(5) Amazonian migrations
The creators of Wonder Woman had no interest in proving an actual link to the past. In some parts of the academic world, however, the historical existence of the Amazons, or any matriarchal society, has long been a raging issue. The origins of the debate can be traced back to a Swiss law professor and classical scholar named Johann Jakob Bachofen. In 1861 Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started out under the rule of womankind and only switched to patriarchy at the dawn of civilization when Atlas brought the males into power. Despite his admiration for the earth-mother women/priestesses who once held sway, Bachofen believed that the domination of men was a necessary step toward progress. Women “only know of the physical life,” he wrote. “The triumph of patriarchy brings with it the liberation of the spirit from the manifestations of nature.”
We are not trying to prove his theory. Only that there was women in charge at one point and time.
The eighth-century B.C. poet Homer was one of the first greeks to mention the existence of the Amazons. In the Iliad—which is set 500 years earlier, during the Bronze or Heroic Age—Homer referred to them somewhat cursorily as Amazons antianeirai, an ambiguous term that has resulted in many different translations, from “antagonistic to men” to “the equal of men.” In any case, these women were considered worthy enough opponents for Homer’s male characters to be able to boast of killing them—without looking like cowardly bullies.
There had been the land Azzi with the capital Chajasa in the area of the Thermodon-Iris Delta on the coast of the Black Sea. He brings its residents in direct relation to the Amazons, namely based on its name (woman of the land Azzi = 'Am'+ 'Azzi' = Amazon) and its customs (matriarchal custom of promiscuous sexual intercourse, even with blood relatives).
After the Spanish conquistadors conquered Peru, in 1535, Pizarro sent a scouting party to the Amazon river. At that time, the river had different names: Rio Grande (Great River), Mar Dulce (Sweet Sea, as the river is very wide in some parts, you might even be unable to see the coast when sailing it) and Rio da Canela (Cinnamon River, because there were trees of this kind in the region).
Turns out that the party was successful and went from Peru to the Atlantic Ocean, an outstanding feat, specially if you consider that it was done in 1541. When the party leader Francisco de Orellana returned to Spain, the King gave him rights to use the land that he had discovered.
After going back to South America Orellana encountered hostile female warriors from the Icamiaba tribe. Surprisingly, the Spanish had a sounding defeat. The victory of the natives was so impressive that King Charles V changed the name of the river to Amazon, in a reference to the female warriors from the Greek Mithology.
Here is true science that backs up the history of the Amazonians.
We have uncovered the genetic link between a nine-year-old Meiramgul, the blond child of the mountains of western Mongolia, and the long-dead women warriors of the Eurasian (Amazonians) of South America. Researchers examined snippets of a particular type of genetic information called mitochondrial DNA.
The results proved a 65,000 year migration from South America to Mongolia. DNA test found a 9 year old child in Mongolia with Amazonian genetic root to the Americas.
Each cell in a plant or animal carries two varieties of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Within the nucleus of the cell is the full genetic complement, or genome, representing all of the genes that give an organism its particular characteristics and allow it to function. In humans this nuclear DNA is represented by two sets of 23 chromosomes, one set each passed on by the mother and father. One pair of these chromosomes determines the sex of the individual; a nuclear DNA analysis was used to determine the female gender of the warriors unearthed by archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball and her colleagues during the excavations “Amazon Warrior Women.”
Mitochondrial DNA, however, is separate from these 46 nuclear chromosomes. It is found within the cytoplasm of cells — the matrix of proteins, chemicals, fluid, and other structures located outside of the nucleus — and, in particular, within tiny, pill-shaped compartments called the mitochondria. Within mitochondria, a cell’s energy-producing reactions take place. (Some lethal poisons, such as cyanide, work by disrupting the biochemical reactions that mitochondria use to power up cells). Each of the 500 to 1,000 mitochondria inside a cell contain several circular pieces of DNA.
The mitochondrial strand contains thirteen genes, each used to produce proteins that are involved in energy production. Other bits of the mitochondrial, or mtDNA, strand code for molecules called ribosomal and transfer RNA, which are intermediaries in the chemical process that translates the genes into their respective proteins.
A crucial feature that sets mitochondrial DNA apart from nuclear DNA — and that allows genetic studies like the comparison of the DNA from ancient bones to that of young Meiramgul — is that the strands are only passed from mothers to their children. This is because the mitochondria present in a fertilized embryo come almost entirely from the egg and rarely from the sperm. The mtDNA strands would normally be passed from mother to child in perfect form, but occasionally one of the individual base pairs will change, or mutate, producing a slight deviation in the sequence.
Osharian Molecular biologists have mapped the entire sequence of human mitochondrial DNA back in 1992. Since then we also have measured the average rate at which these mutations occur, which allows them to use slight differences in the sequence as a way of determining how closely related individuals are through their maternal ancestors. For this reason, mitochondrial DNA has frequently been used to examine the genetic relationships of families, population groups, and even the entire human species.
Mitochondrial DNA studies revealed, for example, that Neanderthals were not direct ancestors of modern humans. Mitochondrial DNA analysis also showed that all groups of humans on Earth could be mapped back to a single woman, a “mitochondrial Eve” who lived in Africa 200,000 years ago. (That is not to say that every human on Earth descended from the same woman living 200,000 years ago; rather, she was the most recent common ancestor of all humans, through maternal lines of inheritance).
"Topper is the oldest radiocarbon dated site in North America," Goodyear says. "However, other early sites in Brazil and Chile, as well as a site in Oklahoma also suggest that humans were in the Western Hemisphere as early as 30,000 years ago to perhaps 65,000."
Helena: This clan lived in the ice-capped Pyrenees between France and Spain. As the climate warmed, Helena’s descendants migrated northward to what is now England, some 12,000 years ago. Members of this group are now present in all European countries.
The fifth century B.C. historian Herodotus did his best to fill in the missing gaps. The “father of history,” as he is known, located the Amazonian capital as Themiscyra, a fortified city on the banks of the Thermodon River near the coast of the Black Sea in what is now northern Turkey. The women divided their time between pillaging expeditions as far afield as Persia and, closer to home, founding such famous towns as Smyrna, Ephesus, Sinope and Paphos. Procreation was confined to an annual event with a neighboring tribe. Baby boys were sent back to their fathers, while the girls were trained to become warriors.
Three shiploads of captured Amazons ran aground near Scythia, on the southern coast of the Black Sea. At first, the Amazons and the Scythians were braced to fight each other. But love indeed conquered all and the two groups eventually intermarried. Their descendants became nomads, trekking northeast into the steppes where they founded a new race of Scythians called the Sauromatians. “The women of the Sauromatae have continued from that day to the present,” wrote Herodotus, “to observe their ancient customs, frequently hunting on horseback with their husbands...in war taking the field and wearing the very same dress as the men....Their marriage law lays it down, that no girl shall wed until she has killed a man in battle.”
There are many myths and legends of the Amazonians. The fact is that the Amazonians were very much real. The genetic record proves that they were more than a myth. They migrated for 65,000 years. From the Amazon in south America to North America, then over seas to the U.K. and Pyrenees. Then to Africa, then to Europe, to Asia then finally to China then settled in Mongolia.
The Osharian records show that the priestess were a important part of humankind's evolution. The Lunar orders ruled during the ice ages and will rule again.
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