Priest-Kings

Priest-Kings:

• Description:    Priest Kings of Gor pg 77 - 80
• eyes are compounded and many - faceted, disk like
• do not rely on them, compared to human ears and nose
• secondary sensors
• information for Priest Kings is relayed via scent
• primary sensory organ: two golden-haired, jointed appendages protruding from globe like heads
• sensitive to not only odors but with modification of hairs, may also transform sound vibrations.
• hearing does not seem important
• for it’s size it moves with a delicate, predatory grace
• walks on four extremely long, slender, four-jointed legs (supporting legs)
• carried it’s muscular, four-jointed *grasping* legs higher, almost level to jaw
• Misk (pg 84) Sarm (pg 87) Kusk (pg 94)
• Sarm: Beloved of the Mother and First Born  Priest-Kings of Gor pg 87
• Greatest in the Nest: the Mother
• no one can see the Mother but:
• Caste Attendants
• High Priest-Kings
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Born
• except on three (3) Holidays
• The Nest Feast Cycle
• Tola - Anniversary of the Nuptial Flight
• Tolam - Feast of the Depositon of the First Egg
• Tolama - Celebration of the Hatching of the First Egg
• none lower than Priest-Kings can view the Mother, even during the feasts.
• Gur: a product originally secreted by large, gray domestic hemispheric anthropods;      Priest-Kings of Gor pg 214 - 215
• fed on special SIM plants
• tangled vinelike plants with huge rolling leaves
• Gur, used on the Feast of Tola, is (in ancient fashion) kept for weeks in the social stomachs of specially chosen Priest-Kings; this is called "retaining Gur"
• "March of the First Five Born"
• these 5 march abreast to the Mother and give her Gur in inverse order of their priority    Priest-Kings of Gor pg 216
• Misk is 5th born   Priest-Kings of Gor pg 114
• Body of Sarm - burned in the Chamber of the Mother    Priest-Kings of Gor pg 311
• 1st born - beloved of the Mother
• Slaves of the Priest-Kings wear purple, and both sexes are shaved, for sanitary reasons.    Priest-Kings of Gor pg 90
• Mul - designates a human slave (not only in the nest but of the nest) (pg 108)
• Muls tunic "is inscribed with much information as is by means of the tunic that Priest-Kings recognize"   Priest-Kings of Gor pg 104
• Muls are fed 4 times a day:   Priest-Kings of Gor pg 109
• 1st meal: Mul-Fungus is ground and mixed with water (porridge)
• 2nd meal: Mul-Fungus is chopped into rough 2" cubes
• 3rd meal: Mul-Fungus is minced with Mul-Pellets, served as cold hash
• Mul-Pellets dietary suppliment
• 4th meal: Mul-Fungus is pressed into a large, flat cake and sprinkled with a few grains of salt
• Muls had occassionally slain another for a handful of salt
• Mul-Fungus: bland, pale, whitish, fibrous vegetable like matter
• Major difference between high-quality Fungus and lower-grade Mul-Fungus was simply the smell
• Tarl Cabot was in the Nest more than 5 weeks before he could vaguely detect the odor difference
• Mul-Torch: used by Muls who raise Fungus in darkened chambers commonly called "Workers of the Fungus-Trays" Priest-Kings of Gor pg 115
• "Duty of the Twelve Joys"
• Muls wash completely 12 times a day   Priest-Kings of Gor pg 111
• To kill a Priest-King one needs to strike at the brain-nodes in the thorax and head; will take more than a half a hundred strokes to cut through.   Priest-Kings of Gor pg 150
• In the lower abdomen there is a dorsal organ which serves to circulate the body fluids injuring it would not produce death for a few Ehn. Priest-Kings of Gor pg 169 - 170
• Syllabary of Priest-Kings:       Priest-Kings of Gor pg 101
• not to be confused with their set of 73 "phonemes"
• consists somewhat unwieldly 411 characters
• each stand for a phoneme or phoneme combination
• Basic Mathematics of Priest-Kings:
• begin with ordinal and not cardinal numbers