Distance
All directions on Gor are calculated from the Sardar Mountains.
There are two main directions - Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki-Var. They are referred to as Var and Ki-Var.
Var means a turning toward the Sardar, almost like facing north.
Ki-Var means not turning to the Sardar.
The Gorean compass is divided into eight quadrants, as opposed to the four used on Earth.
Starting with Var, then moving in clockwise order comes Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (also known as Versus Var), Cart, Klim and Kail.
There is also a system of longitude and latitude figured on the basis of the Gorean day.
Pasang - is about seven-tenths of a mile. Most travel distances are expressed in pasangs. Speeds are also expressed in these units.
"The pasang is a measure of distance on Gor, equivalent approximately to 0.7 of a mile." Tarnsman of Gor, page 58
Height
Height is normally expressed in horts.
Hort - an unit of measure equal to 1 1/4 inches.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 49
"I then heard my height and weight, given in Gorean measurements, thirty and a quarter Gorean stone and fifty-one horts, or approximately, in Earth measurements, one hundred and twenty-one pounds and five foot three and three-quarters inches…" Dancer of Gor, page 127Gorean Foot - an unit of measure equal to 10 horts, approxiamtely 12 1/2 inches
"The Gorean foot, interestingly, is almost identical to the Earth foot. Both measures doubtless bear some distant relation to the length of the foot of an adult human male. The Gorean foot is, in any estimation, just slightly longer than the Earth foot; based on the supposition that each of is ten Horts is roughly one and one-quarter inches long, I would give the Gorean foot a length of roughly twelve and one-half inches, Earth measure ... As is the case of the official ‘Stone,’ so, too, at the Sardar is a metal rod, which determines the Merchant Foot, or Gorean foot, as I have called it." Raiders of Gor, page 127-28
Length
Cloth is commonly measured in these units and are not used to express height.
Ah-il - a unit of measure equal to the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, about eighteen inches.
Ah-ral - a unit of measure equalling 10 ah-il, or approx. 180 inches.
"Cloth is measured in the ah-il, which is the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, and the ah-ral, which is ten ah-ils." Tribesmen of Gor, page 50
Solid Volume
Huda - a unit of measure equaling five tefa.
Tefa - a unit of measure equalling 6 tefs, a tiny basket
Tef - a unit of measure, equal to a handful with fingers closed.
"A veiled woman was hawking dates by the tefa. A handful with the five fingers closed, not open, is a tef. Six such handfuls constintutes a tefa, which is a tiny basket. Five such baskets constitutes a huda." Tribesmen of Gor, page 46
Liquid Volume
gill - liquid volume
"In a matter of perhaps two or three seconds, it had drawn perhaps a gill of liquid." Outlaw of Gor, page 34Talu - a unit of measure equaling two gallons.
"A talu is approximately two gallons. A talu bag is a small bag. It is the sort carried by a nomad herding verr afoot in the vicinity of his camp. Bags that small are seldom carried in caravan, except at the saddles of scouts." Tribesmen of Gor, page 242
Weight
Stone - equals about four pounds.
"I have calculated this from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth pounds." Raiders of Gor, page 127Weight - equals ten stone. Weight is normally expressed in stones.
"A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
"I have calculated this figure from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth pounds. A Weight is ten Stone….The Weight and Stone, incidentally are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, the only common body of law existing among the cities. The official ‘Stone,’ actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, near the Sardar. Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sardar, it is brought forth with scales, that merchants from whatever city may test their own standard ‘Stone’ against it." Raiders of Gor, page 127)
