82. AMAZON SISTERS
Amazon sisters
Six thousand years
old
Seven thousand.
Older than that.
Central European
archeological digs bring to light many sites
Continually inhabited
for thousands of years:
Vincas, Cucuteni...
Peaceful places where
women lived and created
The first written
language!
Their men were peaceful
too, never harming each other,
Never harming any
other human being
There is no evidence
of fortifications around settlements
No art showing violence
against man...
Then suddenly the
ancient layers of clay reveal a catastrophic end to their habitations
With broken skulls
everywhere
One at a time each
town which had been continualy inhabited
For thousands of
years with language and glazed pottery
Comes to an end like
this in the archeological record...
Among the bones of
the dead:
Shards of the Kurgan
warrier's foot long flint knives
The first knives
ever designed just for killing humans.
The Kurgans: the
world's first horsemen...
The Kurgan wave swept
from the Black sea
Across central Europe
about 4500 BC, carbon dated...
The fastest and most
powerful human beings on earth
They took women wherever
they conquered:
No longer needing
human loyalty to females...
Instead of venerating
the Mother and the womb
They worshipped the
horse which made them invincible...
They were the first
patriarchal archetype,
The murderers who
ended the ancient
Great Mother culture
And caused the human
race to change
From matristic to
patriarchal.
One amazing thing
the archeologists discovered:
There were actually
some communities which
Did not fall so easily
to the Kurgans
The archeological
record shows some communities continued
To exist for several
hundred years in the same places
Though all the other
communities around them were destroyed
And some other community's
pottery record suddenly disappears
From where it had
been for thousands of years --
But their pottery
reappears again
Upon the world's
first fortified hilltops...
Evidence that some
of our ancient sisters and brothers
Upon receiving sufficient
warning were able to assemble
And to defend themselves
successfully
And survive.
