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:
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. .
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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