Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 277 | "That hated name is no longer spoken. |
| 1 | 278 | It is to be heard no more". |
| 1 | 279 | 'Talena', it might be noted, was at one time a common name on Gor, much as dozens of other names. |
| 1 | 280 | To be sure, it was a high-caste name, rare amongst the lower castes. |
| 1 | 281 | But even so, it was not unknown in the lower castes, and I have encountered it even amongst the Peasants, the fundamental caste, the "Ox on which the Home Stone rests". |
| 1 | 282 | It was rare as a slave name until after the fall of Ar, and the rise of Talena of Ar to the throne of Ar, placed on the throne as a puppet Ubara by the occupying forces of victorious Cos and Tyros, the major maritime Ubarates of Gor, abetted by numerous mercenary companies. |
| 1 | 283 | It was only after that time that some masters outside of Ar, in various far cities, and even as faraway as Cos and Tyros, in their contempt for the new Ubara, regarded as having betrayed her Home Stone, might place that now-contemptible name upon some slaves, usually deficient or temporarily lacking slaves, as a punishment name. |
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"That hated name is no longer spoken.
It is to be heard no more".
'Talena', it might be noted, was at one time a common name on Gor, much as dozens of other names.
To be sure, it was a high-caste name, rare amongst the lower castes.
But even so, it was not unknown in the lower castes, and I have encountered it even amongst the Peasants, the fundamental caste, the "Ox on which the Home Stone rests".
It was rare as a slave name until after the fall of Ar, and the rise of Talena of Ar to the throne of Ar, placed on the throne as a puppet Ubara by the occupying forces of victorious Cos and Tyros, the major maritime Ubarates of Gor, abetted by numerous mercenary companies.
It was only after that time that some masters outside of Ar, in various far cities, and even as faraway as Cos and Tyros, in their contempt for the new Ubara, regarded as having betrayed her Home Stone, might place that now-contemptible name upon some slaves, usually deficient or temporarily lacking slaves, as a punishment name.
- (Mariners of Gor, Chapter )