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I thought it would be cool in all my loads of free time to come up with a few designs for the helmets of Jaffa we never got to see.
The only ones we've seen in the series and movie are the Horus Guard serving Ra and Heru-ur (the family of Ra), the Serpent Guard serving Apophis, Ammonet, and Klorel, and the Jackel Guard serving Ra, and presumably, Anubis.
My initial research has revealed the following possibilities for helmet concepts. Any mythology buffs care to add to this?
Hathor - Cow In the series, she would probably be protected by the Horus Guard, but I think a cow hemlet would be cool.
Isis - Beautiful woman, Vulture Isis has been in the SG-1 series, right?
Baal - Bull, goat, fly I'm voting for bull... just cooler.
Osiris - Ram Horns, Mummified Pharoah Osiris took over Daniel's hot friend's body, right?
Yu - Dragon Yuang Shang Ti, the Jade Dragon
Bastet - Cat This will be a cool one.
Olokun - Fish This'll be cool too.
Kali - Four Armed Woman Don't know how I'll do this one
Morrigan - Crow This one will be neat. When she appeared on the series, she was dressed in what looked like black feathers and seemed to have a BDSM thing going on...
Solkar - A Skull... maybe
Svarog - Fire No ideas on this one.
Setesh - Aardvark looking thing The uncertainty of what this animal is appears to have been accurately presented on the show.
Other Goa'uld I couldn't track down representations for are Nirti, Chronos, Zapacna, Pelops and probably a dozen others that have been mentioned but never seen on the series.
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Isis was dead by the time of SG-1... the jar that imprisoned her had broken.
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Maybe for Kali there would be one set of arms that were part of the sculpted(forged?) suit, in a rested position. And of course the Jaffa's real arms would serve as the second set.
I can't really imagine the fish looking intimidating in any way, unless it had some sort of jagged, lethal looking dentistry.
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According to my trusty wikipedia search engine, Sokar was represented by a green falcon headed mummy. So perhaps a more regal looking redesign of the Horus guard with a jade colour scheme would be appropriate. In favour of the satanic/evil god angle the series took with him, perhaps the masks and uniforms could be slick obsidian with jade detailing and the obligatory red eyes. On the other hand, perhaps a more Aztek inspired look could be more appropriate for a bloodthirsty god with a thing for green? Sort of a synthesis of egyptian and ancient south american design. Now that would be interesting to see.
quote:Originally posted by Johnny: I can't really imagine the fish looking intimidating in any way, unless it had some sort of jagged, lethal looking dentistry.
quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Isis was dead by the time of SG-1... the jar that imprisoned her had broken.
Ahhh... but she was a Goa'uld at one point... so she had Jaffa.
Really, it's kind of silly to think that all th Goa'uld outfit their Jaffa in more or less the same way except for the helmets and tattoos. It implies that they work together and have established some kind of uniform code. They should all look quite a bit different.
But I'm just focusing on helmets.
I agree that a good option for Kali would be to sculpt folded arms across the breastplate of the armor. Maybe Kali's Jaffa should be the ones with skull helmets since Kali was supposedly into skull necklaces.
"Really, it's kind of silly to think that all th Goa'uld outfit their Jaffa in more or less the same way except for the helmets and tattoos."
Well, we know there are at least four different Egyptian Jaffa helmet designs. If you want to come up with other ones, I wouldn't think it unreasonable to do the other Egyptian Goa'uld. But I don't know about Yu, Nirrti, etc. It seems more likely that they would have come up with uniforms that were more in line with the fashions of their own areas.
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They should just use the Breen helmets- no one will notice.
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As far as Jaffa unity goes, whether it makes sense or not, it's a solid part of the series. Presumably there's a lot more cooperation when the System Lord hierarchy is stable, or more stable, anyway.
(It's also bugged me that various Goa'uld have, over the course of the show, allowed Jaffa under their command to kill other Goa'uld. The Jaffa are intimately familiar with the Goa'uld's true nature, and the whole religious setup is polytheistic, even if one god or another is of paramount importance to any particular Jaffa at any particular time. But that ought to work both ways, and I wouldn't want my slave caste, who believe I am immortal, to learn that other beings exactly like me can be done in with a quick staff blast.)
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Aban this is SUCH a cool idea!! I've ALWAYS been wanting to see the helmets of other Goa'uld system lord's Jaffa since season 1!
And I guess Sol that until Teal'c and SG1 there wasn't a Jaffa who ever thought about taking a staff weapon to a Goa'uld. If you mean wars between system lords - I don't think the Goa'uld are killed by the other system lords - usually they would be made to SERVE the winning System Lord/Goa'uld to rub in their superiority.
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We see plenty examples of Goa'ulds being executed by Jaffa under the command of some other Goa'uld. (OK, OK, specifics: i've got none. But I'm sure there's at least, say, three.) And there's a long history of Jaffa rebellion, even if some of it has been retroactively added. (Tony Todd's group, for example.)
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I'm suprised no one has used a scarab motief in their helmets- it could be cool and creepy at the same time.
I will say that the SG1 jaffa cobra helmets are laughably stupid- they lost all of the sleek design of the movie (including being able to turn and all peripherial vision). Why are they so damn big? Each soldier could have a sound system, air conditioning and video game console in there with room left over.
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We've seen a decent amount of variation in the Jaffa's uniforms, too, haven't we? Wasn't there one Goa'uld who had his Jaffa (or at least a few of them) decked out in Ninja-esque garb? I'm thinking Anubis...
And Sokar's Jaffa weren't traditional, were they?
I dig Ra's Jaffa uniforms, but I think Ra was on, like, a vacation or something during the movie. At the very least, he acted alot differently than other Goa'uld we've seen. And he didn't have hordes of troops all over his ship either.
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