Geography on Gor

Geography

DIRECTIONS ON GOR
"For purposes of convenience I am recounting directions in English terms, thinking it would be considerably difficult for the reader to follow references to the Gorean compass. Briefly, for those it might interest, all directions on the planet are calculated from the Sardar Mountains, which for the purposes of calculating direction play a role analogous to our north pole; the two main directions, so to speak, in the Gorean way of thinking are Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki-Var, or as one would normally say, Var and Ki-Var; 'Var' means a turning and 'Ki' signifies negation; thus, rather literally, one might speak of 'turning to the Sardar' and 'not turning to the Sardar', something like either facing north or not facing north; on the other hand, more helpfully, the Gorean compass is divided into eight, as opposed to our four, main quadrants, or better said, divisions, and each of these itself is of course subdivided. There
is also a system of latitude and longitude figured on the basis of the Gorean day, calculated in Ahn, twenty of which constitute a Gorean day, and Ehn and Ihn, which are subdivisions of the Ahn, or Gorean hour. Ta-Sardar-Var is a direction which appears on all Gorean maps; Ta-Sardar-Ki-Var, of course, never appears on a map, since it would be any direction which is not Ta-Sardar-Var. Accordingly, the main divisions of the map are Ta-Sardar-Var, and the other seven; taking the Sardar as our "north pole" the other directions, clockwise as Earth clocks move (Gorean clock hands move in the opposite direction) would be, first, Ta-Sardar-Var, then, in order, Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (sometimes spoken of as Verus Var. or the true turning away), Cart, Klim, and Kail,and then again, of course, Ta-Sardar-Var. The Cartius
River incidentally, mentioned earlier, was named for the direction it lies from the city of Ar." Nomads of Gor, footnotes page 3 * So, the way this must work is that as you stand in a position away from the Sardar Mountains, the compass needle will point at the Sardar, showing the relative direction to take to reach the Sardar. �* CITIES OF GOR
A partial list of the cities of Gor, quotes to be added as they are found.
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Anango
Ar
Ar�s Station
Argentum
Brundissium
Cartius
Corcyrus
Cos
Fina
Forest Port
Fort Haskins
Hammerfest
Jasmine
Jort's Ferry
Kassau
Ko-ro-ba
Lara
Laura
Lydius
Point Alfred
Port Cos
Port Kar
Port Olni
Ragnar's Hamlet
Sais
Schendi
Siba
Sulport
Tabor
Tafa
Tancred's Landing
Telnus
Teletus
Tetrapoli
Tharna
Thentis
Ti
Tor
Torcadino
Torvorldsland
Treve
Turia
Turmus
Turnus
Tyros
Ven
Victoria
Vonda
White Water

DESERTS, RIVERS, MOUNTAIN RANGES
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