Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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256
Besides, if one had not seen such things, who would believe stories as to their existence? They would be regarded as mythical or as existing only in stories of wondrous animals, such as the horse, the dog and griffin".
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257
I smiled.
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258
Horses and dogs did not exist on gor.
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259
goreans, on the whole, knew them only from legends, which, I had little doubt, owed their origins to forgotten times, to memories brought long ago to gor from another world.
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260
Such stories, for they were very old on gor, probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most goreans only as the Priest-Kings.
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261
To be sure, few Priest-Kings, now, entertained such a curiosity nor such an enthusiastic penchant for exploration and adventure.
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262
Now, the Priest-Kings, I feared, had become old.
Besides, if one had not seen such things, who would believe stories as to their existence? They would be regarded as mythical or as existing only in stories of wondrous animals, such as the horse, the dog and griffin".
I smiled.
Horses and dogs did not exist on gor.
goreans, on the whole, knew them only from legends, which, I had little doubt, owed their origins to forgotten times, to memories brought long ago to gor from another world.
Such stories, for they were very old on gor, probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most goreans only as the Priest-Kings.
To be sure, few Priest-Kings, now, entertained such a curiosity nor such an enthusiastic penchant for exploration and adventure.
Now, the Priest-Kings, I feared, had become old.
- (Savages of Gor, Chapter )