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thanks all. I'm glad to hear Ra's returning , no other Goa'uld has quite measured up to him since the movie. And cheers for teaching me not to spell Goa'uld as Gould.
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That's not as bad as the occasional guest star who says it "gowld" or "go-Ald".
You'd think they'd go over pronunciation with the guest actors. It's like Picard saying "buh-jor' " in "Emissary" instead of "Bay'-jor".
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Mabye diffrent provinces of Bajor use accents and Picard had only met Bajorans with the accent.
You know...like Picard's french accent.
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The producers have occasionally mentioned that it's the accent thing - and that they at least try to keep the Goa'uld and Jaffa actors pronouncing it correctly. It's the same in-joke reason that everyone pronounces Jaffa correctly (jah-FAH), EXCEPT for Jack, who sticks to JAH-fah (as in the cakes, which we think is deliberate).
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The only way I can think of tieing the movie and series together.
Ra was always Ra, he didn't change his name to fit in with Egyption mythology, mythology was based off the System Lords. Ra was the first to find Earth, the Goa'uld's host species were going extinct so finding Earth was like going to an all you can eat buffet. The other Goa'uld promised to serve him in exchange for a human host thus elevating him to the supreme System Lord. This balance of power remained stable until Ra's death.
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Makes sense. I think the series kind of goes back and forth on which came first, the Goa'uld or the Egyptian mythology.
Sokar impersonated an existing character from religion, but it seems that other Goa'uld have inserted themselves into mythology.
Yu Wang Shang Ti was an Emperor of China (according to Daniel), so it's likely that he established a religion of sorts rather than co-opting one.
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