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Jackson realizes that the people speak a dialect of Ancient Egyptian and begins communicating with them.

He discovers that writing is forbidden to these people.

The team develops friendships with the people: O ' Neil with Skaara ; Kawalsky and Ferretti with Skaara's friends ; and Jackson ( not knowing why he is suddenly bathed and perfumed by the leader's servants ) begins an unintended budding romance with Sha ' uri, a daughter of the leader.

Discovering that Sha ' uri has some experience with drawn symbols, Jackson indicates to her that he wants to see more signs, and with her help leaves the city and learns from hieroglyphs in the people's hidden catacombs how the Egyptian god Ra was actually an alien lifeform who had abandoned his dying world to seek a cure for his own mortality, and had finally come to earth, where he " possessed " the body of one human youth like a parasite, and enslaved humans with his advanced technology.

While these humans eventually rebelled and buried the Stargate, thousands of others had been taken to the other planet through the Stargate and used to mine the quartzite-like mineral on which all of Ra's technology is based.

Fearing another rebellion on this planet, Ra outlawed reading and writing.

At this point, the team from Earth discovers the cartouche containing the symbols required to get back to Earth, but the seventh symbol at the bottom is eroded away.