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 |
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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 |  | |
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Date: 2016-11-10 22:03 (UTC)