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Disclaimer: Information on this blog about Jedai culture will not be canon or fit with many aspects of canonical Jedi culture. This is a Jedi order, but not the canonical one and while it is similar in many aspects, there are also a lot of differences. The Jedai talked about here are not canon, and if you do not want that, fact check it yourself:)
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Dai Bendu Phrase #1
Eno Dai veshah keelel mellu im tamah foh veshah keelel
[Force be beside you when I am not beside you]
When said Jedai to Jedai (or any force sensitive), it serves as both a goodbye and see you later, but it also carries the idea of “when i am not beside you i have still not left you, for we are all part of the Force and connected through it” (very much tied to the idea of “I am one with the force and the Force is one with me”). It’s also a term of comfort, saying “though i may be gone you are not alone, the Force is with you and through it me” and also as a reminder that the Force is always with us. There's the additional part that Jedai can feel and find each other in the force, and that plays into all the above parts to make this a very meaningful phrase.
When said Jedai to force-null, it serves as a goodbye/see you later and well-wishes, but force-nulls lose some of the deeper meaning as they dont have the connection to the Force. Its said the same way, but the lack of reciprocity leads to it being taken to mean more of “when i am not beside you i still have not left you, for we are all part of the force and i am connected to you through it” (as in all living things are connected to the force through being alive, but Jedai/force sensitives can connect with others within/through the force, saying that the speaker will still be there even though the other cannot feel them.
While very similar to "Force be with you" it is not exactly the same. Force be with you is said to wish someone luck and safety, but "Force be beside you" is sometimes used as a shortened version of "Force be beside you when I am not beside you"
Jedai meme #3
Top text: Jehxah sedorem translates to jedi knight truth/word, its both a way to refer to the knights code and also saying “the truth of a jedi knight”
Bottom text: twirl. Its in english becuase there isnt a word for twirl or spin unforch. The meme is like “its the jedi knights code to twirl your lightsaber” and also “the truth of being a jedi knight is twirling your lightsaber”
Its funny becuase knighthood and the code are Serious Things, But spinny saber make it go nyoom
This one is way easier to explain, because its way simpler and has less dai bendu connotations
Jedai meme #1 and #2!
so daieno bika means force be here literally, but like thay means be in the moment/dwell in the now. Its used as like a “well what happened happened and now im here so it doesnt matter” but not like dismissively? Like dismissing the past but not its affects its not like saying “this should have no affect on you” its like “you are not in the past”. Its a term of comfort when said to you by someone else. When somone uses it referring to themselves it can either be “what happened happened but im here now and alright” OR like “everything is fineeeeeeee im in this moment”
(The image isnt quite right for the second meme cause LOTH CATS DONT FUCKING EXIST HERE but its SUPPOSED to be a loth cat kitten thats sopping wet and just the most pathetic looking creature ever like this thing looks like it was put in a washingmachine on the spin cycle with extra rinse. Look up a loth cat they are the stupidist looking things ever. ANYWAYS! So its like *most pathetic looking creature ever who has clearly been through it* “force be here:)” or like “the only thing that matters is right now ignore that ive been in a washing machine” the image in the first meme is accurate for that version actually that wiuldnt have patheticist lothcat ever it would have that photo but lothcat)
For the first meme, Padib sehn xai a’ainah jaieh is “jedai initiates(here referring to anyone under senior padawanship, its a versitile word) when a jedai master is compelled by the force to say”. Its both “this adult is giving me comfort” and also “the force, which we follow, is giving comfort to me through an adult (who is also giving me comfort)” like “ive been offered comfort by an adult who i trust adn shown compassion" Its like when a little kid falls and gets a bump and is going to cry and their adult is like “oh your ok! Your so strong!” And so then the kid is like very clearly on the verge of tears but is being So Brave about their bump. Take that and then jedai-ify it
The second you would use if like you sent a vent and then that immediately after or like if your friend was acting like everything is fine and it clearly isn't kinda like the "this is fine" meme with the dog but not exactly
Padawan braids should be far more decorated I don't care
I want them to have beads and bows and jewels and rings and bells and-
I want them to scream culture, to scream tradition, to scream history!!!
Eheheheeh here is my redesign for the Padawan braid!
Oh and the bells aren’t actual bells, they make no sound, they are called bells due to an old tradition no longer in use
And if anyone wants to use this idea, or some aspects of it, DO IT!!! Use this concept however you like!! Go and create your own braids!!!!!!!!
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Lightsaber color meaning
Lightsaber colour is determined by Kyber, which can be any color except for the specific shade of red that is from bleeding Kyber.
Green and blue are most common because Kyber gathering trips are first taken as an initiate, and 10 year olds have less lived experience and emotional depth then older Jedi, be that Padawans, Masters, Disciples, or Journeymen. This is also why second Kybers tend to be more varied colors.
These crystals are also more common in easily accessible areas that take less experience and danger to get to, hence why they are more common in younger initiates and in general.
Many Jedi also don’t feel Called to use a second Kyber primarily/alone and just add it to their saber or dont get another.
A Collection of Jedi Proverbs
“Sharp teeth do not evil make” - Both that no one is destined for the Dark by birth and that there is no definite way to define good or bad in absolutes.
“Through thoughts and emotions we know ourselves, through first knowing ourselves we then witness others”
“A rock in the river, not the sand. (Within the whole yet separate and unaffected by the currents.)”
“All is united in the force, through the force all lives together.”
“As trees to roots (Jedai to the Force)” - This is used to mean that what is seen is united by something bigger/what is visible is fueled by infinitely more.
“There is no want, there is no need, there is only what must be”
“To be Jedai is to face the truth, and choose.”
“You can give off light or darkness. Be a candle or the night.” - Darkness is a choice and Light overwhelms more than equivalently Dark.
if you need more proof of how much of an idiot i am, just know that i stayed up till o-dark-thirty last night making blueprints and cutaway diagrams of the Jedi Temple in microsoft excel
Like… if anyone knows a free program that’s good for ACTUALLY doing stuff like this, please let me know.
LINK TO HIGH RES IMAGES cause of tumblr compression.
Here’s what I made so far. Most of it is based on the ubiquitous cutaway from the Star Wars: Complete Locations book, and @gffa‘s masterpost is an invaluable resource. I added as much as I could of things that aren’t covered in older material (like the aquatic levels from Master and Apprentice) and things that we know exist but we don’t know where (like the Temple Sparring Arena).
Most of the First Knowledge Quarter is straight from the book cutaway, which is nice. I’m making this for my fic, obviously, so the exact placement of what’s in the other quarters is just something I made up according to what seemed to make sense, since we don’t have any exact information.
I didn’t give the Reassignment Quarter its own cutaway yet because there seems to be almost NO information I can find about what exactly the “Public Annex” consists of. If anyone has any other good Temple resources, please share, my crops are dying, my children are starving…
Ooh thank you! In addition to the above link, I’ve added on here and here in that Jedi Temple Masterpost, in case anyone wants to look them over. They’re a mix of Canon and Legends, but you do what you gotta do when canon is so scarce on how the Jedi Temple operates and SOBS I LOVE THAT PLACE SO MUCH if ILMxLAB really wanted to make my dreams come true, they’d build the Jedi Temple and let us take a tour through it. (And then make an Order 66 game to make us all weep brokenly while we tried to defend our sacred Temple from That Dumbass Jerk.)
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Do note that the Mando’a Dictionary has one major Misspelling in it and has been Abandoned. So no fixes will be coming int eh future.
“Ni kyr'tayl gai sa'ad- I know your name as my child.” Is the Adoption vow and should actually be “Ni kar’tayl gai sa’ad.”
Kyr indicates Death, while Kar indicates the Heart. Kar’tayl means to ‘know/hold in the heart.’
let jedi be jedi.
let them be uncomfortable with romance and/or marriage.
let them be repulsed at the idea of leaving the order.
let them feel liberated by jedi beliefs--let them see it as freedom from the burdens and chains of worldly life to follow the will of the force.
let them love the temple and think fondly of their fellow jedi and their communal lifestyle.
let them care for their masters and their padawans without imposing the dynamics of the nuclear family. let them explicitly reject comparisons of their masters to parents, or their padawans to children.
let them defend the jedi openly! without shame!
let them embrace the modesty, humility, and practicality of jedi clothing.
let them love being jedi, everything about being jedi, with no strings attached.
just....let jedi be jedi
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"The Jedi of the high Republic era were more open to change and operated more freely within the republic"
1. No, they weren't, the high Republic Jedi and prequel era Jedi are in fact very much the same in attitudes and practices (go figure, they're only 200 years removed), and if the prequel Jedi were so against change... why did they allow Anakin, despite their reservations? Why did they take the radical step of becoming generals? Those are not the actions of people stubbornly resisting change
2. Why were the Jedi's operations within the republic so hindered hmm? What was it? Was there something actively making things harder for the Jedi? Sabotaging the relationship with the Republic that had been functional for millennia?
I do appreciate the lengths that the Jedi goes to allow members who have a different culture to preserve it. They aren't completely cut off from their culture when they become Jedi, and encouraged, it seems to stay connected.
There are various instances of this, but the most prominent is Quinlan Vos identifying with his family clan due to the marking on hi face (which may imply he's still in contact with them), Shaak-Ti & Ahsoka with the teeth headdress on their foreheads, Plo with his claw markings (and apparently he's also a Baron Do sage? And plus he also stays in contact with his family as well).
Some religious/spiritual organizations require a complete separation from the outside world, so it's always interesting that the Jedi's approach is to ensure their members are able to cohabitate with their culture.
Ngl joining the jedi order sounds like the ideal life to me because just imagine:
1. People regulate thier emotion and communicate to you logically. No need to understand social cues when you're an empath.
2. No pressure to marry, be in a romantic relationship and live in a nuclear household my entire life.
3. I can just?????? Help people?????? Without the extra cost of a system working me to the ground to achieve certain things????
4. No strings attached companionship and friendships? Amazing.
5. A caring and respectful community who council each other and accepts who I am as a person? Count me in.
6. Lightsaber go brrrrrrrrrr
7. Being able to do what I want career wise (Gardening, art, politics, piloting, exploring, childreering, medicine, teaching, etc.) without having to worry about money.
8. Tax fraud
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE JEDI ORDER IN STAR WARS CANON, PART II [A Meta/Reference Guide on AO3] aka, SO WHAT DO THE JEDI SAY AND DO IN THE ACTUAL CANON? This is the second part in my series of Jedi Culture and Teachings in Canon, which was originally meant to be a much smaller project, but then The High Republic came out and suddenly I can barely keep up with all the new lore! Which means that this is part 2 of what will probably (I hope) be a four part series, given a rough estimate, just hopefully not two years between now and the next one. orz One of the biggest motivations I’ve had is to compare how the High Republic books seem to be working to be pretty true to George Lucas’ philosophies and visions of both Star Wars and the Jedi, so there’s a mix of canon sources citations and George Lucas commentary, separated out into eras so that you can get a feel for each one. While there are some minor differences between the High Republic Jedi Order and the prequels Jedi Order, I’ve found that they’re by and large basically the same exact people with the same exact culture and same exact beliefs and actions, and a huge part of this project was getting to lay a lot of that out! The guide is broken down into seven sections as before: SECTION 1 - HOW THE FORCE WORKS SECTION 2 - JEDI CULTURE & PHILOSOPHY & TEACHINGS SECTION 3 - JEDI AS A PEOPLE SECTION 4 - PSYCHIC SPACE WIZARDS DOING PSYCHIC SPACE WIZARD THINGS SECTION 5 - JEDI TEMPLES SECTION 6 - JEDI AND THE BIGGER GALAXY SECTION 7 - JEDI, BUDDHISM, AND EVERYTHING ELSE Hopefully, this guide will be useful to those who are looking to use it to write fic or just want to see a nerdy project! None of this is meant as any kind of value judgement on Legends or people who aren’t interested in this stuff or don’t like the Jedi, instead it’s a guide to a) the bigger themes of the Jedi in the source material and b) a list of references if you want to check out the source material yourself, which I always heartily recommend! That and an attempt to organize my reference and meta tags because they’re definitely a mess. 😂
The Heart of a Jedi
It is a common belief in the galaxy that the Jedi are not permitted to love. Silently, some people mourn the children given to the Jedi, believing they will be brainwashed to hide their emotions and be unable to love. Disdainfully, some parents who don't wish to give their children to the Order claim that their children will never know love if they are taken in by the Order.
But love is a word with many connotations. How can a Jedi affirm or deny such accusations when they may be working with widely different definitions of the same word? When beings can mean any number of disparate emotions, many compatible with their way or life and many others contradictions of their code, values and vows?
The Jedi do not claim love is forbidden to them. How could they, with what love means to them? Saying love is allowed is misleading, and saying it's encouraged severely understates how important love is to them.
Love is essential, central to a Jedi's life. One cannot be a Jedi if they are devoid of love.
The Jedi do not claim that love is forbidden to them, as they share an ideal of kindness and compassion for all forms of life.
How could they strive towards this without love, as they understand it? Not affection, necessarily, for a Jedi must be compassionate even towards those they dislike. Rather, a deep respect for life, an attempt to understand it and its connections, and an endless drive to reduce suffering where they can.
That, to a Jedi, is love.
A Jedi must love everybody. They love the starving, the abused and the slaves of the galaxy, because they need their help. They love pirates, slavers, and corrupt politicians, when they dislike and want to stop them.
They even love the Sith.
But for many beings in the galaxy, that is not enough. For many beings in the galaxy, that is not love. And as long as the Jedi reject the cruel thing the galaxy calls love, that grasps and steals and demands to own, long as the Jedi accept the inevitability of death, the futility of holding on to what is not meant to be held, there will be those that call the Jedi loveless.
How sad, a Jedi would say, to be unable to conceive love without cruelty.
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The Jedi who loved too much, in spite of his self-sacrificial adherence to the Code.
The Jedi who lost the ones he loved, and loved the ones who caused him loss.
Or like actually this kind of shows the success of the code? Obi-wan does not snap and commit revenge killings of innocent people, Obi-wan does not throw aside every moral teaching he has learned, with each tragic loss he does not become possessive of what he has left.
He continues as a Jedi fully entrenched in the light probably because of that Code he adheres to which includes beliefs about what happens after death that are likely comforting to someone who can literally feel the force.
I think he loved a perfectly reasonable amount for a Jedi and served as a counterpoint to Anakin’s failure (facilitated by Palpatine’s manipulation) to comprehend what danger the Code warns against when it forbids possessive love
#obi-wan kenobi has his flaws but striving to follow the beliefs and ideals of his people isn’t one of them (tag via @jedi-order-apologist)
#the jedi are all about selfless love #which obi-wan embodies BECAUSE he is a jedi #not in spite of it
Repeat after me:
The Jedi taught emotional control, not repression.
The Jedi took kids with parental consent, they did not kidnap them.
The Jedi did not hold people against their will, they could leave the Order at any time.
The Jedi were not "just as bad" as the Sith.
