game of favors: a game played by Free Woman at the Carnival where each woman is given ten scarves and must run about asking for the men to accept her favor; the goal to be the first to get rid of the scarves and run back: Players of Gor, page 44

gant,: arctic migratory bird that nests in the mountain of Hrimgar on cliffs; when frozen, eggs are eaten like apples: also a bird, related to the marsh gant, which inhabits the river in rainforests inland of Schendi: also a small long-legged horned bird; broad-billed and broad-winged; hunted by marsh girls:

" I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged. Marsh girls, the daughters of rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks." Raiders of Gor, page 4

"The cries of the marsh gants were about us now. I saw that her hunting had been successful. There were four of the birds tied in the stern of the craft." Raiders of Gor, page 10

"…. poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks,..." Raiders of Gor, page 41

"I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roated tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Raiders Gor, page 44

garbage death: the death for a slave where a slave is bound and thrown to canal urts

In Port Kar, doubtless, you would be given the Garbage Death -- bound naked and hurled to the urts in the canals.” Tribesmen of Gor, page 313

knife gauntlets, A pair of thick leather gauntlets, upon which are mounted crescent shaped knife blades. Sometimes used by gladiators in arena combats. First appears in Book #14, Fighting Slave of Gor.

giani: tiny, cat-sized panther of solitary habits which inhabits the low branches of ground level in rainforests inland of Schendi:

In the lower branches of the "ground zone" may be found, also, small animals, such as tarsiers, nocturnal jit monkeys, black squirrels, four-toed leaf urts, jungle varts and the prowling, solitary giani, tiny, cat-sized panthers, not dangerous to man. Explorers of Gor, page 312 

gieron: a drug, an allergen, which causes a yellowing of the whites of the eyes; in combination with sajel, it reproduces the symptoms of the Bazi plague:

"My pursuit of you was foiled," I said, "by the results of the drug you placed in my paga."
"The drug," said Shaba, "was a simple combination of sajel, a simple pustulant, and gieron, an unusual allergen. Mixed they produce a facsimile of the superficial symptoms of Bazi plague."
"I could have been killed," I said, "by the mob."
I did not think many would care to approach you," said Shaba.
"It was not your intention then that I be killed?" I asked.
"Certainly not," said Shaba. "if that was all that was desired, kanda might have been introduced into your drink as easily as sajel and gieron" Explorers of Gor, page 154

gim, horned: a small purplish owl-like bird with tufts over eyes, c. 4 ozs. in weight, which inhabits the forests of northern Gor:

"The migration of the forest hurlit and the horned gim do not take place until late in the spring." Nomads of Gor, page 138

"the call of a tiny horned gim, the tiny purplish owl like bird." Captive of Gor, page 97

"I heard the throaty warbling, so loud for such a small bird, of the tiny horned gim." Hunters of Gor, page 106

gim, yellow: a bird, related to the horned gim, which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi 

In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrot, and many more. Explorers of Gor, page 311 

gint: a tiny (6 inches) freshwater fish which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi; it has bulbous eyes & flipper-like fins; is amphibious, having both lungs & gills; is capable of walking on its pectoral fins; often found in the company of tharlarion, feeding off the scraps of their kills:

I recalled, sunning themselves on the exposed roots near the river, tiny fish. They were bulbous eyed and about six inches long, with tiny flipperlike lateral fins. They had both lungs and gills. Their capacity to leave the water, in certain small streams, during dry seasons, enables them to seek other streams, still flowing, or pools. This property also, of course, makes it possible for them to elude marine predators and, on the land, to return to the water in case of danger. Normally they remain quite close to the water. Sometimes they even sun themselves on the backs of resting or napping tharlarion. Should the tharlarion submerge the tiny fish often submerges with it, staying close to it, but away from its jaws. Its proximity to the tharlarion affords it, interestingly, an effective protection against most of its natural predators, in particular the black eel, which will not approach the sinuous reptiles. Similarly the tiny fish can thrive on the scraps from the ravaging jaws of the feeding tharlarion. They will even drive one another away from their local tharlarion, fighting in contests of intraspecific aggression, over the plated territory of the monster's back. The remora fish adn the shark have what seem to be, in some respects, a similar relationship. These tiny fish, incidentally, are called gints. Explorers of Gor, page 299 

gint, giant: a large cousin of the gint found in western Gor, similar in appearance, but with a 4-spined dorsal fin; is also amphibious and capable of walking on its pectoral fins: 

The creature which had surfaced near us, perhaps ten feet in length, and a thousand pounds in weight, was scaled and had large, bulging eyes. It had gills, but it, too, gulped air, as it had regarded us. It was similar to the tiny lung fish I had seen earlier on the river, those little creatures clinging to the half-submerged roots of shore trees, and, as often as not, sunning themselves on the backs of tharlarion, those tiny fish called gints. Its pectoral fins were large and fleshy. Explorers of Gor, page 384 

girl-capture chain: short chain used specifically to capture without serious damage; similar to the garrote in use, but with chain in place of thin wire: Savage of Gor, page 180

girl catch: a contest to settle disputes where young women, free and slave, are captured by the opposing village within a boundaried area: Beast of Gor, page 41

girl-yoke: a narrow piece of wood with holes drilled in the middle and at each end; to secure a girl in this yoke, a thong is tied around one wrist, the end of the thong then being passed through the hole in one end of the yoke; thong is then passed through the middle hole of the yoke, wrapped around the girl's neck, then passed back out through the same hole, after which it is passed through the hole at the other end of the yoke, so that her other wrist may be tied to the yoke: 

She wore an improvised girl-yoke. This consisted of a stout branch, about two inches thick, and some five feet in length, drilled at the center and near the extremities. It fits behind the back of the girl's neck. A long, single thong of rawhide fastens the girl in place. Her left wrist is thonged and then the thong is passed through the drilled aperture in the left end of the yoke. Her wrist is pulled tight to the yoke. The same thong is then taken behind the yoke and passed through the center hole, whence, after having been knotted, to prevent slippage to the left, and having been looped about the girl's neck, usually some five times, and having been knotted again, to prevent slippage to the right, it is returned through the same hole, whence it is taken behind the yoke to the hole drilled at the right-hand extremity of the apparatus. It is passed through that hole and then, of course, is used to fasten the girl's right wrist in place, tightly against the yoke. When this action is completed then, as you can see, the whole package is neatly tied. The knots near the throat bands, in preventing slippage, serve two functions; they hold the girl's wrists against the yoke and, at the same time, prevent any undue stress from being placed on the throats bands. The function of the throat bands is to hold the girl's throat in the yoke, securely and perfectly, not to cause her discomfort, nor to strangle her, Gorean men are not fools in tying women. Longer yokes, such as this, incidentally, are commonly used for marches.   Savages of Gor, page 281 

gladius: a short, double-edged Gorean sword: Mercenaries of Gor, page 387

glana: Gorean term reserved for Free Persons referring to the state of virginity:

" The buyers were also informed that I was 'glana' or virgin. The correlated term is 'metaglana' used to designate the state to which the glana state looks forward, or that which it is regarded as anticipating. Though the word was not used of me I was also 'profalarina' which term designates the state preceding, and anticipating that of 'falarina' or the state Goreans seem to think of as that of being a full woman, or, at least, as those of Earth might think of it, one who certainly is no longer a virgin. In both terms, 'glana' and 'profalarina' incidentally, it seems that the states they designate are regarded as immature or transitory, state to be succeeded by more fully developed, superior states, those of 'metaglana' or 'falarina.' Among slaves, not free women, these things are sometimes spoken of along the lines as to whether or not the girl has been 'opened' for the uses of men. Other common terms, used generally of slaves, are 'white silk' and 'red silk' for girls who have not yet been opened, or have been opened, for the uses of men, respectively."  Dancer of Gor, page 128

Goat-Keepers, Caste of: Mentioned in the books.

"I was pleased to see that the men of other castes and even castes as low as the Peasants, Saddle-Makers, the Weavers, the Goat-Keepers, the Poets, and the Merchants" Priest-Kings of Gor, pages 294-295

Golden Beetle: Is an insect about the size of a rhinoceros with glowing eyes and two multiply hooked, tubular, hollow, pincer like extensions that meet at the tips perhaps a yard beyond its body. They seemed clearly some aberrant mutation of its jaws. Its antennae, unlike those of the Priest-Kings, are very short. They are curved and are tipped with a fluff of golden hair. There are several long, golden strands, almost a mane, which extended from the creatures head over its domed golden back and fall almost to the floor behind it. The back itself is divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell.

"'What does the Golden Beetle kill?' I asked. 'Priest-Kings,' said the second slave." Priest-Kings of Gor, page 105

"The Golden Beetle was not nearly as tall as a Priest-King, but it was probably considerably heavier. It was about the size of a rhinoceros and the first thing I noticed after the glowing eyes were two multiply hooked, tubular, hollow, pincer like extension that met at the tips perhaps a yard beyond its body. They seemed clearly some aberrant mutation of its jaws. Its antennae, unlike those of the Priest-Kings, were very short. They curved and were tipped with a fluff of golden hair. Most strangely perhaps were several long, golden strands, almost a mane, which extended from the creatures’ head over its domed golden back and fell almost to the floor behind it. The back itself seemed divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell." Priest-Kings of Gor, page 180

"The exuviate which forms on the mane hairs of the Golden Beetle, which had overcome me in the close confines of the tunnel, apparently has a most intense and, to a human mind, almost incomprehensibly compelling effect on the unusually sensitive antennae of the Priest-Kings, luring them helplessly, almost as if hypnotized, to the jaws of the Beetle, who then penetrates their body with its hollow, pincer like jaws and drains its body of fluid." Priest-Kings of Gor, page 257

golden sphere: sought by Saphar for it's value and thought to be a golden priest king egg; it was later found to be a worthless Tharlarion egg painted gold by Tuchuks: Nomads of Gor, page 316

Gor: word meaning Home Stone: also planet in same rotation as Earth on opposite side of Sun:

"Gor,"he said, ''is the name of this world. In all the languages of this planet, the word means Home Stone.'' He paused, noting my lack of comprehension. ''Home Stone,'' he repeated. ''Simply that.'' Tarnsman of Gor, page 26

Gorean language: known to native Goreans as 'The Language'; it is described as a sweet, fierce, liquid speech:

Whereas there was a main common tongue on Gor, with apparently several related dialects or sublanguages, some of the Gorean languages bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard  before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the cries of birds and the growls of animals; they were sounds I knew could not have been produced by a human throat.  Tarnsman of Gor, page 39

Occasionally, however, an English word in Gorean, like 'axe' or 'ship', would delight me. Certain other expressions seemed clearly to be of Greek or German origin.  If I had been a skilled linguist, I undoubtedly would have discovered hundred of parallels and affinities, grammatical and otherwise, between Gorean and various of the Earth languages. Tarnsman of Gor, page 45

Gorean is written, as it is said, as the ox plows. The first line is written left to right, the second, right to left, the third, left to right, and so on. I had once been informed by my friend, Torm, that the whole business was quite simple, the alternate lines, in his opinion, at least, also being written forward, `only in the other direction.' Players of Gor, page 243

Gorean, I might note, is somewhat similar, and though I speak Gorean fluently, I find it very difficult to write, largely because of the even-numbered lines which, from my point of view, must be written backwards. Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, never forgave me this and to this day, if he lives, he undoubtedly considers me partly illiterate. As he said, I would never make a Scribe. "It is simple," he said. "You just write it forward but in the other direction." Priest Kings of Gor, pages 100 

"We may suppose," said Bosk, "as a working hypothesis, that the message is in Gorean. As far as we know, Belisarius, whom we know only by name, and it may be a code name, is Gorean."  "Yes?" said Samos.  
"See," said Bosk, who was examining the necklace, "The most frequent combination of colors is blue and red."  
"So?" asked Samos.  
"In Gorean," said Bosk, "the most frequently occurring letter is Eta. We might then begin by supposing that the combination of blue and red signifies an Eta."   
"I see," said Samos.  
"The next most frequently occurring letters in Gorean," said Bosk, "are Tau, Al-Ka, Omnion and Nu. Following these in frequency of occurrence are Ar, Ina, Shu and Homan, and so on."   
"How is this known?" asked Samos.  
"It is based upon letter counts," said Bosk, "over thousands of words in varieties of manuscripts."  
"These matters have been determined by scribes?" asked Samos.  
"Yes," said Bosk.  "Why  should they be interested in such things?"  
"Such studies were conducted originally, at least publicly, as opposed to the presumed secret studies of  cryptographers, in connection with the Sardar Fairs," said Bosk, "at meetings of Scribes concerned to standardize and simplify the cursive alphabet. Also it was thought to have consequences for improved pedagogy, in teaching children to first recognize the most commonly occurring letters."  
"I was taught the alphabet beginning with Al-Ka," smiled Samos.  
"As was I," said Bosk. "Perhaps we should first have been taught Eta."  
"That is not the tradition!" said Samos.  
"True," admitted Bosk. "And these innovative scribes have had little success with their proposed reforms. Yet, from their labors, various interesting facts have emerged. For example, we have learned not only the order of frequency of occurrence of letters but, as would be expected, rough percentages of occurrences as well. Eta, for example, occurs two hundred times more frequently in the language than Altron. Over forty percent of the language consists of the first five letters I mentioned, Eta, Tau, Al-Ka, Omnion, and Nu."   
"That seems impossible," said Samos.  
"It is true," said Bosk. "Further, over sixty percent of the language consists of those five letters plus Ar, Ina, Shu, and Homan."  
"We could still try all possible combinations," said Samos.   
"True," said Bosk, "and, in a short message, which this appears to be, we might produce several intelligible possibilities. Short messages, particularly those which do not reflect statistical letter  frequencies, can be extremely difficult to decipher, even when the cipher is rudimentary."  
"Rudimentary?" asked Samos.  
"There are many varieties of cipher," said Bosk, "both of the substitution and transposition type. I suspect we have before us, tin this necklace, a simple substitution cipher."  
"Why?" asked Samos.  
"It was interpreted almost instantly by the man called Belisarius," said Bosk. "A more complicated cipher, indexed to key words or key numbers, would presumably have required a wheel or table for its interpretation."  
"Can all codes be broken?" asked Samos. Slave Girl of Gor, page 383  

The brand was the common Kajira mark of Gor, the first letter, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, in cursive script, of expression 'Kajira', which is the most common expression in Gorean for a female slave. It is a simple mark, and rather floral, a staff, with two, upturned, frondlike curls, joined where they touch the staff on its right. It bears a distant resemblance to the printed letter 'K' in several of the Western alphabets of Earth, and I suspect, in spite of several differences, it may owe its origin to that letter. The Gorean alphabet has twenty-eight characters, all of which, I suspect owe their origin to one or another of the alphabets of Earth. Several show a clear cut resemblance to Greek letters, for example. 'Sidge,' on the other hand, could be cuneiform, and 'Tun' and 'Val' are probably calligraphically drifted from demotic. At least six letters suggest influence by the classical Roman alphabet, and seven do, if we count 'Kef', the first letter in 'Kajira'. 'Shu' is represented by a sign which seems clearly oriental in origin and 'Homan', I speculate may derive from Cretan. Many Gorean letters have a variety of pronunciations, depending on their linguistic context. Certain scribes have recommended adding to the Gorean alphabet new letters, to independently represent some of these sounds, which, now, require alternative pronunciations, context-dependent, of given letters. Their recommendations, it seems, are unlikely to be incorporated into formal Gorean.  In matters such as those of the alphabet conservatism seems unshakable. For example, there is not likely to be additions or deletions to the alphabets of Earth, regardless of the rationality of such an alteration in given cases. An example of conservatism in such matters is that Goreans, and, indeed, many of those of the Earth, are taught their alphabets in an order which bears no rational relation whatsoever to the occurrence pattern of letters. That children should be taught the alphabet in an order which reflects the frequency of the occurrence of letters in the language, and thus would expedite their learning, appears to be to radical and offensive an idea to become acceptable. Consider, too, for example the opposition to an arithmetically convenient system of measurement in certain quarters on Earth, apparently because of the unwillingness to surrender the techniques of tradition, so painfully acquired so long ago. Explorers of Gor, page 9  

"Thank you, Master," she breathed. elated. 
'Feiqa,' is a lovely name. It is not unknown among dancers in the Tahari. Other such names as 'Aytul', 'Benek', 'Emine', 'Faize', 'Mine', 'Yasemine' and 'Yasine'. The 'qa' in the name 'Feiqa', incidentally, is pronounced rather like 'kah' in English I have not spelled it 'Feikah' in English because the letter in question, in the Gorean spelling, is a 'kwah' and not a 'kef'. The 'kwah' in Gorean, which I think is possibly related, directly or indirectly, to the English 'q', does not always have a 'kwah' sound. Sometimes it does; sometimes it does not; in the name 'Feiqa' it does not. Although this may seem strange to native English speakers, it is certainly not linguistically unprecedented. For example, in Spanish, certainly one of the major languages spoken on Earth, the letter 'q' seldom, if ever, has the 'kwah' sound. Even in English, of course, the letter 'q  itself is not pronounced with a 'kwah' sound, but rather with a 'k' or 'c' sound, as in 'kue' or 'cue'. Mercenaries of Gor, page 13

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy. Outlaws of Gor, page 49

Gorean mythology: Goreans also believe quite naturally that men were born free, and women, born to be their slaves. That a woman be free on Gor is to them simply an accidental fate that will eventually be remedied, when time has come for this woman to fill her rightful role within the Gorean society, that of one who lives to please and serve men.

In Gorean mythology it is said that there was once a war between men and women and that the women lost, and that the Priest-Kings, not wishing the women to be killed, made them beautiful, but as the price of this gift decreed that they, and their daughters, to the end of time, would be the slaves of men....  Dancer of Gor, page 352

Great Axe (Torvaldslander): This weapon is similar in most respects to the Torvaldslander Battle Axe, except it is much larger, with a handle up to four feet in length. The axe blade is also much larger, and this weapon is used two-handed, without the benefit of a shield of any sort. Occasionally such axes will be double-headed, though that adds considerably to the weight of the weapon. First appears in Book #8, Marauders of Gor.

 “. . .blond giant from Torvaldsland The large, curved, double-bladed, long-handled ax lay beside him.”  Hunters of Gor, page 47

 “Forkbeard then, grinning, slung his ax over his left shoulder, dropping it into the broad leather loop by which it may be carried, its head behind his head and to the left. This loop is fixed in a broad leather belt worn from the left shoulder to the right hip, fastened there by a hook, that the weight of the ax will not turn the belt, which fits into a ring in the master belt.”  Marauders of Gor, page 50

 “It takes, however, more than one blow to cut a body, that of a man, in two.”  Marauders of Gor, page 104

 “We saw, too, many chieftains, and captains, and minor Jarls, in the crowd, each with his retinue. These high men were sumptuously garbed, richly cloaked and helmeted, often with great axes, inlaid with gold.”  Marauders of Gor, page 142

Great Bow or Peasant Bow: A long bow typically made from the wood of the ka-la-na tree or sometimes of temwood. Unstrung it is over six feet in length, and can require a pull of up to 120 lbs. depending upon the strength of the user. The bowstring itself is usually made of hemp or sinew lashed with silk thread. Armed with such a weapon, a highly skilled archer can accurately strike a target the size of a man's head at distances of up to 100 yards. By arcing his line of fire upward to allow for gravity can fire a shaft into a ten foot diameter circle at up to 300 yards. The arrows of such a bow are temwood, metal-piled and fletched with the feathers of the vosk gull. Each such arrow is approximately three feet in length, and can be tipped with several different types of arrowheads. Of these, the flight tip (a long narrow three-sided metal spike designed for extreme penetration) and the sheaf tip (a wide double or triple edged blade designed to inflict maximum tissue damage upon impact) are the most common.

Special arrowheads such as ones fitted with whistles or noisemakers for signalling or reservoirs for inflammable liquids are not unknown. It is commonly carried slung or strapped over the shoulder of the archer when not in use, and is accompanied by a belt or shoulder quiver containing forty (or more) shafts. Its use requires the archer to wear a bracer of thick leather upon the forearm of his bow arm, and to utilize a special archer's glove or leather finger tab to protect his hands and arm from friction caused by the motion of the string when fired. It is a difficult weapon to master, though despite that fact it is widely used by both many members of the Caste of Peasants, and the rencers of the Vosk Delta. First appears in Book #1, Tarnsman of Gor, and appears regularly thereafter.

And there was, too, the great bow, of yellow, supple Ka-la-na, tipped with notched bosk horn, with its cord of hemp, whipped with silk, and the roll of sheaf and flight arrows. I counted the arrows. There were seventy arrows, fifty of which were sheaf arrows, twenty flight arrows. Raiders of Gor, page 68 

“Well used, the long bow is a far more devastating weapon than its rival, the crossbow; but few men had the strength and eve to use it well. . .”  Raiders of Gor, page 3 

“. . .it fires nineteen arrows in a Gorean Ehn, some eighty Earth seconds; a skilled bowman, and not an unusual one, is expected to be able to put these nineteen arrows in an Ehn into a man-sized target, consecutively, each a mortal hit, at some two hundred and fifty yards.”  Hunters of Gor, page 180 

“. . .the leather bracer and fastened it about his left forearm, that the arm not be lacerated by the string, and took the small tab as well, putting the first and second fingers of his right hand through, that in drawing the string the flesh might not be cut to the bone.”  Raiders of Gor, page 20 

“a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows. The bow is not commonly favored by Gorean warriors, but all must respect it. It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incidentally, even some warriors, cannot draw the bow . . . its rate of fire is nineteen arrows in a Gorean Ehn, about eighty Earth seconds. . . Yet, as a weapon, it has serious disadvantages. . . The long bow cannot well be used except in a standing, or at least kneeling, position, thus making more of a target of the archer; the long bow is difficult to use from the saddle; it is impractical in close quarters, as in defensive warfare or in fighting from room to room; and it cannot be kept set, loaded like a firearm, as can the crossbow . .”  Raiders of Gor, page 2 

Greeting used by Tahari Desert Tribesmen:

  "I extended my hand to Ibn Saran and he, bowing twice, brushed twice the palm of his hand against mine. 'May you always have water, may your water bags never be empty.' "  Tribesmen of Gor, page 21

Grasshopper, Red: red insect, about the size of a small bird. 

A grasshopper, red, the size of a horned gim, a small, owl like bird, some four ounces in weight, common in the northern latitudes, had leaped near the fire, and disappeared into the brush. Explorers of Gor, page 293 

grub borer: an insectivorous bird which inhabits the ground level of rainforests inland of Schendi:

In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and lang gim. Explorers of Gor, page 311 

grunt: a large, carnivorous, salt-water fish which inhabits Thassa; is often attracted by the blood of a wounded creature; similar to the shark of Earth: also a blue small, voracious, carnivorous freshwater fish, related to the Thassa grunt; like its larger cousin, it is attracted by blood: also a great speckled fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors: also a white bellied fish found in northern waters near Torsvaldland

Such blood might attract the bind, a fanged, carnivorous marsh eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water variety of the much larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa. The blue grunt is particularly dangerous during the daylight hours preceding its mating periods, when it schools. Its mating periods are synchronized with the phases of Gor's major moon, the full moon reflecting on the surface of the water somehow triggering the mating instinct. During the daylight hours preceding such a moon, as the restless grunts school, they will tear anything edible to pieces which crosses their path. Explorers of Gor, page 267 

"Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt." Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 275-276

"Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish." Marauders of Gor, page 59

guernon monkey: found in the jungle along the Ua river; recognized by their chattering sound:

We could hear the chattering of guernon monkeys about. Explorers of Gor, page 307  

gulls, Vosk: a river gull; feathers used to make arrows: 

"Those are Vosk gulls,' said Kamchak, 'In the spring, when the ice breaks in the Vosk, they fly north.' " Nomads of Gor, page 137

"Those are Schendi gulls,"said Ulafi, pointing to birds which circled the mainmast. "They nest on land at night." Explorers of Gor, page 99  

gur: thin, white honey-like liquid secreted in the Nest by a large, grey domesticated arthropod which feeds on Sim plants; when fermented in the social stomachs of somnolent Priest-Kings, ritually fed to the Mother of the Nest on the Feast of Tola: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 214

gur carriers: mutated Muls who can climb walls and who gather the fermented Gur for the Feast of Tola: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 166