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~ Bina or Slave Beads ~ |
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I took from the chest a string of pearls, then one of pieces of gold, the one
of rubies. "Bina?" I asked, each time.
Eta laughed. "Bana," she said, "Ki Bana. Bina." Then from another box, Eta produced another necklace, one with cheap glass beads, and another with simple, small wooden beads. She indicated the latter two necklaces. "Bina," she said, pointing to them. Bina, I then understood, were lesser beads, cheap beads, beads of little value, save for their aesthetic charm. Indeed, I would later learn that bina were sometimes spoken of, derisively, as Kajira bana. The most exact translation of "Bina" would probably be "slave beads". They were valueless, save for being a cheap adornment sometimes permitted to imbonded wenches.
{Slave Girl of Gor, pages 81-82} |
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She carried, in her hands, several strings of beads, simple necklaces, small, wooden, colored beads. They were not valuable. She held the necklaces up for me to see. Then, with her finger, moving them on their string, she indicated the tiny, colored, wooden beads. "Da Bina," she said, smiling. Then she lifted a necklace, looking at it. "Bina," she said. I then understood that "Bina" was the expression for beads, or for a necklace of beads. The necklaces and beads which Eta produced for me were delights of color and appeal; yet they were simple and surely of little value.
{Slave Girl of Gor, page 81} |
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Slave beads are commonly cheap, made of wood and glass, and such. Who would waste expensive beads, golden droplets, pearls, rubies, and such, on a domestic animal? Still they are very pretty, and slaves will weedle and beg for them. Indeed, they will compete desperately, zealously, sometimes even acrimoniously, for them. And they, such deliciously vain creatures, know well how to use them, adorning themselves, enhancing their beauty, making themselves even more excruciatingly desirable! Among slaves a handful of glass or wooden beads may confer a prestige that among free women might not be garnered with diamonds.
{Vagabonds of Gor, page 50} |
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Bina or Slave Beads | Coins | Slave Bells |
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