Tanith

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Tanith was the name of the Goa'uld housed inside Chulakian priestess Shan'auc which soon matured. It chose to be named Tanith, and was implanted in Hebron of Parval. Shan'auc convinced it that the Goa'uld were evil, and he played along until it took a host, where Tanith betrayed, and then killed her. Because of this, Teal'c vowed revenge for Shan'auc's death, and finally did so in 2002.

[edit] Biography

Convinced that she had swayed the immature symbiote she carried to a new philosophy, Shau'nac of the Red Hills took this information to the Tok'ra to procure a willing host for it. As a former love of Teal'c, Shaun'auc offered hope that the Goa'uld threat might be lessened through such contact. Unfortunately, Tanith's had been deceiving Shau'nauc all along and after implantation, Tanith murdered her. The Tok'ra suspected Tanith's crime, however, they played along with Tanith's, allowing the symbiote to maintain control of its host body as a means to disseminate disinformation to the Goa'uld. (SG1: "Crossroads")

The Tok'ra was able to use Tanith to intercept a tranmission between Heru'ur and Apophis when they was setting up a meeting to negotiate an alliance.(SG1: "The Serpent's Venom")

Once Tanith's usefulness was over, the Tok'ra intended to extract Tanith from the host and leave the symbiote behind on Vorash for later retrieval by Apophis. Tanith escaped this fate, however, and offered his services to a more powerful Goa'uld, Anubis. Arriving at Tollana with a mothership protected from the Tollan ion cannons, Tanith forced this advanced culture to build powerful weapons that will penetrate solid matter such as the iris shield at the SGC in exchange for their continued survival. Tanith attacked the planet in the end, and a hurried transmission through the Stargate informed the Tau'ri that only a few Tollan had escaped and defenses were failing. (SG1: "Exodus", "Between Two Fires")

Teal'c finally succeeded in avenging the death of Shaun'auc when he killed Tanith while SG-1 was scouting a Goa'uld base on P3X-116. Tanith's ship crashed almost right on top of the Stargate as Teal'c was passing through the wormhole. The impact prematurely disengaged the transmission, leaving Teal'c's essentially 'stalled' in the wormhole until the transmission could be continued. Emergency measures were taken, including borrowing the Russian DHD after a heartfelt plea from Daniel Jackson, to regenerate the transmission and retrieve Teal'c before another wormhole was established, thus saving the Jaffa's life. (SG1: "48 Hours")

[edit] External links

• Tanith in Kathleen Ritter's Lexicon.
• GateWorld's article on Tanith in The Stargate Omnipedia
• Stargate SG-1 Solutions' article on Tanith in The StargateWiki
• The mythological Tanith on Wikipedia