Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 151 | I then View more quotes about noted">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. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 13 | 150 | This cage they placed on the altar. |
| 13 | 151 | 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. |
| 13 | 152 | "This is the first Omen," said Kamchak, "—the Omen to see if the Omens are propitious to take the Omens". |
| 13 | 153 | "Oh," I said. |
| 13 | 154 | Each of the four haruspexes then, after intoning an involved entreaty of some sort to the sky, which at the time was shining beneficently, suddenly cast a handful of something—doubtless grain—to the pigeons in the stick cage. |
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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.
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 beneficently, suddenly cast a handful of something—doubtless grain—to the pigeons in the stick cage.
- (Nomads of Gor)