Re: Cimmerians and Amazons

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, " Alexander Stolbov" <astolbov@...>
wrote:

> 1) Older pictures of Amazons show them as riders dressed in long

trousers.

> Please note that nobody else in the Near East was able to ride in

that time

> (before the Trojan war). And naturally nobody else wore long

trousers

> because only horse(wo)men need them. Plus, Amazons had a cap of

Iranian

> type. The next folk appeared in the Near East which had these

peculiarities

> (riders, long trousers, caps of this form) were Cimmerians. However

all the

> ancient Iranian tribes had this set of features.
>
> 2) Lysias said that Amazons were the first to mount horses and to

use iron.

> Until the fall of the Hittite empire the iron metallurgy was the

monopoly of

> Hittites, who adopted it from Hatti. The territory of Amazons was

very close

> to the Hattic ethnic territory so Amazons might adopted this

technology from

> them like Hittite.
>

Fascinating thought that women may have been the first to domesticate
horses. They certainly seem to have an affinity for them. And
wouldn't they be better suited to lure that shy animal into bondage,
rather than men?

Torsten