Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Add Reply
Brands
Topic Started: Feb 14 2008, 05:36 PM (54 Views)
naja_MS
Administrator
Brands

THE KEF brand

"I had now been branded, a small graceful mark burned into
my left thigh, high, under the hip. It had a vertical bar,
a rather strict one, with two curling, frond like extensions, rather
near its base, as though in submission to it. It looked a little like a "K"
That was mine, there were variations on this theme. Some of the
other girls had similar brands, but, in one respect or another somewhat different.
There were other sorts of brands, too, but the "K-type" brand was the
most common.

p66 Dancer of Gor



THE DINA

The Dina is another of the common slave brands found upon Gor. It is the brand given to the former Judy Thornton in Slave Girl of Gor.
“.... My own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely, flower with many petals,
Short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf of green leaves, usually on the slopes
of hills, in the northern temperate zones of Gor; in its budding, though in few
other ways, it resembles a rose; it is an exotic alien flower; it is also spoken
of, in the north, where it grows most frequently, as the slave flower...."

p61 Slave Girl of Gor



THE BRAND OF THE FOUR BOSK HORNS

This is the mark that the Tuchuks use to brand their slaves.
“.... The brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally...is the sign of the four bosk horns
that of the Tuchuk standard; the brand of the four bosk horns, set in such a manner as to
somewhat resemble the letter "H", is only about an inch high.... the brand of the four bosk horns
, of course, is also used to mark the bosk of the Tuchuks, but there, of course, it is much larger

p62 Nomads of Gor



The MARK OF TREVE

This was a brand given to slave girls owned by those of Treve.
"Incised deeply, precisely, in that slim, lovely, now-bared thigh was a startling mark, beautiful, insolent,
dramatically marking that beautiful thigh as that which it now could only be, that of a female slave"
"It is beautiful," I whispered.
..."It is the first letter, in cursive script, " she said, " of the name of the city of Treve."

p277 Captive of Gor



THE BRAND OF TORVALDSLAND

This brand was used by those of Torvaldsland to mark their slaves.
The brand used by Forkbeard is not uncommon in the north, though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters than in the south.... The brand used by the Forkbeard, found rather frequently in the north, consisted of a half circle, with at its right tip, adjoining it, a steep diagonal line. The half circle is about an inch and a quarter in width, and the diagonal line about an inch and a quarter in height. The brand is, like many symbolic. In the north, the bond-maid is sometimes referred to as a woman whose belly lies beneath the sword.

p 105 Marauders of Gor



THE TAHARIC SLAVE MARK

This brand was used by those of the Tahari to brand their slaves.
"The contact surface of the iron would be formed into the Taharic character 'Kef'
...Taharic is a very graceful script. It makes no distinctions between capital and
small letters and little distinction between printed and cursive script.....The initial
printed letter of 'Kajira', rather than the cursive letter, as generally, is used as the
common brand for women in the Tahari. Both the cursive letter in common Gorean and the printed letter in Taharic are rather lovely, both being somewhat floral in appearance.

p148 Tribesmen of Gor



Penalty Brands

These were brands used as a punishment to the slave girl.
"Sometimes, too," she said, “a girl may be branded as a punishment, and to warn others
against her."
I looked at her puzzled.
"Penalty brands," she said. "They are tiny, but clearly visible. There are various
such brands. There is one for lying, and another for stealing."

p277 Captive of Gor

Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
« Previous Topic · Quotes · Next Topic »
Add Reply