Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 159 |
Theirs, it seems, was the honor of being enshrined as the most ancient gods of Gor, and in time of danger a prayer to the Priest-Kings might escape the lips of even the bravest men.
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| 2 | 166 |
"Then what are they?" "Perhaps gods".
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| 19 | 99 |
I did not even know if they were human or nonhuman, but, whatever they might be, they were, with their advanced science and technology, for all practical purposes, the gods of this world.
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Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 78 |
Poets on Gor, as in my native world, were regarded with some skepticism and thought to be a little foolish, but it had not occurred to anyone that they might suffer from divine madness or be the periodic recipients of the inspiration of the gods.
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| 19 | 161 |
Somewhere in the midst of those icy escarpments inaccessible even to the wild tarn, they waited for me, those fit gods of this harsh world.
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| 26 | 109 |
Who am I to challenge their power? I am nothing; not even a bit of dust, raised by the wind in a tiny fist of defiance; not even a blade of grass that cuts at the ankles of trampling gods.
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| 26 | 110 |
Yet I, Tarl Cabot, shall go to the Sardar; I shall meet with Priest-Kings, and of them, though they be the gods of Gor, I shall demand an accounting.
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Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 13 |
It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate...
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| 2 | 129 |
I smiled as I thought of the foolishness of this, for these beasts before me must be the larls of Priest-Kings, guardians of the stronghold of Gor's gods.
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| 33 | 42 |
There were men in that crowd from Ar, from Thentis, from Tharna, recognized by the two yellow cords in their belt; from Port Kar; from Tor, Cos, Tyros; perhaps from Treve, Vika's home city; perhaps even from fallen, vanished Ko-ro-ba; and the men in that crowd were of all castes, and even of castes ...
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| 35 | 177 |
How could I tell him that he looked, with incredulity and horror, on one of the awesome denizens of the grim Sardar, on one of the fabulous and mysterious monarchs of his very world, on one of the gods of Gor—on a Priest-King? "I can hurl my spear through it," said the man with ...
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Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 18 | 478 |
gods, meeting in council, decided to form a slave for themselves, for they were all gods, and had no slaves.
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| 18 | 482 |
On the other hand, that night, one of the gods, curious, or perhaps careless, or perhaps driven from the hall and angry, threw down upon the ground his own great ax, and upon this ax he poured paga and his own blood, and the ax laughed and leaped up, and ran away.
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| 18 | 483 |
The god, and all the gods, could not catch it, and it became, it is said, the father of the men of Torvaldsland.
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Book 9. (9 results) Marauders of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 17 | 285 |
It seemed first a ghastly infection, a plague; then it seemed like a fire, invisible and consuming; then it seemed like the touching of these men by the hands of gods, but no gods I knew, none to whom a woman or child might dare pray, but the gods of men, an...
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| 2 | 20 |
They held to old gods, and old ways.
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| 2 | 330 |
But Ivar Forkbeard had come in death, if not in life, to the temple of Priest-Kings, betraying the old gods, to have his bones anointed at last with the grease of Priest-Kings.
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| 10 | 314 |
We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...
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| 13 | 80 |
There were also considerations to the effect that the rune-priests would be distressed if the oaths were broken, and that the gods, too, might not look lightly upon such a violation of faith, and might, too, more seriously, evidence their displeasure by such tokens as blights, plagues,...
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| 13 | 81 |
Against these considerations it was argued that not even the gods themselves could blame Svein Blue Tooth, under these circumstances, for not honoring a piddling oath, extracted under false pretenses; one bold fellow even went so far as to insist that, under these special circumstances...
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| 16 | 223 |
There are no spells, no gods, no heroes to save us.
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| 17 | 51 |
Is grandeur so fearful that men must shield themselves with pettiness from its glory; do they not understand that in themselves, and in perhaps a thousand other intelligences, reality has opened its eyes upon its own immensity; do they shut their eyes lest they see gods? We could see n...
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| 17 | 286 |
And the touch of these gods, like their will, was terrible.
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Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 81 |
When a man has once eaten of the meat of gods he will never again chew on the straw of fools.
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| 31 | 93 |
The men of Gor, like beasts and loving gods, subject the women they own to their total mastery.
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| 32 | 652 |
'To our gods,' he said, 'the offer of a contemptible slave would be an insulting sacrifice.
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| 32 | 659 |
'When you did not obey,' he said, 'I then thought perhaps that I had been mistaken about you, that perhaps you were not a slave, but a free woman, and thus might serve as a suitable sacrifice to our gods.
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Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 1082 |
They have not chosen to revere the fat-bellied, beer-drinking gods of more sedentary peoples.
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Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 33 | 761 |
gods, for example, I trust, do not have need of the silver of Argentum, nor do they have need of fiery ships for plying the long, dark roads between worlds.
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| 33 | 762 |
gods, I trust, do not leave spoor in subterranean chambers nor deep wounds in remote turfs.
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Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 191 |
I saw that she was worthless indeed, worth less than the dirt beneath the feet of gods, but that, too, in her way, she possessed incredible riches and power, in her beauty and femaleness, and in her dance.
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| 2 | 118 |
"It was a world of tides and gods, of spears and Caesars, of games, and wreaths of laurel, of the clash, detectable for miles, of phalanxes, of the marchings of legions, in measured stride, of the long roads and the fortified camps, of the coming and going of the oared ships, of the po...
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Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 24 | 750 |
As speculative images of the Priest-Kings themselves, in effect, the rulers and gods of Gor, are forbidden, or at least generally discouraged, I suppose it is not surprising that humans are wary of boldly bedecking coins with their own images.
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 17 | 30 |
It might also be noted, interestingly, that the Gorean, in spite of his awe of Priest-Kings, and the reverence he accords them, the gods of his world, does not think of them as having formed the world, nor of the world being in some sense consequent upon their will.
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Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 4 | 732 |
Surely they could not be used upon us! Surely these men, these leonine males, like gods and beasts, did not regard us as being subject to such attentions! But somehow I suspected that these men, these unusual males, these incredible males, our striking, magnificent captors, were not li...
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| 19 | 99 |
It might have been, too, something of an offering of thanks, so to speak, to the fates, or the gods, or the Priest-Kings, whoever they may be, for a safe return.
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| 40 | 22 |
I did not know if it were praying, perhaps to the Priest-Kings, perhaps to other, stranger gods, or not.
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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 10 | 361 |
"Do not those of your ideology dare to use that sacred, holy, terrible word, that word for nature's last and fiercest arbiter, that maker and unmaker of states, that creator and destroyer of cultures, singing songs of armies, and blood and steel, that ultimate and terrifying tribunal, with all the m...
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Book 28. (4 results) Kur of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 1341 |
Where have the gods gone, she asked herself.
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| 8 | 68 |
"They are the gods of Gor," said Cabot.
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| 8 | 69 |
"Who knows the nature of gods?" "True," came from the device, after a moment.
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| 81 | 182 |
"Are they not world masters, the gods of Gor?" "If their laws are respected," said Cabot, "they dabble little in the doings of human beings".
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Book 29. (6 results) Swordsmen of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 5 | 42 |
"Are they not the lords of us all," he said, "are they not the gods of Gor?" "And are the Initiates not their ministers and servitors," I said.
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| 5 | 130 |
"As befits gods," he said.
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| 12 | 72 |
"You are here," said the blond fellow to me, "as I suppose you know, in the service of Priest-Kings, the gods of Gor.
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| 33 | 55 |
"Strange men, dour men with shaven heads and white robes, appeared amongst our ancestors, mysteriously so, long ago, very long ago, claiming to speak for the gods".
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| 33 | 68 |
"Who disputes the will of the gods?" asked Lord Nishida.
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| 33 | 99 |
"The gods wager," he said.
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Book 30. (3 results) Mariners of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 189 |
Surely this was no human thing, but a creation of the gods of Gor, of the Priest-Kings themselves.
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| 2 | 191 |
Might that not displease the Priest-Kings, the gods and masters of Gor? I blinked my eyes, fiercely, to rid them of water.
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| 9 | 460 |
Then, by the will of whatever gods there be, by whatever names be theirs, we found ourselves, and gold, on a far shore.
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 3 | 11 |
I have gathered that much of this has to do with the rulings of your gods, called Priest-Kings, reigning from the dark, palisaded Sardar.
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| 3 | 16 |
But perhaps, finally, you know as little of your gods, your sovereigns, or Priest-Kings, as we.
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| 3 | 23 |
Your only protection against these Others, these Different Ones, the lurkers and watchers, are your gods, your Priest-Kings.
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| 8 | 170 |
What difference might such thing make to them, the remote and disengaged gods of a world? But I now, at least, was in no doubt as to the reality of Gor.
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| 8 | 1187 |
The pervasiveness of Gorean on your world, as I understand it, has something to do with your gods, the Priest-Kings, laired in the Sardar Mountains.
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| 10 | 237 |
And there were the mysterious Sardar Mountains, within which, supposedly, resided the gods of Gor, called Priest-Kings.
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| 46 | 107 |
Let the gods live their lives; let men live theirs.
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Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 14 | 410 |
"Who would be so foolish as to challenge gods?" "gods," he said.
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| 14 | 519 |
"gods battle with gods," I said.
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| 14 | 375 |
"They are gods," I said.
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| 14 | 376 |
"And might not gods," he said, "be the children of the world, or universe, as much as sleen or kaiila?" "I know little of such things," I said.
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| 14 | 411 |
"Other gods".
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| 14 | 525 |
Surely wars can be exploited for one's own ends, even a war of gods".
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 54 | 290 |
Following this, I had turned the dragon east, and, over Thassa, set a course as directly as I could for the Sardar Mountains, the supposed domicile of the gods of Gor, the Priest-Kings.
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 66 |
"I have often wondered," she said, "if there is a Counter-Earth, traversing its orbit, plying its silent way about our star, a world with its own gods and beasts, its own seasons and tides, its own strifes and wars".
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| 8 | 344 |
They are the gods of Gor.
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| 21 | 13 |
Were the beautiful lines of the leaping, fleet tabuk not fashioned by the artistry of the larl, its claws and fangs; did the same blind, nameless gods not balance the swirling school of parsit fish against the strike of the swift-swimming shark; the keenness of the hawk's eye against t...
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| 34 | 114 |
"These latter beasts," he said, "of which I conjecture, are much like gods, content unto themselves, with little interest in the politics and vicissitudes of mundane matters, and certainly not those of other species.
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| 34 | 120 |
Who would place at the disposal of an enemy the resources of a planet, who would grant them an island, a platform, from which, in time, to launch a great attack, a mighty armada, against them?" "How is it," I asked, "that Priest-Kings have permitted humans on their world?" "gods," said...
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| 49 | 37 |
They regard themselves as the highest of the high castes, presumably in virtue of their claimed relationship, a very privileged relationship, apparently, to the Priest-Kings, the "gods" of Gor.
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| 62 | 79 |
They are supposedly the "gods of Gor".
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Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 14 | 1 |
An Anomaly is Noted, a Day from Daphna "Ho," called down the lookout, from the ringed platform near the top of the single mast, "land, island, tiny, four points Ror!" Whereas I, in the interests of intelligibility, have often had recourse to directions apt to my native world, Earth directions, appl...
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