today kirara spent some time taking greg-chan around to various gorean sims in order to purchase silks for use in a class for kajirae. At each sim, the rules were posted, and in each sim the same rule was almost always number 1. "No furries, no talking animals".
The reason for this rule is the belief by the sim owners/managers that they are adhereing to "the true gor" as written by John Norman. kirara believes that this narrow minded view of the gorean universe is not only wrong, but also denies no less than four species that are known to exist in gor besides humans.
Please allow girl to explain, although it will be MUCH reading.
1) Priest Kings
From "Priest-Kings of Gor" page 75-6
"It stood framed in the doorway. In its way it was very beautiful, golden and tall, looming over me, framed in that massive portal. It was not more than a yard wide but its head nearly touched the top of the portal and so I would judge that, standing as it did, it must have been nearly eighteen feet high.
It had six legs and a great head like a globe of gold with eyes like vast luminous disks. Its two forelegs, poised and alert, were lifted delicately in front of its body. Its jaws opened and closed once. They moved laterally.
From its head there extended two fragile, jointed appendages, long and covered with short quivering strands of golden hair. These two appendages, like eyes, swept the room once and then seemed to focus on me.
They curved toward me like delicate golden pincers and each of the countless golden strands on those appendages straightened and pointed toward me like a quivering golden needle.
I could not conjecture the nature of the creature’s experience but I knew that I stood within the center of its sensory field.
About its neck there hung a small circular device, a translator of some sort, similar to but more compact than those I had hitherto seen.
I sensed a new set of odors, secreted by what stood before me. Almost simultaneously a mechanically reproduced voice began to emanate from the translator. It spoke in Gorean. I knew what it would say.
"Lo Sardar," it said. "I am a Priest-King."
2) Spider People
From "Tarnsman of Gor" p81
Approaching me, stepping daintily for all its bulk, prancing over the strands, came one of the Swamp Spiders of Gor. I fastened my eyes on the blue sky, wanting it to be the last thing I looked upon. I shuddered as the beast paused near me, and I felt the light stroke of its forelegs, felt the tactile investigation of the sensory hairs on its appendages. I looked at it, and it peered down, with its four pairs of pearly eyes—quizzically, I thought. Then, to my astonishment, I heard a mechanically reproduced sound say, “Who are you?”
3) Kur (Kurii)
The Kurii are a race of large (8-9 foot tall) furred mammals having 4 legs, which can stand upright or on all fours - each paw has 6 multiply-jointed digits with retractable claws and two opposable thumbs, so that it can grip - they have 2 rows of razor-sharp teeth, are incredibly strong and ferocious, and are carnivorous, even to eating humans. They are mostly bipedal and sentient, being at least as intelligent as humans, probably more so. They are possessed of advanced technology, and communicate with humans through means of special translators, box-like devices which they sometimes carry with them -- though the kur voicebox is capable of approximating human speech, the act is typically painful for them. Not a Gorean race, though there are wild kurii present in small number upon Gor. This race is the race of "Others", those aliens beings who strive against Priest-Kings to control all of Gor. It is a rare thing to see a Kur in the city of Ar, though occasionally such creatures will band with human compatriots and co-exist with them, typically to serve their own strange, unfathomable purposes.
4) Urt People
From "Players of Gor" p267
It was one of the urt people. It had a narrow, elongated face and rather large, ovoid eyes. It was narrow-shouldered and narrow-chested. It had long, thin arms and short, spindly legs. It commonly walked, or hurried, bent over, its knuckles often on the ground, its head often moving from side to side. This low gait commonly kept it inconspicuous among the large, migratory urt packs with which it commonly moved. Sometimes such packs pass civilized areas and observers are not even aware of the urt people traveling with them. The urt packs provide them with cover and protection. For some reason, not clear to me at that time, the urts seldom attack them. Sometimes it would rear up, straightly, unexpectedly, looking about itself, and then drop back to a smaller, more bent-over position. It was capable of incredible stillness and then sudden, surprising bursts of movement.
“Bet! Bet!” it said. “Pay! Pay!”
So at this point, girl finds the exclamation of "No talking animals!" in gor to be a blatently obvious falsity. In addition, the Kurii, and the Urt People make girl come to the conclusion that Anthromorphs (aka Furries) are also in existence within gor. In addition, your talking a bout a universe where (as far as girl has read so far (book 11)) there are at least 2 non-human alien species that resemble beasts (insects?) of some sort. Does it not stand to reason that there could be more?
girl knows this creates much controversy. but welcomes any discussion on it.
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