 Chronologically, "The Rug and the Bull" is the seventh of de Camp's Pusadian tales, and the fifth to feature his protagonist Gezun of Lorsk.Gezun is middle-aged at the time of this story, and possessed of a wife (Ro, whom he first met in "Ka the Appalling") and three children.In common with the other Pusadian tales, "The Rug and the Bull" takes place in a prehistoric era during which a magic-based Atlantian civilization supposedly throve in what was then a single continent consisting of Eurasia joined with Africa, and in the islands to the west.