Comments | redial_the_gate: At One with Oneness - more meta on Oma Desala (part two)

quarryquest in redial_the_gate

At One with Oneness - more meta on Oma Desala (part two)

Nov 05, 2008 22:29

Now, I partly follow the path of FemaleSpirituality and Oma Desala, as played in Maternal Instinct and Meridian by two different actresses, was very familiar. She was so familiar infact she was obviously based on my personal favourite in the pantheon of female goddesses available to us. I will explain ...

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season three, 0320 maternal instinct, meta

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quarryquest November 5 2008, 22:54:26 UTC

Have a look in the previous post about Oma - I did quite a bit about the character's name.

I have looked everywhere about Desala, and even pulled in my partner garienos who has the library and knowledge of Dr Jackson, but even he can't come up with anything on that!

magnavox_23 November 5 2008, 23:07:32 UTC

Awesome! (but you know that right? :P) Just read both posts, and they're excellent. I know I am not the only one who really appreciates the work you put into these metas and can see the love you have for your craft.

Great stuff! and love the comparison pics. :D

night_spear1287 November 6 2008, 00:26:10 UTC

Thanks for this insightful meta ( ... )

quarryquest November 6 2008, 21:53:15 UTC

Your story about her head splitting into many pieces with the enormity of the task she had reminds me of the picture my partner garienos sent me when I first met him. He spotted the various Kwan Yins around and about about the flat and sent me a picture of his Avalokitesvara sitting on the windowsill of his conservatory.

I can't find the original, but I did find one of the collection of his Indian brasses (he is a bit Dr Jackson like and his house if full of stuff Daniel would love). Avalokitesvara is at the back between the Shiva Nataraj (dancing in a wheel of fire) and a Nepalese Buddha. The ethnic masks are upstairs!

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aurora_novarum November 6 2008, 03:43:52 UTC

I'm just amazed by the similarities you've discovered, and I understand now what you mean by the bastardization of the archtype of the Oma depicted.

(Which to be "fair", Stargate's done to a lot of Ancient cultures and religions, so they're equal opportunity bastardizers). I'm now both superbly impressed and a bit pissed off at how they altered Oma now too. I only looked at it from the show's perspective, not this broader cultural perspective.

Which is a long rambly way to say...cool!

quarryquest November 6 2008, 22:15:32 UTC

I think they could have used Oma in a slightly different way if they had thought about it. The problem I have is with the 'lets punish those who interfere' bit and the LETTING HER BE SEEN AS FALLIBLE ( ... )

aurora_novarum November 6 2008, 22:35:09 UTC

I've had a fanwank that I swear someday soon I will finally get written into fic form that Oma's punishment was more a lesson. The Others didn't want Anubis around any more than she did, but she was supposed to clean up her own mess. It wasn't the fact of her ascending lowers alone or not, although this was a reason she shouldn't be doing it rogue. It was because she wasn't taking responsibility for taking Anubis down when she found out about him. She says she tried to take it back, but couldn't. Obviously, she hadn't done enough. It was only when Daniel tried to fight Anubis himself with all the inherent risks that Oma realized there was another way herself, it just meant more of a sacrifice on her part.

I'm not sure how that exactly fits into the mythology you have going here, but...it makes sense in my head?

quarryquest November 6 2008, 22:45:14 UTC

Oh exactly. Oma needed a lesson - you don't go about ascending all and sundry. I am still scratching my head about Anubis and Oma being on the same Ascended power scale though.

Surely Oma was a bit more powerful than that? I mean the other experience we have with that sort of thing is Morgan (ever notice her name has Oma in it?) and Adria who had the might of the Ori power behind her.