"One who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved."

- TARNSMAN OF GOR, Pg. 27

Welcome To Sardaria... A Gorean Community

Hover Over Link For Description Of That Section At Page Bottom Introduction What is Gor? The Community What is Sardaria? Why Sardaria? Sardaria and the Books Procedures & Customs Regarding Free Persons Regarding Slaves Slave Behavior Entering - Free Persons Entering - Slaves Community FAQ Commentaries Commentaries & Writings Select Passages The Home Stone Cultural Moralities Master and Slave Is It Wrong? Information The Gorean Sourcebook Kajira Forum Resource John Norman's Gor Quote Compendium Rooms The Gorean Forum Tavern of the Blades Message Boards The Gorean Forum Credits Acknowledgements Bibliography Where to get the Books? Suggested Links The AGLS Gorean Top Sites Updates Additions & Revisions

Tal Traveler Before you lies Sardaria, a community of men and women sharing a belief in and commitment to a particular set of ideas and principles collected and commonly called Gorean Philosophy. The word "Gorean" comes from a series of science fiction novels written by John Norman. In these books, the author created a "Counter Earth," the planet Gor, a world not unsimilar to our own in outward appearances, but quite different in the course its history has taken. It is an innocent and pristine world, a world full of possibility and future, a young world where the land is still free and the air is still clean. It is populated by human beings, gathered in cultures and civilizations much like those written of in history books... descendants of men taken from the great peoples of Earth's past and transported to Gor, there to build and begin anew. It is our own history, altered and set forward again to create a world that might have been. So if the books are fiction, where does the "philosophy" come from? It is in the actions of these people, in the descriptions of their society and customs, and in the contrast that this fictional world is to our own, that the reader finds the philosophical points made by the author. What the Gorean novels present are these examples, collected and packaged in a fictional form and manifested through an imaginary world. A land serving as an allegory of sorts, a means of expressing and demonstrating clearly considered philosophical and sociological assertions through stories told of that fictional planet and the characters who walk upon it. A model built and populated by the author as a way to explore and illustrate specific and purposely repeated ideas through the creative medium of an ongoing science fiction saga. But the true foundation of this philosophy wasnt created in the stories of John Norman, through it was through them that he defined and presented it. The real root is buried inside of each of us, waiting to be found and embraced once again, along with the often ignored natural world that surrounds us. It is our forgotten nature and lost past. In this way, the Gorean novels seek to awaken things which have always been within us, and to reacquaint us the simple truths of human nature that the modern world has clouded, denied and hoped would be forgotten. The stories are not a textbook for living, but viewpoints illustrated through fictional example, with the reader left to consider, agree, or refute. Those truly involved in the Gorean lifestyle arent seeking to imitate characters out of a book, but are individuals trying to live as is natural to them, as they feel is correct. Men and women taking some inspiration from the ideas an author shared through his work, not people seeking to learn how to live through what was written. In this way, the customs and traditions of the fictional people of Gor, their outlook on life, family, community, society and man's place in the world, serve as a model whose aspects can be a part of one's own real life. "It was a world of which Homer might have sung, singing of the clashing of the metals of men and the sweetness of the wine-dark sea." - FIGHTING SLAVE OF GOR, Pg. 89 Gor is a world where... Where men are not ashamed of being men, and women do not try to deny they are women. Where masculinity is not something one should feel guilt over, and femininity is not something that should be overcome. Where being who and what you are is not an intention one should apologize for, and striving to succeed is a measure of your own goals and personal fulfillment, not a prefabricated mold. Where the differences and unique qualities of the individual are celebrated and encouraged, not stifled or limited in an attempt to make everyone equal or the same. Where the marvels of technology have not replaced the greatness of man. Where society and philosophy seek to grow in accordance with nature, not in contradiction. Where man is not content to be told he is satisfied with what is declared safe, expected and good, but seeks to live the short life we are given in a manner glorifying the human spirit. Where ideas like honesty, integrity and responsibility are not just words lost in the rush of modern life, but the foundation upon which one seeks to live. "To what must he be true, if not himself? To what else should he be true? He is born a hunter. Let him not forget the taste of meat." - TRIBESMEN OF GOR, Pg. 259

This new, revised version of the Sardarian websites is open as of Dec 11th, 2000.
It replaces the older sites first begun in March of 1998.

The contents are written by Arius of Treve (AriusTreve)
except where otherwise noted.

Most of the site's sub-links are not yet available, but soon will be as the new material is added and revisions to the old are completed. The "Updates" section will reflect these additions as they occur.

"You may judge and scorn Goreans if you wish. Know as well, however, that they judge and scorn you.
They fulfill themselves as you do not.
Hate them for their pride and power. They will pity you for your shame and weakness"

- BEASTS OF GOR, Pg. 11

Visits since the Fall of 1998

"Norman is of a very different school of writing. We might call it wearing one's psyche on one's sleeve. The result is not so much fantasy (in true fantasy, nothing is ever quite what it seems at first) as allegory (in which actions and characters are weighted with quite obvious symbolic values, from which they do not stray)."

- From - "Tarl Cabot Through The Looking Glass"
Introduction to the Masquerade Edition of Outlaw of Gor
By - Steven Saylor