On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another of Gor's three small moons during eclipses, the phenomenon of sighting the tops of distant objects first, and the fact that certain stars could not be seen from certain geographical positions; if the planet had been flat, precisely the same set of stars would have been observable from every position on its surface.
Tarnsman of Gor Page 41
Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar's family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree.
Tarnsman of Gor Page 68
The night before, I had ridden over fields of grain, silvery yellow beneath me in the light of the three moons.
Tarnsman of Gor Page 73
Before I had time to gather my senses, a dark winged shape had materialized in front of me, and, in the light of the three moons, I saw a warrior on a tarn passing, thrusting out with his spear.
Tarnsman of Gor Page 74
We traveled together through the night, making our way through the silvery yellow fields of Sa-Tarna, fugitives under the three moons of Gor.
Tarnsman of Gor Page 110
As I dropped lower, my suspicions were confirmed. Perhaps the men of the mysterious camp heard the beating of the tarn's wings, perhaps I had been outlined for an instant against one of Gor's three circling moons, but suddenly the fires disappeared, kicked apart in a flash of sparks, and the glowing embers were smothered almost immediately.
Tarnsman of Gor Page 147
The light of the three moons was bright that night, and in the resultant exotic patchwork of shadows below, I caught sight of one of the larls, padding softly along, its body almost white in the moonlight.
Tarnsman of Gor Page 148
The thing stumbled forward, reaching for me, and fell to the ground with a tiny, moaning sound. It sat on the ground, wrapped in its yellow cerements a mound of decay and desolation under the three Gorean moons.
Tarnsman of Gor Page 152
The dark cheering shapes, many of them crooked and wasted with their labors, saluted me in the light of the three rushing moons of Gor.
Outlaw of Gor Page 168
We faced one another under the three moons. He seemed sad, one of the few times I had seen him so.
Outlaw of Gor Page 171
I knew that I didn't have a great deal of time, for the avenging tarnsmen of Tharna would soon be visible against the three moons.
Outlaw of Gor Page 175
The three moons were faint now, like pale white disks in the brightening sky, and the sun was half risen from the throne of the horizon.
Outlaw of Gor Page 176
Even larl cubs when found and raised by men would, on reaching their majority, on some night, in a sudden burst of atavistic fury slay their masters and under the three hurtling moons of Gor lope from the dwellings of men, driven by what instincts I know not, to seek the mountains where they were born.
Priest-Kings of Gor Page 19
Through the dome I could see the three moons of Gor and the bright stars above them.
Priest-Kings of Gor Page 32
I wondered at the things she said to me for they seemed strange, perhaps more so to my ears than they would have to one bred and raised from infancy as a Gorean, one as much accustomed to the submission of women as to the tides of the gleaming Thassa or the phases of the three moons.
Priest-Kings of Gor Page 204
It was a windy, cold night and the three moons of Gor were full and the silvery grasses of the fields were swept by the chill blasts of the passing wind.
Outlined against the largest of Gor's three hurtling moons was the black silhouette, as sharp and keen as a knife, of a Priest-King.
Priest-Kings of Gor Page 310
For a long time I, and the others, stood there in the windy night, almost knee-deep in the flowing, bending grass, and watched the knoll, and the stars behind it, and the white moons above.
Priest-Kings of Gor Page 317
*A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wagon Peoples, incidentally, keep a calendar based on the phases of Gor's largest moon, but this is a calendar of fifteen moons, named for the fifteen varieties of bosk, and functions independently of the tallying of years by snows; for example, the Moon of the Brown Bosk may at one time occur in the winter, at another time, years later, in the summer; this calendar is kept by a set of colored pegs set in the sides of some wagons, on one of which, depending on the moon, a round, wooden plate bearing the image of a bosk is fixed.
Nomads of Gor Page 12
"I know," I said," the herd sleen." They would have torn the girl to pieces on the prairie in the light of the three Gorean moons.
Nomads of Gor Page 166
In the distance we heard a sound like a thunder of wings and then, against the three white moons of Gor, to my dismay, we saw tarnsmen pass overhead, striking toward the camp.
Nomads of Gor Page 177
I could also see Harold bounding along, from roof to roof, in the light of the three moons.
Nomads of Gor Page 215
Harold and I then got up and, with Hereena under one of his arms, we circumspectly made our way from roof to roof until we saw the keep, rising like a dark cylinder against one of Gor's three moons.
Nomads of Gor Page 225
I could see the black disk now, moving swiftly, but not at great altitude, passing among the night clouds, under the three moons of Gor.
Assassin of Gor Page 93
I looked up and saw the three moons of Gor, the large moon and the two small ones, one of the latter called the Prison Moon, for no reason I understood.
Assassin of Gor Page 170
The stars over the city were clear and bright, the coursing moons white with splendor against the black space of the Gorean night.
The long, curving terraces of tiers gleamed white in the light of Gor's three moons.
Assassin of Gor Page 172
Bright in the dark, star-strewn Gorean sky, large, dominating, seemingly close enough to touch, loomed the three moons of Gor.
Captive of Gor Page 131
I look out upon the marshes, which are in the light of the three moons of Gor, very beautiful.
Captive of Gor Page 365
I looked up at the large, white, swift moons. There were three of them, a larger, and two smaller, looming, dominating.
Hunters of Gor Page 137
The moons, the three white, dominating moons of Gor, were now rearing over the tree tops.
Hunters of Gor Page 194
I looked at her, standing in the clearing, the bit of silk at her ankles, beautiful in the light of the three moons.
Hunters of Gor Page 217
What turbulence there was, was remote, seemingly far removed from us, a matter only of clouds silently whipped in distant unfelt winds, like rivers, invisible in the night sky, breaking their banks, hurling and flooding in the night, carrying the intangible debris of darkness before them, soon to extinguish the fires of the stars, the swift lamps of the three Gorean moons.
Hunters of Gor Page 255
Few eyes, I think, in the ruins of that hall, under the torchlight, beneath the stars, the height of the Torvaldsberg in the distance, illuminated in the light of the three moons, were dry.
Marauders of Gor Page 280
It was late at night, in single file, over the sands, silvered in the light of the three moons, that we came to Two Scimitars.
Tribesmen of Gor Page 151
She went to the window angrily, furiously, and looked out, over the walls of the kasbah to the sands silvered by the light of the three moons.
Tribesmen of Gor Page 198
I looked up at the three moons, I did not know what to believe or how to live.
Slave Girl of Gor Page 32
Sometimes he pointed to the largest of the three moons above, in a few days it would be full.
Slave Girl of Gor Page 88
More than once had a man gazed at the largest moon in the sky. In some days it would be full.
Slave Girl of Gor Page 90
I, though a girl of Earth, was chained in coffle under three barbaric moons.
Slave Girl of Gor Page 133
I stood alone on the platform, and gazed at the snow-capped mountains, glistening under the mingled light of the three white moons.
Beasts of Gor Page 78
It is beautiful to fly alone by night over the wide fields, beneath the three moons in the black, star-studded sky.
Beasts of Gor Page 99
The storm had passed, and the light of the three moons was bright on the snow and ice.
Beasts of Gor Page 325
Then it threw back its huge, shaggy head and, jaws widely distended, it long fangs white, exposed, gazed savagely upon the three calm moons of Gor.
Beasts of Gor Page 385
Slowly, creaking, foot by foot, I saw the heavy latticework of the sea gate lifting out of the water, dripping, shiny in its wet blackness, in the light of the three moons.
Rouge of Gor Page 273
Through the ruined roof, between unshielded beams, I could see patches of the night sky of Gor, and one of her three moons.
I saw the creatures mounted on the tarns, silhouetted against one of Gor's three moons, fleeing over the marshes.
Savages of Gor Page 55
It was still quite dark. Here and there were morning fires. The moons were down.
Kajira of Gor Page 201
In the light of the three moons I made my way across the prison yard, through the sand of the baiting pit.
Players of Gor Page 331
