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I wondered about the
Home Stones of Gor. Many seem small and quite plain. Yet for these
stones, and on account of these stones, these seemingly
inauspicious, simple objects, cities have been built, and burned,
armies have clashed, strongmen have wept, empires have risen and
fallen. The simplicity of many of these stones has puzzled me. I
have wondered sometimes how it is that they have become invested
with such import. They may, of course, somewhat simply, be thought
of as symbolizing various things, and perhaps different things to
different people. They can stand, for example, for a city, and,
indeed, are sometimes identified with the city. They, have some
affinity, too, surely, with territoriality and community. Even a
remote hut, far from the paved avenues of a town or city, may have a
Home Stone, and therein, in the place of his Home Stone, is the
meanest beggar or the poorest peasant a Ubar. The Home Stone says
this place is mine, this is my home. I am here. But I think, often,
that it is a mistake to try to translate the Home Stone into
meanings. It is not a word, or a sentence. It does not really
translate. It is, more like a tree, or the world. It exists, which
goes beyond, which surpasses, meaning. In this primitive sense the
Home Stone is simply that, and irreducibly, the Home Stone. It is
too important, too precious, to mean. And in not meaning, it
becomes, of course, the most meaningful of all. It becomes, in a
sense, the foundation of meaning, and, for Goreans, it is anterior
to meaning, and precedes meaning. Do not ask a Gorean what the Home
Stone means because he will not understand your question. It will
puzzle him. It is the Home Stone. Sometimes I think that many Home
Stones are so simple because they are too important, too precious,
to be insulted with decoration or embellishment. And then, too,
sometimes I think that they are kept, on the whole, so simple,
because this is a way of saying that everything is important, and
precious, and beautiful, the small stones by the river, the leaves
of trees, the tracks of small animals, a blade of grass, a drop of
water, a grain of sand, the world. The word 'Gor', in Gorean,
incidentally, means 'Home Stone'. Their name for our common sun,
Sol, is 'Tor-tu-Gor' which means 'Light upon the Home Stone'. |