Gorean Customs
"Let there be salt between us," he said. "Let there be salt between us," I said. He placed salt from the small dish on the back of his right wrist. I placed salt on the back of my right wrist. I touched my tongue to the salt in the sweat of his right wrist, and he touched his tongue to the salt on my right wrist. "We have shared salt," he said."
A kiss- "I blew her a kiss in the Gorean fashion, kissing and gesturing, my fingers at the right side of my mouth, almost vertical, then, with the kiss, brushing gently toward her."
~Marauders of Gor, page 135~ Begging- "Goreans generally do not favor begging, and some regard it as an insult that there should be such, an insult to them and their city;" ~Assassin of Gor, page 11~ Denial- "Publically denied bread, salt and fire, exiled from the city, and forbidden to return on the pain of death." ~Assassins of Gor, page 142~ Document of Enslavement- "Sometimes a girl, rather than be sent from his presence, would beg to be kept as a collared slave. She would then sign a document of enslavement which, after her signature was affixed, she would be powerless to alter or break, for she would then be only a slave. Clitus Vitellius would commonly keep such a girl for a few days, and then discard her, usually giving her to a friend or selling her."
~Slave Girl of Gor, page 155~ Emotions- "We met in the centre of the room and embraced. I wept, and he did, too, without shame. I learned later that on this alien world a strong man may feel and express emotions, and that the hypocrisy of constraint is not honoured on this planet as it is on mine."
~Tarnsman of Gor, page 25~ False Claims of Citizenship and Home Stone- "Shall I have you taken before the magistrates of Ar," he inquired, "to substantiate your claim of citizenship?" "No," she mid, "no!" She looked at him, terrified. To claim a Home Stone as one's own when it is not is a serious offense among Goreans. Elicia Nevins shuddered. She had no wish to be impaled upon the walls of Ar." ~Slave Girl of Gor, page 395~ Held Grass- "Suddenly the Tuchuk bent to the soil and picked up a handful of dirt and grass, the land on which the bosk graze, the land which is the land of the Tuchuks, and this dirt and this grass he thrust in my hands and I held it. The warrior grinned and put his hands over mine so that our hands together held the dirt and the grass, and were together clasped on it." ~Nomads of Gor, page 26~ Institution of Capture- "Institution of Capture: is universal, to the best of my knowledge on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the female is captured are those from an enemy city, either their free women or their slaves" Kneeling- "The position of the Tower Slave, in which Vika knelt, differs from that of a free woman only in the position of the wrists which are held before her and, when not occupied, crossed as though for binding. A free woman's wrists are never so placed." ~Priest-Kings of Gor, page 46~ "Let me sell myself."- "Let me sell myself!" she wept. As a free woman she could do this, but, of course, she could not revoke the transaction for, after its completion, she would be only a slave. "I will sell myself into slavery," she said. "Kneel," he said. She knelt before him. "What have you to offer?" he asked. She held out the golden tarn disk. "I see that you are a true slave, zina." He said. "Yes, Hassan," she said. "I am a true slave." "It is far more than you are worth," he said. "Take it," she begged. He looked at her. "Please take it!" He smiled. She took a deep breath; she closed her eyes. Then she opened her eyes. "I sell myself into slavery," she said. His hand, open, was poised over the coin. Her eyes looked into his. His hand closed upon the coin; the transaction was completed. "Chain this slave," he said. ~Tribesmen of Gor, page 146~ "Let us drink wine."- "Talena stood up. "Tonight," she said, "let us drink wine," It was a Gorean expression, a fatalistic maxim in which the events of the morrow were cast into the laps of the Priest Kings. "Let us drink wine," I agreed." ~Tarnsman of Gor, page 162~ Lo Sadar- "It spoke in Gorean. I knew what it would say. 'Lo Sardar,' it said. 'I am a Priest-King.'
~Priest-Kings of Gor, page 76~
Renewal-
"The companionship is gone," said Telima. "More than a year has
passed," she pointed out, "and you have not, together, repledged it."
"That is true," I admitted. By Gorean lay the companionship, to be binding, must
tgether, be annually renewed, pledged a fresh with the wines of love."
~Captive of Gor, page 367~
Slay-
"After all, according to the rude codes of Gor, I owed her nothing; indeed,
considering her attempt on my life, which had been foiled only by the fortuitous net of
Nar's web, I would have been within my rights to slay her, abandoning her body to the
water lizards."
~Tarnsman of Gor, page 92~
Sword rights-
"After the death of Surbus, the woman had been mine. I had won her from him by sword
right."
~Marauders of Gor, page 2 ~
~Tarnsman of Gor, page 94~ Home
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