Jeanie Bottle 795
May21
on May 21, 2024
at 12:00 am
and modified on May 20, 2024. at 5:08 am
Chapter: Story 17: I Dream of Home Sweet Home
Welcome to the comic, Ifta!
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Welcome to the comic, Ifta!
Well, Ifta from the Patreon picture sneak peek finally arrives. I think she is an Egyptian genie.
“Thank Ra!” and her costume are pretty much giveaways for Egypt. Not sure about that golden collar, but I think that’s standard, too.
She also had a pyramid in the background of the Wallpaper she showed up in back in January, on CD’s patreon.
Ah. A quick search suggests it’s an “usekh”, a kind of broad collar, sometimes gold.Fairly common amongst the nobility of both sexes.
Good thing the genie universal translator is on.
I was wondering about that. Is it confirmed that something like that exists? It certainly would fit.
Maybe it has something to do with Haji’s palace, some sort of magical effect that allows them to understand each other. It certainly wasn’t the case back when Jeanie and Araceli swapped bottles.
In the first episode of I Dream Of Jeannie, Captain Nelson had to WISH that Jeannie spoke English!
The Lady in the Bottle. Available on YouTube.
Looks like Ifta has been corked up for 4 or 5 millennia. She’s going to need some serious recapping.
In Panel 2, part 3, that’s unusually perceptive of Jeannie. Kudos to her.
Panel 3, to answer Jeannie’s question: Wishes? You can already poof up anything you want. Why would you need them?
Doesn’t use her own power, not that Jeannie seems to care.
Perceptive, and then immediately deciding to FAFO. Baby steps, I guess?
She might’ve not been in that lamp for all those millennia in a row. She may be just that old and not spending enough time outside to update her sayings and clothes.
But it’s definitely VERY suspicious.
So, a genie with clear Egyptian imagery believes Ra exists. Might even have direct knowledge, though that doesn’t mean all the stories are completely true or that they accurately describe what Ra is. Still, interesting.
Or Ra was another genie that was mistaken for a god.
It could be that the expression “thank Ra” is simply something that people around her said and she picked up. I know atheists that say “thank God” sometimes.
I know atheists who say “JesusMaria” (as a single world) … yes, these things spread.
Well, it kind of makes sense… in polite company, (sac)religious sayings are about all that are left to cuss with. “Oh, fudge” doesn’t really provide much satisfaction.
What both of you (Fearless Ferret & CirceSilvera) suggest could be true. And many other possibilities, as well. Ra could be a different type of non-divine non-genie being. We may never get the answer, but it wouldn’t be the first time in this comic that a seemingly throw-away remark was brought back and made important. So, we’ll see. Or not.
It’s a Goa’uld! Kill it, kill it, kill it.
😀
Maybe some genies use a sarcophagus for a totem
“A well respected genie”….who was kept sealed by her peers since the times of Ancient Egypt. And whom Lahab herself is avoiding.
Totally not suspicious.
Maybe Lahab is testing Jeanie’s ability to actually socialize. We know her social skills are somewhat lacking.
Naw, Jeanie has the social skills of a nuke 😉
If Lahab wants to work on Jeanie’s social skills why not designate a proper mentor?
Or maybe Lahab simply had to run off to use the little genie’s room. Makes you wonder if bottles come equipped with indoor plumbing.
I was hoping she’d find out Jeannie is barely in her twenties and was originally a man. She could use a genie who’s competent and know’s here situation to help her out.
In https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-599 Lehab reveals that she knew that Jeanie was a human man, but she may not know that Jean was in his twenties—though she is probably aware that the age of seventy is considered elderly for humans and ninety is “probably already dead of old age”.
Maybe the bottle was a tight fit.
Make her the new wife and cut Jean loose so she can go back to the mortal world and never be bothered by this society of boring losers ever again.
I dunno they seem pretty cool to me. Different culture different customs
You know a part of me feels that Jeanie is getting what comes to her for all the years for being a border line sociopath. But another part of me is eagerly awaiting for the fire Jeanie is going to unleash on Genie culture and traditions.
Sort of wish her first words had been in Yiddish.
Hee, hee! THAT would have been funny! “Oy, gevalt! Released by a shiksa!”
“Being in that bottle so long has left me feeling totally ferklempt!”
I learned all my yiddish at the Shool of Weird Al.
The earliest forms of Yiddish appear around the year 1100 AD in the Rhine Valley. That’s hardly the stamping grounds for an ancient Egyptian.
I think he was saying that it would have been fun to have a Jewish genie, rather than an Egyptian genie.
wonder if this will be like the I DREAM OF JEANIE episode where Bob Denver played a genie in training to messes up wishes of Babou in Hanna Barbara Jeannie cartoon
Sadly, Ifta lost a bet. Before that, she was “respected” because she was as annoying as f*ck. As her new best friend, Jeanie is the only one who can redirect Ifta’s attention. Everyone now wants to be Jeanie’s best friend.
If Ifta is from ancient Egypt, then she would have been around when Kazom was a powerful HUMAN genie lord. Do they have a history together? Friends, enemies, lovers? As for today, well, the ancient Egyptians were very fond of cats.
That’s an interesting theory (although humanoid would be more proper since genies aren’t human).
That would be interesting to find out!
How about it, CD? 🙂
Ifta=International Fuel Tax Agreement between USA and Xanada.
Iftar=Evening meal during Ramadan
Robert needs a female companion. I can’t decide between Alya, Katy, or Pirate Honey.
I’d personally prefer Seko. But Katy’s not a bad choice. 🙂
Its Cleopatra from space…woo