Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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How could it have entered the mountains? Perhaps it was native.
2
76
But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation of a larl's gnawing jaws.
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-kings or their servants.
2
78
In spite of my hatred of priest-kings I could not help but admire them.
2
79
None of the men below the mountains, the mortals, had ever succeeded in taming a larl.
2
80
Even larl cubs when found and raised by men would, on reaching their majority, on some night, in a sudden burst of atavistic fury slay their masters and under the three hurtling moons of Gor lope from the dwellings of men, driven by what instincts I know not, to seek the mountains where they were born.
2
81
A case is known of a larl who traveled more than twenty-five hundred pasangs to seek a certain shallow crevice in the Voltai in which he had been whelped.
How could it have entered the mountains? Perhaps it was native.
But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation of a larl's gnawing jaws.
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-kings or their servants.
In spite of my hatred of priest-kings I could not help but admire them.
None of the men below the mountains, the mortals, had ever succeeded in taming a larl.
Even larl cubs when found and raised by men would, on reaching their majority, on some night, in a sudden burst of atavistic fury slay their masters and under the three hurtling moons of Gor lope from the dwellings of men, driven by what instincts I know not, to seek the mountains where they were born.
A case is known of a larl who traveled more than twenty-five hundred pasangs to seek a certain shallow crevice in the Voltai in which he had been whelped.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )