I’ll break down your several questions, and answer them one at a time.
Within the timeframe of the series I can only remember three men, Tarl, Jason and Gregory White a.k.a. Pertinax who were transported from Earth to Gor. Both Tarl and Jason were unconscious during their journey but Pertinax never describes his.
Tarl says he remembered nothing from boarding the ship until he awakes in Ko-ro-ba. [1]
Jason was sedated before even seeing the ship. [2]
The vast majority of those taken from Earth and brought to Gor are slaves and these women are routinely sedated. [3]
I find no evidence of anyone being indoctrinated in the ways of Gor while on the journey. In fact, speaking of Margaret Wentworth and Gregory White, the account implies they were brought to Gor and trained in the language and customs of Gor once they arrived. [4]
Now, as for those of the north not knowing of Priest-Kings, this is simply wrong.
The religion of the Priest-Kings, institutionalized and ritualized by the castle of Initiates, has made little headway among the primitive men of the north. While tending to respect Priest-Kings, they just do not accord them special reverence. [5]
I wish you well,
Fogaban
[1]
I remembered nothing, from the time I'd boarded the silver disk in the mountains of New Hampshire until now. I awoke, feeling rested, and opened my eyes, half expecting to see my room in the alumni house at the college. I turned my head, without pain or discomfort. I seemed to be lying on some hard, flat object, perhaps a table, in a circular room with a low ceiling some seven feet high.
Tarnsman of Gor Book 1 Page 21
[2]
"What are you going to do with me?" I asked, terrified.
"Do not talk now," he said.
I felt the fluid entering my body. It was apparently considerably more than he had injected into Miss Henderson. It was painful. Then he withdrew the needle from my back and swabbed the area again with alcohol and cotton.
"What are you going to do with me?" I whispered.
"You are going to be taken to the planet Gor," he said. "I think I know a little market where you might be of interest."
Fighting Slave of Gor Book 14 Page 48
[3]
"How did I come here?" I asked.
"Unconscious," she said, "naked, in a slave capsule."
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 309
In one of the holds Cecily was fascinated by closely arranged racks of transparent cylinders, outfitted with various forms of tubing. There were a hundred or more of these cylinders, or containers. Each was now empty.
"What are these?" she asked.
"Slave capsules," she was informed.
"Earth-girl slaves," said Peisistratus, "are normally sedated on Earth, brought to collection points, stored in such capsules for the journey to Gor, disembarked unconscious on Gor, and then brought unconscious to the pens.
Kur of Gor Book 28 Page 710
Such awakenings, too, may characterize Earth girls brought to Gor for the markets, as they are commonly sedated in tiered slave capsules for the journey from Earth to Gor. Many are even unaware of their journey, having perhaps been sedated in their own beds and then transported to Gor unconscious, only to awaken later in the pens, sometimes to the stroke of a slaver's lash.
Swordsmen of Gor Book 29 Page 382
[4]
Miss Wentworth, and her subordinate, Gregory White, both English speakers, were brought to Gor and trained in the language and customs of Gor.
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Pages 21 - 22
[5]
Kassau is the seat of the High Initiate of the north, who claims spiritual sovereignty over Torvaldsland, which is commonly taken to commence with the thinning of the trees northward. This claim, like many of those of the initiates, is disputed by few, and ignored by most. The men of Torvaldsland, on the whole, I knew, while tending to respect Priest-Kings, did not accord them special reverence. They held to old gods, and old ways. The religion of the Priest-Kings, institutionalized and ritualized by the castle of Initiates, had made little headway among the primitive men to the north. It had, however, taken hold in many towns, such as Kassau. Initiates often used their influence and their gold, and pressures on trade and goods, to spread their beliefs and rituals. Sometimes a Chieftain, converted to their ways, would enforce his own commitments on his subordinates. Indeed, this was not unusual. Too, often, a chief's conversion would bring with it, even without force, those of his people who felt bound to him in loyalty. Sometimes, too, the religion of the Priest-Kings, under the control of the initiates, utilizing secular rulers, was propagated by fire and sword. Sometimes those who insisted on retaining the old ways, or were caught making the sign of the fist, the hammer, over their ale were subjected to death by torture. One that I had heard of had been boiled alive in one of the great sunken wood-lined tubs in which meat was boiled for retainers. The water is heated by placing rocks, taken from a fire, into the water. When the rock has been in the water, it is removed with a rake and then reheated. Another had been roasted alive on a spit over a long fire. It was said that he did not utter a sound. Another was slain when an adder forced into his mouth tore its way free through the side of his face.
Marauders of Gor Book 9 Pages 25 - 26
But now the Forkbeard was dead.
It was said that he wished, in regret for the wickedness of his life, to be carried in death to the temple of Priest-Kings in Kassau, that the High Initiate there might, if it be his mercy, draw on his bones in the sacred grease the sign of the Priest-Kings.
It would thus indicate that he, Forkbeard, if not in life, had in death acknowledged the error of his way, and embraced the will and wisdom of the faith of the Priest-Kings.
Such a conversion, even though it be in death, would be a great coup for the initiates.
Marauders of Gor Book 9 Page 27
With a roar of laughter, hurling the shroud from him, to the horror of the High Initiate, and other initiates, and the congregation, Ivar Forkbeard, almost seven feet in height, leaped to his feet, in his right hand clutching a great, curved, single-bladed ax of hardened iron.
"Praise be to Odin!" he cried.
Marauders of Gor Book 9 Page 39
