Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 15 | View more quotes about several">Several show a clear-cut resemblance to Greek letters, for example. |
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 12 | It is a simple mark, and rather floral, a staff, with two, upturned, frondlike curls, joined where they touch the staff on its right. |
| 1 | 13 | It bears a distant resemblance to the printed letter 'K' in several of the Western alphabets of Earth, and I suspect, in spite of several differences, it may owe its origin to that letter. |
| 1 | 14 | The Gorean alphabet has twenty-eight characters, all of which, I suspect, owe their origin to one or another of the alphabets of Earth. |
| 1 | 15 | Several show a clear-cut resemblance to Greek letters, for example. |
| 1 | 16 | 'Sidge', on the other hand, could be cuneiform, and 'Tun' and 'Val' are probably calligraphically drifted from demotic. |
| 1 | 17 | At least six letters suggest influence by the classical Roman alphabet, and seven do, if we count 'Kef', the first letter in 'Kajira'. |
| 1 | 18 | 'Shu' is represented by a sign which seems clearly oriental in origin and 'Homan', I speculate, may derive from Cretan. |
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It is a simple mark, and rather floral, a staff, with two, upturned, frondlike curls, joined where they touch the staff on its right.
It bears a distant resemblance to the printed letter 'K' in several of the Western alphabets of Earth, and I suspect, in spite of several differences, it may owe its origin to that letter.
The Gorean alphabet has twenty-eight characters, all of which, I suspect, owe their origin to one or another of the alphabets of Earth.
Several show a clear-cut resemblance to Greek letters, for example.
'Sidge', on the other hand, could be cuneiform, and 'Tun' and 'Val' are probably calligraphically drifted from demotic.
At least six letters suggest influence by the classical Roman alphabet, and seven do, if we count 'Kef', the first letter in 'Kajira'.
'Shu' is represented by a sign which seems clearly oriental in origin and 'Homan', I speculate, may derive from Cretan.
- (Explorers of Gor)