Who was Arawello?

[TheCadaanGuy]

I heard this story from a few people, it went something like her becoming a tyrannical ruler.

Can anyone spare some more stories about her? Is she a real person?

[CigaalSHiiDaaDCFC]

she was issaq.

[MarsinQorahay]

she was issaq.

Heard she was dhulbahante.

[Tuushi]

she was issaq.

Heard she was dhulbahante.

Walahi i knew qabiil would be mentioned before anything else.

[waayeel101]

^ Lol
Those guys who claims she was from their clans don't know she used to rule and torture their men.

[Skippa]

A mythical proto-feminist witch

[CigaalSHiiDaaDCFC]

^ Lol
Those guys who claims she was from their clans don't know she used to rule and torture their men.

Was she samaroon then

[waayeel101]

A mythical proto-feminist witch

Lol
War bal u kadi waba la isku haysta faridas nimanka xininyo sibi jirtay qoladay ahayd.

[DR-YALAXOOW]

fictional.. she never existed.. Cigaal shidaad. wiilwaal. dhagdheer. Araweelo , all of them are fictional..

[waayeel101]

^ Lol
Those guys who claims she was from their clans don't know she used to rule and torture their men.

Was she samaroon then

Lol I don't think so. Dumarka galbedku wa raaliyoyin.

[TheCadaanGuy]

Should have expected qabiil reply first. Feminist and probably fictional, I get it. Anything else?

Can we steer this discussion back into stories of Arawello?

[MarsinQorahay]

fictional.. she never existed.. Cigaal shidaad. wiilwaal. dhagdheer. Araweelo , all of them are fictional..

Garaad Wiilwaal was a garaad among the bartire clan of jidwaaq absame in Jigjiga, he was not fictional but real.

I don't blame you tho, you from the deep south.

[Alpharabius]

According to Legend she was a Somali queen who became infamous for castrating men and boys for the purpose of making them docile servants and thus neutralizing the "patriarchal threat" to her throne,.

Arawelo was a queen who ruled over what is today known as Somalia. She was the first born of three daughters and natural heir to the dynasty. Like many female rulers, Arawelo fought for female empowerment; she believed society should be based on a matriarchy. She is one of the earliest female rulers in the world who was also a figure of female empowerment,[2] and was known to castrate male prisoners. Arawelo was well-known throughout Africa, and the Queen of Sheba was said to send gifts to her in the form of gold coins as a congratulatory gesture (although the Queen of Sheba is usually placed in the 10th century BC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arawelo

Looking at her story one can see it is actually based upon an ancient legendary Assyrian queen called Semiramis who ruled over over the Middles east , libya and Ethiopia.

According to the legend as related by Diodorus, Semiramis was of noble parents, the daughter of the fish-goddess Derketo of Ascalon in Syria and a mortal. Derketo abandoned her at birth and drowned herself. Doves fed the child until Simmas, the royal shepherd, found and raised her.

She then married Onnes or Menones, one of Ninus' generals. Ninus was so struck by her bravery at the capture of Bactra that he tried to compel Onnes to "yield her to him of his own accord, offering in return for this favor to give him his own daughter Sonanê to wife." When Onnes refused to exchange his wife for the king's daughter, Ninus "threatened to put out his eyes unless he at once acceded to his commands."

Onnes, out of fear of the king, and out of doomed passion for his wife, "fell into a kind of frenzy and madness," and hanged himself. Ninus then married her.[7]

She and Ninus had a son named Ninyas. After King Ninus conquered Asia, including the Bactrians, he was fatally wounded by an arrow. Semiramis then masqueraded as her son and tricked her late husband's army into following her instructions because they thought these came from their new ruler. After Ninus's death she reigned as queen regnant for 42 years, conquering much of Asia.

She restored ancient Babylon and protected it with a high brick wall that completely surrounded the city. Then she built several palaces in Persia, including Ecbatana. Diodorus also attributes the Behistun inscription to her, now known to have been done under Darius I of Persia. She not only reigned Asia effectively but also added Libya and Aethiopia to the empire. She then went to war with king Stabrobates of India, having her artisans create an army of false elephants to deceive the Indians into thinking she had acquired real elephants. This succeeded at first, but then she was wounded in the counterattack and her army again retreated west of the Indus.

Here an excerpt from the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus book about her castration of males.

She is also credited with inventing the chastity belt. Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus credits her as the first person to castrate a male youth into eunuch-hood: "Semiramis, that ancient queen who was the first person to castrate male youths of tender age" (Lib. XIV)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiramis





Quuen Semiramis/Arawelo legend is based on an actual Assyrian queen consort Shammuramat heres a wiki link for further reading--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shammuramat



Considering that Somali sea merchants did business with Romans , Egyptians and Persians , it's not surprising that the story of Semiramis (Samira?) could have reached us and eventually morphed into Arawelo.

[gegiroor]

fictional.. she never existed.. Cigaal shidaad. wiilwaal. dhagdheer. Araweelo , all of them are fictional..

Wiilwaal was not fictional, but the gerad (traditional elder) of Bartire. In case you don't know them, they settle in Jigjiga, part of Jidwaq Absame - one of the brothers of Ogaden. His descendants are alive today.

[gegiroor]

Araweelo and madax-kuti are two bedtime stories which are fed to kids in Somali traditional setting. But for some strange reason I used to see people writing essays about Araweelo; however, I've never seen anyone bothering to write anything about madax-kuti