To serve a Master or Mistress, is to show one’s love and submission. Each slave should have their own style of serving, after learning the basics.
The easiest way to learn, is to read about the serves in the books, or study, watch and learn from your sisters and brothers, learn about the food, drinks and practice.
This one hopes that this helps you, just follow your heart. Please do not cut and paste another’s serve, much work and devotion go into them and you will only be cheating yourself.
You will find that serving can be a bit overwhelming at first, so try breaking it down into steps, and learn the function of each.
1. ACKNOWLEDGE
this is where a slave ALWAYS responds; “yes Master/Mistress” back up three steps in respect from before them.
2. GOING
This is where you rise from where ever you are and walk to the serving area. Have a feel of your surroundings, so you can be creative with your movement. Describe yourself, adding feeling, actions and moves.
Examples:
~weaving thru the furs
~padding quietly over the cool tiles
~walking thru the sands to the servery
~moving swiftly from the dais
3.CHOOSING
selecting a correct vessel, cleaning it and testing for imperfections, showing your love and devotion, your joy in your serve. Once you decide on the drinking vessel (goblet, bowl, mug etc. ), you need to get it form the shelves. Cleaning and inspecting the vessel shows that you care about getting the best for the Master/Mistress you are serving. Clean the vessel with repcloth. Inspect the vessel for imperfections as WELL AS testing the rim against your skin.
Examples:
~reaching to a high shelf
~bending low and reaching to a low shelf, her bottom exposed as the silks rise
~knelt upon the counter, leaning forward
This is another opportunity to express yourself, your personality, and show off your form, either as blatant or subtle as your silks allow.
4. GETTING/PREPARING THE DRINK
fetching the drink or food, preparing it, descriptions, the beauty of what you are doing. This is one of the more intricate steps to a serve. Many of the drinks have their particular way of being prepared. (goblet for kalana, warmed paga from bota, milk and sweet rocks or honey for blackwine, pay attention to details) KNOW THE MASTER/MISTRESS YOU SERVE, AND THEIR PREFERENCES, when in doubt, respectfully ask them.
5. RETURNING TO THE FREE/KNEELING
Returning to the Master is also a time to show off and to focus the attention on you and the Master you serve. The moves your body make, painting a picture of grace and devotion. this alerts the Master that he is now coming to the center of your attention. A pleasure slave kneels in nadu before the Master, displaying herself. She is openly seductive, sensual and submissive to the Master she is serve. Take pride in your kneel, do not just post “kneeling in nadu”, but describe it fully, you are displaying your body, for Master/Mistress. For you are kajirae. *note* when serving Mistresses it is custom to kneel in tower position to show respect. (thighs together); this also goes for slaves wearing training ko-lars or white silks. A restricted slave, or a white silk slave, kneels in tower, modest. She is sensual, submissive, but yet DEMURE to the Master/Mistress she serves.
6. ACTUAL SERVE
There are two parts to the actual serve
1. The physical motion
a. Touching slave belly, this is to show again, devotion in serving and to speak of the heat slave raging within.
b. touching the slave heart, shows your love and devotion in your slavery, asking blessings for the Free
c. serving with raised arms up over your head, shows your complete submission to the One who you serve, your head being held high and your eyes downcast to show the utmost respect.
2. Addressing
Your words of offering in the food or drink. The spoken blessing is where the slave tells the Master they offer the drink, and their expression of their desire to please and honor the Master with the serve.
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Bazi Tea Serve
There is not a ceremony for serving Bazi tea in the books. There is mention of the tea, however, and that it is usually served in three small cups.
"'I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy, curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured." ~Tribesmen of Gor, pages 139 & 140~
"'Make me tea,' I said. 'Is it ready?' I asked. I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy, curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured. She did not make herself tea, of course. She lifted the kettle from the fire and, carefully, poured me a tiny glass of tea. I took the glass." Tribesmen of Gor, page 139
There has become, however, an acceptable Bazi tea serve for online Gor. These are the basics of such serve:
The first cup represents the bitter fruits of life, for some it represents the past.
The second cup represents contentment of adulthood, for some it represents the present.
The third cup represents the enlightenment that comes with experience and old age, for some it represents the future.
It's all depending on how the slave is taught for which she speaks in her serves.
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Vessels and other equipment used for serving and such
Amphora
two handled narrow necked vessel with a pointed base it is commonly buried overnight in the earth with only it's neck left above the surface; to cool certain beverages
Mercenaries of Gor, page 257
Animal horn
Mead the preferred beverage of the northland, made with fermented honey, water and spice, traditionally served in a large animal horn.
Marauders of Gor, Pages 78, 89 and 90
Baskets
Made of various materials including reeds and grasses, they may be covered with a lid and are used for the storage of anything from fruits and vegetables, to sealed containers of fine spices and condiments that are rarely used and prized.
"I stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of eggs, those of the migratory arctic gant. They nest in the mountaim of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and there jutting out of the tundra. The bird cliffs doubtless bear some geological relation to the Hrimgar chains. When such eggs are frozen they are eaten like apples."
Beasts of Gor, page 196
I had also been used to carry heavy kettles of rence beer from the various islands to the place of feasting, as well as strings of water gourds, poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks, and baskets of the pith of rence.
Raiders of Gor, page 41
She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, a domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat Nomads of Gor, p 1
Bottles
... to the proprietor of the paga tavern, and took in return one of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort you put in a pouring sling...
Raiders of Gor, p 111
The beast returned from the cabinet with two glasses and a bottle.
Beasts of Gor, p 371
'A small bottle,' I said, 'of the Slave Gardens of Anesidemus.'
'I have heard that it is a marvellous ka-la-na.' said the free woman, her eyes alight.
'So too, have I,' I said.
'It is very expensive,' said the woman.
'Are you familiar with it?' I asked.
'Oh,' she said lightly, 'I have had it a few times.'
'Oh, it is marvellous ka-la-na,' she purred. I gathered that she had never before had such ka-la-na. True, it might run the buyer as much as three copper tarsks, a price for which some women can be purchased.
Mercenaries of Gor, Pg 345
First from the kitchen, bearing her tray, came the voluptuous slave of Aemilianuus. Behind her, too with her tray, came the little dark-haired slave. In a moment both were deferentially serving. The collared softness of the dark-haired girl well set off the the metal of the tray, and the small multicolored glasses and bottles upon it.
Guardsman of Gor, p 254
Blackwine Vessels
The two slaves, their chains removed, now returned, and began to serve the black wine. The voluptuous slave of Aemilianus, whom he had not yet named, placed the tiny silver cups, on small stands, before us. The lovely little slave in bluish gauze, whom he had not yet named, holding the narrow spouted, silver pouring vessel in a heavy cloth, to retain its heat and protect her hands, poured the scalding, steaming black fluid, in narrow, tiny streams, into the small cups. She poured into the cups only the amount that would be compatible with the assorted sugars and creams which the guest might desire, if any, these being added in, and stirred, if, and as, pertinent, by Aemilianus` slave, who directed the serving.
Guardsman of Gor pg. 244
Bowls (small, wooden, large, clay, copper)
"The slender blond girl, who had been giving men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bond-maids. She used a bronze ladle...The girls, including the slender blondish girl, emptied their bowls, even to licking them, that no grain be left..."
Marauders of Gor, pages 64-65
I had heard of black wine, but had never had any. It is drunk in Thentis, but I had never heard of it being much drunk in other Gorean cities...Then I picked up one of the thick, heavy clay bowls...It was extremely strong, and bitter, but it was hot, and, unmistakably, it was coffee.
Assassins of Gor, p 106
Too, I had brought up a small bowl of powdered bosk milk. We had finished the creams last night and, in any event, it was unlikely they would have lasted the night. If I had wanted creams I would have had to have gone to the market.
Guardsman of Gor, p 295
I turned and, among the furnishings of the tent, found a bottle of Ka-la-na, of good vintage, from the vineyards of Ar, the loot of a caravan raid. I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-rimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire.
Captive of Gor. p 331
Brazier
A small heating unit with a round pan suspended on a frame over a small flame used to heat liquids slowly. Used for kalana when served mulled with spices, it may also be placed onto the heating stones as the heat from the stones is not directly upon the metal.
“Four members of the Council Guard, beneath the two great braziers set at the entrance, leaped to attention, the butts of their pikes striking on the tiles.”
Raiders of Gor - Page 255
"I decided I might care to taste the steaming black wine. I lifted my finger. The girl in whose charge was the silver vessel, filled with black wine, knelt beside a tiny brazier, on which it sat, retaining it's warmth. She rose swiftly to her feet. She knelt, head down, before me. She poured carefully, the hot, black beverage into the tiny red cup. I dismissed her."
Guardsman of Gor, page 244-245
Buckets
"A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike plums save for the many small seeds."
Captive of Gor, page 305
Canisters
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments.
Assassins of Gor, page 271-272
There was no lock on the door and thus I could come and go as I pleased. Inside the cube there were canisters of Mul-Fungus, a bowl, a ladle, a wooden-bladed Fungus-Knife; a wooden headed Fungus-Mallet; a convenient tube of Mul-Pellets, which discharged its contents one at a time following my depressing a lever in the bottom of the tube; and a large, inverted jar of water, by means of which an attached, somewhat shallow, watering pan was kept filled."
Priest-Kings of Gor, Pg. 111
Cooking Racks
"She built up the fire. I watched her. She unfolded and adjusted a single-bar cooking rack, placing it over the fire. From this she suspended a kettle of water. The single bar, which may be loosened in its rings, and has a handle, may also function as a spit."
Renegades of Gor, page 150
"Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans."
Raiders of Gor, page 44
Copper kettle
"Is it ready?" I asked. I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy, curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time. carefully measured.
Crater
I turned and, among the furnishings of the tent, found a bottle of Ka-la-na, of good vintage, from the vineyards of Ar, the loot of a caravan raid. I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-rimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire.
Captive of Gor. p 331
"He then indicated that she should again kneel to one side, and take up the two-handled wine vessel, that she be ready, when we wished, to serve us once more."
Hunters of Gor page 153.
Cups
Samos put down a cup of paga.
Raiders of Gor, p 306
"But that sort of thing is behind me now," she said to me, throwing back her head and quaffing deeply of the ruby-red Ka-la-na in her cup.
Rogue of Gor, 20
"It was my loss," smiled Ibn Saran, lifting to his lips a tiny, steaming cup of black wine.
Tribesmen of Gor page 88.
My Master extended his cup to me, and I, kneeling, filled it with Sul paga. I pressed my lips to the cup, and handed it to him. My eyes smarted. I almost felt drunk from the fumes.
Slave Girl of Gor. p 134
She picked up the small tray from the stand near the table. On it was the small vessel containing a thick, sweet liquer from distant Turia, the Ar of the south, and the two tiny glasses from which we had sipped it. On the tray, too, was the metal vessel which had contained the black wine, steaming and bitter, from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enameled cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our fingers.
Explorers of Gor, page 10
In most taverns no bottle is brought to the table but the paga is brought to the table, by the paga slave, a cup at a time, the cups normally being filled from a vat behind the counter.
Explorers of Gor, p 158
Flagon-gourd
A hollowed gourd dried and sealed to drink from. It would resemble a dried out pumpkin or squash.
When the meat was ready, Kamchak ate his fill, and drank down, too, a flagon of bosk milk
Nomads of Gor, p 139
"I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roated tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer."
Raiders Gor, page 44
Flask
I went to his locker near the mat and got out his Ka-la-na flask, taking a long draught myself and then shoving it into his hands. He drained the flask in one drink and wiped his hand across his beard, stained with the red juice of the fermented drink.
Tarnsman of Gor pg. 168
Glasses
I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy, curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured. She did not make herself tea, of course... She lifted the kettle from the fire and, carefully, poured me a tiny glass of tea.
Tribesmen of Gor, p 139
The beast returned from the cabinet with two glasses and a bottle. Beasts of Gor, p 371
"She lifted the kettle from the fire and, carefully, poured me a tiny glass of tea."
Tribesmen of Gor page 141.
Goblet
A vessel in standard wine-glass form of a footed bowl with varying dimensions. It may be made of silver or other metals, wood, or even clay. Usually decorated in some way through engraving or carving and or color, some even have small gems set into them. They come in a large variety of sizes, from the tiny goblets for Turian wines, to the larger goblets used for paga or kalana.
"My hand clenched on the metal goblet. The wine moved in the vessel." Tarnsman of Gor page 30.
"I thrust out the silver paga goblet, studded with rubies, and Telima, standing beside my thronelike chair, filled it. I did not look upon her." Raiders of Gor page 223.
Many civilians, I believe, do not know why certain warriors, by habit, request their paga in metal goblets when dining in public houses." Renegades of Gor, p 77
`Your paga,' said the nude slave girl, who served me, her wrists chained. `It is warmed as you wished.' I took it from her, not even glancing upon her, and drained the goblet... I liked paga warm. One felt is so much the sooner that way. Raiders of Gor, p 100
Golden spoon, eating prong
The tables were covered with cloths of glistening white and a service of gold. Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt. The first wine, a light white wine, was being deferentially served by Pamela and Bonnie." Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 275-276
"I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth on the end of a golden eating prong, a utensil, as far as I knew, unique to Turia." Nomads of Gor, page 84
Horns
Made of bosk or tabuk horn, it is hollowed and usually carved with a design or pattern. Typically, a horn can be placed on a separate stand upon a stool or table, or it may have a stand attatched to it. Commonly however, it is strung onto a belt or saddle by a thong, or held in the hand until emptied.
"Here Jarl, said Thyri, again handing me the horn. It was filled with the mead of Torvaldsland, brewed from fermented, honey, thick and sweet." Marauders of Gor, Pg 90
"I held up the large drinking horn of the north. 'There is no way for this to stand upright,' I said to him, puzzled. He threw back his head again and roared once more with laughter.
'If you cannot drain it,' he said, 'give it to another!'
I threw back my head and drained the horn." Marauders of Gor, page 89
Hydria
A tall sided bowl with handles made of clay or wood and usually used to dip warmed liquid from large kettles, then to be poured from as a girl serves several people at once.
described as a high handled water vessel, something similar is used by slave girls to dip paga from simmering kettles. Vagabonds of Gor, page 16
There were perhaps, a hundred men, within the enclosure, and some fifteen of twenty girls. The girls filled their vessels which, like the hydria, or water vessel, are high handled, for dipping in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire near the entrance to the enclosure. Warm paga makes one drunk quicker, it is thought. I usually do not like my paga heated, except sometimes on cold nights. this night was not cold , but warm. It was now late spring. Some Cosians tend to fond of hot paga so, too, are some of the folks in the more northern islands, interestingly, such as Hunjer and Skjern, west of Torvaldsland. this probably represents an influence from Cos, transmitted through merchants and seamen. In the north generally, mead, a drink made with fermented honey and water, and often spices and such, tends to be favored over paga. Vagabonds of Gor pg16
Ice Storage
"My house, incidentally, like most Gorean houses, had no ice chest. There is little cold storage on Gor. Generally food is preserved by being dried or salted. Some cold storage, of course, does exist. Ice is cut from ponds in the winter, and then stored in ice houses, under sawdust. One may go to the ice houses for it, or have it delivered in ice wagons. Most Goreans, of course, cannot afford the luxury of ice in the summer." Guardsman of Gor, page 295
Iron Grill
the meat was steak cut from the loin, a huge shaggy long horned bovine, meat is seared, as thick as the forearm of a Warrior on a small iron grill on a kindling of charcoal cylinders so that the thin margin on the outside was black, crisp and flaky sealed within by the touch of the fire- the blood rich flesh hot and fat with juice. Outlaw of Gor, p 45
Kantharos (footed bowls)
She knelt near the table... and put the paga, in a small kantharos Renegades of Gor, p 71
Ladle
" She used a bronze ladle...The girls, including the slender blondish girl, emptied their bowls, even to licking them, that no grain be left..." Marauders of Gor, pages 64-65
Metal pans (large pots)
"Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans." Raiders of Gor, page 44
I had hardly settled myself behind the table when the proprietor had placed a large, fat pot of steaming Kal-da before me. It almost burned my hands to lift the pot. I took a long, burning swig of the brew and though, on another occasion, I might have thought it foul, tonight it sang through my body like the bubbling fire it was, a sizzling, brutal irritant that tasted so bad and yet charmed me so much I had to laugh. Outlaw of Gor, p 78
Even the proprietor slept, his head across his folded arms on the counter, behind which stood the great Kal-da brewing pots, at last empty and cold. Outlaw of Gor, p 80
Other girls now appeared among the tables, clad only in a camisk and a silver collar, and suddenly, silently, began to serve the Kal-da which Kron had ordered. Each carried a heavy pot of the foul, boiling brew and, cup by cup, replenished the cups of the men. Outlaw of Gor, p 226
Soon I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan, and the unmistakable odor of coffee, or as the Goreans express it, black wine. Kajira of Gor. P 73
Metal Rod/Skewer
"I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a Kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine." Tribesmen of Gor page 47-48.
In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine. Tribesmen of Gor, p 48
Pitcher
A girl in a tunic of white silk, gracefully, carrying a large pitcher of diluted Ka-la-na wine, approached our table from the rear, and climbed the stairs, delicately, and as though timidly, head down... I glanced at Virginia Kent, who was now moving about the tables, in the incredibly brief silken slave livery, the pitcher on her left shoulder, held there gracefully with her left hand. Assassin of Gor page 186-187.
Plates
"With a serving prong she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate." Guardsman of Gor, page 234
Pots
"Even the proprietor slept, his head across his folded arms on the counter, behind which stood the great Kal-da brewing pots, at last empty and cold." Outlaw of Gor page 80.
"Other girls now appeared among the tables, clad only in a camisk and a silver collar, and sullenly, silently, began to serve the Kal-da which Kron had ordered. Each carried a heavy pot of the foul, boiling brew and, cup by cup, replenished the cups of the men." Outlaw of Gor page 226
Rep cloth
rough fabric woven from the fibers of the rep plant. Captive of Gor, page 294
Bera went to the next man, to fill his cup with the mead, from the heavy hot tankard, gripped with cloth, which she carried. Marauders of Gor, p 78
Serving prong
"With a serving prong, she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate." Guardsman of Gor, page 234
Skin bags (Bota)
He leaned over and tossed me a skin bag of Paga Tarnsman of Gor, p 78
"He signaled to a boy who carried a skin of Ka-la-na wine over his shoulder. He took the skin of wine from the boy and bit out the horn plug; he then, with the wineskin on his shoulder, held back the head of Elizabeth Cardwell with one hand and with the other shoved the bone nozzle of the skin between her teeth; he tipped the skin and the girl, half choking, swallowed wine; some of the red fluid ran from her mouth and over her body." Nomads of Gor page 39-40.
"The slender blond girl, who had been giving men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bond-maids. ...." Marauders of Gor, pages 64-65
"He came to me, bent over, tattered, swarthy, grinning up at me, the verrskin bag over his shoulder, the brass cups, a dozen of them, attached to shoulder straps and his belt, rattling and clinking...Without removing the bag from his shoulder, he filled the cup...the water flowed into the cup between a tiny vent-and-spigot device, which wastes little water, by reducing spillage, which was tied in and waxed into a hole in the front left foreleg of the verrskin. The skins are carefully stripped and any rents are sewed up, the seams coated with wax. When the whole skin is thoroughly cleaned of filth and hair, straps are fastened to it, so that i might be conveniently carried on the shoulders, or over the back..." Tribesmen of Gor, page 36
Spoons
With a tiny spoon, it's tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow; with two stirring spoons, one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage after each measure." Tribesmen of Gor, page 89
Spoon (Horn)
"The horn spoon snapped in his hands, and he angrily threw the pieces into his bowl." Assassin of Gor, page 120
Tankard
The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been of the measure of five gallons - - - .
The tankard then, with two great bronze handles, was passed from hands to hands among the rowers. The men threw back their heads and, the liquid spilling down their bodies, drank ale. It was victory ale From Marauders of Gor pg 99
Gorean Ale brought from earth early years. it is traditionally served in tankards or horns.
Marauders of Gor" Page 82-83 99,191,194
Tea cups
Tea is extremely important to the nomads. It is served hot and heavily sugared. It gives them strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools the, by making them sweat as well as stimulating them. It is drunk three small cups at a time, carefully measured. Tribesmen of Gor, pg 38
Tray
"She carried a tray, on which were various spoons and sugars. She knelt, placing her tray upon the table. Tribesmen of Gor, page 89
First from the kitchen, bearing her tray, came the voluptuous slave of Aemilianuus. Behind her, too with her tray, came the little dark-haired slave. In a moment both were deferentially serving. The collared softness of the dark-haired girl well set off the the metal of the tray, and the small multicolored glasses and bottles upon it. Guardsman of Gor, p 254
Troughs
Seems that slave girls mostly ate their gruel from troughs or from bowls, using their fingers. "I shared breakfast with Elizabeth who informed me that it was better than the porridge below in the trough in the feeding room for female staff slaves,..." Assassin of Gor, pages 106-107
Tureen
"'Bread, Master?' she asked.
She offered me a silver tray on which, hot and steaming, were wedges of Gorean bread, made from Sa-Tarna grain. It took one of them and, from the tureen, with the small silver dipper, both on the tray, poured hot butter on the bread. Rogue of Gor, page 191
Ulo
woman's knife of the Red Hunters. It has semicircular blade in a wooden handle which is not suitable for carving, but good for cutting meat and sinew. Beasts of Gor, page 262
Vat
A large, covered vessel for the storing of liquids such as bosk milk to keep the contents free of bugs or dirt. It is used to ferment milk curds, but it may also be placed within the chilling pit to keep milk fresh.
"Temione had now filled her paga vessel. She picked up a goblet from a rack near the vat. The shelving on the rack was of narrow wooden rods. The goblets are kept upside down on the rods. In this way, washed, they can drain and dry. This also affords them some protection from dust. I watched her carefully wipe the goblet. Woe to the slave who would dare to serve paga or wine in a dirty goblet!" Vagabonds Of Gor page 20.
Water Bag
Utilized by the desert nomads, hung at each side of their kaiila, by which to carry and drink water.
"He put his hand on the bulging water bag, which hung behind the saddle, on the left side of the beast, balanced by another on the right. One drinks alternately from the bags, to maintain the weight distribution. Such weight, of course, slows the kaiila, but, in the desert, one must have much water." Tribesmen of Gor page 132.
"She then went to one of the large, wooden, covered water buckets, roped to the deck, and in it submerged a water-skin. I heard the bubbling as the skin filled... I noted the blondish girl, the water bag now, wet and heavy, over her shoulder, going to the men of the Forkbeard, to offer them drink." Marauders of Gor page 63.
Wine crater
I turned and, among the furnishings of the tent, found a bottle of Ka-la-na, of good vintage, from the vineyards of Ar, the loot of a caravan raid. I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl, and a black, red-rimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire. Captive of Gor. p 331
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