No. The word "dog" appears in commentary for clarificaton of such things as varts being about the size of a small dog.
Horses
No
Minature domestic sleen
Yes.
This is not an ideal hour, too, as you are probably aware, for the
practice of activities such as slaving, raping, capturing and such. It is just
too miserably early. Don’t you really think so? What self-respecting rapist or
slaver would be abroad at this hour? What would he expect to find? A miniature
domestic sleen among the garbage cans? - Mercenaries
Clothing & Appearance
Piercings
Yes. Female slaves sometimes had their ears pierced. Some men, slavers in
particular, had pierced ears. The Tuchucks pierced the noses of all their women, free
and slave. No other body parts are pierced in the books.
Sunglasses
No
Tattoos
There are tribal tattoos used by groups in the jungles near Schendi
His face, like that of many in the interior, was tattooed. His tattooing,
and that of Kisu, were quite similar. One can recognize tribes, of course,
and, often, villages and districts by those tattoo patterns. - Explorers
General Items
Acid
Yes.
"Long ago," said she, "Ho-Tu was mutilated, and forced to drink acid."
"I did not know," I said.
"He was once a slave," said Sura, "but he won his freedom at hook knife. He
was devoted to the father of Cernus. When the father of Cernus was poisoned
and Cernus, then the lesser, placed upon his neck the medallion of the
House, Ho-Tu protested. For that he was mutilated, and forced to drink
acid. He has remained in the house these many years."
Assassins
Menicius of Port Kar would, of course, ride in the Ubar's Race for the
Yellows. His mount was the finest in their tarncots, Quarrel, named for the
missile of the crossbow, a strong bird, very fast, reddish in color, with a
discoloration on the right wing where, as talk had it, protagonists of the
Silvers, long ago, had hurled a bottle of acid.
Assassins
Birthday
Yes.
On her nineteenth birthday, members of the Caste of Initiates had appeared
at the door of the leather worker’s hut.
It had been decided that she should now undertake the journey to the Sardar,
which, according to the teachings of the Caste of Initiates, is enjoined on
every Gorean by the Priest-Kings, an obligation which is to be fulfilled
prior to their attaining their twenty-fifth year.
... If she did not
undertake the journey then, she would be simply, prior to her twenty-fifth
birthday, removed from the domain of their authority, placed alone outside
their jurisdiction, beyond the protection of their soldiers.
Captive
Bleach
Yes.
Tahari salt accounts, in its varieties, I would suspect, for some twenty
percent of the salt and salt-related products, such as medicines and
antiseptics, preservatives, cleansers, bleaches, bottle glass, which
contains soda ash, taken from salt, and tanning chemicals, used on known
Gor. Salt is a trading commodity par excellence.
Tribesmen
Doubtless many times she would have held herself a thousand times superior
to the poor peasant women, coming in from the villages, in their bleached
woolen robes, bringing their sacks and baskets of grain and produce to the
city’s markets.
Mercenaries
Brooms
Yes.
The prisoners are then usually marched in a long line, two abreast, between
the uprights. They cannot pass under the horizontal spear, a weapon of their
enemy, without lowering their heads and bending their backs. Some warriors
choose to die rather than do this. A similar yoke is sometimes used for the
captive women of a city, but it is set much lower, usually such that they
must pass under it on their belly. After all, they are not men; they are
women. Too, it is usually formed not of spears but of brooms, brought from
the conquering city, and the horizontal bar is hung with dangling slave
beads.
Mercenaries
Clocks
There are water clocks, sand clocks and oil clocks to tell time. Goreans also
use sun dials and marked candles as well as chronometers.
"It is now the fourteenth Ahn," he said, casting a meaningful glance at the
water clock on the counter to his right. - Fighting Slave
"What is the hour?" asked Hassan.
One of the inn boys, sitting in an apron, on a bench near the large,
cylindrical sand clock, glanced at it. "Past the nineteenth hour," he said. He
yawned. He would stay up until the twentieth hour, the Gorean midnight, at
which time he would turn the clock, and retire. - Tribesmen
In many cities, of course, including Ar, time tends to be kept publicly.
Official clocks are adjusted, of course, according to the announcements of
scribes, in virtue of various astronomical measurements, having to do with the
movements of the sun and stars. The calendar, and adjustments in it, are also
the results of their researches, promulgated by civil authorities. The average
Gorean has a variety of simple devices at his disposal for marking the passage
of time. Typical among them are marked, or calibrated, candles, sun dials,
sand glasses, clepsydras (water clocks) and oil clocks. - Magicians
Compass
Yes.
I was more pleased on the second day and made camp in a grassy veldt,
dotted with the Ka-la-na trees. The night before, I had ridden over fields of
grain, silvery yellow beneath me in the light of the three moons. I kept my
course by the luminescent dial of my Gor compass, the needle of which pointed
always to the Sardar Mountain Range, home of the Priest-Kings.
Tarnsman
Garbage Cans
Yes.
I slipped behind the girl and suddenly seized her, holding my hand
tightly over her mouth. the trash she carried spilled. ...
I threw her down, behind the row of trash containers behind the house
of Oneander in Ar. ...
She lay back on the cement. Her left hand touched the garbage cans to her left.
Rogue
Irons - to iron clothes
Yes. Round flat irons warmed over fires.
Lighters
Yes, a kind of lighter called a fire-maker. (As you see here they do not, however, have matches)
I then felt about for the lamp. I located it almost immediately, and swirled it a bit. There
was a tiny bit of oil left in it. I relit the lamp with the lighter, or as the
Goreans say, "fire-maker," from my pouch. It is a standard flint-and-wheel
device, with its tiny wick and reservoir. Goreans do not smoke, of course,
but, as they commonly use natural flame for cooking and light, they find such
a device, and others like it, utilizing springs and pyrites, with cartridges of
oil-saturated tinder moss, and such, of great utility. The common sulfur
match, on the other hand, so common on Earth, I have never met with on Gor.
The chemistry involved in such a device, interestingly enough, is forbidden on
Gor. It is regarded as constituting a violation of the Weapons Laws imposed on
Goreans by Priest-Kings. This is not as farfetched as it might sound at first.
Sulfur, for example, is one of the primary ingredients in the composition of
gunpowder.
Mercenaries
"I shall light the lantern," said Samos. He crouched down and extracted a
tiny fire-maker from his pouch, a small device containing a tiny reservoir of
tharlarion oil, with a tharlarion-oil-impregnated wick, to be ignited by a
spark, this generated from the contact of a small, ratcheted steel wheel,
spun by a looped thumb handle, with a flint splinter.
Savages
Mops
It seems so.
In their right hands, grasped, were deck stones, soft, white stones,
rounded, which are used to smooth and sand the boards of the deck. Earlier
they had scrubbed and rinsed and, with rags, on their hands and knees, dried
the deck. Later, when finished with the deck stones, they would again rinse
and again, on their hands and knees, with rags dry the deck. Had sailors been
doing these things they, of course, would have dried the deck by simply
mopping it down. This was not permitted to the girls, of course. They were
slaves.
Explorers
Scissors
Yes.
He gave intructions to Eta, in respect to me. Then He, with his fellows,
left the camp. Eta and I were alone. She went and brought pin, tiny scissors,
a needle and thread. The alteration of my slave rag was apparantly the first
order of the day's business.
Slave Girl
"Look," he cried in actual despair, waving his blue-robed arms hopelessly
at the messiest chamber I had seen on Gor. His desk, a vast wooden table, was
piled wiwth papers and posts of ink, and pens and scissors and leather
fasteners and binders.
Tarnsman
Sponges
Yes.
Bares, with a sponge, dipped in a bucket, squeezed water over my head.
"You are doing splendidly," Kenneth assured me.
I could not even answer him.
Bares sponged sand and blood from my body. - Fighting Slave
Latrines, (Going to the bathroom), Sewage Systems etc.
If I should meet him I knew he would
thrust himself upon me and insist upon being taken into the
Sardar, though he would know it would mean his death, and I
would have to bundle him in his blue robes, hurl him into a
rain barrel and make my escape. Perhaps it would be safer to
drop him into a well. Torm had stumbled into more than one
well in his life and no one who knew him would think it
strange to find him sputtering about at the bottom of one.
- Priest Kings
Foods
Bazi Tea - ceremony
No. Bazi tea exists in the books. It is served usually in three tiny cups, but
no ceremony exists in the books.
She looked up. "You, yourself," she said, "have made me make your tea."
"Is it ready?" I asked. I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand.
A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy, curved glass was
nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea
is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured. She did
not make herself tea, of course. - Tribesmen
He entered the tent, bending down.
"Tea is ready." I said to him.
He went to the back of the tent and, with a knife, freed Alyena of her
restraints. She looked up at him, terrified. But he was not irritated with her.
It is nothing for a man to overpower a female.
"Serve us tea," he said.
Trembling she measured him a tiny glass of tea. His men stood outside, wary.
"The tea is excellent," I said.
- Tribesmen
Cho
No
Redfruit
No
Activities
Banking
Yes. Likely a subcaste of Merchants, there were Bankers who issued notes, loans,
bank drafts, etc. Banking
on Gor
Cigarettes, smoking
Yes cigarettes are written of in the books, but not as part of gorean
life... Tobacco on Gor
Lap, slaves on FM laps
Yes - the command to nestle instructs a slave to place herself in the crook
of the mans arm, and there are examples of slaves on various male laps in the
books.
Lap, slaves on FW laps
No
Serving, "sweetening"
No
Serving, kissing rim
No. Slaves were instructed to kiss the side of the vessel when serving a
man.
Serving kalana in silver vessels is poisonous
No
Shaving
Yes
She knelt beside the platform.
Beside her, on the floor, rested a laver of polished bronze filled with water,
a towel and a straight-bladed Gorean shaving knife.
Priest Kings
Language
HAI
No. "Hail" is used a few times though as a greeting to those recognized as experts.
“Greetings, Teibar!” called a fellow.
“Hail, Teibar!” called another.
From the latter manner of greeting, I gathered this Teibar might be excellent
with the staff, or sword. Such greetings are usually reserved for recognized
experts, or champions, at one thing or another. For example, a skilled Kaissa
player is sometimes greeted in such a manner. I studied Teibar. I would have
suspected his expertise to be with the sword. - Magicians
Additionally, we find "Hail" cried out in glory to a city.
"Hail Port Kar!" I cried to the crowds.
"Hail Port Kar!" they cried. "And hail Bos, Admiral of Port Kar!"
"Hail Bosk!" cried my retainers. "Hail Bosk, Admiral of Port Kar!"- Raiders
Jashi
No
Kolar or Ko-lar
Yes, once, as an example of pronunciation. The hundreds of other times in the books,
it is "collar".
Rask
Yes. It was the name of a man from Treve. Rask of Treve. That's all.
No. "I wish you well" was the most common gorean farewell.
Medical & Healing
Agrimony
No
Kanda cream or leaves chewed as pain relief during healing.
No. Kanda is not used in any medical capacity in the books -
Physicians of Gor
Quoted Gorean Medical References
Willow Bark
No
Nautical
Buoys
Yes.
“Oars inboard!” called the second officer.
The helmsman guided the ship to the right of the line of white and red buoys.-
Explorers
Starboard
Yes! Although several gorean reference sites state that "starboard" is not
used, we find it 16 times in Raiders alone, and 6 times in Explorers.
I heard the voice of the Captain, Tenrik, crying to his helmsmen, "Hard to
starboard!"
The big ship began to swing to starboard.
But then another cry, wild, drifted down from the basket on the main
mast, "Two more ships! Off the starboard bow!"
"Helm ahead!" cried Tenrik. "Full sail! Maximun beat!" - Raiders
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