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Gorean Book Quote Requests
Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 19 | "Dina brand was common in the south. Would like description of dina brand if possible."
Answer
Hello,
First of all, the Dina itself, the flower, usually grows on the slopes of hills, in the northern temperate zones of Gor. It is a small, short-stemmed, multiply petaled flower, and blooms in a turf of green leaves and in a few other ways, it resembles a rose. It is also know as the 'slave flower'.
The Dina brand is less specifically described but is shown to be a slave-flower brand or small roselike brand.
Following are the quotes which show this information.
Fogaban
First, 'Dina' is a common slave name, often given to girls with the "Dina" brand, which is a small roselike brand.
Magicians of Gor Book 25 Page 193
"Come to the Dina!" said the first. "All our girls are dinas!" She turned her left thigh to me and drew up her tunic, showing me the dina brand. The dina is a small, roselike flower. It is popularly called the "slave flower." The dina brand, or slave-flower brand, is a common one on Gor.
Renegades of Gor Book 23 Page 436
Indeed, there is even a brand called the "Dina," which resembles the Dina, or slave flower, a tiny, roselike flower.
Dancer of Gor Book 22 Page 289
"What is your brand?" he asked.
"The Slave Flower, the Dina? I cried.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 179
"Dina," said the girl with the bruise to me. She had called me that because of my brand, the Dina, or Slave Flower.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 126
Yet I had been made a "dina." He had not done this for economic reasons. He had "sized me up," my nature and my body. He had decided the dina brand would be, for me, exquisitely "right." Accordingly, he had burned it into my flesh. Now, in my body, deeply, I wore the "slave flower."
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 63
One story is that an ancient Ubar of Ar, capturing the daughter of a fleeing, defeated enemy in a field of dinas there enslaved her, stripping her by the sword, ravishing her and putting chains upon her. As he chained her collar to his stirrup, he is said to have looked about the field, and then named her "Dina." But perhaps the dina is spoken of as one slave flower merely because, in the north, it is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can be easily crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 62
. . . my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely, multiply petaled flower, short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf of green leaves, usually on the slopes of hills, in the northern temperate zones of Gor; in its budding, though in few other ways, it resembles a rose; it is an exotic, alien flower; it is also spoken of, in the north, where it grows most frequency, as the slave flower . . .
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 61
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