-ba, my city, I met one who had been a messenger of the Priest-Kings, one who had been capable of disobeying them, one from the shards of whose burnt and blasted skull I had removed a handful of golden wire. He had been destroyed by the Priest-Kings as casually as one might jerk loose the thong of a sandal. He had disobeyed and he had been destroyed, immediately and with grotesque dispatch, but the important thing was, I told myself, that he had disobeyed, that he could disobey, that he had been able to disobey and choose the ignominious death he knew must follow. 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. Priest Kings of Gor, page 14 It walked on four extremely long, slender, four jointed stalks that were its supporting legs, and carried its far more muscular, four jointed grasping legs, or appendages, extremely high almost at the level with its jaw, and in front of its body. Each of these grasping appendages terminated in four much smaller delicate hooks like prehensile appendages, the tips of which normally touched one another. I would later learn that the ball at the end of its forelegs from which the smaller prehensile appendages extended, there was a curved, bladed, horn like structure the at could spring forward; this happens spontaneously when the leg's tip is inverted, a motion which at once exposes the horn like blade and withdraws the four prehensile appendages into the protected area beneath it. Priest Kings of Gor, page 80-81 "Occasionally on Gor we destroy a city, selecting it by means of a random selection device this teaches the lower orders the might of the Priest Kings and encourages them to keep our laws." "but what if the city has done no wrong?" I asked. "So much the better," said Misk, "for the men below the Mountains are then confused and fear us even more--but the members of the Caste Of Initiates, we have found, will produce an explanation of why the city was destroyed. They invention and if it seems plausible they soon believe it. For example, we allowed them to suppose that it was through some fault of yours--disrespect for Priest Kings as I recall--that your city was destroyed." Priest Kings of Gor, page 123
Prition: title of a treatise on bondage written by Clearchus of Cos: Blood Brothers of Gor, page 139 profalarina - (the state preceding falarina falarina is the state of a woman penetrated at least once by a male). This term is used only with reference to Free Women " The buyers were also informed that I was 'glana' or virgin. The correlated term is 'metaglana' used to designate the state to which the glana state looks forward, or that which it is regarded as anticipating. Though the word was not used of me I was also 'profalarina' which term designates the state preceding, and anticipating that of 'falarina' or the state Goreans seem to think of as that of being a full woman, or, at least, as those of Earth might think of it, one who certainly is no longer a virgin. In both terms, 'glana' and 'profalarina' incidentally, it seems that the states they designate are regarded as immature or transitory, state to be succeeded by more fully developed, superior states, those of 'metaglana' or 'falarina.' Among slaves, not free women, these things are sometimes spoken of along the lines as to whether or not the girl has been 'opened' for the uses of men. Other common terms, used generally of slaves, are 'white silk' and 'red silk' for girls who have not yet been opened, or have been opened, for the uses of men, respectively." Dancer of Gor, page 128 prostrate: the slave kneels and touches her forehead to the floor ... stretches her arms out before her with palms face down and fingers spread "I knelt before the guest, putting the palms of my hands on the floor and my head to the tiles." Kajira of Gor, page 305 Pythagoreans: the first people to speculated on the existence of Counter-Earth "As he spoke, my father often referred to the planet Gor as the Counter-Earth, taking the name from the writings of the Pythagoreans who had first speculated on the existence of such a body. Oddly enough, one of the expressions in the tongue of Gor for our sun was Lar-Torvis, which means The Central Fire, another Pythagorean expression, except that it had not been, as I understand it, originally used by the Pythagoreans to refer to the sun but to another body. The more common expression for the sun was Tor-tu-Gor, which means Light Upon the Home Stone. There was a sect among the people that worshipped the sun, but it was insignificant both in numbers and power when compared with the worship of the Priest-Kings who, whatever they were, were accorded the honours of divinity. Theirs, it seems, was the honour of being enshrined as the most ancient gods of Gor, and in time of danger a prayer to the Priest-Kings might escape the lips of even the bravest men." Tarnsman of Gor, page 28
quala: small, dun-colored, 3-toed mammal with a stiff, brushy mane of black hair; pl. qualae: "...I saw what I first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-colored and with a stiff, brushy mane of black hair." Tarnsman of Gor, page 141 "these are often used for hunting light game, such as the brush-maned, three-toed Qualae," Raiders of Gor, page 4 quiva: a balanced saddle knife, usually part of a set of seven such weapons. It consists of a narrow double-edged blade of between 9 and 12 inches in length mounted on a shaped handle of wood, bone, or horn. It is honed to razor sharpness, and its blade tapers to a needlepoint. Designed for use primarily as a missile weapon, the quiva is also perfectly functional as a hand weapon and general utility knife. It is mostly used by the nomadic Wagon Peoples of the Southern Hemisphere, who will carry matched sets of seven in special sheaths attached to their kailla saddles. The best examples of these weapons are produced in the city of Ar. Once made, they are shipped to the Wagon Peoples via traders, where they are sharpened and fitted with distinctive handles. “a throwing knife, of a sort used in Ar, much smaller than the southern quiva, and tapered on only one side. It was a knife designed for killing. . . . On the hilt of the dagger, curling about it, was the legend “I have sought him. I have found him.” Assassin of Gor, page 42 I was most fond perhaps, of the balanced saddle knife, the quiva; it is about a foot in length, double edged; it tapers to a dagger like point ... Nomads of Gor, Page 67 ...the quiva itself is regarded, on the whole, as more of a missile weapon than a hand knife... Nomads of Gor, Page 124 Most quivas, incidentally, are wrought in the smithies of Ar. Nomads of Gor, Page 124 “. . .the quiva itself is regarded, on the whole, as more of a missile weapon than a hand knife.” Nomads of Gor, page 124 “. . .the seven sheaths for the almost legendary quivas, the balanced saddleknives of the prairie. It was said a youth of the Wagon Peoples was taught the bow, the quiva and the lance before their parents would consent to give him a name. ..” Nomads of Gor, Page 11 “. . .Tuchuk quivas. . . are balanced for throwing. Players of Gor, page 178 “I had not thrown it hard enough, intentionally, to bring the point fully through the body. It is not necessary. The cast, as recommended, had been easy and smooth. The quiva itself, in its sharpness and weight, does the work.” Players of Gor, page 187
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