Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 231 | A View more quotes about similar">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. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 228 | The prisoners are then usually marched in a long line, two abreast, between the uprights. |
| 15 | 229 | They cannot pass under the horizontal spear, a weapon of their enemy, without lowering their heads and bending their backs. |
| 15 | 230 | Some warriors choose to die rather than do this. |
| 15 | 231 | 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. |
| 15 | 232 | After all, they are not men; they are women. |
| 15 | 233 | 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. |
| 15 | 234 | In this, although the original meanings are perhaps lost in antiquity, most commentators see symbolized the servility and sensuousness which, as they are to be slaves, is henceforth, upon pain of death, to be required of them. |
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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.
In this, although the original meanings are perhaps lost in antiquity, most commentators see symbolized the servility and sensuousness which, as they are to be slaves, is henceforth, upon pain of death, to be required of them.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)