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Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	143	There were only three statuses conceivable to the Gorean mind outside of the caste system: slave, outlaw, and priest-king.
2	192	My father then explained to me something of the legends of the priest-kings, and I gathered that they seemed to be true to this degree at least—that the priest-kings could destroy or control whatever they wished, that they were, in effec...
13	67	The disease is named that because it is regarded as being holy to the priest-kings, and those who suffer from it are regarded as consecrated to the priest-kings.
15	119	The other man, a gigantic man, wore the robes of one of the Afflicted, but wore them as a king might.
20	26	There, I suppose to this day, in that inhospitable vastness, he reigns; in the scarlet mountains of the Voltai, Marlenus still rules, a larl among men, an outlaw king, to his followers always the Ubar of Ubars.
2	131	"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.
8	14	The city is under martial law".
14	34	Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution ...
2	147	Then, after a long moment, not looking at me, he said, "It is rumored there is such a stone, but it lies in the Sacred Place and is the source of the priest-kings' power".
2	148	"Who are the priest-kings?" I asked.
2	151	"Yes," said my father at last, "I must speak to you of priest-kings".
2	158	There was a sect among the people that worshipped the sun, I later learned, but it was insignificant both in numbers and power when compared with the worship of the priest-kings, who, whatever they were, were accorded the honors of divinity.
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.
2	160	"The priest-kings," said my father, "are immortal, or so most here believe".
2	169	"My speculation, however," said my father, "is that the priest-kings are indeed men—men much as we, or humanoid organisms of some type—who possess a science and technology as far beyond our normal ken as that of our own twentieth century would be to the alch...
2	172	"The priest-kings," said my father, "maintain the Sacred Place in the Sardar Mountains, a wild vastness into which no man penetrates.
2	187	"Some think that such men in time become priest-kings themselves.
2	188	My own speculation, which I judge as likely or unlikely to be true as the more popular superstitious stories, is that it is death to learn the secret of the priest-kings".
2	198	"There is at least one area, however," said my father, "in which the priest-kings do take a most active interest in this world, and that is the area of technology.
2	204	"You wonder," he said, "why the numerous, rather obvious deficits in our technology have not been repaired—in spite of the priest-kings.
2	216	"Surely that is a marvelous example of your technology?" "Not of our technology, but of that of the priest-kings," he said.
2	218	"By priest-kings?" I asked.
2	226	He said, from what he could learn from the Initiates, who claimed to serve as the intermediaries of priest-kings to men, that the planet Gor had originally been a satellite of a distant sun, in one of the fantastically remote Blue Galaxies.
2	227	It was moved by the science of the priest-kings several times in its history, seeking again and again a new star.
2	241	One can't hide a planet the size of the Earth in our own solar system! It's impossible!" "You underestimate the priest-kings and their science," said my father, smiling.
2	242	"Any power that is capable of moving a planet—and I believe the priest-kings possess this power—is capable of effecting adjustments in the motion of the planet, such adjustments as might allow it to use the sun indefinitely as a concealing shield".
2	246	"It is my belief," he said, "that the priest-kings can control the forces of gravity, at least in localized areas, and, indeed, that they do so.
2	250	The priest-kings might gravitationally warp the space in their vicinity, causing light or radio waves to be diffused, curved, or deflected in such a way as not to expose their world".
2	254	"Of course, I only propose hypotheses, for what the priest-kings do and how it is done is known only to them".
2	271	In fact, there is so little probability that this tale will be believed that the priest-kings of Sardar, the Keepers of the Sacred Place, have apparently granted that it may be recorded.

Book 2. (30 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	27	The thought struck me that I, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba, a mortal, here in the night on this road, might be looking upon the face of a priest-king.
5	38	"Are you," I asked, "a priest-king?" "No," he said.
5	122	It was said no man had returned alive from those mountains, that no man had looked upon a priest-king and lived.
12	81	Had it been suggested to a poet that he had been inspired by a priest-king the fellow would have been scandalized.
12	82	"I, So-and-So of Such-and-Such a City, made this song," he would say, "not a priest-king".
5	43	It was common, of course, for Initiates to claim to speak for the priest-kings; indeed, it was presumably the calling of their caste to interpret the will of the priest-kings to men.
5	65	"Did I not serve the priest-kings," I asked, "at the siege of Ar?" "The priest-kings used you for their ends, as it pleased them to do".
5	71	Was it on my account that a city had perished? Was it I who had brought disaster to its people, to my father, to my friends and Talena? Had I been too foolish to understand that I was nothing before the power of the priest-kings? Was I now to wander the forlorn roads and ...
19	153	It is said that as we are to the amoeba and the paramecium so are the priest-kings to us, that the highest and most lyric flights of our intellect are, when compared to the thought of the priest-kings, but the chemical tropisms of the unicellul...
20	92	What of the interminable prayers of the Initiates, the sacrifices, the observances, the rituals, the innumerable shrines, altars and temples to the priest-kings? Could it be that the smoke of the burning sacrifices, the fragrance of the incense, the mumblings of the Initi...
26	107	But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and towers, a city frow...
26	120	Could priest-kings, with their knowledge and power, have need of such a man? But priest-kings need nothing from men, and once more my thoughts grow foolish.
3	83	Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious peddler often becomes, in the place of his own Home Sto...
1	2	He was an instructor in English history and I, intending to work for some three years to save money toward law school, had accepted an appointment as an instructor in physical education, a field which, to my annoyance, Cabot never convinced himself belonged in the curriculum of an educ...
1	35	By that time I had long ago saved the money I needed for law school and had not taught for three years.
1	36	Indeed, I was then completing my studies at the school of law associated with one of New York's best-known private universities.
1	188	Later, following another examination, I was admitted to the bar in New York State, and I entered one of the immense law offices in the city, hoping to obtain eventually enough experience and capital to open a small practice of my own.
11	54	"Does the law of Tharna not give it the right to speak, Dorna the Proud, Second in Tharna?" asked the Tatrix, whose voice, too, was imperious and cold, yet pleased me more than the tones of she who wore the silver mask.
11	55	"Does the law recognize beasts?" asked the woman whose name was Dorna the Proud.
21	269	On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names.
26	32	"And add to the golden tarn disks," she had exclaimed, "tarn disks of silver to be formed from the masks of our women, for henceforth in Tharna no woman may wear a mask of either gold or silver, not even though she be Tatrix of Tharna herself!" And as she had spoken, according to the customs of Thar...
1	101	"It means," laughed Cabot, a mirthless laugh, "—to the priest-kings of Gor!" He rose unsteadily.
1	195	Perhaps, as Tarl Cabot once remarked, "The agents of the priest-kings are among us".
2	3	I rose slowly to my feet, my fibers alive in the wind, my hair torn by its blasts, my muscles each aching and rejoicing in their first movements in perhaps weeks, for I had again entered that silver disk in the White Mountains which was the ship of the priest-kings, used ...
2	14	So standing, the sun upon me, without thinking I raised my arms as in pagan prayer to acknowledge the power of the priest-kings, which had once again brought me from Earth to this world, the power which once before had torn me from Gor when they were finishe...
2	15	There was no love in my heart for the priest-kings, those mysterious denizens of the Sardar Mountains, whoever or whatever they might be, but there was gratitude in my heart, either to them or to the strange forces that moved them.
2	17	The priest-kings, Keepers of the Holy Place in the Sardar Mountains, seeming knowers of all that occurred on Gor, masters of the hideous Flame Death that could with consuming fire destroy whatever they wished, whenever they might please, were not so crudely motivated as m...
2	19	It was rumored they used men as one might use pieces in a game, and when the piece had played its role it might be discarded, or perhaps, as in my case, removed from the board until it pleased the priest-kings to try yet another game.
2	66	I wondered why, and knew only that the priest-kings had intended it so.
3	79	"The priest-kings themselves," I said, "could not ask for more".

Book 3. (30 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	30	Impatience, for example, is often indicated by a tremor in the tactile hair on the supporting appendages, as though the creature could not wait to be off; a wandering of attention can be shown by the unconscious movement of the cleaning hooks from behind the third joints of the forelegs, suggesting ...
3	84	"It's not much of a name for a priest-king, but then I'm not much of a priest-king".
10	18	Moreover, if not too much time is allowed to elapse, a priest-king may leave a message in his chamber or in a corridor for another priest-king, and the other may arrive later and interpret it.
11	31	In this case there is again the unconscious movement of the cleaning hooks but there is in addition an incipient, but restrained, extension of the forelegs in the direction of the object toward which the priest-king is well disposed; this suggests to me that the pri...
12	234	If it is the wish of a priest-king that they die they do so with great joy; if it is the wish of a priest-king that they live, they are similarly delighted".
15	45	I held the torch high and looked at the priest-king, who was rather small for a priest-king, being only about twelve feet long.
15	118	"You must remember," said Misk, "that he is a priest-king and thus a rational creature and that we could not turn him into a machine without neutralizing certain critical and perceptive areas, without which he would no longer be a priest-king".
16	220	"Are you not a priest-king?" "Because I am a priest-king," said Misk.
18	40	"Must a priest-king learn to be a priest-king?" asked Mul-Ba-Ta.
21	69	He was followed by another priest-king, and then another, until all but one priest-king had departed the chamber.
29	13	Here and there where a human or priest-king would dart into the open the cone nearest to him would focus on him and the human or priest-king, like the buildings and the walls, would seem to break apart into powder.
34	22	"Of course," said Torm, "after all a priest-king is only a priest-king".
10	1	Misk the priest-king The priest-kings have little or no scent of their own which is detectable by the human nostrils, though one gathers there is a nest odor by which they may identify one another, and that the variations in this nest odor per...
10	15	For example, does a priest-king have the same qualitative experience that I do when we are confronted by the same scent? I am inclined to doubt it, for their music, which consists of rhapsodies of odors produced by instruments constructed for this purpose, and often playe...
15	69	"How long," I asked, "does a priest-king live?" "Long ago," said Misk, "priest-kings discovered the secrets of cell replacement without pattern deterioration, and accordingly, unless we meet with injury or accident, we will live until we are fo...
29	68	Two hypotheses would seem most likely to explain this phenomenon to them, first that I had fled the complex, second that I was nestled among them, and I smiled to myself, for I was certain that the second hypothesis would never occur to a priest-king, for it was too impro...
30	187	This transfer of allegiance was apparently the result of long discussion and consideration by the group of priest-kings who had followed Sarm because he was First Born, but had at many points objected to his conduct of the War, in particular to his treatment of the Muls, ...
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 ...
2	77	I then understood that the larl I had heard must be a larl of priest-kings, for no animal and no man enters or exists in the Sardar without the consent of priest-kings, and if it was fed it must be at the hand of priest-king...
33	125	I had intended to make use of that moment myself, pretending to have come with a message from priest-kings, to encourage man to live as I wished him to live, to respect himself and others, to be kind and to be worthy of the heritage of a rational animal, and yet of what w...
3	79	It seemed a strange name for a priest-king.
3	86	"Are you a priest-king?" I asked.
3	93	I found it strange that a priest-king should fear a larl.
4	113	"Is a priest-king frightened of a larl?" I asked.
4	119	"You are a priest-king," I said, "why do you not simply lift your hand and destroy it?" "Of what use is a dead larl?" asked Parp.
5	168	"But there is only one priest-king," I said, "who calls himself Parp".
6	63	"Parp, the priest-king," I said.
6	150	"He is not a priest-king," she said quietly.
7	89	If it were a matter of waiting I acknowledged that the priest-king, if such it were, who followed me had had the best of things.
7	90	For all I knew, a priest-king could wait like a stone or tree, nerveless until necessary.

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	305	The Others—those of power, not priest-kings, must, to some extent, understand or sense the politics, the needs and policies of the remote denizens of the Sardar—they were probably not altogether unaware of the business of priest-king<...
2	17	And if I should find the object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of priest-kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of priest-...
2	21	But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for priest-kings, a n...
16	295	How else would he dare to use the name of priest-kings on the message in the message collar?" I knew, of course, that the man was not a priest-king.
7	206	Who, or what, could dare such a thing? Besides, how did I know that the message was not from priest-kings? I knew, as Kamchak and Kutaituchik did not, of the recent Nest War beneath the Sardar, and of the disruption in the technological complexes of the Nest—who kn...
7	209	And finally, I reminded myself again, was I not now engaged in their work? Was I not now attempting to be of service to them? Was I not now among the Wagon Peoples, in peril perhaps, on their behalf? But, I asked myself, if this message was not from priest-kings, from who...
7	210	There must be others—others, who did not wish me to succeed in my work, who wished priest-kings, the race, to die, others who were capable even of bringing humans from Earth for their purposes—technologically advanced—others who were, perhaps, cautiou...
16	299	He might well be, and I supposed it true, merely an agent—but for whom, or what?—something that would challenge even priest-kings—but, it must be, something that feared priest-kings, or it would already have struck—t...
2	20	"Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the priest-king, adding, "Man is not yet rational".
16	294	"For all I know," said Saphrar, "the man is a priest-king.
2	3	Some years before, perhaps between two and five years before, as the culmination of an intrigue enduring centuries, two men, humans from the walled cities of Gor, had, for the sake of priest-kings, undertaken a long, secret journey, carrying an object to the Wagon Peoples...
2	8	Could I—Tarl Cabot, a human and mortal, find this object and, as priest-kings now wished, return it to the Sardar—return it to the hidden courts of priest-kings that it might there fulfill its unique and irreplaceable role in the ...
2	10	But why was it I who came? Why not priest-kings in their ships and power, with their fierce weapons and fantastic devices? priest-kings cannot stand the sun.
2	26	Perhaps if I were successful I might save my race, by preserving the priest-kings that might shelter them from the annihilation that might otherwise be achieved if uncontrolled technological development were too soon permitted them; perhaps in time man would grow rational...
6	61	Had the girl been brought to this world by priest-kings? Was she the recent victim of one of the Voyages of Acquisition? But I understood them to have been curtailed in the recent subterranean War of priest-kings.
16	306	They could have learned of the destruction of much of the surveillance equipment of the Sardar, of the substantial reduction in the technological capabilities of priest-kings, at least for a short time—and, most importantly, that the War had been fought, in a way, ...
16	309	Thus, the Others might well infer that there was one, or more, concealed eggs, hidden away, which must now be secured that the new generation might be inaugurated, but hidden away quite possibly not in the Place of priest-kings itself, but elsewhere, out of the home of
17	35	It might be gilled, like Gorean sharks, probably descendants of Earth sharks placed experimentally in Thassa millennia ago by priest-kings, or it might have the gurdo, the layered, ventral membrane, shielded by porous plating, of several of the marine predators perhaps na...
26	227	"Because," I said, "—it is the last seed of priest-kings—an egg—a child—the hope of priest-kings, to them all—everything, the world, the universe".
26	299	It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of priest-kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my fr...
1	19	Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...
9	18	There would be something, of course, to be said for such a claim, for the merchants are often indeed in their way, brave, shrewd, skilled men, making long journeys, venturing their goods, risking caravans, negotiating commercial agreements, among themselves developing and...
9	479	It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative—or nearest relative if no adult male...
11	52	"How fortunate then," observed Saphrar, "that such a transaction is precluded by law".
11	65	A slave, not being a person in the eyes of Gorean law, cannot possess a name in his own right, any more than an animal.
11	66	Indeed, in the eyes of Gorean law, unfortunately, slaves are animals, utterly and unqualifiedly at the disposition of their masters, to do with as he pleases.
2	4	The two men who had carried this object, keeping well its secret as demanded by priest-kings, had braved many perils and had been as brothers.
2	9	What is this object? One might speak of it as many things, the subject of secret, violent intrigues; the source of vast strifes beneath the Sardar, strifes unknown to the men of Gor; the concealed, precious, hidden hope of an incredible and ancient race; a simple germ; a bit of living tissue; the do...
2	12	Men would not believe they were priest-kings.
2	13	Men conceive priest-kings as they conceive themselves.

Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor

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13	131	He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, again following th...
4	87	We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the priest-kings, and the Others, not priest-kings, who desired this world of priest-kings and men, a...
5	150	On the surface of the ship, tall and thin, like the blade of a golden knife, his forelegs lifted delicately before his body, his golden antennae blown in the wind, there stood, with the incredible fixity and alertness of his kind, a priest-king.
5	152	The priest-king took a step toward me on its four supporting posterior appendages, and stopped, as though it dared not move more.
5	159	The cleaning hooks behind the third joints of the priest-king's forelegs lifted and emerged delicately, and extended toward me.
5	216	I myself had much to speak of with Misk and with other friends of the Nest, notably Kusk, the priest-king, and Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, who were humans, and fondly remembered.
5	219	A priest-king named Serus, whom I had not known in the Nest War, but who had been of the cohorts of Sarm, had developed an interesting device for slave control, which I might mention.
5	228	Also, in the Nest, I met the male, who had no name, no more than the Mother has a name among the priest-king kind.
5	237	Elizabeth had agreed but was startled when placed on a long table, actually of a size for a priest-king, and found her head enclosed between two curved, intricate devices, rather like two halves of a bowl.
5	244	"In educating a priest-king," I said, "wires were used—eight—one to each brain".
5	245	"We now dispense with wires," said Kusk, "even in the case of a priest-king.
17	230	I saw in his elevation a portion of the plan of Others being unfolded; with one of their own on the throne of Ar, they would have a remarkable base in Ar for the advancement of their schemes, in particular the influencing of men, the recruitment of partisans in their cause; as Misk had pointed out, ...
1	22	These men of Ko-ro-ba, he knew, when their city had been destroyed by priest-kings, had been scattered to the ends of Gor but, when permitted by priest-kings, they had returned to their city to rebuild it, each bearing a stone to add to its wal...
5	299	In the last days, I spoke often with Misk of the difficulties connected with obtaining the last egg of priest-kings, in particular informing him that others had wished the egg as well, and had nearly acquired it, others who had had the technology to visit Earth, to seize ...
7	73	The ship was disklike, as are the ships of priest-kings, but it had observation apertures, which the ships of priest-kings lack.
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".
2	197	"There seems little law now," said Portus.
11	325	The male of Earth is conditioned to be more timid, vacillating and repressed than the males of Gor; to be subject, to achieve social controls, to guilts and anxieties that would be as incomprehensible to the Gorean male as a guilt over having spoken to one's father-in-law's sister woul...
15	403	Gorean law, however, does not so regard them.
16	211	If a substantial proportion of races are not won in the first two seasons the law of the Stadium of Tarns discontinues its recognition of that faction.
17	160	Once in a paga tavern I heard a man, whom I recognized to be one of the guards from the iron pens, though now in the tunic of a Leather Worker, declaring that the city needed for its Administrator not a Builder but a Warrior, that law would again prevail.
17	206	Shortly thereafter Maximus Hegesius Quintilius was found dead, poisoned by the bite of a girl in his Pleasure Gardens, who, before she could be brought before the Scribes of the law, was strangled by enraged Taurentians, to whom she had been turned over; it was well known that the Taur...
18	170	Those who contract the disease are regarded by law as dead.
24	450	"Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the Home Stone?" I gasped.
24	456	"As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the Home Stone of Ar".
24	472	"If a Ubar does not respect the law of the Home Stone, what man shall?" "None," said I.
1	6	It had once been destroyed by priest-kings, but now it was being rebuilt.
2	180	The Initiates, in their interpretations of sacrifices and in their preachments, primarily to the low castes, had led many of the city to fear that Kazrak might not long enjoy the favor of the priest-kings.
2	359	"The business of priest-kings and such," said she, "is surely less important than our present activities".
3	14	As I could I put these thoughts from my mind, but I could not fully escape them, for among them was the memory of a girl, she, Talena, the daughter of the Ubar of Ubars, Marlenus, who so many years before had been the Free Companion of a simple Warrior of Ko-ro-ba, he who had been torn from her at t...

Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	26	The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.
15	210	In Gorean law a slave is an animal; before the law he has no rights; he is dependent on his master not only for his name but for his very life; he may be disposed of by the master at any time and in any way the master pleases.
9	176	When at last I had brought her safely back to the Sardar I had thus told her I would arrange with Misk, the priest-king, that she be returned to Earth.
18	883	"Did Misk," I asked, "the priest-king, know of any of this?" "No," said Samos.
18	937	"When you lost your images of yourselves, and learned your humanity, in your diverse ways, and shame, you abandoned your myths, your songs, and would accept only the meat of animals, as though one so lofty as yourself must be either priest-king or beast.
9	173	Already she would doubtless be known to the Others, not priest-kings, who would challenge priest-kings for this world, and Earth.
11	358	"Be it known to you, Ubars," said he, "that Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, now proposes to the council that it take into its own hands the full and sole governance of the city of Port Kar, with full powers, whether of policy and decree, of enforcement, of taxation and law, or other, ...
15	121	Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law.
15	123	For the first time in several years one could count on the law being the same on both sides of a given canal.
1	64	I knew one in Port Kar, by name Samos, a slaver, said to be an agent of priest-kings.
1	69	Yet it was said, by those I trusted, that he had served priest-kings well.
3	34	My identity, that I was Tarl Cabot, and my mission, that I served the priest-kings of Gor, was not for others to know.
3	35	Coming from the Sardar, I knew only that I was to travel to Port Kar and there make contact with Samos, first slaver of Port Kar, scourge of Thassa, said to be trusted of priest-kings.
9	102	Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, said to be an agent of priest-kings, was, I knew, a member of this council.
9	170	And I remembered, too, with bitterness, the girl, Elizabeth Cardwell, Vella of Gor, who had so helped me in my work in Ar on behalf of priest-kings.
10	71	He was said to be an agent of priest-kings.
10	75	I was now through with the service of priest-kings.
10	330	But how would he have come to know this? And how could he have come to understand that Bosk, fighting man and merchant, was the same as he who once had been a warrior of the towered city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning? Doubtless he wished to summon me to his presence, that he might recall me...
10	331	But I no longer served priest-kings.
11	270	It then occurred to me that this man could not serve priest-kings.
11	271	It occurred to me then, with a shudder which I did not betray, that such a man could serve only the Others, not priest-kings, those Others, in the distant steel worlds, who surreptitiously and cruelly fought to gain this world and Earth for their own ends.
15	3	I wore at my side a jeweled sword, no longer the sword I had worn for the long years when I had served priest-kings.
17	300	I knew he had once, through agents, served the Others, not priest-kings, who contested surreptitiously for this world, and ours.
18	321	If he served the Ubars, or Claudius, regent of Henrius Sevarius, or the Ubarates of Cos and Tyros, or the Others, or priest-kings, or himself, I no longer cared.
18	514	At my side I now wore the sword that I had brought originally to Port Kar, that which I had carried so many years before, even at the siege of Ar, and in Tharna, and in the Nest of priest-kings and on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, and in the streets of great Ar itself,...
18	833	"The dungeon of the hall of captains scarcely seemed the place to discuss the business of priest-kings".
18	834	"priest-kings?" breathed Telima.
18	844	"You serve priest-kings," I said.
18	854	"Return to the service of priest-kings," he said.
18	867	"Does Ho-Hak serve priest-kings?" I asked.

Book 7. (13 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	379	She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most practical purp...
12	440	The stockades are governed under Merchant law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.
14	420	Perhaps one of the things that free women most envy in slaves is that they are not only permitted to reveal their beauty but that they must, even in the light of law, do so.
14	467	Gorean law is on his side, not hers.
14	468	Indeed, as an animal, she has no standing whatsoever before the law.
16	287	On Gor, of course, her relationship to the master is open, public, institutionalized, accepted, taken for granted, and celebrated, a matter of law.
18	38	By Gorean law the companionship, to be binding, must, together, be annually renewed, pledged afresh with the wines of love.
11	1100	And, the priest-kings willing, a coin that is lost today, or a woman, may, at a later time, in a more convenient place, be found, and more! A woman who escapes your collar this afternoon may, by nightfall, find herself chained at your feet.
13	90	It had been decided that she should now undertake the journey to the Sardar, which, according to the teachings of the Caste of Initiates, is enjoined on every Gorean by the priest-kings, an obligation which is to be fulfilled prior to their attaining their twenty-fifth ye...
13	92	It is one of the tasks of the Initiates to keep rolls, and determine that each youth, if capable, discharge this putative obligation to the mysterious priest-kings.
13	101	The Merchants of Teletus, controlling the city, would demand it of her, fearing the effects of the possible displeasure of the priest-kings on their trade.
18	3	It is long since I have served priest-kings.
18	11	I wish to be free of priest-kings, and Others.

Book 8. (17 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	97	It was true that the Companionship, not renewed, had been dissolved in the eyes of Gorean law.
1	321	The Gorean slave, in the eyes of Gorean law, is an animal, with no legal title to a name.
3	41	The Merchants, who control Lydius, under Merchant law, for it is a free port, like Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, are more interested in having their port heavily trafficked than strictly policed.
9	163	In law, and in the eyes of Goreans, Talena was now without family.
11	60	In the eyes of Goreans, and Gorean law, the slave is an animal.
1	10	"priest-kings and I," said Samos.
1	11	"I no longer serve priest-kings," said I.
1	108	"priest-kings tore me from her," I told Samos, hard-eyed.
1	172	"I no longer serve priest-kings," I said.
4	63	Together we had served priest-kings.
4	215	"And what of priest-kings?" she asked.
4	216	"I no longer serve priest-kings," I told her.
5	350	"To the priest-kings of Gor, and to the Sea".
12	30	In the past years, in Port Kar, since I had given up the service of priest-kings, my ambitions had enlarged.
18	13	He lifted his hands to the Sardar, to the priest-kings of Gor.
18	476	In Gorean legends the priest-kings are said to have formed man from the mud of the earth and the blood of tarns.
22	101	Saphrar, a merchant of Tyros, resplendent in Turia, had similarly described the man who had enlisted his services in behalf of those who contested worlds with priest-kings.

Book 9. (30 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	138	Long ago, in the Sardar, Misk, the priest-king, had told me that priest-kings see little difference between Kurii and men, that they regarded them as equivalent species.
1	95	He had been instrumental in the Nest War, and had earned the friendship and gratitude of the priest-king, Misk, glorious, gentle Misk.
2	218	It is regarded as blasphemy to attempt to picture a priest-king.
18	644	I thought of golden Misk, the priest-king, of once, long ago, when his antennae had touched the palms of my uplifted hands, and Nest Trust had been pledged between us.
20	113	Though I am only human, neither Kur nor priest-king, I give you salute".
2	54	It was said that he wished, in regret for the wickedness of his life, to be carried in death to the temple of priest-kings in Kassau, that the High Initiate there might, if it be his mercy, draw on his bones in the sacred grease the sign of the priest-...
2	223	I wondered what might become of the religion of priest-kings, if priest-kings should ever choose to make themselves known to men.
2	259	There were the golden bowls used to gather the blood of the sacrificed animals; cups used to pour libations to priest-kings; vessels containing oils; lavers in which the celebrants of the rites might cleanse their hands from their work; there were even the small bowls of ...
2	293	He comes in death to the temple of priest-kings, that his bones may be anointed with the grease of priest-kings.
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.
11	31	To me this seems preposterous, for ones so wise as priest-kings, but, in spite of its obvious falsity, priest-kings regard the Kurii and men as rather similar, almost equivalent species.
11	208	If the priest-kings did not do this, perhaps for reasons of pride, their laws having been given, then, in effect, Gor might become a Kur world, in which, given local allies, the priest-kings might finally be isolated and destroyed...
15	57	Not only would the decision to halt the invasion be in violation of the practices and commitments of priest-kings, which would doubtless create dissension in the Nest, producing a leverage the Kurii might be able to exploit, but, if the invasion were halted, it being a la...
18	654	Native Kurii, bred from ships' survivors over centuries, would not, it seemed, if limited to the primitive weapons permitted men, be capable of conquering Gor, isolating the priest-kings in the Sardar, until they could be destroyed, or, alternatively, perhaps be used to l...
20	49	They need an envoy, one known to priest-kings, yet one independent of them, one whom they respect, a man of valiance and judgment, with whom to negotiate, one to carry their proposals to priest-kings".
1	259	At that point, in Gorean law, the companionship had been dissolved.
2	88	There is often a tension between them and the civil authorities, for each regards themselves as supreme in matters of policy and law for their districts.
6	393	Most lived in ships, the steel wolves of space, their instincts bridled, to some extent, by Ship Loyalty, Ship law.
6	433	"It was set so high," said he, "out of the reach of custom and law, against the protests of the rune-priests and his own men, that none, in his belief, could pay it".
10	73	Blows are not to be struck at the Thing, but not even the law of the Thing, with all its might, would have the temerity to advise the man of Torvaldsland to arrive or move about unarmed.
10	89	In the crowd, too, much in evidence, were brazen bondmaids; they had been brought to the Thing, generally, by captains and Jarls; it is not unusual for men to bring such slaves with them, though they are not permitted near the law courts or the assemblies of deliberation; the voyages t...
10	155	A man, incredibly enough, may be challenged by such a fellow for his farm, or his companion, or daughter; if the challenge is not accepted, the stake is forfeit; if the challenge is accepted, of course, he who is challenged risks his life among the hazel wands; he may be slain; then, too, of course,...
12	18	About them, some on the dais, and some below it, stood his high officers, and his men of law, his counselors, his captains, and the chief men from his scattered farms and holdings; too, much in evidence, were more than four hundred of his men-at-arms.
1	94	He had entered the Sardar and was one of the few men who knew the true nature of priest-kings, those remote and extraordinary beings who controlled the world of Gor.
1	99	And he had gone to the Land of the Wagon Peoples, to the Plains of Turia, and had obtained there the last egg of priest-kings and had returned it, safe, to the Sardar.
1	100	He had well served priest-kings, had Tarl Cabot, that young, brave, distant man, so fine, so proud, so much of the warriors.
1	102	He had well served priest-kings, that young man.
1	103	And then he had ventured to the delta of the Vosk, to make his way through it, to make contact with Samos of Port Kar, agent of priest-kings, to continue in their service.
1	152	But it would once have burned, and that was fixed, undeniable, a part of what had been, that it had burned; nothing could change that, not the eternities of time, not the will of priest-kings, the machinations of Others, the willfulness and hatred of men; nothing could ch...
1	251	I saw in the eyes of Samos that I must not speak of priest-kings.

Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	734	"Misk, a priest-king," said he, "one high in the Sardar, has asked Kurii for a further specification of details".
11	199	Each of these, however, the world of the man, the cuttlefish, the butterfly, the ant, the sleen, the priest-king is congruent, though perhaps in unusual ways, with the presumably singular, unique physical world.
13	383	The priest-king is a relatively gentle organism, delicate and stately.
1	786	Had they known the weakness of the Sardar, and the time required to restore the power source, regenerating itself now at inexorable concentration rates determined by natural law, they would have surely launched their fleets.
5	762	The collar, by Gorean law, canceled the past.
9	86	"More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari.
10	12	The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.
12	168	Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the seraglio, backe...
12	300	"It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari custom," I said, "that I am not a slave, for though I am a prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I performed a gesture of submission".
13	76	He holds within his territories the right of law and execution.
17	34	His will, his word, in the kennel decrees law.
17	94	One must speak carefully whose words become law.
24	806	"Men on Earth," she cried, "will be dethroned by law!" "Earth has a complex and intricate political history," I said.
26	1208	Further, Gor was the true prize of the planets rotating about the sun, not the Earth, for, in the name of rights and liberty, and business, the fools of Earth, confused by the rhetoric of law and morality, shielding short-sighted greed and madness, had stood aside, permitting the poiso...
1	211	He knew more than I of the affairs of Others, the Kurii, and priest-kings.
1	244	Their cessation would surely alert the defense and surveillance facilities of priest-kings.
1	246	"It does not seem so," I admitted, "unless the Kurii, perhaps, feel that just such a move might put the priest-kings off guard, that it would be too obvious to be taken as a prelude to full war".
1	578	"Little has of late occurred in the Wars of priest-kings and Others".
1	745	"priest-kings would not well understand that sort of thing.
1	749	"Sometimes I think priest-kings do not well understand Kurii.
1	754	priest-kings surely had energies and passions, but, I suspected, they were, on the whole, rather different from those of men, or, indeed, those of Kurii.
1	755	The nature of the sensory experience of priest-kings was still, largely, a mystery to me.
1	763	The social bond of the priest-kings is Nest Trust.
1	770	Unfortunate though it might be, I doubted and, I think, realistically, that priest-kings, those large, golden creatures, so gentle and delicate seeming, so content to mind their own affairs, truly understood their enemy, the Kurii.
1	772	There was little place in the placid, lucid categories of priest-kings for comprehending the bloods and madnesses of either men or Kurii.
1	773	They, Kurii and men, understood one another better, I suspected, than the priest-kings understood either.
1	774	As long as the Kurii remained behind the fifth ring, that determined by the orbit of the planet called on Earth Jupiter, on Gor, Hersius, after a legendary hero of Ar, the priest-kings were little concerned with them.
1	783	Ship Kurii, still, then, did not know the extent to which the power of priest-kings remained crippled.
2	140	None, Samos and I suspected, would regard one with such a wench, so clumsy, so untaught, so obviously new to slavery, as being upon the business of priest-kings.
2	439	On the morning of the second day, in the process of my work for priest-kings, I had entered the shaded offices of the municipal slave master of Tor.

Book 11. (14 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
26	202	"You understand further, of course," said he, "that under Gorean merchant law, which is the only law commonly acknowledged binding between cities, that you stand under separate permissions of enslavement.
3	481	The brand has on Gor legal, institutional status; that which it marks it makes an object; its victim has no rights, or appeal, within the law.
3	531	That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th...
5	142	The Companion Contract, thus, had been duly negotiated, with the attention of scribes of the law from both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria.
5	198	Some cities are governed by a Ubar, who is in effect a military sovereign, sometimes a tyrant, whose word is law.
6	55	I now saw them as unique, exciting masters, each different and incredibly individual, who might, for a word or gesture, have me; how could I not regard them differently from a free woman; and, too, doubtless, they saw me in a similarly immediate and intensely personal fashion, not as an object shiel...
7	227	The slave is not a person before Gorean law but a rightless animal.
9	934	If it were true, in Gorean law, it could be no slander.
9	959	If this were true, it was, in Gorean law, no slander.
22	358	The slave is seen as a lovely property which may be purchased or stolen, owned and mastered; she has no standing in the eyes of the law; she is rightless and vulnerable; she belongs to the master and must obey and serve him; she exists to please; that is her purpose; she must hope to w...
22	451	This not only has its profound erotic effect on the slave and others, but it usefully, from the point of view of merchant law, identifies her as a slave.
24	97	"And it is a civic matter, and you have been authorized to apprehend her and bring her before a slave praetor?" Slaves, as animals, lack standing before the law.
22	723	That must not be! Surely the priest-kings would not permit that! Surely they would see to it that she was delivered rather into my hands, for my vengeance.
26	107	"I charge you," said he, "in the name of the priest-kings of Gor, with being an agent of Kurii, and as such subject to the penalties connected therewith".

Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	14	"It is not unlike men," had once said Misk to me, a priest-king.
3	137	An initiate in the lead carried a standard on which was mounted the sign of the priest-kings, a golden circle, that which has no beginning or end, the symbol of eternity, the symbol of priest-kings.
3	75	It is here that Merchant law is drafted and stabilized.
15	486	Gorean law, of course, is complex and latitudinous on these matters.
1	24	The other was a pristine world, virginal in its beauty and fertility, one not permitted by its masters, called the Sardar, or priest-kings, to follow the example of its tragic sister.
1	25	priest-kings would not permit men to destroy Gor.
1	31	Indeed, is not weakness the ultimate irrationality? Gor, too, it must be remembered, is also the habitat of the Sardar, or priest-kings.
1	39	The priest-kings, for thousands of years, had defended the system of the yellow star against the depredations of the prowling Kurii.
1	41	But some years ago, in the time of the Nest War, the power of the priest-kings was considerably reduced.
1	48	That Half-Ear had come to Gor was taken by Samos and priest-kings as evidence that the invasion was imminent.
1	55	Should he discover the weakness of the priest-kings, or construct a depot adequate to fuel, to shield, and supply the beaching ships, there seemed little reason to suppose the invasion would not prove successful.
1	167	Then I recalled that she had once betrayed priest-kings, and had pointed me out to my enemies.
3	49	Then he would lift her in his arms, hair unbound, before the mountains of the Sardar, rejoicing, and giving thanks to priest-kings that she was now his.
3	166	They would stand before the palisade, paying the homage of their presence to the mysterious denizens of the Sardar, the mysterious priest-kings, rulers of Gor.
3	167	Each young person of Gor is expected, before their twenty-fifth birthday, to make the pilgrimage to the Sardar, to honor the priest-kings.
3	171	More than one beauty who thought to have stood upon the platforms by the palisade, lifting laurel wreaths and in white robes singing the glories of the priest-kings, has found herself instead looking upon the snow-capped peaks of the Sardar from the slave pl...
4	61	Each, I supposed, had their petition to make to priest-kings.
4	671	"For the sake of priest-kings," said the man, "stop the bleeding".
5	56	"I can command you," said Samos, "as one loyal to priest-kings, to remain in Port Kar".
5	61	"Would you betray priest-kings?" asked Samos.
8	38	"Ones who are not priest-kings," she smiled.
8	53	Kurii, like priest-kings, often work through men, concealing themselves from those who would serve them.
8	54	Samos, for example, had little inkling of the nature of priest-kings.
8	207	"priest-kings oppose them," I said.
8	208	"I understand priest-kings are weak," she said.
8	211	Yet it was true, surely, that priest-kings were not an aggressive species.
9	185	The Fairs, and, I think, the will of priest-kings, prevents this.
10	190	And had she not succeeded where mere men had failed? Muchly then did she relish the sight of Tarl Cabot, it seemed, he, occasional champion of priest-kings, sometimes foe of Kurii, at the mercy of her guards, and in chains she doubtless regarded as her own.
11	283	"You are going to serve priest-kings, my pretty little charmer," I told her.
11	304	"How am I to serve priest-kings?" she asked, wincing.

Book 13. (30 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
48	255	Technically, according to Merchant law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal matters, the girls become briefly the property of their rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to Merchant law, the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl.
4	128	Also, of course, one standing before the desk must look up to see the praetor, which, psychologically, tends to induce a feeling of fear for the power of the law.
4	192	Then I was naked! Find her, if you wish to be busy with matters of the law! I was the victim of theft! It was stolen from me, my garment! You should be hunting her, the thief, not holding me here.
18	44	Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.
27	154	Too, it is in accord with Merchant law.
32	337	"Also," I said, "if you are interested in these matters, you are not simply an animal in the literal sense, in the biological sense of 'animal', but in the sense that persons, individuals with rights before the law, are distinguished from animals".
32	341	In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal.
34	259	"Technically," I said, "in the eyes of Gorean law you are not an object but an animal".
51	107	The brief garments of the female slave identify her instantly as slave, comply with recommendations of Merchant law, brazenly display her flesh which is that of an animal for the delectation of free men, impress upon her her lowly status, and, interestingly, keep her in a state of sexu...
1	73	The first of these commonly occurs in certain of the Gorean enclaves on Earth, which serve as headquarters for agents of priest-kings; the second tends to occur in the lairs of Kurii agents on Earth; the first brand consists of a locked collar and, ascending diagonally ab...
1	74	It is apparently difficult to recruit Goreans for service on Earth, either for priest-kings or Kurii.
1	185	"Do you think you are the only one upon Gor who labors occasionally in the cause of priest-kings?" asked Samos.
1	276	"Shaba is an agent of priest-kings," said Samos.
1	278	"Surely you suspected others, too, served, at least upon occasion, in the cause of priest-kings".
1	281	It seemed to me better that I knew few of the agents of priest-kings.
1	447	"She betrayed priest-kings," he said, "and served Kurii agents in the Tahari".
1	546	I thought such a device might be of use to agents of priest-kings.
1	588	The Voyages of Acquisition, of priest-kings, I knew, had been of great antiquity.
1	639	"But priest-kings could surely determine, as soon as the switch was depressed, that the ring was false," I said.
1	648	"priest-kings might be killed," I said.
1	649	"Distrust and dissension might be spread then between men and priest-kings," said Samos.
2	37	Their own culture, perhaps because of the limitations imposed on it by priest-kings, who did not wish to be threatened or destroyed by an animal with which they shared a world, had taken different turnings.
5	662	The use of such rings, if their use were permitted by priest-kings, might well make it difficult or impossible for the Kurii to function on Gor.
5	666	Without it, given to me by a dying Kur warrior, I doubted that I could have survived to prevent, some years ago, the detonation of the explosives in the steel tower, in the Tahari, explosives that were intended to destroy Gor and the priest-kings, that the path to Earth m...
5	670	They sensed the weakness of priest-kings.
6	784	It was that which I sought, and perhaps, too, the blood of Shaba, who had betrayed priest-kings.
12	31	You come to us either from Kurii—or from priest-kings".
12	36	"The ring," said Msaliti, "may not be returned to priest-kings.
12	40	"No agent of priest-kings would wish the ring conveyed to the Sardar".
12	42	"You will then, of course," I said, to Shaba, "as an agent of priest-kings, bear the ring to the Sardar".

Book 14. (10 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	75	You are not yet a legal slave, a slave under law.
2	79	You will eventually find that you are, fully and legally, under law, a slave, totally a slave, and only a slave".
12	32	Is it truly easier, I wonder, to adopt columns and arches, philosophy and poetry, mathematics and medicine, and law, than a rational mode of dress.
12	373	I have not mentioned, either, slaves with professional competencies, such as medicine or law, or fighting slaves, in effect gladiators, men purchased for use as bodyguards or combatants in arranged games.
24	82	These are the three standard marking places, following the recommendations of Merchant law, for the marking of Kajirae, with the left thigh being, in practice, the overwhelmingly favored brand site.
27	114	It has proven to be an especially viable social institution, contributing to the stability and practicality of society, and it is honored in mores and sanctioned in law.
27	296	"There is a breakdown of law and order".
27	372	The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant law.
34	157	Her position is sanctioned in law.
16	37	It is said on Gor that only slaves, outlaws and priest-kings, rumored to be the rulers of Gor, reputed to live in the remote Sardar Mountains, are without caste.

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
21	297	It is a complex, vital, bright, colorful, deeply sensuous civilization; it is a harsh, gorgeous world in which the slave girl has a special role and place; her condition is unquestioned and categorical; it is supported by history, by custom and law; there is absolutely no escape for he...
24	392	The fullest slave, of course, is she who is a natural slave, and then, beyond this, truly wears the collar, that slave who is a slave by nature and whose slavery, released, is then confirmed and fixed upon her openly, publicly, by all the sanctions of custom and law, for all the world ...
24	400	Beyond this, of course, we knew we were, categorically and absolutely, legal slaves, lovely properties which might be bartered and sold, and who might figure in transactions which would be upheld in any court of law.
26	101	In his treatment of her he is untrammeled by either conscience or law, and this she knows, and loves, and, accordingly, hastens to obey and be pleasing.

Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	315	But the former, the slave girl, is owned with all the power and authority of law.
12	161	This was in full accord with Gorean law.
17	793	"It is against the law," she said.
20	1642	If castration makes them happy, who could be so heartless as to deny them this gratification? But to apply the knife, through discourse, and teaching, and law, to the innocent and unwilling is indeed offensive.
20	1684	She was shielded by law.
20	1887	The bondage relationship explicitly, in civil law, is perhaps best understood as the acknowledgment of nature's work and its elaboration and enhancement within a complex civilized framework.
21	63	"On this world, the law even, as I am a slave, in all its force, puts me in your total power".

Book 17. (30 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	107	They come to the sea walls flying the merchant flag which, in virtue of Merchant law, the only law common to civilized Gor other than the rules and dictates of priest-kings, normally allows access to a Gorean Port.
13	671	"Merchant law," I said, "is the only law common to many Gorean cities".
1	648	They had not directly experienced priest-kings, only the power of priest-kings.
1	1286	"Due process of law, as you may see," said Kog, "was strictly observed".
1	1302	"All law exists to serve the interests of the dominant powers," said Kog.
1	1305	law which is not a weapon and a wall is madness".
2	357	It is a felony in Gorean law to forge or falsify such papers.
10	61	A law, imposed on white men entering their lands by red savages, had been violated.
13	669	"And such things, like the brand, are recommended by Merchant law".
13	1188	She is now, commonly, a collared, embonded beauty, properly marked as merchandise, effectively displayed and marketed, and owned in the full right of law".
17	446	Another approach might be to envision a world compatible with reality and congenial to human nature, a world in which science, even social science, might be free, a world in which truth would not be against the law, a world designed not for the crippling, distortion and torture of huma...
18	174	"Surely we have broken no law," I said.
18	176	"I do not think they need more law than that".
18	181	"Surely there is no law to the effect that you should not be freed," I said.
18	182	"There is no law specifically to that effect," he said, "but I would not count on their being much pleased about it".
18	186	"If there were such a law," asked the youth, "would you have broken it?" "Yes," I said.
1	94	"You once served Kurii, the Others, the foes of priest-kings".
1	260	Such stories, for they were very old on Gor, probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most Goreans only as the priest-kings.
1	261	To be sure, few priest-kings, now, entertained such a curiosity nor such an enthusiastic penchant for exploration and adventure.
1	262	Now, the priest-kings, I feared, had become old.
1	265	I had two friends, in particular, who were priest-kings, Misk, and Kusk.
1	267	But they were only two, two of a handful of survivors of a once mighty race, that of the lofty and golden priest-kings.
1	268	To be sure, I had managed, long ago, to return the last female egg of priest-kings to the Nest.
1	331	He was, after all, an agent of priest-kings, and, indeed, the first captain of the council of captains, that body sovereign in the affairs of Port Kar.
1	615	I myself, whereas I had served priest-kings, did not regard myself as being of their party.
1	641	"Do you speak on behalf of priest-kings?" asked Kog.
1	644	"If you would speak with priest-kings," said Samos, "you must go to the Sardar".
1	645	"What are priest-kings?" asked Kog.
1	647	Such creatures, I gathered, had no clear idea of the nature of priest-kings.
1	650	priest-kings, wisely, did not choose to directly confront such creatures.

Book 18. (9 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	130	The collar is recommended, of course, and branding, by Merchant law, for obvious reasons.
7	184	It is almost like a law of nature.
14	591	"It is against the law," I said.
40	655	You could be returned to a master as such in a court of law.
44	715	Even in the entrapments of law it is by men that the sword is wielded, even when they are tricked into turning it against themselves.
54	300	The community was now, in effect, a small freehold in the Barrens, and yet, strictly, in the letter of the law, stood to the Kaiila as a leased tenancy.
54	313	In Gorean law allegiances to a Home Stone, and not physical structures and locations, tend to define communities.
56	16	She, a former agent of Kurii, had fallen into the hands of one who had done service for priest-kings, one who had doings with Samos of Port Kar, one who was known to some as Tarl Cabot, to others as Bosk of Port Kar.
56	87	"I suppose," I said, "as one who has upon occasion espoused the cause of priest-kings, I should attempt to slay you".

Book 19. (25 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	337	"It is in accord with the recommendations of merchant law".
3	338	"Merchant law?" I asked.
3	460	It thus becomes a question as to which among these animals own and which are owned, which, so to speak, count as persons, or have standing, before the law, and which do not, which are, so to speak, the citizens or persons, and which are the animals".
6	613	This might be regarded as the civilized expression of the biological relationship, a recognition of that relationship, and perhaps an enhancement, refinement and celebration of it, and, within the context of custom and law, of course, a clarification and consolidation of it.
14	45	But I was a free woman and would be subjected only to the cold and inhuman mercies of the law.
23	345	It was a strong recommendation of Merchant law that slaves be marked.
28	38	In some cities it is against the law for them to do so.
31	51	"Have you heard of priest-kings?" "Not really, Master, the word, little else".
31	55	"In any event, priest-kings, who have such power," said he, "have required that we on this world, for the most part, share a common language, the nature of which they left to us, and it has been composed, at least lexically, of many languages, and is regularly standardize...
31	56	"The priest-kings then," I said, "are wise and kind, and intend that by means of a common language all municipalities may well understand one another, and thus disagreement will be obviated, and peace and harmony assured".
31	63	"Then the intentions of these priest-kings have been frustrated?" I said.
33	668	"Some of us," said Menicius, "are familiar with the rumors, the frightening rumors, that there are forces on Gor, and elsewhere, who would challenge the power of the priest-kings themselves, rulers of Gor from time immemorial".
33	670	Sometimes it seemed likely to me that the priest-kings were mythical entities.
33	676	That counter-power, I suppose, for want of a better name, might be referred to as that of priest-kings.
33	681	This might be accomplished, presumably, within the weapon laws and technological limitations imposed upon Gorean humans by priest-kings, for whatever might be their purposes".
33	742	"What of the speculations of Menicius," inquired Claudius, "those having to do with affairs of worlds, of the business of priest-kings and others".
33	764	"We do not speak, then, of priest-kings," said a man, relieved.
33	765	"Who knows the nature of priest-kings?" asked a man.
33	783	That there is a third knowledge, that of priest-kings, is also a common belief.
33	788	"Gor, and the world called Earth," she said, "are prizes in a struggle of titanic forces, the forces of those whom you call priest-kings and of those whom you think of as 'others,' or whom we might think of as Beasts".
33	794	"Both priest-kings and Beasts possess powerful weaponry and are masters of space travel," she said.
33	798	In many respects priest-kings seem to be tolerant and defensive creatures.
33	845	"As beasts may be allied with men," said Claudius, "so, too, I suppose, might men be allied with priest-kings".
34	202	It was, I gathered, a device by means of which slavers, or those in league with Beasts, or those opposed to priest-kings, marked women brought to Gor for their purposes.
36	41	At the suggestion of Menicius who, at the same time, had returned to Corcyrus, Hassan was to take Sheila to Port Kar, for interrogation in the house of Samos, this with respect to matters having to do with priest-kings and beasts.

Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	485	The law is clear on this.
1	1099	This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law.
2	1662	Similarly you do not have her socio-natural vulnerability, that of the legal slave, helplessly so, in a society in which the institution of slavery is accepted, ingredient, pervasive, and honored, an unshakable matter, for thousands of years, of policy, tradition, and law".
7	269	There was no law against two traveling it.
8	272	"Show yourself," he cried, "as befits your office, that of those who courageously do war with brigands, that of those who do nobly defend and support the law, or as plain honest men, if that you be, that I may ally myself with you, that we may then offer to one another, no, then pledge...
9	413	Similarly, as I am sure you will recognize, at least upon reflection, you now have no standing whatsoever before the law.
16	336	"I shall have you taken before the law for slander!" "Do you wish to have it done for you?" inquired Chino, meaningfully.
16	443	"I shall have the law on you for this!" cried Rowena.
16	444	"Slaves have no standing before the law," said Chino.
18	297	"Martial law exists," said Belnar.
1	883	From the testimony of Sheila, and other sources which seemed to corroborate it, we gathered that the Kurii might now be turning to the patient stratagems of piecemeal subversion, the control of cities and their eventual linkages in networks of power, to win a world by means theoretically within the ...
1	886	It would not bode well for humans, I thought, if some form of liaison, or arrangement, were entered into between priest-kings and Kurii.
1	933	"The ship was probably a ship of priest-kings," said Samos.
1	946	Yngvar and his fellows, unwittingly, I was confident, had witnessed the inauguration of a new dynasty among priest-kings.
1	952	I had no intention of prying into his affairs, or those of priest-kings.
2	885	I wondered if this matter had to do with priest-kings.
2	1131	"Of priest-kings," he said.
2	1139	"They pertain to the arrest and detention of one who is reputed to be an enemy of priest-kings".
2	1157	I would betray priest-kings before I would betray you".
2	1158	"You are a brave man," I said, "to risk the wrath of priest-kings".
2	1171	"That you have betrayed the cause of priest-kings," he said.
2	1173	"I am not really an agent of priest-kings.
2	1176	"It may be no easier to withdraw from the service of priest-kings than from that of Kurii," said Samos.
2	1223	"In any event the delay between the messages has given independent agents of priest-kings time to arrive in Port Kar.
2	1229	"I think I have just killed an agent of priest-kings," I said.
2	1235	"priest-kings would not behave in such a way," said Samos.
2	1239	"Do you know anything about Brundisium, anything having to do with either priest-kings or Kurii?" "No," said Samos.
2	1264	I could be gone in two Ahn, on tarnback, before priest-kings discovered the failure of their plans.
2	1276	I could be gone in two Ahn, on tarnback, before priest-kings discovered the failure of their plans.
2	1587	I feared I had slain an agent of priest-kings.

Book 21. (13 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
25	2308	It is like the English king who in the legend sat upon the beach and forbade the incoming waves to touch his robes".
14	55	"The city is under martial law," I said.
18	260	"Yet, there are some I have heard of," I said, "who might deny a natural slave her bondage, even by law, no matter what might be the mental, emotional, and physical damage of this".
19	195	He may even have been a scribe of the law.
21	162	"I am not a scribe of the law," he said.
22	84	"But it is also against the law".
25	352	One of the glories of the Gorean culture is that it has a body of law, sanctioned by tradition and mercilessly enforced, pertaining, without evasion or subterfuge, to this relationship.
25	1419	In Gorean thought, and, indeed, Gorean law is explicit on this, what is owned is the whole slave.
25	2300	"They will attempt to use law," she said, "using men against men, using them as their dupes and tools, until the last man can be destroyed".
25	2307	Any such law is automatically null and void.
25	1004	The humans of Gor are of course human, mostly the scions of Earthlings brought to this world long ago by the priest-kings, in Voyages of Acquisition.
25	1005	Although doubtless the priest-kings had on the whole been careful to select excellent specimens, intelligent and healthy, and so on, for introducing to Gor, the specimens were surely of typical Earth stock.
26	625	It is regarded as constituting a violation of the Weapons laws imposed on Goreans by priest-kings.

Book 22. (29 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	388	"Such things are prescribed by merchant law," he said.
5	44	When she had been used before my kennel she had been under "gag law," as is common when the guards use a girl, forbidden speech, save for moans and whimpers.
6	327	How fearful it would be, I thought, if such a female, or such females, in all their hatred and frustration, should manage by lies, propaganda, misrepresentation, manipulation, distortion, chicanery and law, swiftly or gradually, perhaps almost unnoticeably, to bring about the ruination...
6	596	I had noted, with interest, that although they were from different worlds, they, in the throes of their intimate employments, at first submitting to and enduring, then accepting, then reveling in, and, at last, kneeling and licking, mutely begging and pleading for their ravishments, in...
6	627	I recalled hearing now, in the house, of "capture rights," respected in law.
6	634	If I were to flee the thief, however, after he has consolidated his hold on me, for example, kept me for even a night, I could, actually in Gorean law, be counted as a runaway slave, from him, even though he did not technically own me yet, and punished accordingly.
10	493	Even Gorean law makes it clear that it is the entire slave who is owned, not merely a part of her.
11	214	It would soon be replaced, we may suppose, with a new and more appropriate status, that of being a slave legally, a status fixed on her then with all the clarity and obduracy of Gorean law, and fixed on her for all the world to see, fixed on her as plainly as the collar on her neck and...
13	796	Of course, I would call men "Master"! They were my masters, and not only in the order of nature, but here, too, in the order of law.
17	104	The public buildings, the law court and the "house of the Administrator," the locus of public offices, were similarly structured and adorned.
24	19	His work chains, however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments.
28	101	This point in Gorean law is apparently motivated by the consideration that a slave always have some master.
29	185	Too, anyone whose citizenship, for whatever reason, is rescinded or revoked, with due process of law, is no longer entitled to the protections and rights of that polity's Home Stone.
29	1574	He held a steel sword, where such things made law.
34	175	It is as though all the forces of communication, education and law had gone insane, with no better objective than to bring the sexes to ruin, destroy the human gene pool and doom the species".
34	632	"I am yours in the sight of law, yours, owned, in fullest legality, and doubtless you are well aware, as well, that I am helpless in your arms, and writhe helplessly there, and hasten to obey in all things, fearful of my master's wrath, and that I am your slave conquest, and property, ...
17	16	Some visit the temples, paying coins, buying incense and burning it, petitioning priest-kings for favors, such things as better crops and success in ventures, such things as luck for themselves and calamities for their enemies.
17	17	Gorean petitions to the priest-kings seem on the whole to be very specific, and very practical.
17	34	The Gorean tends to regard priest-kings not so much as his masters as his potential allies, who might, if he is lucky, be flattered, wooed with gifts, and such.
17	35	On the high altar in each temple there is supposedly a large golden circle, the symbol of priest-kings, a symbol of eternity, of a thing without beginning or end.
17	36	The "sign of the priest-kings," similarly, is made with a closed, circular motion.
20	159	One popular account has it that an ancient hero, Hesius, once performed great labors for priest-kings, and was promised a reward greater than gold and silver.
20	161	He reproached the priest-kings with their niggardliness, and what he regarded as their breach of faith.
20	165	"If the priest-kings say this is worth more than gold and silver," said a wise man, "it must be true".
25	201	In Gorean mythology it is said that there was once a war between men and women and that the women lost, and that the priest-kings, not wishing the women to be killed, made them beautiful, but as the price of this gift decreed that they, and their daughters, to the end of ...
29	182	There is a Gorean saying that only priest-kings, outlaws and slaves lack Home Stones.
34	200	"I think perhaps they are put on the platforms outside the palisade of the Sardar Mountains, for priest-kings.
34	201	Then perhaps the priest-kings see that they reach Earth".
34	202	"I do not think there are such things as priest-kings," I said.

Book 23. (24 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	736	She was not, technically, at least at present, a slave in the eyes of the law, as an animal is an animal in the eyes of the law, a tarsk a tarsk, a vulo, so soft and pretty, a vulo.
24	755	Most Goreans, save for occasional sacrifices, observations, donations to temples, and such, called for by the caste of Initiates, who claim to mediate between men and priest-kings, live their lives without much concern for priest-kings, and see...
9	214	The law, the culture, and such, are not set up to permit it.
16	393	Although there are various legal qualifications involved, which vary from city to city, effective, or active, possession is generally regarded as crucial from the point of view of the law, such possession being taken, no other claims forthcoming within a specified interval, as conferri...
20	220	Perhaps that is because the reconciliation and coordination of chronologies, like the diction and convolutions of the law, are usually regarded as scribal prerogatives.
20	310	"It must be clearly understood, by all," said Calliodorus, standing up, smiling, putting his half of the topaz into his pouch, "that the Vosk League, a neutral force on the river, one devoted merely to the task of maintaining law and order on the river, is certainly in no way involved ...
21	315	Few of them, accordingly, are eager to frequent law courts.
21	358	The legal problems connected with intent to deceive with respect to caste, of course, problems of the sort which presumably constitute the rationale of the law, usually come up in cases of fraud or impersonation, for example, with someone pretending to be of the Physicians.
21	776	"Surely a polity, even if it be one of pirates, if it is to survive, if it is to protect itself, must establish some forms of justice and law within its own precincts?" "One would suppose so," I said.
21	845	The rape of a free woman on Gor, however, it must be understood, if one shares a Home Stone with her, can be a very serious offense, even involving exile; in such a case, it is interesting to note that the woman often chooses to follow the man into exile, even though she must then, in law<...
21	958	In the modality of master and slave is found the recognition of, and institutionalization of, within a civilized framework of law, custom and tradition, the ancient complementarity of the sexes, a complementarity consequent upon the extreme and beautiful dimorphism, physically and psyc...
24	974	I was once, in the eyes of the law, a free woman".
1	331	"It seems the priest-kings are grinding flour," laughed a man near me.
1	333	This was a reference to an old form of grinding, for some reason still attributed to priest-kings, in which a pestle, striking down, is used with a mortar.
1	352	Most Goreans, incidentally, do not attribute lightning and thunder to the grinding of the flour of priest-kings.
1	354	Some of the lower castes, however, particularly that of the peasants, and particularly those in outlying villages, do entertain the possibility that such phenomena may be the signs of disunion among priest-kings and their conflicts, the striking of weapons, ...
8	630	Too, the tarnsman retains something of the glamour which on Earth attached to the horseman, particularly so as the technology laws of the priest-kings, remote, mysterious masters of Gor, preclude the mechanization of transportation.
21	1253	This is, it seems, as the priest-kings will have it.
24	749	I would suppose that it is due to a fear of displeasing priest-kings.
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.
24	754	The symbol which represents priest-kings, found in temples, and so on, is the circle, usually golden, that which has no beginning or end.
24	757	Concern with the priest-kings is usually most prevalent, when it is found, amongst the lower castes.
24	758	All Goreans, on the other hand, are expected to make at least one pilgrimage during their lifetime to the Sardar Mountains, taken to be the home of priest-kings.
24	760	Presumably this is to avoid incurring the disfavor of priest-kings.

Book 24. (15 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
12	28	In some cities the veil is prescribed by law for free women, as well as by custom and etiquette; and in most cities it is prohibited, by law, to slaves.
1	891	Given this, it may be seen that, in a sense, the brand and collar, as lovely and decorative as they are, and as exciting and profoundly meaningful as they are, when they are fixed on a woman, and she wears them, and as obviously important as they are from the point of view of property law<...
12	263	That is because they, though legally free, within the strict technicalities of the law, are yet slaves.
19	147	Perhaps she is somewhat uneasy; perhaps she is curious; perhaps she wonders, if he is attractive, what it might be like to be at his feet, unclothed and bound, his, his by all the rules and law of capture.
19	160	Yet, I supposed, that such an absurdity, such an oversight of law, and civilization, was not irremediable.
19	285	Against such fraud, needless to say, the law provides redress.
19	337	"It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, "and to merchant law, as well".
19	341	Aside from questions of legality, compliance with the law, and such, I think it will be clear upon a moment's reflection that various practical considerations also commend slave branding to the attention of the owner, in particular, the identification of the article as property, this t...
26	58	In Tharnan law a person conceived by a free person on a free person is considered to be a free person, even if they are later carried and borne by a slave.
26	190	Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining to slaves.
28	645	"In this situation," I said, "in law, as well as in fact".
39	21	"It is against the law," said the fellow.
39	94	Now, however, she was not merely a natural slave, aware of herself, reduced, and self-confessed, begging the resolution and solace of the collar, but a legal slave, fully and perfectly embonded in law.
40	45	He was, I suspected, a scribe of the law.
40	104	Some speculated that they had drunk mysterious potions, rendering them invisible, others that they had been wafted away by priest-kings".

Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	352	I thought that Misk, the priest-king, my friend, might have been fascinated, if puzzled, by this behavior.
3	1084	"Pray to the priest-kings! Pray to the priest-kings!" wept a man.
13	85	"But if they possess the power of priest-kings, why not call them priest-kings?" "Do you think they would mind, if I did not?" he asked, somewhat apprehensively.
1	1	The Street "Surely you understand the law, my dear," he said.
1	19	"I am sure you are familiar with the law," said the first fellow, flanked by two magistrates.
1	24	It is a clear law".
3	284	Surely she must have known the law.
8	846	"It is against the law," he said.
8	847	"Not our law," I said.
9	95	"Are you a legal slave, my child?" asked one of the counselors, a scribe of the law.
9	440	"It is one thing to be captured by a man and taken to his tent, and put to his feet and made to serve, or to be sentenced by a magistrate in due course of law to slavery for crimes which I have actually committed, and another to stand here publicly shamed, before my enemy, a woman, in ...
11	134	"I am a law-abiding man.
14	263	The testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture in Gorean law courts.
15	173	I supposed that the taverners must be much put out by the curfew law, and would have lost much business.
19	484	By such an act, the couching with, or readying herself to couch with, a slave, as though she might be a girl of the slave's master, thrown to the slave, she shows herself as no more than a slave, and in this act, in law, becomes a slave.
19	485	Who then should own her, this new slave? Why, of course, he to whom the law consigns her, the master of the slave with whom she has couched, or was preparing to couch.
19	1386	In this sense the slave is accorded some protection from free persons who do not own her in virtue of certain general considerations of property law.
20	728	How far we were from the cave and the stone knife, I thought, and yet, again, in a way, how close! Could one not see in the blade of steel, so much keener and more dangerous, the knife of stone? Could one not recollect in the spacious courts of the palace the dim recesses of limestone caves? And who...
22	227	"It is the law! We of Ar may not carry weapons".
22	633	Merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on Gor.
22	634	Such things do exist in municipal law on Gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local.
26	477	"The principle here, I gather," said Marcus, "is that the Ubara is above the law".
26	478	"The law in question is a serious one," said Tolnar.
26	482	"I am Ubara!" "The Ubara is above the law?" asked Marcus, who had an interest in such things.
26	483	"In a sense, yes," said Tolnar, "the sense in which she can change the law by decree".
26	484	"But she is subject to the law unless she chooses to change it?" asked Marcus.
26	487	"Whatever law it is," cried the netted woman, "I change it! I herewith change it!" "How can you change it?" asked Tolnar.
26	572	The result of this examination, of course, was to produce a network of data which, to a statistical certainty, far beyond the requirements of law, would be unique to a given female.
27	367	I looked down at the new slave, whom I had decided to call 'Talena', which slave name was also entered on her papers, in the first endorsement, as her first slave name pertinent to these papers, and by means of which she could always be referred to in courts of law as, say, the slave w...
27	740	"To uphold the law they have jeopardized their careers, they have entered into exile!" "There are such men," I said.

Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	475	Enough to spill a few drops from the first cup, a libation, honoring priest-kings, or perhaps, in the name of priest-kings, for what is involved here may have many names, what might hold sway over both men and priest-king
19	308	To be sure, perhaps a priest-king might show up and say, "No, that is not what I wanted, at all".
19	309	But how would you know it was a priest-king? How would it establish its identity? Perhaps it could uproot trees, or kill people, or something.
19	310	But, could priest-kings do such things? And, if so, was it only priest-kings who could do them? I expected that, here and there on this world, and doubtless on others, similar ceremonies might take place.
19	311	The women of city A, for example, might be led to believe that it was the will of the priest-kings that they become the slaves of the men of city B, and the women of city B might be led to believe that it was the will of the priest-kings that t...
19	401	What if, for example, as an outside possibility, but one they were not willing to discount, there might be some mysterious connection between the Initiates and the priest-kings? Why not, then, put a coin in the bowl, particularly if it were not too valuable a coin? As far...
19	472	These would be neither the soldiers of priest-kings nor the foes of priest-kings.
7	155	But the primary purpose of the mark, one supposes, is not to be understood naively in such terms as its simple factual enhancement of our beauty, nor even in terms of how it makes us, those who wear it, feel, but rather, more simply, in virtue of more mundane considerations, such as its capacity to ...
12	944	In the pits his word is law for us.
24	971	Gone would be the protection of the law, of guardsmen, of the shared Home Stone.
11	1616	priest-kings, for example, whoever they may be, have no caste.
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.
19	238	"They are the intermediaries between ourselves and the priest-kings".
19	245	The circle I would later learn was the sign of the priest-kings, the symbol of eternity, that without beginning or end.
19	269	How odd, I thought, that it should supposedly be they who had the ear of the mighty and mysterious priest-kings.
19	270	If there were priest-kings, I wondered if they knew about the caste of Initiates.
19	272	Why would the priest-kings, I wondered, if they really required intermediaries, and were unable to deal directly with men, and, indeed, if there was any point in them dealing with men at all, have chosen to achieve this end with so eccentric and improbable a caste? Why wo...
19	287	Before them, now, was the gaunt man, the standard of the priest-kings behind him.
19	290	"Praise be to the priest-kings!" he called.
19	293	"Praise be to the priest-kings," murmured the crowd.
19	295	"We are favored by the priest-kings!" He half turned to his left, and then to his right, gesturing expansively behind him, first in one of these directions, and then in the other, indicating accumulations of treasure, among and before the tarns and raiders, piles of it, b...
19	297	"We thank the priest-kings for the favors they have bestowed upon us!" he cried.
19	298	"Thanks be to the priest-kings," said the crowd.
19	299	"We thank them for the gifts they have given us!" "Thanks be to the priest-kings!" said the crowd.
19	300	"We thank them for the riches they have given us!" "Thanks be to the priest-kings!" said the crowd.
19	303	"Thanks be to the priest-kings!" said the crowd.
19	304	We were to be given to understand, I took it, that these various matters were to be viewed as having all proceeded in accordance with the will of the mysterious priest-kings.
19	306	Too, assuming them to be interested, I wondered if there were any independent way of finding out what might be the will of the priest-kings, short, that is, of waiting and finding out how things, in fact, came out.
19	307	It was difficult to know, you see, how such a claim, that things proceeded in accordance with the will of the priest-kings, might be evaluated.
19	313	I supposed that a woman might, in theory, believe that she, say, because she deserved it, or because it was appropriate for her, was destined to slavery by the priest-kings.

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
27	3488	"For the love of priest-kings," cried Tersius Major, "give me something to drink, something to eat!" "You have broken the law of priest-kings," said Portus Canio.
22	501	It is both historical and contemporary; it is honored in custom and tradition; it is honored in practice; it is pervasive, societally and culturally; it is familiar, recognized and unquestioned; it is ingredient in the law and enforced with all the sanctions of the law.
26	752	"Now I surely acknowledge that the confiscation was within the letter of the law, given the current sorry state of Ar and the ordinances of the occupation; and I acknowledge further that she has been out of my hands for more than the number of days which, in Merchant law,...
16	252	It is hot enough to burn the turban of a priest-king".
27	754	"Have you ever seen a priest-king?" asked one of the strangers, of the fellow who had spoken.
27	2057	"I am now the equal of a priest-king," said Tersius Major.
27	2839	"I am the equal of a priest-king!" Then Tersius Major turned to the officer.
3	35	It was large, deep and luxurious, the sort of bed on which a sovereign might have sported with concubines, or a virile king with his pet courtesans.
1	23	Too, this is, I conjecture, in my current reality, not altogether unfitting; indeed, it is altogether appropriate, for you see that is what I now am, categorically, explicitly, an object, and not merely in the eyes of the law, but such irremediably, incontrovertibly, in the very realit...
1	100	The oddity, or anomaly, has to do in its way with law.
1	101	The state, or a source of law, it seems, can decide whether one has a certain status or not, say, whether one is a citizen or not a citizen, licensed or not licensed, an outlaw or not an outlaw, and such.
1	103	It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, with the person's awareness or consent, and yet it is true of the person, categorically and absolutely, in all the majesty of the law.
1	112	And then, by law, she, totally unaware, became something she had not been before, or not in explicit legality.
1	122	But this reality was later made clear to her, by incontrovertible laws, and deeds, which did not so much confirm the hypothetical strictures of a perhaps hitherto rather speculative law, one extending to a distant world, as replace or supersede them, in an incontrovertibl...
10	122	But here on Gor, she thought, slavery is explicit, acknowledged, sanctified in tradition and law, and here men are the masters, at least of women such as she.
10	327	What concern had the law, in all its power and majesty, with such matters? Whether he loved her or he did not, whether she loved him or she did not, did not matter.
11	161	"Not all," said Mirus, "though it is recommended by Merchant law.
11	179	Not as his eyes had feasted upon her! Perhaps it was all a joke, or a dream? But then she heard the word, explicitly, and realized that slave was what she was, that that was now her absolute and incontrovertible identity, and that this identity, mercilessly imposed upon her, had behind it the full f...
11	241	Could it be she? It was she, she realized, it was! It could be no other! It was she! How the collar enhanced her beauty, in a thousand ways, aesthetically and psychologically, and how delicately, unmistakably, and beautifully, too, was her status, condition, and nature made clear, fixedly and absolu...
12	270	At their back was the full power of custom, tradition and law.
14	115	But here, on this world, thought Ellen, unlike such a woman, I am a slave not only by nature, and appropriately, but under explicit, recognized law.
14	119	On this world I am, in the full sense of the law, explicitly and perfectly, slave.
16	160	Not all masters brand and collar their slaves, but branding and collaring is strongly recommended in Merchant law, and it would be a rare slave girl who was not both branded and collared.
18	134	In its way, the collar has some of the symbolic aspects of the marriage ring, except, of course, that that ring is a symbol worn by a free woman who is the putative equal of a man, whereas the collar is worn by a slave, and, aside from such things as its identificatory purposes, important in Merchan...
22	695	She law light reflected in the eyes of one of the beasts, from the uplifted lantern.
24	485	On Gor, on the other hand, as you have doubtless by now gathered, this omission, or this practice, that of not wearing the veil, is common with, and, indeed, is usually imposed upon, and in many cities by law, slaves.
26	1313	The free woman is a person; she is a citizen; she has standing before the law; she has a Home Stone; she is noble, lofty, and exalted.
27	490	Thus, on the symbolic level, where human sexuality luxuriates, thrives and flourishes, and aside from the obvious identificatory conveniences of Merchant law, it was far more than a lovely piece of jewelry; it enhanced her beauty not only aesthetically but symbolically, overwhelmingly,...
27	2228	Too, society accepts them, and has a place for them and their nature, and reinforces their condition with all the irrefragable power of custom and law.
27	2652	That is to be expected in a natural society, a society in which a prized and essential ingredient is female slavery, a society in which it is an accepted, respected, unquestioned, honored tradition, an institution sanctioned in both custom and law.

Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
79	543	"A king?" "More powerful than a king," said Cabot.
80	290	Indeed, as earlier noted, this display, as certain others, is prescribed by Merchant law, which is a general, intermunicipal body of law regularly promulgated by the Merchant caste at the great fairs, and tending to be shared by disunited, often hostile, Gorean communitie...
2	308	Why then? For what? To probe the defenses of priest-kings, to test equipment, to train and season pilots and task squads, to enact a trial of courage, to fling before priest-kings some sort of an act of defiance, what? Where are the pries...
57	2	"Dear Grendel!" he cried, "we had report that your plan had failed, and your command destroyed, wiped out, each and every one of our fellows, in the Vale of Destruction! Praise the priest-kings! You, and Cabot, and some others, Statius, I see, and some few, have escaped!"...
5	44	When necessary, we shall refer to the Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, not inappropriately we trust, by the name of a powerful war leader and king, Agamemnon.
20	3	He refused a diadem of gold, as he felt himself no ruler, no king, no baron, no Ubar, no Administrator, or such.
1	106	Indeed, they are indispensable in their way; have they not, however unintentionally, secured the foundation of law; have they not, however unbeknownst to themselves, raised from the mire of brutishness, insecurity, and terror the towers of civilization? Surely it is they who must man t...
1	217	Block measurements, taken presale, are commonly, and in some cities this is required by law, included in a female's sales information.
1	843	The most common site for such, recommended in Merchant law, is high on the left thigh, under the hip.
1	1178	Indeed, this is required by Merchant law.
3	113	But does not the collar enhance the beauty of any woman, the contrast with her softness, its irremovability, and its meaning? It is little wonder, he thought, that Merchant law prescribes that the fair throats of female slaves will know the collar, that their fair throats be clasped wi...
19	169	"Lord Pyrrhus is not above the law," said the machine.
19	170	"No one is above the law," speculated Cabot.
19	172	"One is above the law".
27	173	"In your former culture," said Cabot, "only males were thought to have value, really, and thus the female was supposed to become a pretend male, with male properties and virtues, a counterfeit male, a facsimile male, and so arose all the nonsense of identity, a farce transparent even to children, bu...
43	338	It would be a matter of law".
55	146	And it is a matter not simply of time and tradition, you must understand, but of mores, customs, practices, an ethos, and abundant and tested law".
79	573	"How is she a slave?" "She fell afoul of a law, one of her own father's laws, that she who couches with, or readies herself to couch with, a slave, becomes the slave of the slave's master, the couching slave in this case, whom I had purchased in order to compromise and en...
79	574	Afterwards, as had been my intent, I freed him, but this, in accord with the law and my plan, left her my slave.
80	279	To be sure, Merchant law, in any case, prescribes the collar, the brand, distinctive garmenture, and such.
80	291	Even were it not for such law, of course, practical considerations would dictate some obvious ways of marking the distinction between the female slave and the free woman.
1	120	It is rumored that within recent years certain tumults or transitions have taken place in the realm of priest-kings.
1	126	The individual, Tarl Cabot, had, it seems, upon occasion proved to be of some value to priest-kings.
1	127	In some eyes, though not in his, we may conjecture, he was even taken as an agent of priest-kings.
1	130	In this respect I do not think we are so unlike the priest-kings, whoever, or whatever, they may be.
1	134	A certain area of the polar region was at that time being used as staging area, under the command of the aforementioned Zarendargar, a staging area with munitions and such, for an attack on the Sardar enclave, destined to suddenly, decisively, and irremediably terminate the rule of priest<...
1	143	Representatives of the Death Squad contacted Samos of Port Kar, clearly an agent of priest-kings, and Tarl Cabot, for assistance in hunting down and executing Zarendargar.
1	144	It was assumed naturally that this assistance would be readily tendered for Zarendargar was well understood to be significant amongst the Kurii and a relentless, dedicated, and dangerous foe of priest-kings.
1	147	This effort, of course, was not only contrary to the desires of the Death Squad, but, too, seemed clearly to be an act not in the best interests of priest-kings.
1	148	On whose side, so to speak, was this mysterious, unpredictable, ungoverned Tarl Cabot? Was he an agent of priest-kings? Was he an agent of Kurii? If he was an agent, it seems he was his own agent, or an agent of honor, for, long ago, it seems, he and Zarendargar had share...

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	135	"You received this message," I said, "from the great priest-king, Lord Sarm?" "—Yes," he said.
28	389	But how could someone or something think they had a hold over me, in virtue of one such as she, a false Ubara, now deposed, last seen bound on the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, kneeling at the feet of men, fearing apprehension, fittingly placed in the rag of a slave? How could anyone, or any...
5	139	I had little love for priest-kings, but theirs was the law and the rod which held in check the inventive and indiscreet aggressions of humans on this, their world.
1	270	How could we have then failed to embrace, and therewith comply with the will and intrigues of priest-kings? Do they not use us as their pawns, their dupes, and instruments? Using our congruent natures how could we, so subtly manipulated, have failed to dance upon their st...
4	83	Too, the caste of Initiates, which claims to mediate between humans and priest-kings, with their sacrifices, and such, would obviously prefer for priest-kings to remain as invisible and mysterious as possible.
5	74	Who is to tell priest-kings who will be their instruments? Are you privy to their councils, can you read the mists, the fogs and clouds, which hover about the Sardar?" I supposed it was possible that this man might be an agent of priest-kings.
5	191	Doubtless the agent of priest-kings would have resisted capture, and would have been quickly, brutally slain, it being presupposed that his life would be of small value, that he was the mere carrier of the message, a message presumably in the box, and the token, which the...
5	283	Perhaps this had little to do with Tyros? Perhaps a round ship would raise less suspicion? Perhaps this was the very ship on which the agent of priest-kings might have had his passage? "I speak in the name of priest-kings," said Sullius Maximus...
5	320	Presumably, too, assuming I was compliant to the will of priest-kings, I would now naively prosecute the machinations of Kurii, confident that it was in the cause of priest-kings that I labored.
12	76	How could it be otherwise, for I was disembarked on the northern coast according to the exact coordinates of priest-kings, secret coordinates doubtless, was there met by two agents, doubtless also in the service of priest-kings, though that app...
12	85	Too, why should they believe, in the first place, that I would wish to labor on behalf of priest-kings? Surely I had not been treated well by priest-kings.
18	171	The second major theory proposed to explain the ban of priest-kings on body armor is that the priest-kings, in their benign concern for human beings, one of the diverse life forms with which they stocked the planet, thought the banning of body ...
3	204	I had encountered the tarn again, years later, in the Barrens, and we had again been one, but at the end of local wars I had freed him again, that he might again take his place as the master of a mighty flock, that he might be again awing in broad, lonely skies, be again a prince amongst clouds, a l...
23	174	It is said that in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
23	175	So, too, it might be said that in the kingdom of the addled and staggering, he is king who is sober, swift, and purposeful.
4	203	"It is an explicit recommendation of Merchant law".
13	437	The master may have many slaves, but the slave may, by law, have but one master, even if it be the state, or some corporate entity.
19	279	"It is the law of Lord Nishida".
22	278	The relationship of female slave and male master, though one established, sanctioned, and enforced by law, is founded obviously on one common in nature, that of, so to speak, the conquered, possessed female and the conquering, possessing male.
26	256	The former Ubara had been embonded in accord with the couching law of Marlenus of Ar, any free woman who couches with, or prepares to couch with, a male slave, becomes herself a slave, and the property of the male slave's master.
26	293	Possession, particularly after a lengthy interval, is often regarded as decisive, by praetors, archons, magistrates, scribes of the law, and such.
26	294	What is of most importance to the law is not so much that a particular individual owns a slave as that she is owned by someone, that she is absolutely and perfectly owned.
28	398	What hubris that a slave should dare to don the garments of a free woman, let alone take a place on a Ubara's throne! Would not each tiny particle of her flesh, one after another, have been publicly removed over weeks, or months, on a needle's point? I had seen to it that she was enslaved, in her ow...
44	47	Later, on a far world, far beyond the Prison Moon, a Steel World, as there were slavers there, and her attractions warranted this, she had been simply taken in hand, and branded and collared, routinely so, they not even understanding at that time that she was already a slave, not that that would hav...
1	15	This mode of orientation is not Gorean, the common compass of which, with its eight cardinal points, is oriented to the Sardar, the dark, walled, mountainous abode of priest-kings, but founded on the Gorean poles.
1	68	"Sometimes the priest-kings," I said, "as a most cruel punishment, condemn an individual to Earth".
1	103	"Doubtless in virtue of an arrangement with priest-kings," I said.
1	104	"Who are priest-kings?" she asked.
1	105	"What are priest-kings?" "Do not concern yourself with the matter," I said.
1	117	"If you have been placed here, in this verdant wilderness, at the will of priest-kings, whoever or whatever they may be, might not the Lady Bina and Lord Grendel have their purposes, as well?" "I do not know".

Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	200	How wise they were, and how powerful they were, how sacrosanct and holy they were, to have the ear of priest-kings, to have at their disposal the prayers, the spells, the rituals, the devotions, and sacrifices by means of which priest-kings mig...
1	392	She was now without a Home Stone, a fugitive, no longer protected by law.
3	1265	I realized that I was now, in the eyes of the law, no longer the Lady Flavia but an animal that might be named as the free might please.
5	135	The sword here did not seem to be a law unto itself, or at least his sword.
5	242	"The animosity borne to me by your Rutilius of Ar has nothing to do with Cos and Ar, with politics or war, with defense or security, nor with justice or law.
12	503	Indeed, as you know, in a court of law, the testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture.
34	54	The face of the slave, by law, must be naked.
34	79	"In my view, and in that of most, and certainly in the eyes of the law, your status is clear".
36	177	In a couple of places on a platform, there was a harbor praetor, now indoors, in the warehouse, on his curule chair, as opposed to on the docks themselves, their usual station, who might clarify the Merchant law, interpret it, adjudicate disputes, and make rulings.
37	115	It is hard to be in a man's collar and, after a time, not come to be his slave, not merely in law, but in heart.
2	2	One feared it was a ship of no mortal creation, but rather a vessel of priest-kings, come from the clouds over the Sardar, gone on air.
2	107	It is rumored that there were gigantic dragons of the sea, prodigious monsters, lurking beyond the farther islands, aquatic prodigies guarding the end of the world, set there by priest-kings, as one might post guard sleen about the perimeter of a camp, but t...
2	189	Surely this was no human thing, but a creation of the gods of Gor, of the priest-kings themselves.
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.
2	196	Then I thought, "No, the priest-kings would not build such mortal frames, and, if so, not of wood.
2	199	But such stories must be false, as they were denied by Initiates, the white caste, highest and worthiest of all the castes, as they were intermediaries between priest-kings and mortals.
3	307	"It could only have been the intervention of priest-kings," she said.
3	322	It seemed obvious that such an ensuance could be explained, if at all, only in terms of a sky ship, and, such, if it existed, would presumably emanate from the Sardar, allegedly the abode of priest-kings.
4	172	This is no time to tempt the indulgence of priest-kings, no time to tempt the season, or the patience of Thassa.
5	381	"It has to do with priest-kings and Others," said Lord Nishida.
12	388	"Praise the priest-kings," said the voice.
14	280	"By the priest-kings, by the Home Stone of Cos, save me!" I crouched on my small craft and caught at vines, trying to pull the two nailed beams toward him.
15	95	"For the sake of the priest-kings," I cried, at last, "it is enough".
17	202	Perhaps from the Sardar, a sign of the displeasure of priest-kings".
20	249	I looked about, and I saw the incredible, mighty differences between men and women, and understood that I, by nature or the will of priest-kings, was of that profoundly different sort, the woman.
21	197	It was my understanding that a dialect of Gorean was spoken at the World's End, that the priest-kings had seen to this.
21	200	The priest-kings, on the other hand, by various manifestations of their power, doubtless the Flame Death, and such, had made clear the wisdom of retaining Gorean.
21	203	The common wisdom on such matters is that the priest-kings favor a common language, as a means to more easily communicate their views to humans, for example, with respect to the technology and weapon laws.
23	80	It was apparently only a tiny remnant of a once mighty force, driven about, harried, fought, defeated again and again, some seven or eight hundred men, perhaps a thousand, which, exhausted, bloodied, and starving, on a gray, cold morning, surrounded save for the sea, awaiting an onslaught they could...
23	82	"Not priest-kings," he said.

Book 31. (30 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	168	How could such a world exist and not be known, or, I thought, is it known? Perhaps it is known, but as a guarded secret, official or governmental, to be kept from the general public? Is it the will of the priest-kings, the alleged lords of this world, I wondered, that the...
10	92	"Agamemnon," I said, "was an ancient king, on Earth".
5	50	The collar may be viewed as a simple contrivance, a device prescribed by Merchant law, identifying a slave and, if the collar is engraved, often her master.
8	387	Had I been capable of wondering, on Earth, if I were a slave, a rightful slave, a slave by nature? How foolish now seemed such abstract, idle ruminations! It was now confirmed upon me, that I, the former Allison Ashton-Baker, was a slave, and not only by law, however absolute that lega...
8	780	She was a mere barbarian, a scion of a primitive culture, and I was a civilized woman of Earth, of the upper classes, young, beautiful, educated, intelligent, sensitive, well-bred, refined, now somehow inexplicably entrapped in a barbarian world, a world where I was denied the protection of the <...
8	782	Thus, here, the law, in all its power and rigor, in all its weight and majesty, would be used not for me but against me, for example, to hunt me down and return me to a master.
8	1289	In that tiny world her word would be law.
8	1480	Men were still the masters, but now not subtly, almost invisibly, as on Earth, but now openly, visibly, in the full force of law.
10	163	I wanted to be his, his property, a helpless object, goods, possessed by him, in all the fullness of law, in all the fullness of culture, in all the fullness of nature.
16	150	And such relationships on Gor were institutionalized, fixed in law! I was collared! I sensed that I belonged on the block, stripped, before such men, who might, fittingly, purchase me as an object, or toy.
17	236	That is clear in law.
17	496	They make us theirs, in reality, and law.
18	700	"That goes far beyond law," I said.
18	702	"It is in law, as well, that the whole slave is owned".
26	212	"It is the law," said Astrinax.
26	218	That is the law".
35	25	I did know that testimony from a slave, at least in a court of law, is commonly taken under torture.
41	15	The law of gravity may be objectionable, but with what is it to be replaced? In any event, whatever might be the cause, most insurrections fail, and those that succeed seldom do more than restore the past with new bodies and different labels.
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.
3	16	But perhaps, finally, you know as little of your gods, your sovereigns, or priest-kings, as we.
3	23	Your only protection against these Others, these Different Ones, the lurkers and watchers, are your gods, your priest-kings.
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.
8	1189	The caste of Initiates, it is said, act as the intermediaries between priest-kings and men, appointing festivals, prophesying, uttering oracles, accepting offerings, selling blessings, performing sacrifices, and such.
8	1190	Much remains unclear, however, as I understand it, concerning the actual relationship, if any, between the Initiates and the priest-kings.
8	1191	It is clear, however, that the priest-kings are not to be taken lightly.
10	237	And there were the mysterious Sardar Mountains, within which, supposedly, resided the gods of Gor, called priest-kings.
17	190	Supposedly this would be acceptable to those who were the guardians of two worlds, my world, called Earth in my native language, and Gor, the priest-kings of Gor, a mysterious set of beings regarded with great awe, both by humans and Kurii.
17	191	Supposedly the priest-kings, whoever or whatever they might be, concerned to protect the two worlds of Tor-tu-Gor, in particular, Gor, a generally undamaged world, and their own, would allow this alliance, provided their weapon and technology laws were respe...
17	194	Then, by means of smuggled weapons, and the aid of the technology of the metal worlds, the priest-kings themselves might be attacked and eliminated, following which the world would belong to Kurii, who might then, with their various, competitive factions, contest it as th...
17	202	There was an attempt to recruit a disaffected human, one alienated from, and inimical to, priest-kings, a warrior, whose name was not spoken.

Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
43	1171	Whereas cities have laws, and most castes have caste codes, there is only one law which is generally respected, and held in common, amongst Gorean municipalities, and that is Merchant law, largely established and codified at the great Sardar Fairs.
14	425	"Have you ever seen a priest-king?" "No," I said.
14	373	You have heard of priest-kings, and Kurii?" "All have heard of priest- kings," I said.
3	37	That is prescribed in Merchant law.
7	285	It is said they own councils and sway law, that their gold hides and whispers behind thrones, that cities heed their words, that Ubars are often in their debt.
9	239	Custom and tradition, and sometimes law, are involved in these matters.
9	240	The free woman may dress to please herself, but, too, it seems she is well advised to please herself by conforming, and strictly, to a variety of canons, canons of taste, custom, convention, and sometimes of law.
22	149	"She knew the law," I said.
23	127	But Laura could run! She could flee! I was not such a fool as to suppose I was not now a slave, for in the perfection of the law it was so, but I could run.
29	164	Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls.
43	1172	According to Merchant law an unclaimed slave, one legally subject to claimancy, may be claimed, and then is the property of the claimant.
46	54	Her nature, condition, and status are unquestioned in custom and institutionalized in law.
46	115	An exception is when her testimony is to be taken in a court of law.
48	27	Here it was so not only in the aching, longing reality of the heart, desiring to belong to and serve a master, but in the full, implacable reality of fact, truth, and law.
52	783	You should have been left to pine and languish in your shallow, tepid world, left, if anything, to the timid, polite, fumbling attentions of psychologically emasculated pseudomales, conditioned from infancy to disown their own nature, and deny their own blood, the creatures of a pathological world w...
13	147	They are often spoken of, in whispers, as priest-kings.
14	374	"How else would there be a world, a universe?" "Perhaps," he said, "priest- kings are the children of the world, of the universe".
14	380	"Do you believe in priest- kings?" he asked.
14	400	"Suppose that priest-kings, wise and powerful, or cruel and powerful, or arrogant and powerful, or exotic and powerful, were in their way mortal, and vulnerable, and concerned to protect their kind and world".
14	408	"But I think they are foes of priest-kings".
14	436	"priest-kings and Kurii," I said, "have something to do with Tarncamp?" "I do not know," he said.
14	504	"It is said," he said, "on the wings of priest-kings".
14	515	"priest-kings and Kurii are involved," I said.
15	309	"Beasts, misfits, vagabonds, exiles, repudiated men, scoundrels, outlaws, and such," she said, and then, lowering her voice, whispered, "and perhaps priest- kings".
15	310	I felt it wise to retrain from speaking, as she had spoken of priest-kings.
20	95	Some of the girls, however, particularly those of the First Knowledge, deemed lightning, at least upon occasion, the cast, fiery missile of angered priest-kings, and its successor, thunder, as proclaiming, for all to understand, the fact of its terrible passage.
21	166	"You have heard of the Flame Death of the priest-kings?" asked the first beast of Tyrtaios.
21	168	"I have seen it once," said the beast, "when a fellow of mine, brandishing a forbidden weapon, one forbidden by the laws of priest- kings, was suddenly torn away from me, literally from my side, in a burst of light, of flesh, of blood, and ash.
21	171	They then, I thought, as men, realized the power of priest- kings, and feared them.
21	172	How formidable, how terrible, I thought, must be priest-kings.

Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
58	233	Did priest-kings favor Lord Temmu or Lord Yamada? Which, if either, was favored by Kurii? Surely both Kurii, or some Kurii, and priest-kings, or some priest-kings, had collaborated in the readying of, and the flight ...
21	75	It was obvious, given the technologies involved in such a suspension of consciousness and such a methodology of transition that either the priest-kings or the Kurii, or both, had chosen to intervene in what might otherwise have been regarded as little more than a final ba...
21	76	The possibility had suggested itself to some, a possibility which seemed plausible to me, that the Kurii, frustrated at the current failure of their designs, and the priest-kings, annoyed by probes, and predatory intrusions, might be willing to gamble for a world's surfac...
21	78	If the dice fell in favor of the bestial Kurii, the priest-kings would surrender to their intrusion and habitation the surface of their world, and should the dice fall in favor of the priest-kings, the Kurii would withdraw to their steel worlds...
27	178	"I know little of priest-kings, or their laws, or thoughts," said Haruki, "or that there are priest-kings, or that they think, but there are many ways to communicate quickly, to transmit even complex messages, explaining situation...
45	89	"If the iron dragon utilizes gravitational technology, as you suggest, and that is within the provenance of priest-kings," said Pertinax, "then it is clear the priest-kings favor Yamada".
45	93	For example, though the iron dragon clearly incorporates the technology of priest-kings, it just as clearly violates the laws of priest-kings, and would thus, in countering the effect of the cavalry, seem to tip a balance in favor...
45	95	"With so much at stake," I said, "in effect, a planet, for Kurii would not long be likely to peaceably share a world with priest-kings or any others, and surely priest-kings would realize the danger of admitting a technologically advanced, aggr...
13	237	"Such things, identifications in their way, are in accord with Merchant law," I said.
13	256	law returned, in the form of the red sword.
20	78	"Too, that location is commonly recommended in Merchant law, on the continent".
27	53	Such a practice is not likely to elevate respect for the law".
29	406	"On the continent," I said, "it is prescribed by Merchant law".
30	70	"Fortunately for us," had said Tajima, "for times and roads are dangerous, and the protection of the great lord's law is welcome".
31	226	There is no law without the bow and glaive".
46	22	It is prescribed by Merchant law.
46	438	It is prescribed, as indicated earlier, by Merchant law.
46	449	"The peasant Eito," I said, "though seemingly well to do, and presumably peaceful and law-abiding, respectful of authority, and such, was clearly pleased at the slaying of the warrior, Izo.
47	169	It has been used both in courts of law as a procedure for deciding guilt or innocence, and, more commonly, as an amusing manner of execution, in which the naive subject tortures himself into hoping that he may survive.
58	238	Were these not independent, powerful, sovereign species, under no shared law, subject to no common sovereign, capable of imposing its will, but rather stood opposite one another in a state of nature, rather as two larls might face one another, snarling, contesting territory.
58	239	And who would presume to give law to the savage larl? She who had been the Lady Kameko was outside, in the corridor, kneeling, bent over, bound.
60	407	We need law, time to tend our fields, leaders, the protection of the mighty".
1	490	It seemed likely, however, given the mysterious appearance of Pani in the northern forests, and the work on a great ship, so far from civilization, a ship which might be capable of crossing Thassa, that this business would have to do, somehow, with Kurii, or priest-kings,...
6	18	In this I detected the work of priest-kings, and a wager, perhaps for the stakes of a world's surface, with Kurii.
6	21	It was a speculation that priest-kings and Kurii, weary of skirmishes, of indecision, of stalemates, of continual intrusions and probes, had proposed, if not agreed upon, a game of men, a drawing of cards or a casting of dice, on the outcome of which depended a coveted pr...
6	24	One supposed both the sophisticated weaponry of Kurii and the engines of priest-kings were to be abjured.
6	31	Well was I aware of the subtlety and deviousness of priest-kings, well was I aware of the determination and cunning of Kurii.
13	153	Had it not been for the intervention of priest-kings or Kurii, or both, I think the remnants of Lord Temmu's land forces would have perished on a beach long ago, rather than appearing, seemingly unaccountably, in the vicinity of Brundisium on continental Gor.
19	191	I had first met her on the Prison Moon where I had been confined by priest-kings, a confinement which had been ended by a raid of Kurii on that facility, following which I had been taken to one of the steel worlds, on which world, as noted, I had acquired the slave in que...
19	192	On the Prison Moon, a largely automated prison, it had been intended by the priest-kings that I should be defeated and broken as a warrior, by means of an ingenious torture consisting of the counterpoising of desire and honor.

Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
40	80	Whereas most Gorean cities share in, and respect, Merchant law, the only common law binding scattered, and often hostile, communities, there are no provisions in such law for securing protections against one party's appropriation of another party's methods, ...
49	75	Merchant law, instituted at, and revised in, the Sardar Fairs, is the only common body of law on Gor.
8	353	You are no more likely to see one than a priest-king".
49	41	They bravely stand between the power, mystery, and formidableness of priest-kings and ordinary people, on whose behalf they will intercede, for a fee, with the priest-kings themselves.
36	122	"That is the name," I said, "of a Greek king".
36	123	"An Argive king," said Kurik, my master, "a name chosen doubtless with something in mind".
8	244	"Are they not against the law?" he asked.
10	278	Merchant law recommends that female slaves be kept in their collars.
15	162	"By law, heavy drayage is confined to the hours of darkness".
20	95	Would she not be punished for that? The law!" "That is no slave," whispered Lita.
26	16	Similarly there is no international law.
26	17	law, for most practical purposes, reaches no further than the swords of a given polity.
26	23	Two further aspects of the Gorean way might also be considered, first, the suspicion and hostility obtaining amongst diverse polities, which militates against cooperation and assistance, and the limits of Gorean law, even within a polity, as Goreans tend to be radically independent and...
30	243	In Gorean law the slave is an animal.
37	157	On the other hand, in the law of Ar, and several other cities, the free woman who pleasures herself with a male slave risks her own enslavement, and becoming the property of the slave's master.
48	151	"In heart," she said, "but not in law.
61	303	But how had she dared to speak? Did she not know she had been cautioned to silence? And how dared she use the expression 'my master' to him, when she belonged to another, to Decius Albus? How tragic can be the lot of a helpless slave! In her heart she was the slave of Drusus Andronicus, but, in the ...
69	71	It was true, in full law.
69	104	You know that much from Merchant law.
8	342	"They are called priest-kings," he said.
8	347	"I have seen beasts," he said, "foes of priest-kings".
8	357	"Between priest-kings and beasts," he said.
8	364	"Both priest-kings and Kurii," he said, "enlist human allies.
8	381	"priest-kings are tyrants.
23	119	"There are elements in the caste of Slavers," he said, "bands that are secret, that proceed covertly, even having recourse to vehicles forbidden by the laws of priest-kings".
23	120	"I know nothing of priest-kings," I said.
23	121	"Indeed," he said, "it is rumored that certain elements of the Slavers, and others, have dealings with the enemies of priest-kings".
23	125	"Such vehicles, which tread the skies themselves, are forbidden to the men of Gor by the denizens of the Sardar, the priest-kings," he said.
23	127	I did not even know if there were priest-kings.
23	196	"Have you heard of dark wars, of secret wars, wars challenging the reign of priest-kings themselves, wars for viable spheres, for Gor itself? Have you heard of Kurii, of Steel Worlds?" "No, Master," I said.

Book 35. (11 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	188	Merchant law requires that such as you be collared".
1	304	Many other things, of course, keep us as we are, for example, markets and economics, law and custom.
6	59	"How then," asked a man, "could there be honor, order, civility, trust, respect, law, harmony, courage, and fellowship?" "I do not know," said another.
11	132	There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of the city; I am...
24	56	There might be tangles of law.
32	17	I was sure the tavern's legal claim to me would be upheld by the scribes of the law.
33	503	Without it, how could justice be done and wrongs righted? Where law fails and judges err, what but the blade and quarrel can speak? Let insult be answered and slander avenged.
34	50	The matter is clear in the law".
38	68	Convention, education, culture, and law, seemingly the very air one breathed, from the cradle on, was engineered to demasculinize men, to make them fear their nature, to betray their blood, to suspect and be ashamed of their most natural interests, desires, impulses, and urges.
47	19	You are a slave, by nature, and now by law".
46	206	"May it be the will of priest-kings that the paga speeds to our door," said the Vat Master.

Book 36. (28 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	163	"Only those who recognized the advantages and power of ignoring the law".
1	174	One wishes, of course, to obey the law.
19	173	We knew that the bow had been prohibited to the Peasantry of the islands by Cosian law.
19	176	Certainly he was aware of the law, and doubtless more so than we.
19	192	"The laws are the laws of Cos, but the enforcers of the law need not be Cosians".
20	35	"Deliver him to the law!" "Hear me, oh my caste brothers!" called Aktis.
40	68	Impose martial law.
48	125	In some cities it is against the law to deface a scroll or damage a musical instrument.
63	43	Already, today, I have been a pastry cook, a Ubar, a shrewd scribe of the law, a befuddled metal worker, and a sly, oily fellow soliciting patronage for a paga tavern".
63	163	"She was a traitress Ubara, a betrayer of her Home Stone, a subverter of law, an enemy to her own city, a puppet of foes, a duplicitous servant of blood enemies.
63	179	"What need is there of a trial?" "Perhaps," I said, "that vengeance be decked in the colors of law".
63	180	"The Ubar makes law," said Thurnock.
63	181	"He is thus above the law".
63	182	"Do you take the supremacy of law to be a myth?" I asked.
63	183	"Who makes the law?" said Thurnock.
2	122	"Perhaps the priest-kings, with their mysterious and mighty powers, have some hand in this," said Clitus.
2	124	"Thank the priest-kings," said Aktis, "that you have not encountered the intruders.
2	125	Indeed, hire Initiates to petition the priest-kings that you do not do so".
2	145	How might one separate idle rumor from sober truth; how might one tell fact from fable, fear, and fancy? This had much to do with the technology laws of the priest-kings, who, it seemed, recognized the danger, both to themselves and other forms of life, of s...
2	146	Did the priest-kings not regard us as an interesting, but simple, primitive, short-sighted species? Who knows what might come of putting matches, bombs, and dynamite in nurseries, and madhouses? "Go home, while you can," said Aktis.
4	114	"Mariners, noble mariners," cried one of the women, extending her hand piteously, "succor, succor!" "Glory to the priest-kings that you have seen us!" cried another.
7	127	What are six or seven ships against twenty, twenty naval vessels, manned by trained crews, vessels fierce and swift, like hungry sea sleen, armed with snouts of iron?" "By the priest-kings," said Archelaos, enthusiastically, his fist striking the table like ...
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...
16	168	"Of love, of fishing, of villages, of men, of priest-kings, of the mysteries of the universe? I warn you.
16	169	I know little of priest-kings or the mysteries of the universe".
35	19	"And it is said," said Clitus, "that there is a Third Knowledge, known only to priest-kings".
52	85	It speaks of the hands of priest-kings.
59	28	"May the priest-kings look with favor on the cheating and chicanery of your caste," he said.