tokra_kree | Jaffa forehead symbols

Jaffa forehead symbols

All of the major Goa'uld System Lords have their own 'mark' that they put on their Jaffa. The minor System Lords generally use the mark of their overlord, but there are exceptions.

Most Jaffa have a mark/tattoo that is in black ink. Higher ranking Jaffa can have silver tattoos. The First Prime of a Goa'uld will have a gold embossed mark, which is made by cutting into the flesh and pouring pure molten gold into the wound.

The tattoos - and the gold one in particular - are obviously very painful to apply, and they are also very difficult to remove. If a Jaffa try to do that, he or she will end up with an ugly mark. However, the Goa'uld are able to remove the marks, for instance to apply their own mark instead, after taking over the army of a rival Goa'uld.

This table shows the correspondence between Goa'uld and the forehead symbols their Jaffa have - when known.

Goa'uld	Rank	Symbol	Comments
Amaterasu	System Lord	UNKNOWN
Amaunet\|Sha're	Apophis's queen.		Does not have her own personal Jaffa, so same symbol as Apophis. Mother of Shi'fu.
Anubis	System Lord
Apophis	System Lord
Ares	System Lord
Ba'al	System Lord
Bastet	System Lord	UNKNOWN
Belus		UNKNOWN
Bynarr	Lord of Netu		Commanded the prison moon of Netu. Served Sokar and did not have his own personal Jaffa.
Camulus	Former System Lord	UNKNOWN
Cronus	System Lord
Grannus	Camulus's lieutenant		Probably did not have his own personal Jaffa.
Hathor	Queen		Former queen of Ra. Probably did not have her own personal Jaffa. Lured Horus guards (Heru'ur) and Serpent guards (Apophis) to her cause.
Heru'ur	System Lord		Ra and Hathor's son.
Imhotep	Minor System Lord
Ishkur	System Lord	UNKNOWN	Former ruler of the Sodan.
Isis	Queen	UNKNOWN	Osiris's queen. Imprisoned within a canopic jar by Seth.
Ja'din	Servant of Cronus		Probably did not have her own personal Jaffa.
Kali	System Lord	UNKNOWN
Khonsu	Servant of Anubis		Tok'ra under-cover agent
Klorel\|Skaara			Apophis's son. Probably did not have his own personal Jaffa.
Unknown\|Kianna Cyr	In service of Ba'al		Did not have her own personal Jaffa.
Marduk\|Major Vallarin	System Lord	UNKNOWN	Imprisoned inside a sarcophagus by his own priests for thousands of years.
Moloc	(Minor?) System Lord		Originally dominant over Ishta's clans.
Montu	Minor Goa'uld		Served Ra and later Ba'al. Probably did not have his own personal Jaffa.
Morrigan	System Lord	UNKNOWN
Mot	Servant of Ba'al.		Served Ba'al and tried to overthrow him. Probably did not have his own personal Jaffa.
Nefertum	(Minor?) System Lord	UNKNOWN	Sekhmet's son. Worshipped by the Bedrosians.
Nerus	Worked for Ba'al as a scientist.		Discovered how to dial all Stargates in the galaxy at once. Lured SG-1 into an Ori trap. Possibly killed by Ba'al. Did not have his own personal Jaffa.
Nirrti	Former System Lord. Scientist.
Olokun	System Lord	UNKNOWN
Osiris\|Sarah Gardner	Former System Lord.	UNKNOWN	Lieutenant of Anubis. Did not have his own personal Jaffa at that point, but almost certainly did when he was a System Lord.
Pelops	(Minor?) System Lord	UNKNOWN
Qetesh\|Vala Mal Doran	(Minor?) System Lord	UNKNOWN
Ra	Supreme System Lord		Supreme System Lord of the Goa'uld Empire. First to discover the Tau'ri.
Ramius	Minor Goa'uld
Sekhmet	Ra's lieutenant. Possibly also a System Lord once	UNKNOWN	Once served Ra.
Seth	Probably served Ra.		Brother and enemy of Osiris. Placed Osiris and Isis in stasis jars. Rebelled unsuccessfully against Ra. Hid on Earth and became marooned when the Stargate was buried. Leader of several cults in the past 5000 years. Probably did not have his own personal Jaffa.
Shak'ran	(Minor?) System Lord	UNKNOWN
Sobek	System Lord	UNKNOWN
Sokar	System Lord. Former Supreme System Lord
Unknown\|Steven Caldwell	Minor Goa'uld operative		Worked for the Trust/served Ba'al. Did not have his own personal Jaffa.
Svarog	System Lord
Tanith\|Hebron	Minor Goa'uld servant		Infiltrated the Tok'ra as a spy. Served Apophis and Anubis.
Telchak	Scientist. Possible Minor System Lord	UNKNOWN	Developed the Sarcophagus technology.
Terok	Served Heru'ur.		Expert in torture. Did not have his own personal Jaffa.
Thanos	(Minor?) System Lord. Scientist	UNKNOWN	Once occupied Langara. Made naquadria.
Thoth	Served Anubis. Scientist		Oversaw the Kull Warriors. Did not have his own personal Jaffa.
Tilgath	Minor Goa'uld		He served Hathor at her secret base, trying to lure SG-1.
Yu	System Lord
Zarin	Minor System Lord. Serving Ba'al		Tok'ra undercover operative. Her Jaffa had Ba'al's symbol on their forehead.
Zipacna	Underlord for Apophis, Klorel, and later Anubis