{Slave Girl of Gor, page 52}
{Slave Girl of Gor, page 61}
{Slave Girl of Gor, page 62}
Mark of Port Kar | Mark of Treve | of the Forkbeard |
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| I had seen the design at the tip of the iron. It was a small flower, stylized; it was circular, about an inch and a half in diameter; it was not unlike a small rose; it was incredibly lovely and delicate. {Slave Girl of Gor, page 52} |
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| My own brand was the 'dina'; the dina is a small lovely, multiply petaled flower, 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; it was burned into my flesh; in the south, below the Gorean equador, where the flower is much more rare, it is prized more highly. {Slave Girl of Gor, page 61} |
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| Dina, in the north, for many years, had been used almost entirely as a slave name. The reason, in the north, that the dina is called the slave flower has been lost in antiquity. One story is that an ancient Ubar of Ar, capturing the daughter of a fleeing, defeated enemy in a field of dinas there enslaved her, stripped her by the sword, ravishing her and putting chains upon her. As he chained her collar to his stirrup, he is said to have looked upon the field, and then named her 'Dina'. But perhaps the dina is spoken of the slave flower merely because, in the north, it is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can be easily crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded. {Slave Girl of Gor, page 62} |
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