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-Y- Year Keepers: those that keep in memory the year names for the Wagon Peoples, sometimes on thousand consecutive names: Nomads of Gor, page 12 (footnote)Yellow-Kaiila Riders: a warrior society of the Kaiila tribe of Red Savages: Savages of Gor, page 314 Yellow Knives: a tribe of Red Savages which inhabits the Barrens: Savages of Gor, page 148 Yellow Pool: a pool in Turia filled with a living yellow fluid that dissolves anything it comes in contact with: Nomads of Gor, page 205
zad: a large, broad-winged, black-&- white bird with a long, narrow, yellowish, hooked beak, found in the Tahari; they scavenge on carrion; similar to the Earth vulture: also a less aggressive cousin of the Tahari zad; small, yellow-winged, scavenging birds with long yellowish, slightly curved beaks; found in the rainforest inland of Schendi: I heard, a short time later, wings, the alighting of one or more large birds. Such birds, broad-winged, black and white, from afar, follow the marches to Klima; their beaks, yellowish, narrow, are long and slightly hooked at the end, useful for probing and tearing. The birds scattered, squawking, as a Kaiila sped past. The birds are called zads. Tribesmen of Gor, page 232 One was attacked even by zads, clinging to it and tearing at it with their long, yellowish, slightly curved beaks. These were jungle zads. They are less to be feared than desert zads, I believe, being less aggressive. They do, however, share one ugly habit with the desert zad, that of tearing out the eyes of weakened victims. That serves as a practical guarantee that the victim, usually an animal, will die. Explorers of Gor, page 415 Zadit: a small, tawny-feathered, sharp- billed bird of the Tahari; insectivorous, feeding on sand flies and other similar insects; they often land a kaiila and spend long periods hunting the sand flies that infest the host animal: "The zadit is a small, tawny-feathered, sharp-billed bird. It feeds on insects. When sand flies and other insects, emergent after rains, infest kaiila, they frequently light on the animals, and remain for some hours, hunting insects. This relieves the kaiila of the insects but leaves it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant and irritating, where the bird had dug insects out of its hide." Tribesmen of Gor, page 152 Zarlit: is very large, about two feet long, with four large, translucent wings, with a span of about a yard. It has large, pad like feet on which, when it alights, it can rest on the water, or pick its way delicately across the surface. Most of them are purple and are harmless Resembles a large dragonfly; and is harmless "I did see a large, harmless zarlit fly, purple, about two feet long with four translucent wings, spanning about a yard, humming over the surface of the water, then alighting and, on its pad like feet, daintily picking its way across the surface." Raiders of Gor, page 5 The zarlit fly is very large, about two feet long, with four large, translucent wings, with a span of about a yard. It has large, pad like feet on which, when it alights, it can rest on the water, or pick its way delicately across the surface. Most of them are purple. Their appearance is rather formidable and can one a nasty turn in the delta, but happily, one soon learns they are harmless, at least to humans." Vagabonds of Gor. page 160 Zeder: a small sleenlike creature that live in and around the Ua There is however, a sleenlike animal, though much smaller, about two feet in length, and some eight to ten pounds in weight, the zeder, which frequents the Ua and her tributaries. It knifes through the water by day and at night, returns to its nest, built of sticks and mud in the branches of a tree overlooking the water. Explorers of Gor, page 312 Zevar: a minor tribe of the Tahari; they are a vassal tribe of the Aretai To my right were the lines of the Aretai. The Aretai themselves, of course, with black kaffiyeh and white agal cording, held their center. Their right flank was held by the Luraz and the Tashid. Their left flank was held by the Raviri, and four minor tribes, the Ti, the Zevar, the Arani and the Tajuks. Tribesman of Gor, page 301
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