"I have five brands," said the metal worker, "the common Kajira brand, the Dina, the Palm, the mark of Treve, the mark of Port Kar." "We have a common girl to brand," said Ulafi. "Let it be the common Kajira brand."
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The Kef
"I had now been branded, a small graceful mark burned into my left thigh, high, under the hip. It had a vertical bar, a rather strict one, with two curling, frondlike extensions, rather near its base, as though in submission to it. It looked a little like a "K"
That was mine, There were variations on this theme. Some of the other girls had similar brands, but, in one respect or another somewhat different. There were other sorts of brands, too, but the "K-type" brand was the most common.
"If you knew me not of the metal workers," I asked, "why did you permit me to mark the blond haired slave?" "I wished to see what you would do," he said. "You risked a badly marked thigh on the girl," I said. "The mark was perfect," said Ulafi. "Thus you see," said I, "that I am truly of the metal workers." "No," said Ulafi. "I knew you were nnot of the metal workers. Thus I saw that you were truly of the warriors." "Should I have blurred the brand?" I asked. "That would have been a shame," said he, smiling. "True," I grinned. All men like a well-marked girl.
The Dina
"....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...."
"As it became more popular, it was becoming, simultaeneously, of course, a fairly common brand.
Girls branded as I was were already spoken of on Gor, rather disparingly as "dinas".
The Brand of the Four Bosk Horns
"....the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally.....is the sign of the four bosk horns
that of the Tuchuk standard; the brand of the four bosk horns, set in such a manner as to
somewhat resemble the letter "H", is only about an inch high....the brand of the four bosk horns
, of course, is also used to mark the bosk of the Tuchuks, but there, of course, it is much larger
The Mark of Treve
"Incised deeply, precisely, in that slim, lovely, now-bared thigh was a startling mark, beautiful, insolent,
dramatically marking that beautiful thigh as that which it now could only be, that of a female slave"
"It is beautiful," I whispered. ..."It is the first letter, in cursive script, " she said, " of the name of the city of Treve."
The Brand of Torvaldsland
The brand used by Forkbearrd is not uncommon in the north, though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters than in the south.... 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 width, and the diagonal line 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 woman whose belly lies beneath the sword.
The Taharic Slave Mark
"The contact surface of the iron would be formed into the Taharic character 'Kef' ...Taharic is a very graceful script. It makes no distinctions between capital and small letters and little distinction between printed and cursive script.....The initial
printed letter of 'Kajira', rather than the cursive letter, as generally, is used as the
common brand for women in the Tahari. Both the cursive letter in common Gorean and the printed letter
in Taharic are rather lovely, both being somewhat floral in appearance.
Penalty Brands
"Sometimes, too," she said,"a girl may be branded as a 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."
Kurii and Priest King Brands
"Incidentally, there are many brands on Gor. Two that almost never occur on Gor, by the way, are those of the moons and collar, and of the chain and claw. The first of these commonly occurs in certain of the Gorean enclaves on Earth, which serve as headquarters for agents of the Priest-Kings; the second tends to occur in the lairs of Kurii agents on Earth; the first brand consists of a locked collar and, ascending diagonally above it, extending to the right, three quarter moons; this brand indicates the girl is subject to Gorean discipline; the chain-and-claw brand signifies, of course, slavery and subjection with the compass of the Kur yoke."
Knife Brand
On an iron table, to the right of the rack, there was a flat box. 'Lie on your right side, exposing your left thigh, ' he said. 'Yes Master,' I said. From the box he then took a small curved knife and a tiny cylindrical leather flask. I gritted my teeth, but made no sound. With the small knife he gashed my left thigh, making upon it a small, strange design. He then took a powder, orange in color, from the flask and rubbed it into the wound.
p66 Dancer of Gor
p85 Explorers of Gor
p61 Slave Girl of Gor
p 63 Slave Girl of Gor.
p62 Nomads of Gor
p277 Captive of Gor
p 105 Marauders of Gor
p148 Tribesmen of Gor
p277 Captive of Gor
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