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| 1 | 82 | In View more quotes about port">Port Kar this honor fell to Samos, first captain in the Council of Captains, and the council's executive officers. |
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| 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. |
| 1 | 82 | In Port Kar this honor fell to Samos, first captain in the Council of Captains, and the council's executive officers. |
| 1 | 83 | The completion of this greeting is signified by, and celebrated by, a ringing of the great bars suspended about the city. |
| 1 | 84 | The people then, rejoicing, issue forth from their houses. |
| 1 | 85 | The brak bushes are burned on the threshold and the pitch is washed away. |