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| Ua River (noun): a vast river found in the Ukanga Region of the Jungles of Schendi, it winds between Lake Shaba and Lake Ngao. It is navigable, and the splendor of it's scenery and the variety of life and resources around it are eloquently described. Ua is an inland word for flower. It's source is Lake Shaba. ~Explorers of Gor, pages 100, 338, and 383~ Ubar (noun): war chief ~Tarnsman of Gor, page 42~ ~Explorers of Gor, page 242~ Ubar san (noun lit. 'one ubar'): war chief chosen, during the Omen Year, to be supreme commander of the 4 tribes of the Wagon Peoples. The decision to make a choice rests largely on omens and signs reported by haruspexes. At the time of Tarl Cabot, a new ubar san had not been chosen for 100 years. ~Nomads of Gor, page 146~ Ubara (noun): the Free Companion (consort) of a ubar. ~Priest Kings of Gor, page 38~ Ubarate (noun): the territory governed by an ubar. ~Raiders of Gor, page 129~ Ugly Acts (noun): term for heterosexual sex used by the Sames, also known as the Waniyanpi, a collective slave community of the Red Savages. Sex is monitored by their owners and is performed, en masse, on an appointed day, the male and female slaves being hooded and brought to a maize field for breeding. ~Savages of Gor, page 234~ Ul (noun): winged, monstrous, hissing, predatory tharlarion, found flying over the deltas surrounding Port Kar. This reptile has a 25 foot wing span and a long, snakelike tail, terminating with a flat spade like structure. ~Raiders of Gor, page 1~ ~ Savages of Gor, page 18~ ~Vagabonds of Gor, page 179 and 180~ Ulo (noun): woman's knife of the Red Hunters. It has semicircular blade in a wooden handle which is not suitable for carving, but good for cutting meat and sinew. ~Beasts of Gor, page 262~ Umbrella bird (noun): bird that lives in the lower canopies of rainforest near Schendi. ~Explorers of Gor, page 311~ Umiak (noun): a type of kayak used by the Red Hunters. It is made of tabuk skin, stretched over a framework of driftwood and long bows of bone and lashed together with sinew cords. ~Beasts of Gor, page 257~ Urt hunter (noun): men who attach ropes to the necks of slave girls and swim them in the canals to attract canal urts. The urts are speared as they rise to the bait. The urt hunters are credited with keeping the urt population of the canals manageable. ~Explorers of Gor, page 32~ Urt people (noun): the urt people are narrow-shouldered and narrow-chested, measuring only three and a half feet tall when upright with a narrow, elongated face and rather large, ovoid eyes. They have long, thin arms and short, spindly legs along with a bent-over gai,t often bringing the knuckles to the ground, and commonly kept inconspicuously among the large, migratory urt packs. ~Players of Gor, page 267~ Urt Soldiers (noun): a warrior society of the Yellow Knife tribe of Red Savages. ~Savages of Gor, page 314~ Urt, canal (noun): rapid moving water mammal living along canals; particularly found in Port Kar. ~Savages of Gor, page 67~ Urt, giant (noun): fat, sleek, and white, it has 3 rows of needle-like white teeth and 4 horns. ~Outlaw of Gor, page 86~ Urt, gliding (noun): animal living in the canopies of the rainforests inland of Schendi. ~Explorers of Gor, page 311~ Urt, ground (noun): a small animal which inhabits the floor of the rainforests inland of Schendi. ~Explorers of Gor, page 312~ Urt, leaf (noun): a small tree-dwelling rodent having 4 toes which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi. ~Explorers of Gor, page 312~ Urt, tree (noun): a small tree-climbing rodent found in the rainforests inland of Schendi ~Explorers of Gor, page 311~ Urts, forest (noun): nocturnal animal living in the forests, hunted by the hook-billed night crying fleer. ~Slave Girl of Gor, page 117~ Use discipline (noun): a punishment which avows the free man's prerogative to sexually use a house-owned girl as discipline. There are examples which state that these rights are governed by a Code, wherein a girl may not be used or disciplined without the permission of her owner. ~Slave Girl of Gor, page 226~ ~Beasts of Gor, page 174~ ~Magicians of Gor, pages 329-330~ Use-master (noun): a master that is given temporary use of a girl by her owner ~Savages of Gor, page 197~ ~Dancers of Gor, page 207~ ~Vagabonds of Gor, page 354~ Use-name (noun): a practice, apparently supported by First Knowledge, which is followed by members of lower castes. Their 'real' name is held privately. Their 'use-name' is public knowledge. The belief is that public knowledge of their real name allows someone to have power over them. ~Tarnsman of Gor, page 58 and 107~ Ushindi fisher (noun): long-legged, wading bird near the Schendi; long, white, curling feathers used for headdresses. ~Explorers of Gor, page 236~ |