Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 146 | The haruspexes had not View more quotes about rushed">rushed forward to the altars. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 143 | The animals sacrificed, incidentally, are later used for food, so the Omen Taking, far from being a waste of animals, is actually a time of feasting and plenty for the Wagon Peoples, who regard the Omen Taking, provided it results that no Ubar San is to be chosen, as an occasion for gaiety and festival. |
| 13 | 144 | As I may have mentioned, no Ubar San had been chosen for more than a hundred years. |
| 13 | 145 | As yet the Omen Taking had not begun. |
| 13 | 146 | The haruspexes had not rushed forward to the altars. |
| 13 | 147 | On the other hand on each altar there burned a small bosk-dung fire into which, like a tiny piece of kindling, had been placed an incense stick. |
| 13 | 148 | Kamchak and I dismounted and, from outside the circle, watched the four chief haruspexes of the Wagon Peoples approach the huge altar in the center of the field. |
| 13 | 149 | 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. |
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The animals sacrificed, incidentally, are later used for food, so the Omen Taking, far from being a waste of animals, is actually a time of feasting and plenty for the Wagon Peoples, who regard the Omen Taking, provided it results that no Ubar San is to be chosen, as an occasion for gaiety and festival.
As I may have mentioned, no Ubar San had been chosen for more than a hundred years.
As yet the Omen Taking had not begun.
The haruspexes had not rushed forward to the altars.
On the other hand on each altar there burned a small bosk-dung fire into which, like a tiny piece of kindling, had been placed an incense stick.
Kamchak and I dismounted and, from outside the circle, watched the four chief haruspexes of the Wagon Peoples approach the huge altar in the center of the field.
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.
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