Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 78 | It is a View more quotes about time">time, in general, of mourning, meditation and fasting. |
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 75 | It is in this time that the doors of many homes are sealed with pitch and have nailed to them branches of the brak bush, the leaves of which have a purgative effect. |
| 1 | 76 | These precautions, and others like them, are intended to discourage the entry of ill luck into the houses. |
| 1 | 77 | In the houses there is little conversation and no song. |
| 1 | 78 | It is a time, in general, of mourning, meditation and fasting. |
| 1 | 79 | All this changes, of course, with the arrival of the vernal equinox, which, in most Gorean cities, marks the New Year. |
| 1 | 80 | At dawn on the day of the vernal equinox a ceremonial greeting of the sun takes place, conducted usually by the ubar or administrator of the city. |
| 1 | 81 | This, in effect, welcomes the New Year to the city. |
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It is in this time that the doors of many homes are sealed with pitch and have nailed to them branches of the brak bush, the leaves of which have a purgative effect.
These precautions, and others like them, are intended to discourage the entry of ill luck into the houses.
In the houses there is little conversation and no song.
It is a time, in general, of mourning, meditation and fasting.
All this changes, of course, with the arrival of the vernal equinox, which, in most Gorean cities, marks the New Year.
At dawn on the day of the vernal equinox a ceremonial greeting of the sun takes place, conducted usually by the ubar or administrator of the city.
This, in effect, welcomes the New Year to the city.
- (Players of Gor)