"With much respect this girl contacts You Sir. This girl is not of Gor, but has training that is very much in the liking of such or so she has been told. Please i would like the meaning of my name given to me by a Gorean Master. He named me.. alyena. Can You please help this girl find the meaning of the name and where it originated from. The only information this girl has found is it is listed in Your web page"
Hello girl,
The name Alyena is used only once in the series. There is no 'meaning' given. Just that it evidently seemed to make sense to Tarl at the time and fit the girl.
Here now is the account of how Alyena received her name.
I then turned to the girl. “What is your name?” I asked her, in English.
“Priscilla Blake-Allen,” she said.
I looked at her. Her face went white. “I have no name, Master,” she whispered. “I am only a nameless slave,” she whispered.
I thought to myself. Priscilla Blake-Allen. Blake-Allen. Allen. Allen. Allena. Ah-leh-na. Then I had it. An excellent name, not unknown in the Gorean Tahari.
“I will give you a name,” I said.
She looked at me.
“Alyena,” I told her. The “l” sound in this name is rolled, one of two common “l” sounds in Gorean. An English transliteration, though not a perfect one, would be rather along the lines of ‘Ahl-yieh-ain-nah,’ where the ‘ain’ is pronounced such that it would rhyme with the English expression ‘rain.’ The accent falls on the first and third syllable. It is a melodic name. I thought it would improve her price. Names are often used by auctioneers. “Here, Noble Gentlemen, for your consideration, is the slave girl called Alyena. Regard her! Does she please you? Move for the noble gentlemen, Alyena. Display your beauty. Do not such masters excite you? Do you not long to serve them? Behold, Gentlemen, Alyena dances her beauty for you! How much am I bid for the fair Alyena?”
Tribesmen of Gor Book 10 Page 54
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