CLAN OF HARUSPEX
I heard a haruspex singing
between the wagons; for a piece of meat he would read the wind and the grass;
for a cup of wine the stars and the flight of birds; for a fat-bellied dinner
the liver of a sleen or slave."
Nomads of Gor, page 27.
" the haruspexes, who, besides foretelling the
future with a greater or lesser degree of accuracy for generally reasonable
fees, provide an incredible assemblage of amulets, talismans, trinkets,
philters, potions, spell papers, wonder-working sleen teeth, marvelous powdered
kailiauk horns, and colored, magic strings that, depending on the purpose, may
be knotted in various ways and worn about the neck."
Nomads of Gor, page 28.
CLAN OF HEALERS
"They do have, however, certain
clans, not castes, which specialize in certain matters, for example the clan of
healers."
Nomads of Gor, page 12
CLAN OF
IRONMASTERS
Nomads of Gor, page 62. "Kamchak stopped by an Iron Master's wagon, and, to my irritation, arranged for the fellow to come by the wagon that very night."Nomads of Gor, page 170.
CLAN OF
LEATHERWORKERS
He did
not buy a kaiila near the wagon of Yachi of the Leather Workers..."
Nomads of Gor,
170.
CLAN OF MUSICIANS
"To one side, across a clearing
from the fire, a bit in the background, was a group of nine musicians. They were
not as yet playing, though one of them was absently tapping a rhythm on a small
hand drum, the kaska; two others, with stringed instruments, were tuning them,
putting their ears to the instruments. One of the instruments was an
eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across
the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was
the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat bridged and
its strings are adjusted by means of means of small wooden cranks; on the other
hand, it less resembles a low, flat box and suggests affinities to the banjo or
guitar, though the sound box is hemispheric and the neck is rather long; it,
too, of course, like the czehar, is plucked; I have never seen a bowed
instrument on Gor; also, I might mention, I have never seen on Gor any written
music; I do not know if a notion exists; melodies are passed on from father to
son, from musician to apprentice. There was another kalika player, as well, but
he was sitting there holding his instrument, watching the slave girls in the
audience. The three flutists were polishing their instruments and talking
together...There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another
fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a
pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished
tem-wood stick along its notched surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was
obviously a tambourine; and several other instruments of a percussion variety,
bits of metal on wires, gourds filled with pebbles, slave bells mounted on hand
rings, and such. These various things, from time to time, would be used not only
by himself but by others in the group, probably the second kaska player and the
third flutist. Among Gorean musicians, incidentally, czehar players have the
most prestige; there was only one in this group, I noted, and he was their
leader; next follow the flutists and then the players of the kalika; the players
of the drum come next; and the farthest fellow down the list is the man who
keeps the bag of miscellaneous instruments, playing them and parceling them out
to others as needed."Nomads
of Gor, 153-154.
CLAN OF
PEDDLERS
"At another wagon, he
haggled over a set of quiva, forged in Ar, and, obtaining his price, arranged to
have them, with a new saddle, brought to his wagon on the morrow."
Nomads of Gor, pg 170. "Before leaving the wagons I had joined them briefly on their march, long enough to obtain my peddler's disguise and the pound or so of stones which was to complete it. I purchased these things from the man from whom Kamchak had, on a happier occasion, obtained a new saddle and set of quivas. I had seen many things in the man's wagon and I had gathered, correctly it seems, that he himself was a peddler of sorts." Nomads of Gor, pg 234.
CLAN OF PUBLIC SLAVE WAGON
MASTERS
"Among the wagons...the masters of
the public slave wagons...buy, sell, and rent girls, providing warriors and
slavers with a sort of clearing house and market for the feminine merchandise.
The public slave wagons, incidentally, also provide Paga. They are a kind of
combination Paga tavern and slave market. I know of nothing else precisely like
them on Gor."Nomads of
Gor, pg 118."Already a large, curtained
enclosure had been set up near the slave wagon. For a fee, the proprietor of the
wagon would permit visitors. These arrangements irritated me somewhat, for
customarily, the chain dance, the whip dance, the love dance of the newly
collared slave girl, the brand dance, and so on, are performed openly by
firelight in the evening, for the delight of any who care to watch....I gathered
that the little wench from Port Kar must be superb."
Nomads of Gor,
pg 147.
CLAN OF SALT
HUNTERS
CLAN OF
SCARERS
When I have the time," said
Harold, "I will call one from the clan of Scarers and have the scar affixed. It
will make me look even more handsome."
Nomads of
Gor, pg 247.
CLAN OF
SINGERS
"The Wagon Peoples, as might be
expected, have a large and complex oral literature. This is kept and
occasionally, in parts, recited by the Camp Singers. "Nomads of Gor, page
12.
CLAN OF TORTURERS
"The Wagon peoples are the only
ones that have a clan of torturers, trained as carefully as Scribes of
Physicians, in the arts of detaining life. Some of these men have achieved
fortune and fame in various Gorean cities for their services to Initiates and
Ubars, and others with an interest in these arts. For some reason they all
wear hoods. It is said that they remove the hood only when the sentence is
death, so that it is only condemened men who have seen whatever it is that lies
beneath the hood."
Nomads of Gor, page 9-10. "'I have a knife!' cried Aphris in fury. "...When Kamchak had drunk the cup of wine he looked again at Aphris.' For what you have done,' he said, 'it is common to call one of the Clan of Torturers.' " Nomads of Gor, page 142. "I noted, following me, as I had more than once, a masked figure, one wearing the hood of the Clan of Torturers." Nomads of Gor, page 147. "Aphris, for her part, although the quivas were still available, seemed, shortly after having begun to sleep at Kamchak's feet, for some reason to have thought better of burying one in his heart. It would not have been wise, of course, for even if she were successful, her consequent hideous death at the hands of the Clan of Torturers would probably, all things considered, have made her act something of a bad bargain. Nomads of Gor, page 155.
CLAN OF
YEARKEEPERS
"The
years, incidentally, are not numbered by the Wagon Peoples, but given names,
toward the end, based on something or other which has occurred to distinguish
the year. The year names are kept in living memory by Year Keepers, some of whom
can recall the names of several thousand consecutive years. The Wagon peoples do
not trust important matters, such as year names, to paper or parchment, subject
to theft, inset and rodent damage, deterioration, etc. Most of those of the
Wagon Peoples have
excellentmemories, trained from birth."Nomads of Gor, pg 12. "His parents and people had been slain in the Turian raid in which he had been captured, so he had no kin. There had been, fortunately for him, a Year Keeper who had recalled the family." Nomads of Gor, pg 68. | ||||||
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