#shebah

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As always reblog for a bigger sample size please! 🙏❤️

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It’s Appreciate a Dragon Day!!

So I’m appreciating the four dragons of Knightmare: Owen, Smirkenorff, The Red Death and Bhal-Shebah/Firestorm of Marblehead.

Also Bealwit and Talionis who only existed in novels.

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https://www.tumblr.com/masons-tours/747932305344118784/httpswwwinstagramcomstoriesfootballersandwag

I wonder why Mason took a cab 😂

I’d say he’s just like us but even I only do Uber or Shebah (which I’m not sure if you guys have that over there)

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NNPC - SEPLAT JV National Undergraduate Scholarship 2024/2025

NNPC/SEPLAT Joint Venture has announced the commencement of its 2024 / 2025 National Undergraduate Scholarship Programme. The scholarship award is open to deserving undergraduate students of Federal and State Universities in Nigeria. Seplat was formed in June 2009 through the partnership of Shebah Petroleum Development Company Limited and Platform Petroleum Joint Ventures Limited to specifically…

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Love Dub Riddim By Queen Shebah

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female arab forenames + english words borrowed from arabic

Aamina Aanda Abarah Abarda Abda Abiama Abiba Abilah Ablahra Adija Adijam Adilaira Adrasma Adya Adyascan Afarra Affeen Afida Afiqa Afridan Afriya Ahriah Aiba Aifatin Aiklaani Ailah Aiza Akam Akayya Akia Akira Akiyarah Alah Alalwaf Aled Aleil Aliayda Alifa Alil Alila Alimah Alimat Alimatin Aliyas Alma Ameemali Amidah Amila Amilah Amiram Anaida Arah Ardood Arizi Asha Ashirana Asihanya Asmilah Ayarifa Aynawa Ayzah Azarda Azebet Azeya Azizizza Azmath Azmira Azzarda Babarah Banida Bardool Bariah Barimara Bariyam Baseen Basira Batima Baylaaf Bayna Bibahra Blaikhah Blalili Bleila Buthaki Buthiya Caled Candaida Canindy Chad Chadiva Charahan Chen Cohakira Coheck Cottona Cottoon Dafsa Daila Dala Dalida Dhah Diha Diva Domah Doos Dufia Dufiya Dufizzak Duhada Erbila Erema Ereshada Faafat Faaimah Faan Faana Fadil Faina Faisma Fara Farama Fard Faria Farra Fatel Fath Fathifar Fathsafa Fatinna Fatuna Fayba Fayda Fayya Fiam Fida Finabah Fisada Fiyazen Fukhan Fukhsam Gebah Gebeh Gebra Gera Ghah Gira Guitaria Haba Hadika Hadila Hadilah Hadjah Hady Hadyahra Haffeen Hafrah Hahruzi Hahsa Haima Haira Haiza Hajam Hakilah Hakira Hakra Halaifat Halia Haliha Halya Hamah Hanah Hanidah Hari Haride Harra Hasine Hask Haza Heya Hibeema Hura Huro Husaba Husra Iess Ililah Imah Isir Jamira Jarda Jaysuna Jayya Jenabida Jenana Jenna Jida Jujumni Jumal Kalina Kalwah Kamira Kardoma Khab Khabatun Khad Khadila Khalinah Khar Kharia Khshen Khsira Lagda Laima Leinda Leshabi Leylah Lifay Lima Linah Liyya Loell Luba Lubibet Lujoosos Mahafiqa Mahah Mahla Mahra Mahrusa Malah Malihaz Malilah Mara Marah Marde Maridah Marikari Marra Matel Mathiyah Matima Mayna Moos Mounina Mufisaw Muna Mundah Mundu’a Mundya Muniya Nableh Nadan Nady Naibia Naina Naisah Nama Nana Nandya Naniya Nanyask Nimah Nisra Niya Niyya Nohol Nour Nuhasmee Numnida Nuriya Nuro Nusni Omar Orajideh Orbee Qubra Rahiba Rajam Raki Reena Remi Ress Restima Riamong Rikam Riyamina Rubna Ruzi Sabatifa Sabda Sabibah Sabilah Sada Sadah Sadija Sadil Sadima Sadir Sadram Safatifa Safaya Safida Safiyah Saibah Saifa Saimas Sair Saira Sairah Saizada Saleena Salgebah Salia Salifal Salila Saliya Sama Samah Samimara Samina Samindah Samine Samna Sanahrup Sang Sange Sanir Sanira Saniya Santara Sarda Sari Sarima Sawsah Seebet Sema Semida Shadira Shah Shakir Shal Shala Shaliah Shalmala Shamin Shamira Shamon Shanda Shanhara Shar Sharwah Shebah Shibida Shida Shikila Shir Shirukha Shiya Shrup Shur Shura Shurizak Shuro Sima Simar Sina Sira Siya Sodayzah Sorah Sososo Suba Subila Subra Suhadiha Suhah Suham Suhar Suhard Sula Sulleah Suma Sumalifa Summara Suna Suniya Syrubna Syrukala Syruz Taana Tabi Talikar Talina Taline Tama Tamira Tara Tarda Tarwa Ulaybah Uleah Ultaa Umasmin Wafaifa Walileen Waline Wida Widah Wisafsa Wisdomah Yaha Yaharama Yahir Yusa Zadila Zadiram Zadiva Zady Zahla Zakira Zakra Zakrah Zayya Zebeenna Zebeh Zebrana Zeikama Zeil Zeinajla Zeli Zell Zelmahma Zennajwa Zera Zerbeena Zeyahma Zeyla Zubia Zuhar Zuka Zukhada Zukhalwa Zuleylah Zull

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ok so idk how many people know about this? and i'm not sure if it's in like other countries, but in Australia there's a newish service called Shebah. it's the same as Uber, but for females only. all the drivers are female, and they only take female passengers, and young boys riding with their mothers.

the drivers go through background checks, and every driver has a working with children card. because of this Shebah is the only rideshare service in Australia that is allowed to take children on their own. which could be really useful for busy or single mothers who don't have family or friends who can drive their kids around! and the drivers earn 85% of every fare which is the highest of any ride share service

but i highly recommend it! it's an amazing service, especially for women who are survivors, teenage/younger girls or women who would just feel more comfortable with a woman driver!

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I spoke to Arnon Shorr who is a films and comics writer of Jewish genre fiction (rn he has written the Pirate Captain Toledano and Ben Mortara and the Thieves of the Golden Table), and he told me (does this count as a leak? lol) that he’s brainstorming something like this with an Ethiopian Jewish protagonist living in New York who hunts demons (shaydim presumably) and the like because she is a direct descendant from King Solomon and the Queen of Shebah (apparently that’s a big part of Ethiopian Jewish lore) and she has a magical artifact that helps her. So look out for that!

I keep having an idea for like a Jewish Percy Jackson book series. Basically the idea that Yiddish/Ashkenazi folklore is/was real and like Percy Jackson's greek gods the dybbuks, Golems, demons and all the rest came west to New York City and they're under the city in the subway tunnels and sewers

And I was thinking of two main characters. There's Josh a very modern teenager, who loves ghost hunters, and super natural podcasts and loves his bubbie's stories of Yiddish folklore. He travels into the subway armed with a camera and ghost hunting equipment and comes face to face with....

Yehudah, AKA Hoodie, a young Hassid from Brooklyn. Hoodie's family from hundreds of years have kept the spirts down, fought monsters, and protected the community, first in the old country and now in New York using folk magic and things

Josh is all about science and trying to understand "okay but how does it work?" and Hoodie is very "it's tradition this how its done, please shut up and stop getting in trouble!" A story of two Bar Mitzvah boys studying Torah, dealing with middle school, each other, and being stuck in the tunnels under NYC in the middle of the night facing the horrors

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Leave it to a man to leave a 1 star rating and complaint on a female only driving service because they don’t accept male passengers.

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Is Bilquis the show’s replacement for Easter?

(post roughly written as I went along, so sorry for eventual typos)

It is a theory that is going on around now. I was talked about it, I talked about it with other people, I saw other people discussing of it among themselves... So I’ll make a big post about it.

Honestly I wondered what was behind Bilquis’ big change and sudden christianization in season 2. I mean, she was clearly presented in the first episodes as a loner, playing by her own rules, distrust by the Old Gods for being allied with the New Gods (and actually betraying them to repay her favor to Technical Boy), but she also stood up against the New Gods, refusing to work further for them and as a result getting threatened by Mister World. And then she gets into this weird middle ground by hijacking Jesus and Christianity, with the teaching of love and all... I mean, it makes sense now that I write that down on paper, but following it week per week I wondered where that would be going. 

Also Bilquis link with Laura and Shadow seemed stranged to me, and the “blood baptism” scene at the end of Moon Shadow also felt weird. Yes, it was a reference to how she enlisted her own people in her cult, back in “Come to Jesus”. But why would she enlist Shadow in her “cult”? Is she planning to absorb him too? What’s the point? 

Then this theory came along. 

With Easter now out of the picture, Bilquis seems to be taking her role. No spoiler, but for those who read the book, you know that Easter had a very important role, as goddess of life, rebirth, spring and regeneration, on Shadow’s journey. And here Bilquis seems to take this role... I mean, christianity is all about rebirth, she also tries to reconstruct herself, and the baptism of blood with Shadow seems like she will have a strong link with him... So yeah, it seems the team is trying to make Bilquis the equivalent of what Easter was in the book. 

But maybe I’m dead wrong. We won’t know until further season, and if season three is in Lakeside, the answer will probably come in season four.

Now time for personal opinion: I personally don’t like this idea. I mean, I get it, but I still don’t feel it. 

I mean... the Bilquis of the show is already a stretch from the character in the book, in terms of mythological material. Bilquis is merely the Queen of Shebah. Powerful mythical queen. Biblical character. Maybe a lover of Solomon. Symbol of wealth and luxury, desire and temptation. A jinn, or half demon, someone not really human, a seducing witch. Thus her using sex as a way of worship, or “devouring men” with her vagina wasn’t out of character. But she was still a mythical being, goddess-like but not a real goddess. 

The show decided to push this much further. They explain that before being reduced to a mythical sovereign and a creature of legends, she was a goddess, a real one. A goddess of the yemeni kingdom of Saba’, a goddess of love, sex, pleasure and desire, ordering orgies and fighting with other mythical/divine gods-kings through dances and sex. Which I can buy. After all, her background here is in parallel to that of Mad Sweeney. Originally a god (unnamed sex goddess VS Tuatha De Danann Lugh), then turned by the arrival of monotheism (Hebrews VS Grey monks) into a mythical sovereign (Queen of Shebah VS King Suibhne), then into a simple creature of legends (jinn VS leprechaun). The Jinn was also described behind the scenes as suffering from a similar fate, being originally a mysterious pre-Islamic deity. 

But when you think about it, Bilquis as a goddess of love and sex doesn’t fit the idea of a goddess of rebirth or regeneration. Yes she can be a goddess of life, of spring, of fertility... But to push her to the point of being a goddess of regeneration and resurrection, like Easter/Ostara in the book...  I think it would be a real stretch. 

Honestly, I like better for Bilquis to stay in a Christianized version of herself. After all, she is a biblical character, and she had her place not only in the Islamic and Jewish folklore/religion, but also in the Christian traditions and legends. In fact, making her a preacher using God’s idea of love and sharing to her own ends, and an ally of Jesus, makes a lot of sense, it seems to just take inspiration or repeat what happened between her and King Solomon. 

In conclusion, while it seemed at first to me like a brilliant idea, I realized I wouldn’t want at all for Bilquis to take the role of book-Easter, or at least not without a serious and strong thinking/reason behind. Bilquis could be used as her own character, in new way. 

And I’m still a bit mad they couldn’t simply find a way to put Easter back in the show. I mean, I thought myself of one that could have worked around the lack of an actor, basically the same as Media and New Media: find another actress. Easter rejects and refuses the ideas and laws of the New Gods. She returns to her roots, to her own, Old true self. Then why not make her more like in the book? A curvy yet beautiful goddess of fertility and nature? Her appearance in Come to Jesus fitted an aesthetic that seemed a lot like New God. A polite, small, frail social butterfly that tried to please everyone. They could have said that she decided to shed the mask and become more like herself. We know that gods can shapeshift and change their faces. Between the animal gods switching between their human and animal selves, without counting their divine form in the Backstage, and the New Gods who can also change their face, as seen by Media... They could have found a reason behind Easter changing look.

But enough ranting. They probably didn’t had time to cast a new actress so shortly in time - they already had to put up with a ton of other people leaving or being missing, and other production troubles and overrun of the budget. No need to cry for now on what’s done.

But I seriously hope they will take a good shot in season three. Repair Easter’s absence in a good way, or even make her come back. Use Bilquis in a good way, now that they decided to make her a recurring character.

American Gods team, I believe in you, I give you my faith and I pray.

Let’s see what will be the results. 

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Sea Shore Riddim By Queen Shebah

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I know like there’s a also a potential for risk in this idea but I wish there was a Uber-esque app for trans and general lgbt folk, like how there’s similar apps for women with women drivers. If I could request a lift with someone who wasn’t gonna give me once over trying to guess ~what I am~ that would be super