Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
27
116
I strained my eyes to see if I could pick out either Sarm or Misk in those golden rows.
27
117
I had watched for perhaps an hour and then it seemed that the ceremony might be over, for some minutes passed and no further priest-King approached the Mother.
27
118
Then almost at the same time I saw Sarm and Misk together.
27
119
The rows of the priest-kings separated forming an aisle down the middle of the chamber and the priest-kings now stood facing this aisle, and down the aisle together came Sarm and Misk.
27
120
I gathered that perhaps this was the culmination of the Feast of Tola, the giving of Gur by the greatest of the priest-kings, the First Five Born, save that of that number there were only two left, the First Born and the Fifth, Sarm and Misk.
27
121
As it turned out later I was correct in this surmise and the moment of the ceremony is known as the March of the First Five Born, in which these five march abreast to the Mother and give her Gur in inverse order of their priority.
27
122
Misk of course lacked the wreath of green leaves and the chain of tools about his neck.
I strained my eyes to see if I could pick out either Sarm or Misk in those golden rows.
I had watched for perhaps an hour and then it seemed that the ceremony might be over, for some minutes passed and no further priest-King approached the Mother.
Then almost at the same time I saw Sarm and Misk together.
The rows of the priest-kings separated forming an aisle down the middle of the chamber and the priest-kings now stood facing this aisle, and down the aisle together came Sarm and Misk.
I gathered that perhaps this was the culmination of the Feast of Tola, the giving of Gur by the greatest of the priest-kings, the First Five Born, save that of that number there were only two left, the First Born and the Fifth, Sarm and Misk.
As it turned out later I was correct in this surmise and the moment of the ceremony is known as the March of the First Five Born, in which these five march abreast to the Mother and give her Gur in inverse order of their priority.
Misk of course lacked the wreath of green leaves and the chain of tools about his neck.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )