#Jaffa

[mysharona1987]

[secular-jew]

Jewish wedding in Jaffa Israel, circa 1899. In another Pallywood lie, the photo was promoted as "Palestinian" but they neglected to notice the key structure in a Jewish wedding ceremony, aka the "huppah" - the wedding canopy.

[plstnyan]

Yafa, Palestine

[girlactionfigure]

The world must condemn this attack for what it is: terror, with no other goal than murdering innocent civilians.

[galderthefuzzy]

The Shol'va

I had a recent rush of inspiration to start painting portraits of characters from one of my all time favorite series. I started with the Shol'Va, Teal'c!

Do you have a suggestion for another Star Gate character you'd like me to paint? Share! If you have another series in mind, share too!

[amone448]

📍يافـــــا🌊☀️

[sarafangirlart]

Andromeda’s race/ethnicity and why it’s not inaccurate to interpret her as black/African

Now you’ve seen how I draw my babygirl as Afro Palestinian Egyptian so you know where I personally stand on the subject. However, my interpretation isn’t the only one, ancient authors, from mythographers to historians to poets to playwrights, have proposed various different locations for Andromeda’s homeland, often times contradicting each other, what I’m trying to do here is correct some misinformation as well as argue that even if Andromeda isn’t black/ethiopian, she still wouldn’t be considered white or ethnically European.

I would like to reiterate like I did with my Hephaestus/Aphrodite post that I’m not a mythology or history expert, I just read a lot. So do your own research and come up with your own conclusions.

Let’s go.

The etymology of “Aethiopia”

Aethiopia means "of burned face" which yes is pretty racist be modern standards but basically means that its inhabitants are dark skinned, so even if you go by sources that it isn’t in Africa, the inhabitants still wouldn’t be white or Greek.

Location of the Kingdom

You’d hear the statement that the Aethiopia in mythology is not the same as Ethiopia the modern country, which is true. You’d also hear that it’s a completely fictitious location, that’s only partially true, while Aethiopia existed mainly as a mythological location (mentioned as early as the Iliad) that didn’t stop ancient historians, mythographers and poets from placing it in real locations or calling pre-existing nations Aethiopia. It’s hard to pick which one is more “accurate” bc they all contradict each other, not only that, but these writers didn’t actually visit these locations and ancient ppl weren’t as well versed in geography as we are today so they’d be weirdly vague or confusing about these locations, I mean just look at an ancient map and you’d see what I mean.

So personally, I think you can go with any version you personally prefer, the options are quite limitless, she could be from the Arab peninsula, the Levant, North Africa, Persia, hell maybe even India if you are like Ovid.

Andromeda’s genealogy

(I just realized that these are the Waterson kids color palette while writing this lmaooooooooo)

Yes Andromeda is descended from Zeus (no family tree can escape that man lol) and she’s also the great granddaughter of Poseidon, which adds a whole new layer to the fact he tried to kill her.

Now for a bit of history: The Trojan war (which didn’t happen irl obviously) was dated as taking place in the 12th or 13th century BCE by some ancient writers, that war happens a few generations after Perseus’s story, which means that Egypt was in the New Kingdom era, also called the Egyptian Empire, when Nubians (who would be considered black by today’s standards) were a very important part of society, even becoming Pharaohs. Ancient Egypt was a lot more diverse than modern ppl give it credit for, there were multiple ethnic groups living there. Not to mention that you can’t get more Egyptian than being descended from the god of the Nile River lol

Libya is (obviously) the personification of the region of Libya, not the modern country Libya, but the general area in North Africa west of Egypt. The name Libya comes from the Libu, a berber tribe. So once again, even if Andromeda wasn’t black, even if you interpreted that her kingdom is placed in Asia, she’d still be of African decent.

Cassiopeia is a tricky one, her origins are obscure, she’s called a nymph by Nonnus, while Stephanus of Byzantium (a very late source) states she’s from Ioppa and that the city takes its name from her. However, Ioppa/Jaffa was identified as Andromeda’s home much earlier in Periplus attributed to Scylax, which was composed in the late fourth century bc.

Conclusion

You can make Andromeda black it’s ok. Ancient writers couldn’t agree on her country’s location but we can still speculate. Anyways ummm… I think that’s it? Maybe I’ll add to this if I find or remember more interesting information.

Have a great day.

[foundfamilyhq]

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

The genocide we're witnessing today isn't exclusive to gaza, and isn't new. Israel is literally built that way. This was never self defense or retaliation to hamas or anything. This is how israel brings their settlers. They bomb and destroy entire Palestinian cities. Murdering Palestinians and kicking them out of their land. Then build a new city and bring people from around the globe and give them the green light to live in a land that isn't theirs. While Palestinian refugees can't even visit their hometown. The only difference today, is that Palestinians learned the nature of the Israeli government and they don't fall for their lies anymore, so Palestinians stay in gaza and are ready to die for their land than leave it and be refugees who are never seen as humans or allowed in their own homes. We've seen this movie before, just as bassem yousef said.

[stella-de-nuce]

I just had a weird but hot idea for a really rareship and I don't know if anyone agrees with me, but what me out:

Teal'c x Martouf, Teal'c x Martouf/Lantash, Teal'c x Lantash. In whatever combinations you want.

Like Martouf stays after "Serpent's song" and they just fuck their feelings out, without expectations or binding promises. Tok'ra + Jaffa or host + Jaffa and it's consensual? Hell yeah! Let them be gay, let's give Teal'c some shipping opportunities. I know he is married, but I imagine in Jaffa society where marriages are often arranged, the male Jaffa are often away from their spouses and stuck with more males on a ship and you expect me to think they wouldn't have same-sex lovers and it would'nt be accepted?

[aphrmoosun]

“[There’s] always this question from the very original: Can ape and human live side by side." - Silver.

“And that carries through all of the movies right up to “Kingdom.” [And] we did see, in terms of this carrying forward, that if we played it right, there’d be at least three movies.” -Jaffa.

“I do think there are still many, many years in-between when that Charlton Heston reality steps in, where a spaceship drops out of the sky onto a planet full of apes" - Wes Ball.

[aaeeart]

I drew Ishta Stargate 😙

[secular-jew]

A Palestinian page captions a picture/post: "Yaffa, Palestine 1938"

The original picture, which included the name of the bus company "Egged" (owned by Jews written in Hebrew on the building) was intentionally blurred out by the Islamist propagandist.

Source: David Lange

[ayam-x]

يافا - فلسطين

[girlactionfigure]

[sublimedragontragedy]

Here are the current WinterClan allegiances! I will update this after every year in the game!

The layout is inspired by @ whispering-clan and their brilliant clangem art layout♡

Eventually I will make a masterpost to pin for all my clangen updates/art and such!