Gant - 1) Jungle:(noun): a bird, related to the marsh gant, which
inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi; 2) Marsh: (noun): a long-legged
marsh bird with a piping cry; similar to an Earth curlew
Giani - (noun): a large mammal of solitary habits which inhabits
the rainforests inland of Schendi
Gieron - (noun): 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
Gim - 1) Horned:(noun): a small owl-like bird, c. 4 ozs. in weight,
which inhabits the forests of northern Gor; 2) Lang: (long?) (noun):
an insectivorous bird which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi;
3) Yellow: (noun): a colored variety of the bird, related to the
horned gim, which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi
Gint - (noun):
a tiny (6") 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
Gint,
Giant - (noun): 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
Girl-Yoke - (noun): a narrow piece of wood c. 5' long 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; thon is then passed
through the middle hole of the yoke, wrapped around the girl's neck
5 times, 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; shorter (2 1/2' long) versions
are sometimes used while the girl is serving her master's pleasure;
used mostly among the Red Savages of the Barrens
Glass
of the Builders - (noun): telescope
Golden
Beetle - (noun): an insect, roughly the size of a rhinoceros,
which lives in the caverns below the Nest of the Priest-Kings in
the Sardar Mountains; its prey is the Priest-Kings themselves
Gor - (noun): Home Stone
Gort,
Hook-billed - (noun): a carnivorous hunting bird of the rainforests
inland of Schendi; preys on ground urts
Grub
Borer - (noun): an insectivorous bird which inhabits the rainforests
inland of Schendi
Grunt - 1) (noun): 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; 2) Blue variety: (noun): a small, voracious,
carnivorous freshwater fish, related to the Thassa grunt; like its
larger cousin, it is attracted by blood
Gur - (noun): 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
Gur
Carriers - (noun): mutated Muls who can climb walls and who
gather the fermented Gur for the Feast of Tola
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