Her name was Jadeh—my great-grandmother. A name that still commands respect in the family line, not because of any fame or fortune, but because she embodied everything a real woman should be. She wasn’t just beautiful—she was breathtakingly beautiful. Not in the fake, Photoshopped, Instagram-influencer sense, but in the timeless, divine way that shines from within: modest, fierce, full of grace. She didn’t need makeup to be radiant; she was radiant because she was righteous. A Georgian Christian woman, captured by history and married into power, she became the principal wife of my great-grandfather, a noble Khan in northern Iran. Yes, he had fourteen wives—some say forty—but Jadeh ruled them all. She didn’t have to compete with them. She didn’t nag, manipulate, or seduce. She led through loyalty, quiet strength, and dignified wisdom. She was the spine of the household, the mother of generations, the soul of the family.
Women like her built civilizations.
My bloodline runs through Christian warriors and noble empires: the Kingdom of Cilicia, the Byzantines, the Galatians, and the Varangians, fierce Norse warriors who fought to defend Christian lands. Before the Arab-Islamic invasion shattered Iran’s spiritual foundation, we were Christian defenders of the faith—Aryan, noble, God-fearing. Even after the Ottomans, Safavids, and Qajars tried to crush that legacy with imperial polygamy and Islamic oppression, women like Jadeh kept the faith alive in silence, in service, and in sacred motherhood. She was a queen, even if no one crowned her.
And now? I look at today’s culture—especially in the West—and I see ruins. Women flaunt their bodies for likes, destroy their families for clout, mock the idea of motherhood, and treat masculine men like threats. What used to be called virtue is now called oppression, and what used to be vulgarity is now called empowerment. This culture glorifies OnlyFans over Proverbs 31, and celebrates girls who “belong to the streets” over women who build homes. It’s sick.
I don’t want a loudmouth “boss babe” who treats faith like a fashion accessory and men like disposable income sources. I want a woman like Jadeh—real, feminine, faithful, strong. But let’s face it: that kind of woman is nearly extinct. We live in a godless, soulless, narcissistic culture that worships self-gratification and calls it freedom.
We need to revive the Christian virtues of womanhood—loyalty, chastity, modesty, and grace. Women like Jadeh didn’t just exist in fairy tales. They were the backbone of Christian civilization—and if we lose that model, we lose everything.
As Scripture says: “A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones” (Proverbs 12:4, KJV).
And “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised” (Proverbs 31:30, KJV).
Let us praise women like Jadeh—and raise daughters to be like her.
Citations:
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Holy Bible, King James Version. Proverbs 12:4 – https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Proverbs-12-4/
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Holy Bible, King James Version. Proverbs 31:30 – https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Proverbs-31-30/
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