PAGA
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 Pagar Sa-Tarna  is a potent brewed beverage made from the fermented yellow grains of the sa-tarna plant.  It is stored in many different types of containers depending on the location and convenience of such; verrskin botas used mainly for traveling,  sealed bottles  seemingly of varying  sizes , and large  vats  from which the drink can be dipped. It can be served, poured from the above mentioned bottles and botas or from a two handled serving vessel carried on a strap about a slave's shoulder, or even directly from the large vat mentioned earlier. It can be served in just about any available liquid holding container including cups, fancy goblets, plain metal goblets, glasses and kantharos or footed-bowls a Master may request it served at various temperatures including warm and even hot.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple Paga Tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, one might, curled in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of Paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter."
        Outlaw of Gor, page 74
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"He leaned over and tossed me a skin bag of Paga, from which I took a long swig, then hurled it contemptously back into his arms. In a moment he had taken flight again, ... the bag of Paga flying behind him, dangling from its long straps."
            Tarnsman of Gor, page 78
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"The proprietor, sweating, aproned, was tipping yet another great bottle of paga in its sling, filling cups, that they might be borne to the drinkers."
            Raiders of Gor, page 105

"I threw a silver tarsk, taken from what we had obtained from the slavers in the marsh, to the proprietor of the paga tavern, and took in return one of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort you put in a pouring sling..."
            Raiders of Gor, page 111
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"The beast returned from the cabinet with two glasses and a bottle.

 'Is that not the paga of Ar?' I asked.

 'Is it not one of your favorites?' he asked, 'See,' he said, 'It has the seal of the
  brewer, Temus.'"
            Beasts of Gor, page 371
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"I hurried to the counter and handed Busebius, who was beaming, the paga vessel and strap. Again it had been emptied. He dipped the vessel into a great vat of paga and returned it to me."
            Slave Girl of Gor, page 298
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"I hurried to the counter and handed Busebius, who was beaming, the paga vessel and strap. Again it had been emptied. He dipped the vessel into a great vat of paga and returned it to me."Paga! Paga!" I heard. I did not even have time to slip the vessel on its strap over my shoulder. Holding its two handles with my hands, I fled back, with a jangle of slave bells, to the floor, to serve."
            Slave Girl of Gor, page 298

"Paga," called a man. I hurried to him, carrying the large bronze vessel of paga, on its strap about my shoulder. I knelt and filled his cup."
            Slave Girl of Gor, page 293

"`Paga!' called the standing man. `Paga!' A blonde girl, nude, with a string of pearls wound about her steel collar, ran to the table and, from the bronze vessel, on its strap, about her shoulder, poured paga into the goblet before the seated man. The fellow who stood by the table, scarcely noticing the girl, placed a tarsk-bit in her mouth, and she fled back to the counter where, under the eye of a paga attendant, she spit the coin into a copper bowl."
            Rogue of Gor, page 78
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"Another girl ran to him, bearing a cup of paga."
            Raiders of Gor, page 102

"Samos put down a cup of paga."
            Raiders of Gor, page 306
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"I thrust out the silver paga goblet, studded with rubies, and Telima, standing beside my throne like chair, filled it."
            Raiders of Gor, page 223
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"Many civilians, I believe, do not know why certain warriors, by habit, request their paga in metal goblets when dining in public houses."
            Renegades of Gor, page 77
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"The beast returned from the cabinet with two glasses and a bottle.

     'Is that not the paga of Ar?' I asked.

     'Is it not one of your favorites?' he asked, 'See,' he said, 'It has the seal of the
     brewer, Temus.'

     'That is remarkable,' I said. 'You are very thoughtful.'

     'I have been saving it,' he told me.

     'For me?' I asked.

     'of course,' he said. 'I was confident you would get through.'

     'I am honored,' I said.

     'I have waited so long to talk to you,' he said

     He poured two glasses of paga, and reclosed the bottle. We lifted the glasses and
     touched them, the one to the other.

     'To our war,' he said.

     'To our war,' I said.

     We drank"
            Beasts of Gor, pages 371-372
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"She knelt near the table... and put the paga, in a small kantharos... before me."
            Renegades of Gor, page 71

(Some images of footed bowls to help with visualization)

 Footed Bowl 1
 Footed Bowl 2
 Footed Bowl 3
 Footed Bowl 4
 Footed Bowl 5 (a sketch)




















"`Your paga,' said the nude slave girl, who served me, her wrists chained. `It is warmed as you wished.' I took it from her, not even glancing upon her, and drained the goblet... I liked paga warm. One felt is so much the sooner that way."
            Raiders of Gor, page 100
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


"The girls filled their vessels, which, like the hydria, or water vessel, are high-handled, for dipping, in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire near the entrance to the enclosure. Warm paga makes one drunk quicker, it is thought... Some Cosians tend to be fond of hot paga."
            Vagabonds of Gor, page 16

(Images of the hydria)

 Hydria 1
 Hydria 2
 Hydria 3
 Hydria 4



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