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  Races - Tollan
The original Tollan homeworld was destroyed by giving a neighboring planet, Serita, technology far ahead of its time.
Tollan technology is so far ahead of Earth's that even reverse-engineering a device, such as an ion cannon, is impossible for us.
Recently the Tollan suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Goa'uld Anubis, whose emissary Tanith wiped out Tollana's capital city from orbit.
www.gateworld.net /omnipedia/races/t/tollan.shtml   (414 words)

  
 Tollan (Stargate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tollan legal disputes are settled in a so-called Triad, the Tollan version of a private law proceeding; it is unknown under what system matters of public law are settled.
The Tollan were also mentioned briefly in the year 2010 of an alternate timeline where the Aschen had sterilised a large portion of the world's population.
In 2000, the Tollan were one of several advanced civilizations who threatened to cut all diplomatic relations with Earth after some of their technology had been stolen by a rogue faction of the NID under the supervision of Harry Maybourne.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tollan_(Stargate)   (1606 words)

  
 Tollan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, the "Tollan" are an advanced human civilization; see: Tollan (Stargate).
The epithet "Tollan" was also sometimes applied to any great metropolis or capital.
Cholula, for example, was sometimes called "Tollan Cholula", and the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán was likewise given the title "Tollan".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tollan   (251 words)

  
 Enigma
While he was dying, he tells her, he mistook Sam for a mythological Tollan angel, supposed to appear at the moment of death.
Omack is concerned the Tollans won't have a say in where they are sent, and Daniel promises him that self-determination is important to the people of Earth.
The Tollans use their technology to open the same rift as before, permitting them to walk through the walls and escape.
hammer.prohosting.com /~sg-1site/episodes/enigma.html   (2302 words)

  
 Tollan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, the "Tollan" are an advanced human civilization; see: Tollan (Stargate).'' ---- Tollan or Tolan or Tolán is the name used for the capital city of two empires of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica; first for Teotihuacan, and later for the Toltec capital of Tula.
"Tollan" was also sometimes used to refer to a great metropolis or major capital.
Cholula, for example, was sometimes called "Tollan Cholula", and the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán was also given the title "Tollan".
tollan.iqnaut.net   (225 words)

  
 The Dan and Jan Archive
Tollan was still in the ball game, so to speak.
When we arrived on Tollan, we were immediately escorted to a ‘safe house’ where we would be able to assess the situation.
They had stopped killing the Tollans and started holding them in prison camps, forcing the scientists to reveal the secrets of their technology.
www.shahrazad.net /~djarchive/fanfic/whatyoucantleave.html   (6213 words)

  
 TOLLAN INFO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Tollans were encountered on a routine mission to the doomed planet of Tollan.
With the help of Daniel Jackson the Tollans sent a message to the Nox a race as equally as advanced as the Tollans.
The Nox received the call for help and transported the Tollans to their home planet P3C-117 using the Stargate in the SGC despite the efforts of "Toadie" Maybourne.
members.shaw.ca /spaceplace/Stargate/tollan.htm   (234 words)

  
 The Tollan!???!? - GateWorld Forum
The Tollan were an interesting part of the story and should not be removed from the show i think.
If you remember, (my old grey cells ain't what they used to be), the Tollan refused to help us because they were afraid we would misuse advanced technology for war and destory ourselves.
the tollan were trying to leave the planet so it may be filled with some good stuff and info.
forum.gateworld.net /showthread.php?t=716   (968 words)

  
 FIREFLYFANS.NET
Once Tollan was satisfied that everything that could be removed had been he returned to see how Serenity's Captain was doing.
Tollan looked at Serenity's Captain for a moment, unable to hide the deep emotion that stirred within him.
Tollan swallowed the lump forming in his throat, so overcome with love and admiration for the man who had come to mean more to him than life itself.
www.fireflyfans.net /sunroomitem.asp?i=2586   (3061 words)

  
 Huemac: The Legendary Fall of Tollan
The fall of Tollan is not explicitly described in the General History; indeed the Huemac material is placed directly in the middle of the Quetzalcoatl story.
In the Sahagun narrative it is the plagues that cause Quetzalcoatl to leave Tollan, but in the other two texts they are the reason for the destruction of the Toltecs and abandonment of Tollan by them, lead by Huemac.
However, given these sources and their abundance of story, it is possible to come to some general conclusions about how the Huemac of Tollan story was constructed and told in pre-Columbian Mexico.
www.ericrosenfield.com /huemac.html   (3518 words)

  
 Woman found dead - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The woman was identified as 61-year-old Carol Tollan, a spokesman for the Allegheny County Coroner's Office said.
Tollan appeared to have been dead about two hours before officers were called, police said.
Tollan appeared to have been shot by someone in the passenger seat of the vehicle, Kraus said.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_404616.html   (326 words)

  
 Spoilers: Stargate SG-1 - 'Pretense'
In only a short amount of time, the Tollan have created a beautiful environment for themselves on their adopted planet.
He argues that Tollan law does not include the penalty of death and so, if the archons find for Skaara, Klorel will likely die after being removed from its host.
After receiving thanks from the Tollan, the team is reunited with Skaara and, with much celebration, we fade to fl.
www.space.com /sciencefiction/tv/sg1_314_spoilers_000124.html   (1153 words)

  
 Tollan (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
: The great cathedrals of Tollan are often the grandest of all churches.
Tollan is also the king over all Essences.
It is long believed that Tollan is the second most powerful Essence.
solaria.13thtowerrpg.com.cob-web.org:8888 /tollan.htm   (152 words)

  
 Stargate Guide: Supporting Characters - Off World /Aliens Part 2
He was among the original surviving Tollan that Sg-1 helped rescue from their planet when it erupted with volcanic activity and was destroyed.
She is also a member of the Tollan race and is also there high minister.
She is one of the main leaders of the Tollan people and was also instrumental in helping find a traitor at the S.G.C. She is a soft spoken and wise individual who sees the S.G.C and Earth with respect and potential.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/stargate/71762/1   (495 words)

  
 Schrodinger - StargateWiki
Schrödinger was a cat owned by Carter, named after the quantum mechanics theorist Erwin Schrödinger who proposed the "Schrödinger's Cat" thought experiment which theorized that a cat put in a box with poison in it would be observed to be both dead and alive at the same time.
She gave the cat to the Tollan Narim as a gesture of friendship (1.17 "Enigma").
Narim used Schrödinger as an emissary before coming through the closed iris of the Stargate at the SGC at one time, before the Tollan were given a way to notify the SGC of their intent to visit (such as with a Sagan Institute Box or a GDO) (3.15 "Pretense").
www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com /wiki/Schrodinger   (148 words)

  
 FIREFLYFANS.NET
As soon as Mal was off the bridge, Tollan looked at Rafe Connor, the man as tense as it was possible to be without something snapping.
Tollan noticed the Alliance weaponry was no longer locked on them.
Tollan handed Thomas a glass of water without needing to be asked.
www.fireflyfans.net /sunroomitem.asp?i=2375   (3689 words)

  
 Reports Submitted to FAMSI - Cynthia Kristan-Graham
The colloquium consisted of a small number of speakers and invited audience members from Canada, the United States, and México who are actively involved in approaching the "Tula-Chichén Itzá problem" from a spectrum of disciplinary and methodological vantage points.
He calls the site he visited Tula and the people there Tultecs in contrast to a mythical place that he calls Tollan, and that is populated by a people he calls Toltecs.
Finally, this reading of Tula Grande proceeded from an analysis of the archaeological data, without assuming a priori that Tula was the Tollan, home to Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, the base of an empire that conquered Chichén Itzá, or a Yucatec Maya conquest state in Central México.
www.famsi.org /reports/98022/index.html   (2282 words)

  
 Orpheus: Myths of the World: Central American and Mexican: Quetzalcoatl
And in Tollan all the arts and crafts that we know of were first practised, for Quetzalcoatl taught them to the people there.
He taught them the smelting of silver and the clearing and setting of precious stones; he taught the craft of building with stones; he taught them how to make statues, and paint signs in books, and keep count of the moons and suns.
Once again he became weary, and he rested on a stone by the wayside; there, looking back towards Tollan, he wept, and his tears pitted the stone on which he sat, and his hands left their imprints upon it where he grasped the stone.
www.sacred-texts.com /etc/omw/omw82.htm   (978 words)

  
 THE STORY OF QUETZALCOATL
He used his magical powers to entrap her in order to gain political and spiritual advantage in Tollan as part of his plan to overthrow Quetzalcoatl.
The other large ethnic group in Tollan was descended from Nanolacas who migrated from the Veracruz coast and had a high level of culture.
In one story we see how Tezcotlipoca hypnotized the young people of Tollan with his flute playing and then led them off a cliff to their death.
www.resonateview.org /places/writings/toltec/QC.htm   (2134 words)

  
 Orpheus: Myths of the World: Central American and Mexican: Quetzalcoatl's Enemy
He called on the men and women of Tollan to come into it, that they might repair the waste of that garden.
Changing himself again he came into the market-place, and he showed the people a manikin that he had, a manikin the size of his finger who danced upon the palm of his hand.
Then a voice came to the people, saying, "O people of Tollan, a verse of a song will do it." The corpse of the man and the corpse of the manikin sang, and the people took up the song, and pulled at the bodies.
www.sacred-texts.com /etc/omw/omw83.htm   (708 words)

  
 Tollan
One of the most advanced races of transplanted humans encountered by the S.G.C., the Tollan are stubborn to
and destroy themselves, shifting the orbital path of Tollan.
Tollan technology is so far ahead of Earth's that even reverse-engineering a device, such as an ion cannon, is
members.aol.com /sgevolution/tollan.html   (288 words)

  
 Masquerade
The device created by the Tollan to control the symbiont's influence on the host glowed bright blue indicating Skaara, indeed, was in command.
Daniel recalled, once he had finally broken through the Tollan's obstinate barrier of non-cooperation on top of Cheyenne Mountain in the star filled darkness, the linguist actually saw a man of great learning whom Daniel would have been honored to be tutored by.
Here was an opportunity for him to gain valuable knowledge from the Tollan, or, at the very least, keep open the channels of communication with the advanced culture just in case Jack was at this very moment haranguing the Tollon.
www.stargatefan.com /fictionms/masquerade.html   (6040 words)

  
 kdka.com - Arrest Made In Homewood Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The son-in-law of the victim, Carol Tollan, has been arrested in her murder.
Sixty-one year old Carol Tollan was killed December 15th and now her son-in-law is in custody.
Tollan was found shot to death on Girder Street in West Homestead December 15th.
kdka.com /local/local_story_003230356.html   (185 words)

  
 Pyramid of the Sun, Moon - Crystalinks
The Totonacs have always maintained that they were the ones who built it, a story that was corroborated later by the Aztecs.
The city was also anciently referred to as Tollan, a name also used centuries later for the Toltec capital of Tula (Tollan Xicocotitlan in Nahuatl).
There is archaeological evidence that Teotihuacan had been a multi-ethnic place, with distinct Zapotec, Mixtec, Maya and what seems to be Nahua quarters.
www.crystalinks.com /pyrsun_moon.html   (1387 words)

  
 Stargate SG-1: Pretense - TV.com
It is Narim, the Tollan, who first sends Schrodinger, Sam's gift to him, to identify himself.
Klor'el was temporarily not in control, and Ska'ara has requested that the Tollan restore his body to him.
Jack and Daniel have been chosen as archons to represent Skaara in a Triad, a Tollan trial to decide whether the body belongs to Klor'el or Ska'ara.
www.tv.com /stargate-sg1/pretense/episode/7377/summary.html   (414 words)

  
 The twelve cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic
Let's begins with an excerpt from an interview of Georg Faust, principal cellist of the Berlin Phil, completed on January 6, 2003 by Birgitta Tollan of the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation/Sveriges Radio.
The interview was broadcast in edited form on March 10, 2003.
Georg Faust: The Auditions are not for a committee but it's in front of the whole orchestra, and the orchestra decides who is going to be the new member of the group, which makes it very democratic and very obvious that there is no way for the cellists to manipulate anything.
www.osborne-conant.org /cellists.htm   (932 words)

  
 TV.com Forums - did all the tollan die (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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But there's no saying the tollan weren't destroyed after they sent the message.
You must be registered and logged in to post a message in the forum.
www.tv.com.cob-web.org:8888 /stargate-sg-1/show/185/did-all-the-tollan-die/topic/292-550390/msgs.html   (227 words)

  
 Enigma
However, the technologically advanced Tollans do not seem grateful for their rescue; in fact, they are upset that such a "primitive" people brought them to their world.
Also neat how Lya makes the Tollans and the soldiers' guns at the end disappear, then opens the Stargate on her own just by raising her hands.
I loved the Tollan world (despite the fact the planet was covered in deadly ash, it looked really cool-- just like snow).
www.shahrazad.net /~sgcompendium/eps/enigma.html   (1341 words)

  
 Stargate SG-1 - 3X15 - Pretense
The Tollan Curia requests the presence of you and your team for Triad.
I believe that we are face with the loss of Skarra – one individual – verse the deaths of many Tollan and possibly ourselves.
Teal'c: I have become convinced that the Goa'uld are planning to destroy all the Tollan weapon instillations simultaneously thereby preventing them form ever returning fire.
www.twiztv.com /scripts/stargate/season3/stargate-315.htm   (3849 words)

  
 SCIFI.COM | Stargate SG-1
The Tollan Narim pays an unexpected visit to Stargate Command, inviting the members of SG-1 to participate in a ritual known as "Triad." Only when SG-1 shows up on the new Tollan homeworld do they learn that Triad is an ancient ceremony of justice, and the person on trial is their old friend, Skaara.
The Goa'uld Klorel's death glider crash-landed on the Tollan planet.
But when SG-1 brings its concerns to the Tollan leaders, its protest puts Skaara in further danger of losing his identity forever.
www.scifi.com /stargate/episodes/season3/0315episode.html   (166 words)

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