In Gorean, we are told, the words for stranger and enemy are the same. Amongst the Tuchuks, however, there is a ceremony of brotherhood by which a stranger can be given the status almost of a Tuchuk by birth. It is called "the holding of grass and earth." The bond thus made between two men can never be broken.

In Nomads of Gor we see such a ceremony take place between Tarl Cabot and Kamchak of the Tuchuks:

Suddenly the Tuchuk bent to the soil and picked up a handful of dirt and grass, the land on which the bosk graze, the land which is the land of the Tuchuks, and this dirt and grass he thrust in my hands and I held it.

The warrior grinned and put his hands over mine so that our hands together held the dirt and the grass, and were together clasped on it.

"Yes," said the warrior, "come in peace to the Land of the Wagon Peoples."

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