Re: Cimmerians and Amazons

From: tgpedersen
Message: 18816
Date: 2003-02-14

--- 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