QUEEN ARAWEELO!!!!!

[king_450]

Thanks Nin-Yaaban,yes i don't come as often as i used to,but i try to check in and c what is going around. Hey that is a very good story, by the way bro, no school for me untill January of 2004. But i am with as an intern to the Dept of Health and Human Service, downtown washington ,dc. if you get time check me out sometimes for lunch break.

[Zakariye]

salaaumu/calykum dhamaan, waryaada waxaan la yaabsanahey in ninka la yiraahdo nin-yaaban u sheegay sax, caraweelo waxay aheyd Bahal waalan oo neceb ragga oo idil, waxaaa xataa lagu xantaa in aay xataa ka jadhey, bahalka odeygii dhaley, sidaas daraadeed, ma odeygii dhalay baa xoogey mise qof kale , lama yaqaan. walaal kiinka malaha adoo yar baad ka soo dhooftey waddanka baan filayaa ,marka sheekado waa run oo bal isku day in aad aqriso boogaagta ka sheekeynaa araweeloo.

 

c/slaam

[Blessed]

Men! Ya'll just can't handle a woman in power can ya? According to some reliable sources, she really wasn't much like the monster people paint her as :rolleyes:

 

The following link is an essay written about her- enjoy

 

Queen Araweelo

 

 

Tis time for a revival. :cool:

[silent-sistah]

i used to get called ARAWELLO....lol..it was coss i was really bossy, talk-ative(damn i think i swollowed a radio), and i was hyper, i used to play alot of jokes on people, i think i was a menace.

 

that was the past....im now silent,,,lol

 

 

well,,,,i thought arawello ws a joke.....thanx for enlightening me...

 

oooh...and i guess im more like arawello now then ever....coss, im still bossy,,and i detest men.

[mangalool]

asalaamu caleykum dhamaantiinba.

ragoow markaynu horta ARA-WEELO maqalno maxaynu la sasnaa?, ahahah waxaabad moodaa inay run ahaantii hada nooshahay, araweelo waxay ahayd naag raga dhufaanta,oo kasaarta xiniinyaha, si ay unuglaadaan , oo aanay amar diido unoqon, waana ay ku shaqaysan jirtey, dadku badiba haweenku waxay yidhaahdaan , aqal soomaaliga iyo muqmada,

Ara-weelo ayaa aliftey oo lahayd samayntooda, araweelo waxaa diley wiil ay ayeeo utahay mise dhashay?..kama yaquuluuna..waa sada la werinayo, oday biiqayna waa ninka keliya ee ka badbaaday dhufaankii ay raga dhufaanaysey....isagaana usabab ahaa dilkeedii.

aduun caaryaale intay dumarna wadaaan-ARA-WEELO RAGUNA --ODAY BIIQAY------- walee la heshiin maayo :confused: ma nabadbaaba jirta

xawaalka araweeelo waxay dumarku ku siyaartaa bariisinka ceerigaabo--halkaasoo ruuxii maraya ee dumar ahiba uu dhagax kutuuro...sida dhaxtuurkii shaydaanka.....aar may uduceeyaan intay tuur tuurayaaan!!!!!!!!!!

[Muhammad]

i remember many years ago, when i was a young boy, i was with my father and some other men, walking across the northern Al mountains, and we came to a big "taalo' made up of stone.

 

he picked up a stone and threw it in the Taalo, he ordered me to do like wise. I found a small rock on the ground and then asked him, ' Aabe why must i throw a rock?'

 

He said, 'once long ago, an evil Queen use to rule the land, who enjoyed castrating men, this is a landmark that reminds the men who travel in this track, so you must throw a rock in memory of our lost brothern(faaraxs).'

 

I remember I threw that rock so hard, i felt pain in my right arm for days!!!

 

we walked for 2 days and a night, I believe we came across about 3 to 4 Taalooyin!

 

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ps. Araweelo ruled from her capital - ELAYO (Ceelaayo) in eastern Sanaag. She use to travel from Elayo to Buuraan(where she was killed).

 

 

thats what i heard, i may be wrong!

[Salma]

Daallo my love Daallo.

 

Anyway, I saw that place. They told me 'Men' throw stones on her grave and "Women" throw flowers. Guess what, over that grave; the stones are much more than the flowers :mad:

 

These Somali Ladies have no support to the 1st Lady of Somalia Shame on you,, double Shame

 

What I heard is like this :-

 

Part 1:-

 

Once upon time there was an Intellegent and strong woman called "Queen Arraweelo"

 

Part 2:-

 

Ladies & Gentlemen,

 

Unfortunately, we don't have any written documents or facts coz the SOMALI History never was written, every thing is told orally by the Old Somali people. So what only reached us is what the the Somali Men are CLAIMING that Arraweelo used to cut off their private (Sensitive) Places. Which made all the men weak & stup!d, in other words : Nothing.

 

(I don't know what kind of Theory could assure that when a man loses one of his private parts he will lose his Manhood, can anybody proove that 2 me plz. I thought Manhood comes from the Brain, Soul and Heart not from the Body, cajeeb :confused: )

 

Part 3:-

 

At the end Her Majesty Queen Arraweelo was killed by her Grand Son, was't that true?!! God only knows. (It seems Mr.Grand Son was like any other somali man, he couldnt handle her strength and intellegence )

 

Part 4:-

 

My personal feedback:-

 

I guess this story is true, I don't think its fake. And probably (I said probably, it could be wrong & it could b right) she used to somehow humiliate them by cutting something belongs to them. You know what proof I have?

 

Ask any somali man about Arraweelo and focus on his facial and body Language. He wont be able to continue breathing, you'll feel his heart beats, he will show you some difficulty in swallowing his saliva and his eyez will blink many times LOOL.

 

Besides, let's do lil thinking, why do we have all those stones on her grave. Don't deny it, don't tell me the grave is empty and they are just obssessed by a weird superstition called "Arraweello".

[Som@li]

Saxiibayaalow naagta magaceeda ina ka daaya,,Tii dhaha,,tii

[Muhammad]

just came across this book:

 

 

 

it may be a good read!

 

buy it here

[Paragon]

Courtesy of Viking. Thanks sxb.

 

Ar-ra-weelo: The tale behind women's circumcision

 

The story of Arrawelo remains the best known of all Somali folk tales. A pre-Islamic pagan queen, it is she who ruled the entire Somali-speaking world at a time when the Somali sun god Ra- subsequently co-opted, it is said, by the ancient Egyptians-held sway as the supreme deity in the universe.

 

The exact locality in Somaliland of the pagan queen’s fabled seat of power remains a mystery. But its whereabouts is still of much speculation, and there are in the Horn of Africa any number of ancient mounds and heaps of stone that one time or another have been claimed by local communities as marking the tomb and final resting place of Arrawelo.

 

The Queen’s notoriety stems from her unparalleled cruelty to men. Legend has it that as a girl Arrawelo was the unfortunate victim of a brutal rape. This so embittered her that she later came to power her long reign was given over wholly to exacting her revenge - on the entire male sex. In an uncompromising crusade, she set out to empower women through having all her male subjects forcibly castrated, so creating in Somaliland a whole generations of eunuchs.

 

Arrawelo, though, was haunted by misgivings that somewhere, some men might elude emasculation at her hands, and that one of their number would one day engineer her downfall. Accordingly, she introduced a strict code of precautionary dos and don'ts for women, including the infamous injunction that they were always to say NO when they actually meant YES, and YES when they meant NO. She is also said to have lectured women endlessly on how to maintain their dignity in the face of possible approaches by maverick men.

 

To flush out those few wily men whose intact manhood, she was convinced, posed a threat to her absolute rule, Arrawelo devised a series of seemingly impossible demands and riddles, which - she believed - only such men would be able to solve. Thus on one occasion, the neurotic queen instructed a community of villagers to supply her with camel-load of fruits from the Lote tree, stipulating that the fruits be brought before her on the bare back of the animal without using any form of container.

 

Try as they might, the villagers could find no way of fulfilling this demand. For, no matter how balanced, the fruits would simply roll off again as soon as the camel was made to walk. The Queen, for a while, while berating the poor villagers on each failure, was secretly satisfied; all was well she thought, reasoning that the inhabitants of the village must indeed be either women or eunuchs. Then one day, to her surprise, she was told that a camel-load was waiting for her outside her chambers.

 

Her worst suspicions were soon confirmed, the feat had been orchestrated by one Oday Biqe, a reclusive village elder who had managed to get the fruits to stay in place by first smearing the camel’s back with a thick viscous mixture of bird lime and mud.

 

With the help of further layers of this sticky paste, baked hard in the sun, the fruits - piled high on the camel’s back - had easily withstood the rigours of the journey.

 

For his trouble, Oday Biqe was ruthlessly hunted down by Arrawelo’s knife-wielding minions, although in one version of the tale the old man died before the pursuing mob could do its worst. All the same, the offending organ was summarily cut from the dead man’s body and carried aloft to the savage queen as proof that her order had been carried out.

 

Arrawelo’s own secret fears - that an undocted male would bring about her demise - were to prove well-founded. For one night a youthful stepson of hers, who had long since fled for fear of being an example of and emasculated, returned in disguise and drove a spear into the old queen’s chest, thus putting and end to the perpetual misery of men.

 

After the Queen’s death, long suffering Somali men wasted no time in conspiring to get even with their womenfolk. Their immediate recourse was to introduce the practice of female circumcision, which they felt would forever serve to censure womankind for the untold misery that Arrawelo had once inflicted on the male sex. And so it is, the story goes, that many women, not just in Somalia but in many other lands as well are fated to go on paying the penalty for Queen Arrawelo’s legendary cruelty.