Described as pigeons, domesticated they are raised for eggs and meat She was peasant, barefoot, her garment little more than
coarse sacking. She had been carrying a wicker basket con-
taining vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat.
Her man, carrying a mattock, was not far behind. Over his
left shoulder hung a bulging sack filled with what must have
been the paraphernalia of his hut.
Nomads
These vulos are described as being white
Seen here eating grain, pecking in a frenzy Behind
them another four haruspexes, one from each People, carried
a large wooden cage, made of sticks lashed together, which
contained perhaps a dozen white vulos, domesticated pigeons.
This cage they placed on the altar. I then noted that each of
the four chief haruspexes carried, about his shoulder, a white
linen sack, somewhat like a peasant's rep-cloth seed bag.
"This is the first Omen," said Kamchak, "The Omen to
see if the Omens are propitious to take the Omens."
"Oh," I said.
Each of the four haruspexes then, after intoning an involved
entreaty of some sort to the sky, which at the time
was shining beneficiently, suddenly cast a handful of something
doubtless grain to the pigeons in the stick cage.
Even from where I stood I could see the pigeons pecking
at the grain in reassuring frenzy.
Nomads
Wild vulo
Flying together, here in a "flock" of five
Described as tawny and broad winged Yesterday we had finished the food. Yet did we have water. Hassan saw
five birds overhead in flight.
"Fall to your hands and knees," he said. "Put your bead down." He did so,
and I followed his example. To my surprise the five birds began to circle.
I looked up. They were wild vulos, tawny and broad-winged. In a short time
they alighted, several yards from us. They watched us, their heads turned to
one side. Hassan began to kiss rhythmically at the back of his band, his
head down, but moving so as to see the birds. The sound he made was not
unlike that of an animal lapping water.
There was a squawk as he seized one of the birds which, curious, ventured
too near. The other vulos took flight. Hassan broke the bird’s neck
between his fingers and began to pull out the feathers.
We fed on meat.
Tribesmen
Vulo coops, cages & baskets
Peasants raise vulo in slatted coops I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of
peasants, the smoking shells of Sa-Tarna granaries, the shat-
tered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for
the small, longhaired domestic verr, less belligerent and
sizeable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges.
Nomads
Live vulo carried by peasant in a wicker basket She had been carrying a wicker basket con-
taining vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat.
Nomads
Carried live in a basket They were an unkempt, dirty, grim lot. About the beasts’ necks,
and behind the saddles, hung panniers of grain and sacks of woven netting
containing dried larmas and brown suls. Across the saddle of one were tied
the hind feet, crossed, of two verr, their throats cut, the blood now
brown on the sides of the tharlarion. Another fellow had a basket of vulos,
tied shut. Another had stings of sausage hung about his neck and shoulders.
Mercenaries
Vulo to be used for omens are seen in a large wooden cage Behind
them another four haruspexes, one from each People, carried
a large wooden cage, made of sticks lashed together, which
contained perhaps a dozen white vulos, domesticated pigeons.
Nomads
There were a large number of tethered animals about the
outer edge of the circle, and, beside them, stood many
haruspexes. Indeed, I supposed there must be one haruspex
at least for each of the many altars in the field. Among the
animals I saw many verrs; some domestic tarsks, their tusks
sheathed; cages of flapping vulos, some sleen, some kaiila,
even some bosk; by the Paravaci haruspexes I saw manacled
male slaves, if such were to be permitted;
Nomads
Carried to market, live, feet tied together and hanging upside down A fellow walked past me, carrying several vulos, alive, heads down,
their feet tied together. He was followed by another fellow, carrying a
basket of eggs.
I followed them, as they would be going to the market streets, near
which was the bazaar.
Tribesmen
Vulo cooked and served on Gor
In Turia, known for its taste for the exotic, spiced brain of the vulo "It is the spiced brain of the Turian vulo," Saphrar was
explaining.
Nomads
Vulo wing "Well," said Samos, chewing on a vulo wing, "I am glad there are
still some women slave in Port Kar."
Raiders
Fried leg of vulo In the stern quarter, behind the open kitchen, the girls were chained
by the neck to the deck, to iron rings set in the heavy sanded wood. Each
was given a yard of chain.
I smelled roast bosk cooking and fried vulo. It would be delicious. I
thought no more of the girls.
I must attend to matters of the ship.
I held the leg of fried vulo toward one of the girls.
Hunters
Leg of roast vulo "Imnak!" I cried.
He, like Karjuk, was clad in boots and trousers. He, too, was stripped to
the waist. He, too, wore a headbafld, tying back his blue-black hair.
Several heavy gold necklaces were looped about his throat. He was chewing
on a leg of roast vulo.
Beasts
Five eggs - perhaps a normal serving "So," she said, "I have not had anything to eat since yesterday morning
and if I am not at the trough in the quarters for female staff slaves by the
small bar after the eighth bar I will miss breakfast. I cannot simply go
down to the kitchen like you and demand five vulo eggs!"
Assassin
Scrambled eggs "The arrogance of Kurii may yet prove their undoing," said Samos.
He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On It were hot bread, yellow
and fresh, hot black wine, steaming, with its sugars, slices of roast bosk,
the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards.
Beasts
Fried eggs The men were late to arise, and Eta sent me to the stream, with tunics,
to wash upon the rocks. I was once startled by the movements of a small
amphibian near me. It splashed into the water. The water was clear. I worked
swiftly. The air was fresh and beautiful. Soon I smelled the frying of vulo
eggs in a large, flat pan, and the unmistakable odor of coffee, or as the
Goreans express it, black wine.
Slave Girl
White meat of roast vulo, in a sauce of spiced sa-tarna & Ta wine
"It is a small dish," said the Lady Florence, "the white meat of roast
vulos, prepared in a sauce of spiced Sa-Tarna and Ta wine."
Fighting Slave
Spiced vulo "There are none in the palace," said Ligurious. "Did Lady 'Sheila
enjoy her spiced vulo this evening?"
Kajira
Cooked vulo and rice I went to the side and removed a bowl from its padded, insulating wrap.
Its contents were still warm. It was a mash of cooked vulo and rice. Earlier
I had taken Yanina to the kitchen. There, under my supervision, on her
chain, kneeling, she had cooked it. It was perhaps the first thing she had
ever cooked.
Players
Vulo livers as bait
Fishing with livers on a hook & line to catch white bellied grunt
SEE ALSO Fishing on Gor Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net,
sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third,
near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the
white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to
feed on parsit fish.
Marauders
Vulo on Gor
