Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 4 | 81 | For themselves, particularly among the Lower castes, they often have a real name and what is called a use-name. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 4 | 78 | In your veins must flow the blood of your father, once Ubar, War Chieftain, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, this City of Cylinders". |
| 4 | 79 | I was surprised, for this was the first time I had known that my father had been War Chieftain of the city, or that he was even now its supreme civil official, or, for that matter, that the city was named Ko-ro-ba, a now archaic expression for a village market. |
| 4 | 80 | The Goreans have a habit of not revealing names easily. |
| 4 | 81 | For themselves, particularly among the Lower castes, they often have a real name and what is called a use-name. |
| 4 | 82 | Often only the closest relatives know the real name. |
| 4 | 83 | On the level of the First Knowledge, it is maintained that knowing the real name gives one a power over a person, a capacity to use that name in spells and insidious magical practices. |
| 4 | 84 | Perhaps something of the same sort lingers even on our native Earth, where the first name of a person is reserved for use by those who know him intimately and presumably wish him no harm. |
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In your veins must flow the blood of your father, once Ubar, War Chieftain, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, this City of Cylinders".
I was surprised, for this was the first time I had known that my father had been War Chieftain of the city, or that he was even now its supreme civil official, or, for that matter, that the city was named Ko-ro-ba, a now archaic expression for a village market.
The Goreans have a habit of not revealing names easily.
For themselves, particularly among the Lower castes, they often have a real name and what is called a use-name.
Often only the closest relatives know the real name.
On the level of the First Knowledge, it is maintained that knowing the real name gives one a power over a person, a capacity to use that name in spells and insidious magical practices.
Perhaps something of the same sort lingers even on our native Earth, where the first name of a person is reserved for use by those who know him intimately and presumably wish him no harm.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 4)