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.