“Teraz, gdy jesteś wolny, ucałuj już śmiało koralowe usta ukochanej. Przytul twarz do jej twarzy i ucałuj uwodzicielskie oczy ukochanej.
Teraz jesteś prawdziwie koronowany chwałą, bo jesteś blisko stóp miłej. Bądź mężczyzną! Ucałuj drogie usta, całuj serce i duszę ukochanej.
Cukier nie jest tak słodki, jak ona! Tylko wino smak ma podobny do miłej. Ona dzisiaj twym podczaszym! Całuj pilnie: stopy i skraj sukni ukochanej.
Gdy jej ręce będą prowadzić swą subtelną grę, otocz ją czule ramieniem. Pieść jej pachnący pieprzyk na licu. Całuj cudne łuki brwi twej ukochanej.
Muhibbi, ona jest boskim darem dla ciebie. Chroń uważnie i szanuj ten skarb. Stale pieść jej szyję. Wciąż i wciąż nie przestawaj całować ust ukochanej.”
Possibly a controversial take, but the fact that later Hürrem is self-aware and willing to acknowledge to herself that she’s done terrible things is one of the things that makes her such a great and complex character.
It really does add a fascinating layer of complexity when you realize that, overall, Hürrem is one of the very few characters willing to take ownership for their actions.
“Roxolana is believed to have been born in the western part of Ukraine around 1505. Sometime between 1515 and 1520, when she was around 15 years of age, she was abducted by the Crimean Tatars in one of their slave raids on Ukraine. She most probably followed the route that thousands of her compatriots followed in the sixteenth century—walking in long caravans of captives to the biggest slave market in the Black Sea region, Caffa (Kefe; Kaffa; presently the city of Feodosia), on the Crimean coast, whence the captives were shipped to other Mediterranean slave markets. The belief that Roxolana was of Russian rather than Ukrainian origin may have been a later reinterpretation of the words Roxolana and Rossa. In early modern Europe, the word Roxolana was used in reference to the province of Ruthenia (Rutenia), or Red Rus, in the western part of Ukraine, which was later known under the names of Podolia (that is, eastern Podolia that was under Polish control at the time) and Galicia. Thus the Italian word Rossa [‘Red’] emphasized Roxolana’s origin in Red Rus. The inhabitants of Muscovy Rus were usually called Muscovites at the time.”
— Galina Yermolenko, ‘Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture’
“Because there’s no other place on earth, where you enter a slave and become a sultana who rules the world.”
“The haseki, a slave concubine and no blood relation to the reigning sultan, ranked higher than the sultan’s own sisters and aunts, the princesses of the dynasty. Her elevated royal status derived from the fact that she was the mother of a potential future sultan.
Kösem was the last of the colorful and influential hasekis of the “sultanate of women”. Henceforth, the position of haseki would lose its special status. The presence of more than one haseki was a significant change in the reigns of Murad and Ibrahim, signaling that the age of the favorite was coming to an end. In this period the meaning of the title haseki begins to shift from a single “favorite” to something more general like “royal consort”, similar to the earlier khatun.”– Leslie P. Peirce - The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire
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