Re: [tied] Pre-Historical Matriarchy

From: Rex H. McTyeire
Message: 3725
Date: 2000-09-15

I obviously missed a post or two, then find John and Glen sparring as follows:
 
Glen Gordon:
>>............but I am extremely
reluctant to use 'ancient matriarcial
>> cultures' in *any*
interpretation of prehistory. 
 
John retorts:
> If doubting makes me a sexist, what of my wife? She is a feminist and is
> even more opposed to matriarcial fantasies than
I am.
 
I am reevaluating my position on the issue, but it seems even Britannica is inconsistent on the point:   (from Britannica on line and Britannica 98 CD..in the first reference, they cleverly ascribe the position to specific external multi-disciplinary consensus...science by consensus works about as well as leadership by committee.)
 
*   (re matriarchy)  "Furthermore, the consensus among modern anthropologists and sociologists is that a strictly matriarchal society never existed."
 
*  (re: Sarmatians) "An early matriarchal form of society was later replaced by a system of male chieftains and eventually by a male monarchy. "
 
Obviously, historians, anthropologists and sociologists don't read the same material..enter
linguists..and female sun deities:
 
http://public.kubsu.ru/~usr02898/sl1.htm      (see also sl2 through sl20..at least..I stopped)
Copyright © 1999 by Sergei V. Rjabchikov. All Rights Reserved.
 
.." the images of the Scythian (and Sarmatian) god Agin/Agni are iron sword and horse, cf. the wordplay in Russian: rezat' 'to cut' and rezvy kon' 'fast horse'. Later this god was replaced by the goddess Makosh' (or Mokosh') in the Russian mythology. This name is associated with Russian kosh signifying 'carriage' and 'military transport' (Schilov 1995: 358).

The Scythians are called Skoloti, i.e. S koloti '(The people) near the sun' ...(later?) means "nomad"
 
(sl5) ...the Scythian model of the Universe. The upper character is the supreme (sl9.. SUN) goddess Tabiti. This goddess corresponds to the first level of the Universe.
 
(sl6)...this people - the Saka (Scythians) (1) - is known as Sesah in the Bible (the Book of Jeremiah, 25: 19-26):
 
(sl6)...It is possible that the name of the Scythian god Agin/Agni may have the variant Ani, too.
 
(sl17)...Medusa. I suppose that the name Gorgon consists of Pelasgean (Proto-Slavonic registered in the writing of Linear A, and in its decorative version on the Phaistos disk) gor and gon.
 
(sl19) ..."Magic song of the sun girls" is as follows (Sakharov):
 
(sl20)..."The magic song of the mermaids" .Sarmatian text composed in the Kuban area. .
...The Sun-the Mother' (it is the Scythian goddess Argimpasa)
 
 
Now back to Britannica: ME religion, The Baal Cycle:
 
"The sun goddess, Shapash, "Light of the Gods," helps Anath in her retrieval of the dead Baal and intervenes in the final conflict between Baal and Mot.
 
La Revedere;
Rex H. McTyeire
Bucharest, Romania
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