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| 1 | 334 | Most Sa-View more quotes about tarna">Tarna is now ground in mills, between stones, the top stone usually turned by water power, but sometimes by a tharlarion, or slaves. |
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| 1 | 331 | "It seems the Priest-Kings are grinding flour," laughed a man near me. |
| 1 | 332 | "It would seem so," I said. |
| 1 | 333 | This was a reference to an old form of grinding, for some reason still attributed to Priest-Kings, in which a pestle, striking down, is used with a mortar. |
| 1 | 334 | Most Sa-Tarna is now ground in mills, between stones, the top stone usually turned by water power, but sometimes by a tharlarion, or slaves. |
| 1 | 335 | In some villages, however, something approximating the old mortar and pestle is sometimes used, the two blocks, a pounding block strung to a springy, bent pole, and the mortar block, or anvil block. |
| 1 | 336 | The pole has one or more ropes attached to it, near its end. |
| 1 | 337 | When these are drawn downward the pounding block descends into the mortar block, and the springiness of the pole, of course, straightening, then raises it for another blow. |