'Gor,' he said, 'is the name of this world.  In all the languages of this planet, the word means Home Stone.' He paused, noting my lack of comprehension.  'Home Stone,' he repeated.  'Simply that.'  

   'In peasant villages on this world,' he continued, 'each hut was originally built around a flat stone that was placed in the center of the circular dwelling.  It was carved with the family sign and was called the Home Stone.  It was, so to speak, a symbol of sovereignty, or territory, and each peasant, in his own hut, was a sovereign.' 

   'Later,' said my father, 'Home Stones were used for villages, and later still for cities.  The Home Stone of a village was always placed in the market; in a city, on the top of the highest tower.  The Home Stone came naturally, in time, to acquire a mystique, and something of the hot, sweet emotions as out native peoples of Earth feel towards their flags became invested in it.' 

   My father had risen to his feet and had begun to pace the room, and his eyes seemed strangely alive.  In time I would come to understand more of what he felt.  Indeed, there is a saying on Gor, a saying whose origin is lost in the past of this strange planet, that one who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved, and honor is respected in the barbaric codes of Gor. 

   'These stones,' said my father, 'are various, of different colors, shapes, and sizes, and many of them are intricately carved.  Some of the largest cities have small, rather insignificant Home Stones, but of incredible antiquity, dating back to the time when the city was a village or only a mounted pride of warriors with no settled abode.' 

   My father paused at the narrow window in the circular room and looked out on to the hills beyond and fell silent. 

   At last he spoke again. 

  'Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.  Good land is protected only by the swords of the strongest owners in the vicinity.' 

   'Swords?' I asked. 

   'Yes,' said my father, as if there was nothing incredible in this admission.  He smiled.  'You have much to learn of Gor,' he said.  'Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies. 'I shall show you someday,' he said, 'my own small Home Stone, which I keep in my chambers.  It encloses a handful of soil from the Earth, a handful of soil that I first brought with me when I came to this world - a long time ago.' He looked at me evenly.  'I shall keep the handful of earth you brought,' he said, his voice very quiet, 'and someday it may be yours.' His eyes seemed moist.  He added, 'If you should live to earn a Home Stone.'

Tarnsman of Gor © 1967 John Lange

(aka John Norman)

Thus spoke Matthew Cabot, father of Tarl Cabot, and in one word summed up what Gor really is. Home Stone. Gor is more then a fantasy world of strong men and soft women, it is a frame of mind, a willingness to follow your heart be you free or slave.

If you have what it takes to follow your heart, join us and be welcome. If you want to play games this is not the place for you..... 

Gray Wolf - Scribe of Wolf's Den

What's new at the Gorean.

• First and foremost, we have a new address and new host in part. The main pages reside here at MyBDSM.com, a web host dedicated to the BDSM/DS community. The bulkier files or those that require CGI or FrontPage extensions are still on the hardlink site. So if it looks like it is taking a little more time then normal to bring up a page, it is because it is changing hosts.
• The page has a new look, I hope you like it.
• The guest book is ready, and online, click here to leave your thoughts, opinions or just pass on some words of wisdom so that others may see.
• There is now an automated system so that you can add a link for your site to my lists, to add your site to this list go to the links page and click on "add your site", it will open a new window for the form. Once added there I will be checking every so often and the true Gorean sites will be placed on my links page, the others…. Well you know what happens to HNGs.
• The first of the form fields where you can join email lists is ready, more coming soon.
• The interactive bulletin board is up and running, for now it is on Delphi, but I will be setting up my own on hardlink very soon. You may post comments, advice, suggestions or even just vent. It will be moderated slightly so not all post will be accepted.

That's it for now but there will be more coming soon.

Upcoming additions to the site.

• There will be some major additions to the achieves, not as many as I would have liked as there are quite a few sites that are gone and the copies that I made went with the hard drive that I had stolen a while ago, don't ask, it is a long story.
• I am still hoping to get all 25 books in electronic format so that I can do some real research and maybe get the dictionary fixed once and for all, it will then have references from the books directly, no more individual interpretations, not even mine.

Within these pages you will find some useful information, tidbits of knowledge and insight, but mostly a lot of interest.

• Lifestyle Philosophy - a place to learn the philosophy for those who are truly 24/7. Email instruction for slaves learning what it is to be slave, masters learning to be masters. Here I will not be dealing with IRC Gor, nor even with the BDSM community. It is not about how to tie up your slave, it is about how to live.
• The Archives - A collection of files that I have found to be useful as well as enlightening. Some of them have gone from the web, but not all, and there is more to come.
• The Gorean Board - The goal of this board is to have an open and hospitable platform to exchange ideas concerning the Gorean lifestyle. It is presently on Delphi, but I hope to soon have one set up on my own site.
• The Gorean Dictionary - is a partially edited version of the ones you find almost every where today, I am in the process of cross referencing it.
• The Gorean Links - are places that either me or my slave nalani have visited and I have checked each one to be sure that they are still active.
• The slaves training pages - Done by the slave alika, and well done. Although they still need to be edited to weed out the incorrect data that has creeped, (chokes here at the understatement) into the IRC Gorean world, they do contain a vast amount of what a slave should know to follow this path.

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