Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
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101
He would then back away and return to his place where he would stand as immobile as before.
27
102
He had given Gur to the Mother.
27
103
I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vinelike plants with huge, rolling leaves raised under square energy lamps fixed in the ceilings of the broad pasture chambers, and at night are returned to their stable cells where they are milked by Muls.
27
104
The special Gur used on the Feast of Tola is, in the ancient fashion, kept for weeks in the social stomachs of specially chosen priest-kings to mellow and reach the exact flavor and consistency desired, which priest-kings are then spoken of as retaining Gur.
27
105
I watched as one priest-King and then another approached the Mother and repeated the Gur Ceremony.
27
106
I was perhaps the first human who had ever beheld this ceremony.
27
107
Considering the number of priest-kings and the time it took for each to give Gur to the Mother, I conjectured that the ceremony must have begun hours ago.
He would then back away and return to his place where he would stand as immobile as before.
He had given Gur to the Mother.
I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vinelike plants with huge, rolling leaves raised under square energy lamps fixed in the ceilings of the broad pasture chambers, and at night are returned to their stable cells where they are milked by Muls.
The special Gur used on the Feast of Tola is, in the ancient fashion, kept for weeks in the social stomachs of specially chosen priest-kings to mellow and reach the exact flavor and consistency desired, which priest-kings are then spoken of as retaining Gur.
I watched as one priest-King and then another approached the Mother and repeated the Gur Ceremony.
I was perhaps the first human who had ever beheld this ceremony.
Considering the number of priest-kings and the time it took for each to give Gur to the Mother, I conjectured that the ceremony must have begun hours ago.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )