Arawelo/caraweelo.

[Chimera]

The Story of Arrawello

 

Arrawelo grew up like every other somali girl in her village helping her mother out with cleaning and cooking, she was a bright young girl who had a hunger for greatness she was a girl who didn't like the male dominated community she was living in and swore one day she would change it!

 

she became a beautifull young lady and every male in the village was at least once turned down by Arrawello, her father knowing the price men would give for his blessed with beauty daughter forced her to marry a well known man, arrawelo resisted with everything she had but eventually had to go with her father's decision

 

there was a big celebration in the village for the couple and they married,Arrawelo's husband was a commander of an army, this was one of the reasons why her father forced her to marry him

 

the young commander was a kind man and treated arrawelo very well and as time passed by she was began to love him, they had a child together a little girl

 

arrawelo never felt happier in her life she had everything she dreamed off, a kind husband and a beautifull child

 

then one day the village was attacked by outside tribes from a different village ,her husband who was sent to protect the village died defending it

 

the villagers were happy that they managed to repulse the attack and celebrated but arrawelo's life was torn to pieces and she cried from sunset to sunrise nobody could ease her pain

 

her mother took her daughter and said she would return her when she felt better, arrawelo stayed in her house refusing to see any villagers

 

days became weeks, weeks became months, months became years

 

she became deluded and began to hate her perished husband for leaving her, At night she would scream ''why O' why did you leave me why did you have to go out of my life''

 

she began to hate everything about men and remembered all the hate she felt as a child for the other gender then one day the soldiers of her late husband stood in front of her house,these soldiers were loyal to their perished leader and swore they would show the same loyalty to his wife

 

arrawelo at first said no, but after thinking about the great potential of all that power her answer was yes

 

she stood up and began to march to the house of elders and the whole army marched behind her

 

you could hear their footsteps like thunder from a far every villager would come out of their houses confused by the sound

 

arrawelo stood in front of the elders house and ordered 10 soldiers to take it over she felt great hate for this house cause her husband was ordered by the elders to fight in the battle in wich he died

 

after taking control of the whole town arrawelo ordered her men to collect all the spears and knives they could find

 

she let the whole army know about her plan to take over the rival village next to them who for the last two generations had killed many people from this village

 

the whole army bowed down and showed their loyalty, the army marched to the next village and destroyed everything in their path

 

it was a great victory for arrawelo's army

 

arrawelo was crowned Empress

 

and began expanding her empire after 5 yrs she had conquered every town and city in Somalia

 

she became very ruthless and ordered all men to stay at home and do the cooking and cleaning

 

At one stage, she ordered that any boy born in any family in the kingdom had to be castrated so that he may not be able to procreate.

 

this continued for a generation

 

In due course her daughter grew up, got married and gave birth to a son. Empress Arrawelo wanted her daughter's son to be killed.

 

Her daughter prayed to her to let him live till the time he could sit. Arrawelo agreed to her request. In about a year, when the baby could sit easily, the Empress wanted him to be killed.

 

Her daughter requested her to let him live till he could stand. This request was also granted.

 

Then the daughter requested her to postpone his killing till he could walk.

 

Then she requested his killing to be postponed till he could talk. Later on she requested her to let him help her in collecting water, fuel and food etc.

 

which were necessary for her being a mother, till he came of age at 18. Out of her fondness for her daughter, the Empress agreed to this request also.

 

In the meanwhile, the daughter secretly trained her adolescent son to defend himself.

 

Then a severe drought took place. All the wells dried up. One day all the people came with their animals to an important well, which had plenty of water for men and animals.

 

But Arrawelo ordered that nobody could take even a drop of water till she had completed her bath.

 

A big leather tub was brought. People started drawing out water from the well and pouring it in the Empress' bath tub.

 

They let her bathe throughout the day, but she did not finish her bath.

 

The people were getting tired and restless due to the sun, thirst and labour, but she kept saying again and again: "This particular finger has not yet been cleaned, that one has not yet been cleaned." People suffered the torture mutely. But the Empress' eighteen year old grand son (daughter's son) could no longer bear this cruelty, hatred and hypocrisy of Arrawelo.

 

He became very angry and attacked all the soldiers that faced him

 

he then struck arrawello with his spear and killed her. When she was alive, she used to speak and shout like men, but when her grand-son struck her she cried out "Ba'aayee"

 

the villagers shocked that the ruthless Empress could feel pain after all those years of oppression

 

they were happy and celebrated

 

her Grand son took over the throne and ruled the Kingdom

[Som@li]

good job David_Letterman ,that sums up Araweelo Story.

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

David, that was good.

 

Thank You.

[Captain Xalane]

Thanks david,that concludes the arawelo story

[Chimera]

your welcome my peeps

[Shakti]

whateverrrr David letterman. i still say Arawelo is the scary woman that ate little kids!

[Valenteenah.]

Originally posted by David_Letterman:

he then struck arrawello with his spear and killed her. When she was alive, she used to speak and shout like men, but when her grand-son struck her she cried out "Ba'aayee"

I suppose that's the moral of the story.

[me]

No the moral is woman should never rule.

[Cara.]

It's true V, that's the moral of the story. Women should never rule, for the very fabric of society will be compromised if they do. Caraweelo kills her husband, her duaghter caasi bey tahay, and a young man has to kill his own grandmother. It's a cautionary tale about what happens when upstart women actually get their wish.

[Captain Xalane]

Originally posted by me:

No the moral is woman should never rule.

[Ms DD]

^^ Islamically, No, She cant.

 

What is the story of Dhegdheer then?

[Captain Xalane]

Originally posted by Cambarro:

^^ Islamically, No, She cant.

 

What is the story of Dhegdheer then?

Dhegdheer had a very strong and extremely large ear.She used to eat pple .Her ear was so large that she could airlift a couple of faaraxs with it in no time.Dhegdheer used to paralyse her victims by slapping them with her large ear.Thats all i know about dhegdheer.A cousin told me and am not sure if she knows the whole thing.

[Viking]

Arrawelo

[me]

Originally posted by Lieutenant Xalane:

Dhegdheer had a very strong and extremely large ear.

They don't make woman like that any more.

[Shakti]

^^lol...