Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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166
The result was the Stabilization Serums".
18
167
dar-kosis, or the Holy Disease, or Sacred Affliction, is a virulent, wasting disease of Gor.
18
168
Those afflicted with it, commonly spoken of simply as the Afflicted Ones, may not enter into normal society.
18
169
They wander the countryside in shroudlike yellow rags, beating a wooden clapping device to warn men from their path; some of them volunteer to be placed in dar-kosis pits, several of which lay within the vicinity of Ar, where they are fed and given drink, and are, of course, isolated; the disease is extremely contagious.
18
170
Those who contract the disease are regarded by law as dead.
18
171
"dar-kosis," I said, "is thought to be holy to the Priest-Kings, and those afflicted with it to be consecrated to Priest-Kings".
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172
"A teaching of Initiates," said Flaminius bitterly.
The result was the Stabilization Serums".
dar-kosis, or the Holy Disease, or Sacred Affliction, is a virulent, wasting disease of Gor.
Those afflicted with it, commonly spoken of simply as the Afflicted Ones, may not enter into normal society.
They wander the countryside in shroudlike yellow rags, beating a wooden clapping device to warn men from their path; some of them volunteer to be placed in dar-kosis pits, several of which lay within the vicinity of Ar, where they are fed and given drink, and are, of course, isolated; the disease is extremely contagious.
Those who contract the disease are regarded by law as dead.
"dar-kosis," I said, "is thought to be holy to the Priest-Kings, and those afflicted with it to be consecrated to Priest-Kings".
"A teaching of Initiates," said Flaminius bitterly.
- (Assassin of Gor, Chapter )