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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)

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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".
18 172 "A teaching of Initiates," said Flaminius bitterly.
18 173 "There is nothing holy about disease, about pain, about death".
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. "There is nothing holy about disease, about pain, about death". - (Assassin of Gor, Chapter )