Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 152 | "This is the View more quotes about first">first Omen," said Kamchak, "—the Omen to see if the Omens are propitious to take the Omens". |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 13 | 155 | Even from where I stood I could see the pigeons pecking at the grain in reassuring frenzy. |
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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.
Even from where I stood I could see the pigeons pecking at the grain in reassuring frenzy.
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