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Slave Brands
DIR By: Jinxed
Date: August 15, 2022, 8:38 pm
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Brands
"The girl I had originally seen had been a slave, and what I had
taken to be jewelry at her throat had been a badge of servitude.
Another such badge was a brand concealed by her clothing. The
latter marked her as a slave, and the former identified her
master. One might change one's collar, but not one's brand."
---Tarnsman, p. 46
The Kajirus Brand -----Block Letter in Gorean script of the
inital of Kajirus.
The Kajira Brand-------------Cursive Letter in Gorean script of
the initial of Kajira.
Alternate Kajira Brand-------Cursive Letter in Gorean script of
the inital of Sa-Fora which means, literally, Chain Daughter.
The Tuchuk Brand------------Bosk Horn brand.
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The KEF brand
"I had now been branded, a small graceful mark burned into
my left thigh, high, under the hip. It had a vertical bar,
a rather strict one, with two curling, frondlike extensions,
rather
near its base, as though in submission to it. It looked a little
like a "K"
That was mine, There were variations on this theme. Some of the
other girls had similar brands, but, in one respect or another
somewhat different.
There were other sorts of brands, too, but the "K-type" brand
was the
most common.
p66 Dancer of Gor
As we can see the brand was meant to be attractive and feminine.
The brand is also meant to be clean and precise.
If you knew me not of the metal workers," I asked, "why did you
permit me to mark the blond haired slave?"
"I wished to see what you would do," he said.
"You risked a badly marked thigh on the girl," I said.
"The mark was perfect," said Ulafi.
"Thus you see," said I, "that I am truly of the metal workers."
"No," said Ulafi. "I knew you were nnot of the metal workers.
Thus I saw that you were truly of the warriors."
"Should I have blurred the brand?" I asked.
"That would have been a shame," said he, smiling.
"True," I grinned. All men like a well-marked girl.
p85 Explorers of Gor
THE DINA
The Dina is another of the common slave brands found upon Gor.
It is the brand given to the former Judy Thornton in Slave Girl
of Gor.
"....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...."
p61 Slave Girl of Gor.
This again is described as a very feminine brand. It is a flower
with exquisite petals, complementing the feminine beauty of the
slave. However, in the north at least, it is a common flower,
referred to as the slave flower.
Dina later makes it clear that the brand is not that unusual
upon Gor.
"As it became more popular, it was becoming, simultaneously, of
course, a fairly common brand.
Girls branded as I was were already spoken of on Gor, rather
despairingly as "dinas".
p 63 Slave Girl of Gor.
Thus the Dina although a little more exotic would still be
regarded as the mark of a common slave.
The Brand of the Four Bosk Horns
This is the mark that the Tuchuks use to brand their slaves.
"....the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally.....is the sign
of the four bosk horns
that of the Tuchuk standard; the brand of the four bosk horns,
set in such a manner as to
somewhat resemble the letter "H", is only about an inch
high....the brand of the four bosk horns
, of course, is also used to mark the bosk of the Tuchuks, but
there, of course, it is much larger
p62 Nomads of Gor
Generally this brand would only be found on girls who had, at
one time, been properties of the Tuchuks. It is significant that
this was also the brand used to mark animals thus reducing the
slave to this status.
The Mark of Treve
This was a brand given to slave girls owned by those of Treve.
"Incised deeply, precisely, in that slim, lovely, now-bared
thigh was a startling mark, beautiful, insolent,
dramatically marking that beautiful thigh as that which it now
could only be, that of a female slave"
"It is beautiful," I whispered.
..."It is the first letter, in cursive script, " she said, " of
the name of the city of Treve."
p277 Captive of Gor
This, like the Kef is a cursive representation of a letter in
the Gorean alphabet. Kai would imagine that this is a T in
shape, perhaps also with a strict vertical bar like the Kef and
with the crosspiece being cursive in design. This mark would
generally only be found on girls who had been enslaved by those
of Treve.
The Brand of Torvaldsland
This brand was used by those of Torvaldsland to mark their
slaves.
The brand used by Forkbearrd is not uncommon in the north,
though there is less uniformity in Torvaldsland on these matters
than in the south.... The brand used by the Forkbeard, found
rather frequently in the north, consisted of a half circle, with
at its right tip, adjoining it, a steep diagonal line. The half
circle is about an inch and a quarter in width, and the diagonal
line about an inch and a quarter in height. The brand is, like
many symbolic. In the north, the bond-maid is sometimes referred
to as a woman whose belly lies beneath the sword.
p 105 Marauders of Gor
This brand would usually only be found on girls who had at one
time been slaves in Torvaldsland. The symbolic nature of it
again emphasizes the slave's vulnerability and femininity.
The Taharic Slave Mark
This brand was used by those of the Tahari to brand their
slaves.
"The contact surface of the iron would be formed into the
Taharic character 'Kef'
...Taharic is a very graceful script. It makes no distinctions
between capital and
small letters and little distinction between printed and cursive
script.....The initial
printed letter of 'Kajira', rather than the cursive letter, as
generally, is used as the
common brand for women in the Tahari. Both the cursive letter in
common Gorean and the printed letter
in Taharic are rather lovely, both being somewhat floral in
appearance.
p148 Tribesmen of Gor
This may be seen as a regional variation of the Kef. It would
generally only be found on girls who has served in the Tahari.
The emphasis again is on femininity and attractivness.
Penalty Brands
These were brands used as a punishment to the slave girl.
"Sometimes, too," she said, "a girl may be branded as a
punishment, and to warn others
against her."
I looked at her puzzled.
"Penalty brands," she said. "They are tiny, but clearly visible.
There are various
such brands. There is one for lying, and another for stealing."
p277 Captive of Gor
This is the only time in the books that these are mentioned
apart from when Elinor receives them later in this book. This
may be because Elinor, , is the most difficult and rebellious
slave in the whole series. penalty brands would have a deterrent
effect, in that the punishment would be very painful and the
brands would remain forever marking the girl as a thief and a
liar.
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The Following Branding Ceremony is based on a branding performed
by Tarl Cabot in the 10th Book of the Gor Series : Tribesmen of
Gor
He holds up the heated branding iron, white hot, for the slave's
inspection.
"You will soon be branded, girl" He tells her.
As soon as all is in readiness, he holds the smoking iron above
her left thigh and says:
"You are now to be branded, slave girl"
He then brands her, holding the iron and pressing it firmly into
her skin for five full Ihn (seconds), then swiftly and cleanly
removes it. He examines the mark closely, hoping that it was
clean and deep enough to create an excellent brand. It is common
Gorean practice to allow the slave the luxury of screaming,
since it is in effect her final act as a free person.
Sometimes assistants are standing by with small vials of oil and
salve, which they now dab onto the brand to reduce chance of
infection and promote healing.
THE FOLLOWING BRANDING AS DONE IN THE HOUSE OF SLAVERS IN THE
BOOK OF
ASSASSIN OF GOR, Pg. 149-150
the branding of girls that will be later sold. This is not
always done by Slavers though, often a girl will be sold
unbranded so that the owner will have the choice in selecting a
brand, and so that he may have the pleasure of being the first
to own her as a branded girl. Of note in this passage is the
words spoken regarding "Hand-Branding," a form believed to
present a better mark that that done by machine. "'Is the iron
ready?' asked Ho-Tu of the guard, and the man nodded. At a
signal from Ho-Tu the guard carried Virginia to the branding
rack and placed her in the rack, spinning the lever that locked
her thigh in place. She said nothing but stood there, wrists
braceleted behind her back, locked in place, watching the
approach of the iron, observing the graceful, white-hot
character at the iron's termination; she screamed uncontrollably
when the iron marked her, firmly, decisively for about three
Ihn; and then she sobbed, beside herself, while the guard spun
the lever releasing her; he lifted her from the rack and put her
on the stones at the feet of Ho-Tu and Flaminius; Phyllis' eyes
were wild with fear, but she, like Virginia, did not so much as
whimper as the guard lifted her, carried her to the rack and
locked her in place. 'We still do hand branding,' said Ho-Tu to
me. 'Mechanical devices brand too uniformly. Buyers like a
hand-branded girt. Besides it is better for a female slave to be
branded by a man; it makes them better slaves. The rack,
however, is a useful device, preventing a blurred brand." He
indicated the guard. "Strius," said he, 'has one of the firmest
irons in Ar. His work is almost always exact and clean.' Phyllis
Robertson threw back her head and screamed helplessly, and then
she, too, began to sob, trembling, when the guard, Strius,
released her from the rack and put her with Virginia."
THE BRANDING OF A SLAVE GIRL AS DONE IN THE BOOK SLAVE GIRL OF
GOR PAGE 57-59
It is told from the perspective of the girl being branded, both
presenting a description of the action itself, and her reaction
to it, including the effect on her mind, body, senses, and end
perception of herself. "I tended the brazier. It glowed in the
darkness. Two men came and stood over me. I looked up, startled.
They pulled me up by the arms and took me to the white- barked
tree. They threw me on my back, my head down, on the tree. I
looked at them, wildly. My hands were tied together before my
body and taken pulled up and over my head. They were fastened,
behind my head, out of my vision, to the tree. My body was
stretched out, one leg on each side of the trunk. "What are you
doing?" I cried. I felt my body being tightly roped to the tree.
I squirmed, my head down, my legs up. 'Stop!' I cried. Ropes
were placed on my neck and belly, and on each leg, above the
knees and at the ankles, and lashed tightly. 'Stop,' I begged.
'Please stop!' I could barely move. The men stepped back; I was
fastened to the tree. 'Let me go!' I cried. 'Please!' I
whimpered. 'What are you going to do?' I asked. They looked at
me. I was helpless. 'What are you going to do?' I whimpered.
'Oh, no!' I cried. 'No, no, no, no!' My captor had gone to the
brazier and, with the leather glove, and another, too, with two
hands, withdrawn the white-hot iron. I felt the, heat of it,
even feet away. 'No!' I screamed. 'No!' Two men, large men,
strong, held my left thigh immobile. I looked into the eyes of
my captor. 'Please, no!' I wept. 'Please, no!' Then, head down,
helpless, held, I was branded a Gorean slave girl. The marking,
I suppose, took only a few seconds. That is doubtless true.
Objectively I grant you the truth of that. Yet a girl who has
been marked finds this obvious truth difficult to accept
psychologically.
Perhaps I may be granted that those seconds, those few seconds,
seem very long seconds. For an hour it seemed I felt the iron.
It touched me firmly, kissing me, then claiming me. I screamed,
and screamed. I was alone with the pain, the agony, the
degradation, the relentless, hissing object, so hurting me, the
men. Mercifully they let me scream. It is common to let a girl
scream, a Gorean kindness, while she is being marked with a
white-hot iron. Afterwards, however, once the iron is pulled out
of her body, and she is fully marked, Gorean males are less
likely to accord her such consideration for her feelings. They
are less likely, then, to be so indulgent with her. This makes
sense. Afterwards, she is only a branded girl.
It begins swiftly, almost before you can feel it. I felt the
iron touch me and almost instantaneously, crackling, flash
through my outer skin and then, firmly, to my horror, enter and
ledge itself fixedly in my thigh. It was literally in my body,
inflexibly, burning. The pain then began to register on my
consciousness. I began screaming. I could not believe what was
being done to me, or how much it hurt. Not only could I feel the
iron, but I could hear it, hissing and searing in the precise,
beautiful wound it was relentlessly burning in my thigh. There
was an odor of burning flesh, mine. I smelled, burning, as of a
kind of meat. It was my own body being marked. I could not move
my thigh. I threw back my head and screamed. I felt the iron
tight in my body, then, to my horror, pressing in even more
deeply. The marking surface of the iron, then, lay hissing,
literally submerged, in my flesh. I could not move my thigh in
the least. I threw my head from side to side, screaming. The
marking surface of the iron is some quarter of an inch in depth.
It was within my flesh. It was lodged there, submerged, hissing
and burning. Taking its time, not hurrying, it marked me,
cleanly and deeply. Then, swiftly, cleanly, it withdrew. I
smelled burned meat, my own. The men released my thigh. I began
to choke and sob. Men regarded the mark. My captor was commended
on his work. I gathered I had been well marked.
The men then left me and I continued to lie, head down, roped
and helpless, on the broken, inclined trunk of the white-barked
tree. I was overwhelmed, psychologically, with what had happened
to me. The pain was now less. My thigh still stung, and cruelly,
but the pain seemed relatively unimportant now compared to the
enormity of the comprehension that shook me to the core. I had
been branded. I shuddered in the bonds. I moaned. I wept. My
thigh would be sore for days, but that was unimportant, even
trivial. What would remain was the mark they bad placed in my
flesh. That, unlike the pain, would not vanish. I would continue
to wear that mark. It would, from now on, identify me as
something which I had not been, or had not explicitly been,
before, but now was clearly, for the eyes of all. I lay there. I
knew I now was, because of the brand, deeply and profoundly
different than I had been before. What could a brand mean? I
shuddered. I scarcely dared conjecture the nature of a girl who
wore such a mark on her body. She could be only one thing. I
forced the thought from my mind. I tried to move my wrists, my
head and body, my legs and ankles. I could move them very
little. They were helpless in their constraints. Only animals
wore brands.'"
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Re: Slave Brands
DIR By: Jinxed
Date: August 15, 2022, 8:39 pm
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Barbarian Brand
The smallpox vaccination mark usually found on the upper left
arm.
Bond-Maid, Torvaldsland
Frequently in the north, consists of a half circle, with, at its
right tip, adjoining it, a steep, diagonal line. The half circle
is about an inch and a quarter in width, and the diagonal line
about an inch and a quarter in height.
Chain and Claw
Found in the lairs of Kurii agents on Earth, the chain-and-claw
brand signifies slavery and subjection within the compass of the
Kur yoke.
Chemical Brand
A small brand which remains invisible until the proper reagent
is applied. It can be removed with the proper combination of
chemicals.
Dina - Slave Flower
A small, circular, stylized, multiply petaled flower, like a
small rose. About an inch and a half in diameter.
Kajirus "K"
A large, block script "K".
Kassars
A representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center
by lines.
Kataii
A bow, facing to the left.
Knife Brand
While quite rare, a small, curved knife is used to cut a small,
strange design. An orange powder, is then rubbed into the wound.
(The Knife Brand is used in the areas inside the Jungles and
would be used likely by to mark the property of Taluna/Mambas)
Mark for the bench of a merchant galley
Mark of a runaway slave
It would be prominently seared into the forehead.
Mark of Ar
Mark of Port Kar
The mark of the quarries of Tyros
Mark of Treve
A cursive script "T".
Moons and Collar
A locked collar and, ascending diagonally above it, extending to
the right, three quarter moons. Common in certain of the Gorean
enclaves on Earth, which serve as headquarters for agents of
Priest-Kings indicating the girl is subject to Gorean
discipline.
Pani
In Pani script, identifies her as a slave.
Paravaci
A symbol of a bosk head, a semicircle resting on an inverted
isosceles triangle.
Penalty - Liar
A tiny letter, not more than a quarter of an inch high.
Penalty - Thief
A tiny letter, not more than a quarter of an inch high.
Penalty - Traitress
A tiny letter, not more than a quarter of an inch high.
Sa-Fora
A cursive script "S", which means, rather literally, Chain
Daughter.
Spreading Bosk Horns
Peddlers and merchants, wear on their forearm, a tiny brand in
the form of spreading bosk horns, which guarantees passage, at
certain seasons, across the plains of the Wagon Peoples.
The Palm
Thief - Port Kar, Caste of Assassins
A tiny three-pronged brand burned into the face in back of and
below the eye.
Torvaldsland bond-maid
Frequently in the north, consists of a half circle, with, at its
right tip, adjoining it, a steep, diagonal line. The half circle
is about an inch and a quarter in width, and the diagonal line
about an inch and a quarter in height.
Tuchuk
The sign of the four bosk horns, set in such a manner as to
somewhat resemble the letter "H," is only about an inch high.
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