Click here for quotes on the plant life of Gor Apricots -"There was a great shouting, and, passing through the market gate, I had turned into the nest of market streets. I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices. 'Come with me to the cave of Red Cages,' said a boy, pulling at my sleeve. They receive a copper tarsk for each patron they bring through the arched portal of the cafe. I gave the boy a copper tarsk, and he sped from me."Beans -
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 45"I looked at the cold, haughty, pale face of the High Initiate on his throne. He was flanked by minor initiates, in their white robes, with shaven heads. Initiates do not eat meat, or beans." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, pages 34 - 35 "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, berries, 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."Berries -
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37I felt the pull of a strap on my throat, and opened my eyes. By a long leather strap, some ten feet in length, I was fastened by the neck to Ute. We were picking berries."Brak bush - A shrub whose leaves have a purgative effect when chewed; traditionally, branches of it are nailed to house doors during the Waiting Hand to discourage the entry of bad luck into the house for the New Year.
Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 208"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 thought that...the branches of the Brak Bush discourage entry of bad luck into the houses of the citizens."Carrots -
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 211"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, berries, 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."Carpet plant - A plant of the rainforest area inland of Schendi, having tendrils that are sometimes used as a source of drinking water Cereal -
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37Without the stream of Torvald it would probably be impossible to raise cereal crops in sufficient quantity to feed even its relatively sparse population."Chocolate -
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 68" "This is warmed chocolate," I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy. "Yes, Mistress," said the girl. "It is very good," I said. "Thank you, Mistress," she said. "Is it from Earth?" I asked. "Not directly," she said. "Many things here, of course, ulitmately have an Earth origin. It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao 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 in the tropics."Dates -
Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 61"The principal export of the oases are dates, or pressed-date bricks. Some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet high. It takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit. They will then yield fruit for more than a century. A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds."Dina - A small, short-stemmed flower indigenous to hillsides; sometimes called the 'slave flower', it is often used as a design for slave brands; sometimes used as a slave name. Similar in appearance to the Urthen rose.
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37"A veiled woman was hawking dates by the tefa."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 46"...my own brand was the 'dina', the dina is a small, lovely, multiply petaled flower, short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf of green leaves, usually on the slopes of hills, in the northern temperate zones of Gor, in its budding, though in few other ways, it resembles a rose; it is an exotic, alien flower; it is also spoken of, in the north, where it grows most frequently, as the slave flower..."
Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 61"But, perhaps the dina is spoken of as the slave flower merely because, in the north, it is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can easily be crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded."
Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 62"I wore, burned in my flesh, one of the most beautiful of brands; I wore, incised in my thigh, resembling a small, beautiful rose, the dina, the slave flower, .."
Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 70Flahdah - A tree of the Tahari having lanceolate leaves; the trunk leans, like that of a palm tree.
Flaminium - largish scarlet flower having 5 petals.
"There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us."Flower Trees -
Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 61"And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia. I looked at the lovely, dangling loops of interwoven blossoms which hung from the curved branches of the tree. I knew that the clusters of flowers which; cluster upon cluster, graced those linear, hanging stems, would each be a bouquet in itself, for the trees are so bred that the clustered flowers emerge in subtle, delicate patterns of shades and hues."Garlic -
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 217" 'I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.' "Grass, Colored -
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 29" Besides the trees there were numerous shrubs and plantings, almost all flowered, sometimes fantastically; among the trees and the colored grasses there wound curved, shaded walks. "Ka-la-na - A tree with very strong yellow wood, used for making bows; the fruit of the ka-la-na is used to make ka-la-na wine.
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 217"He made his way across some dark blue and yellowish orange grass and came to the buildings set against one wall of the gardens."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 217 - 218"...In a secluded place, among the planted grasses and ferns, sheltered from view, I had lifted Nela from the pool and placed her on a large piece of orange toweling on the grass, near which I had left my clothes and pouch. ..."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 158 - 166"Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar's family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red, winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. The member of the Ubar's family then prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at which point the Guards of the Home Stone resume their vigil."
Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 68"Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor;"
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 217 - 218"The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance..."
Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 250Kanda - A shrub of the Gorean desert; a lethal poison can be extracted from its roots, while chewing the leaves has an addictive narcotic.
It was 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. Mixed with the blood and fluids of the body there was a smear of white at the end of the steel, the softened residue of a glaze of kanda paste, now melted by body heat, which had coated the tip of the blade. On the hilt of the dagger, curling about it, was the legend, 'I have sought him. I have found him.' It was a killing knife. 'The Caste of Assassins?' I had asked. 'Unlikely,' had said the Older Tarl, 'for Assassins are commonly too proud for poison.' "Katch -
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 42"Kutaituchik absently reached into a small golden box near his right knee and drew out a strong of rolled kanda leaf. The roots of the kanda plant, which grows largely in the desert regions of Gor, are extremely toxic, but, surprisingly, the rolled leaves of this plant, which are relatively innocuous, are formed into strings and, chewed or sucked, are much favored by many Goreans, particularly in the southern hemisphere, where the leaf is more abundant. Kutaituchik, not taking his eyes off us, thrust one end of the green kanda string in the left side of his mouth and, very slowly, began to chew it. "
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 43"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, berries, 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."Kes - A shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage.
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37"First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients, and, as it is said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the field. The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil."Kort -
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45"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, berries, 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."Larma -
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47He then picked up a juicy, red larma fruit, biting into it with a sound that seemed partly squishing as he bit into the fleshy, segmented endocarp. He seemed to make a great deal of noise. Although one or two of the girls stirred uneasily, none, to my relief, awakened. Harold was now fishing about, still chewing on the fruit,... "Leech plant - *A hemovorous plant that fastens two hollow, fang-like thorns into its victim, through which it can suck the blood that nourishes it.
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 220"The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 219"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 of Gor, page 27 - 28"Larma and tospit are also grown at the oases, in small orchards."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37Once I shouted in pain. Two fangs had struck into me calf. An ost, I thought! But the fangs held fast, and I heard the popping, sucking sound of the bladderlike seed pods of a leech plant, as they expanded and contracted like small ugly lungs. I reached down and jerked the plant from the soil at the side of the road. It writhed in my hand like a snake, its pods gasping. I jerked the two fanglike thorns from my leg. The leech plant strikes like a cobra, and fastens two hollow thorns into its victim. The chemical responses of the bladderlike pods produce a mechanical pumping action, and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it. ... Normally such plants are cleared from the sides of the roads and from inhabited areas. They are primarily dangerous to children and small animals, but a grown man who might lose his footing among them would not be likely to survive. "Liana vine - A rainforest plant which can be used as a source of drinking water.
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, pages 33 - 34Melons -
"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, berries, 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."Mul Fungus -
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37"There was a great shouting, and, passing through the market gate, I had turned into the nest of market streets. I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices. 'Come with me to the dave of Red Cages,' said a boy, pulling at my sleeve. They receive a copper tarsk for each patron they bring through the arched portal of the cafe. I gave the boy a copper tarsk, and he sped from me. I made my way carefully through the crowds. The vendors come early to the market, leaving their villages outside of Tor in the morning darkness, that they may find a yard of pavement, preferably near the market gate, to display their wares. I was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums. Not even looking up, a woman had cried out, and, with a stick lashed out, protecting her merchandise. 'Buy mellons!' called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres towad me. A boy passed, spitting out the seeds of a tospit. The thought of Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, passed through my mind. I smiled. Only the rare, long stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds, on the Plains of Turia, or in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, it was available only late in the summer. Here, in Tor, however, with its two growing seasons, they might be available much earlier. Still, if pressed, I would have guessed that the boy's tospit contained an odd number of seeds. Most tospits do. I would not, however, have been likely to wager on the matter with Kamchak of the Tuchuks. I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that people of the Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes and smells. Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tahari districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 45"It is not hard to get used to the mul-fungus, for it has almost no taste, being and extremely bland, pale, whitish, fibrous vegetablelike matter. I know of no one who is moved much in one direction or the other by its taste. Even the Muls, many of whom have been bred in the Nest, do not particularly like it, nor despise it. It is eaten with much the same lack of attention that we normally breathe air. Muls feed four times a day. In the first meal, Mul-Fungus is ground and mixed with water, forming a porridge of sorts; for the second meal it is minced with Mul-Pellets and served as a sort of cold hash; the Mul-Pellets are undoubtedly some type of dietary supplement; at the final meal Mul-Fungus is pressed into a large, flat cake and sprinkled with a few grains of salt.
Misk told me, and I believe him, that Muls had occasional- ly slain one another for a handful of salt.
The Mul-Fungus, as far as I can tell, is not much different from the fungus, raised under ideal conditions from specially selected spores, which graces the feed troughs of the Priest Kings themselves, a tiny sample of which was once given me by Misk. It was perhaps a bit less coarse than Mul-Fungus.
Misk was much annoyed that I could not detect the difference. I was much annoyed when I found out later that the major difference between high-quality fungus and the lower grade Mul-Fungus was simply the smell. I was in the Nest, incidentally, for more than five weeks before I could even vaguely detect the odor difference which seemed so significant to Misk. And then it did not strike me as being better or worse than that of the low-grade Mul-Fungus."
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 109Needle tree - A tree of the Thentis region, whose oil is supposedly used in perfumes
"...and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck plankings."Nuts -
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 141There was a great shouting, and, passing through the market gate, I had turned into the nest of market streets. I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices. 'Come with me to the dave of Red Cages,' said a boy, pulling at my sleeve. They receive a copper tarsk for each patron they bring through the arched portal of the cafe. I gave the boy a copper tarsk, and he sped from me. I made my way carefully through the crowds. The vendors come early to the market, leaving their villages outside of Tor in the morning darkness, that they may find a yard of pavement, preferably near the market gate, to display their wares. I was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums. Not even looking up, a woman had cried out, and, with a stick lashed out, protecting her merchandise. 'Buy mellons!' called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres towad me. A boy passed, spitting out the seeds of a tospit. The thought of Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, passed through my mind. I smiled. Only the rare, long stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds, on the Plains of Turia, or in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, it was available only late in the summer. Here, in Tor, however, with its two growing seasons, they might be available much earlier. Still, if pressed, I would have guessed that the boy's tospit contained an odd number of seeds. Most tospits do. I would not, however, have been likely to wager on the matter with Kamchak of the Tuchuks. I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that people of the Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes and smells. Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tahari districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head."Olives -
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 45The Tarn Keeper...brought 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."Onions -
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 168"Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr and a sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114" 'I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.' "Palm trees - 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 sourse of pure water, as much as one liter of water being found, almost as though cupped, at the base of each leaf's stem.
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 29"I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47Peas -
" 'I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.' "Plums -
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 29"I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, Gorean peas and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 87"There was a great shouting, and, passing through the market gate, I had turned into the nest of market streets. I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices. 'Come with me to the dave of Red Cages,' said a boy, pulling at my sleeve. They receive a copper tarsk for each patron they bring through the arched portal of the cafe. I gave the boy a copper tarsk, and he sped from me. I made my way carefully through the crowds. The vendors come early to the market, leaving their villages outside of Tor in the morning darkness, that they may find a yard of pavement, preferably near the market gate, to display their wares. I was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums. Not even looking up, a woman had cried out, and, with a stick lashed out, protecting her merchandise. 'Buy mellons!' called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres towad me. A boy passed, spitting out the seeds of a tospit. The thought of Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, passed through my mind. I smiled. Only the rare, long stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds, on the Plains of Turia, or in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, it was available only late in the summer. Here, in Tor, however, with its two growing seasons, they might be available much earlier. Still, if pressed, I would have guessed that the boy's tospit contained an odd number of seeds. Most tospits do. I would not, however, have been likely to wager on the matter with Kamchak of the Tuchuks. I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that people of the Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes and smells. Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tahari districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head."Radishes -
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 45A 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, berries, 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."Raisins -
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37" I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine. "Ramberries -
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47"A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike plums save for the many small seeds."Rence - A tufted, reed-like plant that grows in the marshes; used for making paper.
Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 305"I am Kutaituchik watched as he carefully spread open the collar, pressing back two edges. Then, from within the collar he drew forth a thin, folded piece of paper, rence paper made from the fibers of the rence plant, a tall, long-stalked leafy plant which grows predominantly in the delta of the of Vosk. I suppose in itself, this meant nothing, but I naturally thought of Port Kar, malignant, squalid Port Kar, which claims suzerainty over the delta, exacting cruel tributes from the rence growers, great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves in the taverns of the city. I would have expected the message to have been written either on stout, glossy-surfaced linen paper, of the sort milled in Ar, or perhaps on vellum and parchment, prepared in many cities and used commonly in scrolls, the process involving among other things the washing and lining of skins, their scraping and stretching, dusting them with sifted chalk, rubbing them down with pumice. "Rep - A fiber plant similar to cotton.
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 49"The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper...from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further it's pith is edible..."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 7"At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 18"In a moment the woman had returned with a double handful of wet rence paste. When fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 25"In the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence paste."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 28"I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 44"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 of Gor, page 44"Holding half the rence cake in her mouth she unrolled her sleeping mat and then, as she had the night before, she unlaced her tunic and slipped it off over her head. She threw it to the corner of the hut, on her left, near her feet. She sat on the sleeping mat and finished the rence cake. Then she wiped her mouth with her arm, and slapped her hands together, freeing them of crumbs. Then she unbound her hair, shaking it free. Then she reclined on the mat, facing me, resting on her right elbow. Her left knee was raised. She looked at me. 'Serve my pleasure,' she said."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 46"Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas, but particularly below Ar and above the equator; the cheap rep-cloth is woven in mills, commonly, in various cities; it takes dyes well and, being cheap and strong, is popular, particularly among the lower castes."Sa-Tarna - ('life-daughter'): grain, specifically wheat.
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, pages 10-11"Some rep is grown for cloth, but most comes to the oases from caravans."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37"Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter."Shrubs -
Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 43"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. The expression is related to Sa-Thasna, the expression for meat, or food in general, which means Life-Mother. Paga is a corruption of Pagar-Sa-Tarna, which means Pleasure of the Life Daughter. "
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 74 - 75"I was astonished, for this girl was dressed not as a Gorean, not as a girl of any of the cities of the Counter-Earth, not as a peasant of the Sa-Tarna fields or the vineyards where the Ta grapes are raised, not even as a girl of the fierce Wapon Peoples."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 35" '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."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, 56"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."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, pages 63 - 64"The girl who had prepared the bond-maid gruel had now been refettered and placed again in the coffle. The slender blond girl, who had been giving men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bond- maids. She used a bronze ladle, the handle of which was curved like the neck and head of a lovely bird. About the handle was a closed bronze ring, loose. It formed a collar for the bird's neck. The bond-maids did not much care for their gruel, unsweetened, mud-like Sa-Tarna meal, with raw fish. They fed, however. One girl who did not care to feed was struck twice across her back by a knotted rope in the hand of Gorm. Quickly then, and well, she fed. The girls, including the slender blondish girl, emptied their bowls, even to licking them, and rubbing them with their saliva-dampened fingers, that no grain be left, lest Gorm, their keeper in the ship should not be pleased. They looked to one another in fear, and put down their bowls, as they finished, fed bond-wenches."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, pages 64-66" 'I have here,' called Svein Blue Tooth, 'a bucket of Sa-Tarna grain. This, in token of hospitality, I offer to our guest.' The Kur looked into the bucket, at the yellow grain. I saw the claws on the right paw briefly expose themselves, then, swiftly, draw within the softness of the furred, multiple digited appendage."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 212" Besides the trees there were numerous shrubs and plantings, almost all flowered, sometimes fantastically; among the trees and the colored grasses there wound curved, shaded walks. "
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 217 - 218"From where I sat I could see two lovely pools, in which lotuslike plants floated..."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 218"I could see the three moons of Gor reflected in its surface. They were beautiful shining among the green and white blossoms on the water."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 218Sim plant - a rambling, tangled vine-like plant with huge, rolling leaves, raised in the pasture chambers of the Nest.
Sip root - A bitter root whose extract is the active ingredient in slavewine.
"I held the object before her. she regarded it with dismay. "I have already chewed sip root within the moon," she said. "Open your mouth," I said. "Yes, Master," she said. I then thrust the object into her mouth. "Chew it well," I said, "and swallow it, bit by bit." She grimaced, at the barest taste of the object. "Begin," I told her. she began. "Not so quickly," I told her, "More slowly. Very slowly. Very, very slowly. Savor it well." she whimpered in obedience. She did not need the sip root, of course, for, as she had pointed out, she had had some within the moon, and indeed, the effect of sip root, in the raw state, in most women, is three or four moons. 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 what 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. "Suls -
Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 319"First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients, and, as it is said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the field. The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil."Ta Grapes -
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45"The Tarn Keeper...brought 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 of Gor, page 168"The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 219"The sul is a large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed root vegetable. It is very common on thisworld. There are a thousand ways in which it is prepared. It is fed even to slaves. I had hadsome at the house, narrow, cooked slices smeared with butter, sprinkled with salt, fed to me by hand."
Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 80"With a serving prong, she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate."
Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 234"The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards of the terraced island of Cos..."Talender - Delicate, yellow-petaled meadow flower, symbolic of feminine love and beauty; a crown of talendars is often worn by a free woman during the Companionship ceremoney; a single bud, worn in a slavegirl's hair, is sign that she cares for her Master.
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45"I was astonished, for this girl was dressed not as a Gorean, not as a girl of any of the cities of the Counter-Earth, not as a peasant of the Sa-Tarna fields or the vineyards where the Ta grapes are raised, not even as a girl of the fierce Wapon Peoples."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 35"...I saw of set of ridges, lofty and steep, rearing out of a broad, yellow meadow of talendars, a delicate, yellow-petaled flower, often woven into garlands by Gorean maidens. "Telekint - A plant of the Tahari; its roots, mashed & mixed with water, provide a red dye.
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 131"Harold left the walk and stepped carefully to avoid trampling a path of talenders, a delicate yellow flower, often associated in the Gorean mind with love and beauty."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 217 - 218"The talendar is a flower which, in the Gorean mind, is associated with beauty and passion. Free Companions, on the Feast of their Free Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talendars. Sometimes slave girls, having been subdued, but fearing to speak, will fix talendars in their hair, that their master may know that they have at last surrendered themselves to him as helpless love slaves."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, pages 216-217"The talender, fixed in her hair, is a slave girl's wordless confession, which, commonly, she dares not speak, that she cares for her Master."
Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 65Tem - A tree which produces a black wood that is very strong
The lances are black, cut from the poles of young tem trees. They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break."Tospits -
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 15"Tuchuk women, unveiled, in their long leather dresses, long hair bound in braids, tended cooking pots hung on tem-wood tri-pods over dung fires. These women were unscarred, but like the bosk themselves, each wore a nose ring. That of the animals is heavy and of gold, that of the women also of gold but tiny and fine, not unlike the wedding rings of my old world. "
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 27"The wagons of the Wagon Peoples are, in their hundreds and thousands, in their brilliant, variegated colors, a glorious sight. Surprisingly the wagons are almost square, each the size of a large room. Which is drawn by a double team of bosk, four in a team, with each team linked to its wagon tongue, the tongues being joined by "tem-wood crossbars. The two axles of the wagon are also of "tem-wood, which perhaps, because of its flexibility, joined with the general flatness of the southern Gorean plains, permits the width of the wagon.
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 30 - 31there was also, at one side of the garden, against the far wall, a grove of tem-wood, linear, black, supple. Besides the trees there were numerous shrubs and plantings, almost all flowered, sometimes fantastically; among the trees and the colored grasses there wound curved, shaded walks. "
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 217 - 218"...Tem-wood for rudders and oars..."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 141I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are bitter but edible. "Tur-Tur-Pah - A reddish tree having a large trunk.
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 59"He looked at me shrewdly and, to my surprise, drew a tospit out of his pouch, that yellowish-white, bitter fruit, looking something like a peach, but about the size of a plum."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 149" 'Odd or even?' he asked.
I had resolved not to wager with Kamchak, but this was indeed an opportunity to gain a certain amount of vengeance which, on my part, would be sorely appreciated. Usually, in guessing tospit seeds, one guesses the actual number, and usually both guessers opt for an odd number. The common tospit almost invariable has an odd number of seeds. On the other hand the rare, long-stemmed tospit usually has an even number of seeds. Both fruits are indistinguishable outwardly. I could see that, perhaps by accident, the tospit which Kamchak had thrown me had had the stem twisted off. It must be then, I surmised, the rare long stemmed-tospit.
'Even,' I said.
Kamchak looked at me as though pained. 'Tospits almost always have an odd number of seeds,' he said.
'Even,' I said.
'Very well,' said he, 'eat the tospti and see.'
'Why should I eat it?' I asked. The tospit, after all, is quite bitter. And why should't Kamchak eat it? He had suggested the wager.
'I am a Tuchuk,' said Kamchak, 'I might be tempted to swallow seeds.'
'Lets cut it up.' I proposed.
'One might miss a seed that way,' said Kamchak.
'Perhaps we could mash the slices.' I suggested.
'But would that not be a great deal of trouble,:' asked Kamchak, 'and might one not stain the rug?'
'Perhaps we could mash them in a bowl,' I suggested.
'But then a bowl would have to be washed,' said Kamchak.
'That is true.' I admitted.
'All things considered,' said Kamchak, 'I think the fruit should be eaten.'
'I guess you are right,' I said.
I bit into the fruit philosophically. It was indeed bitter. 'Besides,' said Kamchak, 'I do not much care for tospits,'
'I am not surprised,' I said.
'They are quite bitter,' said Kamchak.
'Yes,' I said.
I finished the fruit and, of course, it had seven seeds.
'Most tospit,' Kamchak informed me, 'have an odd number of seeds.'
'I know,' I said.
'Then why did you guess even?' he asked.
'I supposed,' I grumbled, 'that you would have found a long-stemmed tospit.'
'But they are not available,' he said, 'until late in the summer.'
'Oh,' I said. "
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 149 - 150"She had been carrying tospits and vegetables to the deck locker, to fill it."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 289"Larma and tospit are also grown at the oases, in small orchards."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37"First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients, and, as it is said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the field. The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil."
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45"there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes, such as sullage, a kind of soup; long ago, I had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name;"
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 217 - 218"A tree, said to be the inspiration for the name of the city of Turia. Provides wood for ship building and the host of the parasite, Tur-Pah, one of the ingredients of sullage.
"Tur wood is used for galleys and frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking..."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 141"The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 219Verminium - A bluish wildflower commonly found on the lower ranges of the Thentis mountains; used in perfumes.
Verminium, desert - Small, purplish flower found in the Tahari; used in perfumes.
Violet grass - patches of stalky grass, one of several hues used in pleasure gardens of Turia.
