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FW's View by Gwyn Trahearn |
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This week My perspective was more focused on My Home and
what it means to Me.... so I thought I would share this with
You....
I held up the rock. "Do we have a Home Stone?" I asked the men. "I will accept it as my Home Stone," said the slave boy, Fish. None of the men laughed. The first to accept the Home Stone of Port Kar was only a boy, and a slave. But he had spoken as an Ubar. "And I!" cried Thurnock, in his great, booming voice. "And I!" said Clitus. "And I!" said Tab. "And I!" cried the men in the room. And, suddenly the room was filled with cheers and more than a hundred weapons left their sheaths and saluted the Home Stone of Port Kar: I saw weathered seamen weep and cry out brandishing their swords. There was joy in that room then such as I had never before seen it. And there was a belonging, and a victory, and meaningfulness, and cries, and the clashing of weapons, and tears and, in that instant love. {Raiders of Gor, pgs 250-252)As Bluto of Treve has said, "A HomeStone is the physical, spiritual, social and emotional anchor of a Gorean. It is the place a FreePerson owes loyalty, fealty and honor for most it is the place of their birth. For others, it is an adopted home... for a peasant it is no more than a rock in his hut, but each defends his HomeStone with his life." Homestone... Home... Family... We enter or are born to Our Homes. Within Her is the fierce beating heart of Family. Family... Family is the People to whom You would lay Your life down for and who would lay their lives for You. Bluto was right in claiming that a Homestone is a Gorean's anchor. His Home is as important as the blood that flows through His veins or the air that enters His lungs. Without His Home and His Family He is left to wander a mere shell of a man.
Do not ask a Gorean what the Home Stone means because he will not understand your question. It will puzzle him. It is the Home Stone. (Magicians of Gor, pg 485-486)With the future possibility of having to leave My Homestone for RT obligations, I sit back and ask what My Homestone means to Me as a FW. Well, most FW are born to their Homes and do not leave unless they FC outside of their Homes. I came to Port knowing few but was welcomed with open arms by FM, FW and slave. Now, no one needs to know My history on Gor as it would put most to sleep, but what I will share is the feeling towards My Homestone. The feeling I know that many share. I can’t explain the feeling in so many words as to what My Homestone is. I could say it is every pebble I pad across as I walk the streets of Port. I could say it is the studio shared or the Inn to where I eat My dinners. I have grown to care very greatly for My Family. I am proud to declare My Home as Port Kar. Within its walls I feel safe. I feel honor. I feel pride. As many would for their Homestones, I would lay down My life. If One were to sit down and think about their Homestone, the feelings and emotions would become overwhelming. The trust and the kinship of the People of the Homestone is strong and not to be forgotten.
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August 18, 2001 |