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The special Gur used on the Feast of Tola is, in the ancient fashion, kept for weeks in the social stomachs of specially chosen priest-kings to mellow and reach the exact flavor and consistency desired, which priest-kings are then spoken of as retaining Gur. I watched as one priest-King and then another approached the Mother and repeated the Gur Ceremony. I was perhaps the first human who had ever beheld this ceremony. Considering the number of priest-kings and the time it took for each to give Gur to the Mother, I conjectured that the ceremony must have begun hours ago. Indeed, it did not seem incredible to me at all that the giving of Gur might well last an entire day. I was already familiar with the astounding patience of priest-kings and so I was not surprised at the almost total lack of movement in the lines of that golden pattern, formed of priest-kings, which radiated out from the Platform of the Mother. But I now understood as I observed the slight, almost enraptured tremor of their antennae responding to the scent-music of the musicians that this was not a simple demonstration of their patience but a time of exaltation for them, of gathering, of bringing the Nest together, of reminding them of their common, remote origins and their long, shared history, of reminding them of their very being and nature, of what they perhaps alone in all the universe were—priest-kings. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )