Gorean word association

[sinnocent]

Schendi being where the most beautiful Sapphires could be found on gor

[Raziel]

Sometimes exported carved into the shapes of animals like the tiny panther.

Raz

[sinnocent]

panthers being two kinds of animal.. those of the feline and the Woman kind

[Raziel]

Only a Free Woman can bear and raise a free child to carry on the bloodline of a gorean Warrior.

Raz

[sinnocent]

Warriors will Be strong and do as they will. because Swords of others will set you their limits."

[Raziel]

"Within the circle of each man's sword," say the codes of the warrior, "therein is each man a Ubar."
---Marauders of Gor, 1:10

Raz

[sinnocent]

"The life of a Ubar is uncertain."
Tarnsman of Gor Book 1 Page 106

[Raziel]

It is not uncommon among the Wagon Peoples, that when a stranger approaches their territories, the warriors will gamble on who will get the privellege to take the strangers life.

Raz

[Thalia]

In such sport, the honor is awarded to whomever the lance falls.

[sinnocent]

and to those who have no honor.. Impalement on the lance is their legacy

[Ayelen]

Actually impalement is considered an honorable death and thusly why a SLAVE can never be impaled, only frees.

[Raziel]

ACTUALLY

When one who is a slave strikes a free person the penalty is not infrequently death by impalement, preceded by lengthy torture.
---Assassin of Gor, 5:74

...A man who refused to practice his livelihood or strove to alter status without the consent of the Council of High Castes was, by definition, an outlaw and subject to impalement.
---Tarnsman of Gor, 3:46

Both slave and free could be found a sentence of death by impalement, depending on gorean civil law...

Raz

[sinnocent]

-smiles-

for to enter a city without permission or without satisfactory reason is tantamount to a capital crime, and the punishment is usually a swift and brutal implement. Pikes on the walls of Gorean cities are often surmounted with the remains of unwelcome guests. The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.
---Outlaw of Gor, 6:49


Civil Law as it pertains to the City extends only to its walls

[Ayelen]

Ahhh, gotta love the John Norman contradictions, but it is true that various laws on Gor are the same as here on Earth and are city-country specific.  While most times a slave would not be impaled:

Lady Claudia shuddered. In such an impalement, the female is usually simply set upon the spear. It is not necessary to bind them, as, straightened, they cannot reach the spear nor obtain any leverage for removing themselves from it. They are held upon it, helplessly, by their own weight. Usually such a fate is visited only upon a free woman. It is thought that it gives them time to consider and repent their ways. A slave girl, on the other hand, would be more likely, like meat, to be thrown to sleen.  ~ Renegades of Gor, pages 223-224

.... as the quote stated, a slave most likely would simply be thrown to sleen

[sinnocent]

the sleen being avid Hunters


[as to the contradictions... the words "Most Likely" keep it from being a contradiction.. they may.. or may not but must likely in this place would be meat for the sleen... i don't see it as a contradiction rather than a differing of area.. such as.. like Tuchuk,.. and wagon people see piercing ears as barbaric and don't do it other than for punishment usually.. while other places in gor says it enhances a slaves sexuality ...different cultures and whatnot.... its all good..grins]