Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 33 | 63 | "All View more quotes about else">else has failed!" cried the Initiate, weaving back and forth, his hands in the air. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 33 | 60 | Drawing a small knife from his pouch, the Initiate cut a strand of hair from the animal and threw it into a nearby fire. |
| 33 | 61 | Then he gestured to a subordinate, and the man, with a sword, opened the throat of the animal and it sank to its knees, the blood from its throat being caught in a golden laver held by a third man. |
| 33 | 62 | While I waited impatiently two more men cut a thigh from the slain beast and this, dripping with grease and blood, was ordered cast upon the fire. |
| 33 | 63 | "All else has failed!" cried the Initiate, weaving back and forth, his hands in the air. |
| 33 | 64 | Then he began to mumble prayers very quickly in archaic Gorean, a language in which the Initiates converse among themselves and conduct their various ceremonies. |
| 33 | 65 | At the end of this long but speedily delivered prayer, refrains to which were rapidly furnished by the Initiates massed about him, he cried, "Oh Priest-Kings, let this our last sacrifice turn aside your wrath. |
| 33 | 66 | Let this sacrifice please your nostrils and now consent to hear our pleas! It is offered by Om, Chief among all the High Initiates of Gor!" "No!" cried a number of other Initiates, the High Initiates of various other cities. |
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Drawing a small knife from his pouch, the Initiate cut a strand of hair from the animal and threw it into a nearby fire.
Then he gestured to a subordinate, and the man, with a sword, opened the throat of the animal and it sank to its knees, the blood from its throat being caught in a golden laver held by a third man.
While I waited impatiently two more men cut a thigh from the slain beast and this, dripping with grease and blood, was ordered cast upon the fire.
"All else has failed!" cried the Initiate, weaving back and forth, his hands in the air.
Then he began to mumble prayers very quickly in archaic Gorean, a language in which the Initiates converse among themselves and conduct their various ceremonies.
At the end of this long but speedily delivered prayer, refrains to which were rapidly furnished by the Initiates massed about him, he cried, "Oh Priest-Kings, let this our last sacrifice turn aside your wrath.
Let this sacrifice please your nostrils and now consent to hear our pleas! It is offered by Om, Chief among all the High Initiates of Gor!" "No!" cried a number of other Initiates, the High Initiates of various other cities.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)