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The Amazon Women:
Is There Any Truth Behind the Myth?
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The 2014 article by Amanda Foreman
released in the Smithsonian Magazine states "The origins of the debate can be traced back to a Swiss law professor and classical scholar named Johann Jakob Bachofen. In 1861."


Below I've sampled pages of a book published in 1752 which describes the complexities of a historic period in which the Amazons are depicted in a matter of fact way as having been a people that did exist.
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Chronological Antiquities:
of the Most Ancient Kingdoms
(Title of book image is linked to, see pages 346-50)


"Thus we see, that the history of the Amazonian Kingdom, from the Death of Tanaus , or Tanausis , fifteen years after the return of Sesostris from his Scythian Expedition into Egypt, to the time of the Amazonian War against the Athenians , which was reckoned about a hundred years, does exactly and remarkably fix his reign with the reign of Sethos in Manetho , who, no doubt, was no other than the famed Sesostris.

That the Amazons were famous for their warlike Expeditions and Conquests both in the lesser Asia and in Europe, is attested by all ancient Writers, Poets, and Historians, down from Homer. But yet it is not probable, that they were a Natron consisting of women only. They were most probably the Wives and Daughters of the Cimmerian Sauromatans, or Sarmatians, who dwelt on both Sides the Palus Maeotis and River Thermodon; and who were expert in Riding, Archery, and throwing the Dart" (Pg. 349)

From Reality to Myth to Reality

(Images linked to respective media)
Amazon warrior roman mosiac 4th ce

Archaeological finds in Azerbaijan point to existence of legendary Amazon warrior women

Roman mosaic: Amazon warrior armed with a labrys, engaged in combat with a hippeus,
is seized by her Phrygian cap; 4th century CE.
From Daphne in southern Turkey, now in the Louvre, Paris. Credit: Jacques MOSSOT, Wiki Commons
Amazon archeo finds russia cnn 2020

Three generations of ancient Amazon women warriors found
in Russian tomb

Excavations of the burial sites belonging to the Amazon warrior women.
Institute of Archaeology RAS

General Excerpts

A General History of Ireland

John Huddlestone Wynn (1772)
And besides, as we often find Ireland expressly termed Scotia by ancient writers before Scotland was known by that name, there seems to remain no doubt but that the Scyths or Scots were first planted in the country which first bore that appellation.

( Pg. 12 )
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An Enquiry Into The Origin of The Constellations That Compose The Zodiac, John Barrett (1800)

And that they [Antediluvians] had made a great proficiency in astronomical knowledge appears from the curious fact that they were possessed of a cycle of 600 years.

( Pg. 15 )
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Atlantis: The Mystery Unraveled,
Jurgen Spanuth (1956)

In probably no other field of ancient history or geography is research seemingly so barren, but in reality so rewarding, as in that which deals with the problem of Atlantis. . . Eminent scholars have repeatedly claimed to have found the conclusive answer to the riddle and have said that nothing more could usefully be added to the vast literature on the subject; contributors to it have often been treated as cranks and their work dismissed as merely another fact to be chronicled in the history of human folly. . . It is not surprising, therefore, that reputable scholars have hesitated to tackle the problem and have left the field largely open to cranks and Atlantomaniacs. . .

This is the more regrettable since Atlantis offers one of the most fruitful fields of study in ancient history; it lifts the veil of obscurity from one of the most puzzling and eventful epochs in the history of the western world . The legend of Atlantis may be compared to that of the hidden treasure chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings. When the Earl of Carnarvon began his excavations the experts ridiculed the attempt and pronounced it futile; no undertaking seemed more hopeless. rubble that had been combed so often, Carnarvon found the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamen, uncovered the fantastic riches of the treasure chamber, and made it possible to gain a wonderful insight into the customs of the rulers of Egypt more than three thousand years ago.

And so it is with Atlantis. The treasure within the legend has been buried under the rubble of misconceptions, follies and fantasies, the dead weight of prejudice and scepticism, and the ruins of wrong dating and faulty identifications that have accumulated around the legend in the two thousand five hundred years since Solon first heard it in Egypt .

(Preface)

How To Read
J.B. Kerfoot (1916)

There is a simple yet dramatic experiment in elemental physics with which we are all more or less familiar.

In it a beam of sunlight is passed through a prism and is thereby separated — like a fan that our hands have opened — into the rainbow-hued shafts of its component color rays. These are then caught upon a screen and the audience allowed to examine them — allowed to see for itself that here and no otherwhere is the magic paint-box from which the world is colored. And finally — that there may be no doubters — the experiment is proved by reversing it. The divergent rays are passed through a lens that bends them back into focused reunion; and behold, the white beam of the sunlight is itself again.

It is, in reality, a very similar experiment that we are engaged on in this book. We have passed our ability to read — that ability which, in these days of all but universal​ literacy, we have come to look upon as something almost as natural, almost as necessary, almost as much to be taken for granted at its face value, as sunlight itself — we have passed our ability to read through a prism of analysis and have separated it into the colorful factors of its component elements. We have next, so to say, thrown these elements on a screen and examined them separately. And we have discovered, to our initial surprise and to our subsequent enlightenment, that we are ourselves magic paint-boxes. We have discovered that our ability to read is made up of nothing less, and of nothing more, than of all the individual colorings, all the personal experiences, all the inborn impulses and unfolding forces of our individual lives.

And now it remains for us to prove the value of our experiment by reversing it; to reconstruct, that is to say, from the disunited elements of our ability to read and from the determined method of their proper employment, a single, illuminating entity — an attitude toward reading.

And the lens with which I have elected to do the necessary focusing — the phrase that I have chosen in which to sum up this attitude — is the title of this chapter.

You very likely feel that "the Cosmos d la carte" is a "hifalutin" phrase. It no doubt strikes some of you as — how shall I put it? — as a trifle "strong"; as "going some"; as, let us say, "a little bit of too much." Some of you are no doubt inclined to smile and politely pass it up as hyperbole. Some of you are no doubt inclined to frown and set it down as "hot air."

Let me be quite frank and say that I meant you to.

There is nothing like "stepping down a step that isn't there" for making us realize the levelness of a piece of ground.

There is nothing like being certain that we have caught some one in the very act of loose minded overstatement, and then finding that he is, after all, well within the facts, for jolting us into a recognition of neglected truth.

And this phrase isn't "hifalutin." It isn't hyperbolic. It isn't "hot air." It is merely a slightly fanciful way of calling attention to the most basic, the most primal, the most universally operative attitude of all life.

If you doubt this, allow me to introduce you to one of our poorest relations and most distant cousins, the amoeba.

(Chapter IX (9) The Cosmos a la carte, pg. 265-268)
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Man and his Symbols
Carl Gustav Jung (1923)

When a person tries to obey the unconscious, he will often, as we have seen, be unable to do just as he pleases. But equally he will often be unable to do what other people want him to do. It often happens, for instance, that he must separate from his group— from his family, his partner, or other personal connections — in order to find himself. That is why it is sometimes said that attending to the unconscious makes people antisocial and egocentric. As a rule this is not true, for there is a little-known factor that enters into this attitude: the collective (or, we could even say, social) aspect of the Self.

From a practical angle this factor reveals itself in that an individual who follows his dreams for a considerable time will find that they are often concerned with his relationships with other people. His dreams may warn him against trusting a certain person too much, or he may dream about a favorable and agreeable meeting with someone whom he may previously have never consciously noticed. If a dream does pick up the image of another person for us in some such fashion, there are two possible interpretations. First, the figure may be a projection, which means that the dream-image of this person is a symbol for an inner aspect of the dreamer himself. One dreams, for instance, of a dishonest neighbor, but the neighbor is used by the dream as a picture of one's own dishonesty. It is the task of dream interpretation to find out in which special areas one's own dishonesty comes into play. (This is called dream interpretation on the subjective level.)

But it also happens at times that dreams genuinely tell us something about other people. In this way, the unconscious plays a role that is far from being fully understood. Like all the higher forms of life, man is in tune with the living beings around him to a remarkable degree. He perceives their sufferings and problems, their positive and negative attributes and values, instinctively quite independently of his conscious thoughts about other people.

(Pg. 219-220)
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Origins The Sphinx

Robert M. Stoch & Robert Bauval (2017)
American Egyptologist Richard Wilkinson was of the opinion that from very early times the Egyptian civilization had “three great themes—original cosmic structure, ongoing cosmic function and cosmic regeneration—[which] maybe seen to be recurrent in Egyptian temple symbolism” (Wilkinson 2000, 76), and in a similar vein British Egyptologist Rundle T. Clark argued that all rituals and feasts in ancient Egypt were “a repetition of an event that took place at the beginning of the world [i.e., zep tepi” and that the basic principles of life, nature and society were determined by the gods long ago, before the establishment of kingship. This epoch—zep tepi —“the First Time”—stretched from the first stirring of the High God in the Primeval Waters to the settling of Horus upon the throne and the redemption of Osiris. All proper myths relate events or manifestations of this epoch. Anything whose existence or authority had to be justified or explained must be referred to the “First Time.” This was true for natural phenomena, rituals, royal insignia, the plans of temples, magical or medical formulae, the hieroglyphic system of writing, the calendar—the whole paraphernalia of the civilization... all that was good or efficacious was established on the principles laid down in the “First Time”—which was, therefore, a golden age of absolute perfection—“before rage or clamour or strife or uproar had come about.” No death, disease or disaster occurred in this blissful epoch, known variously as “the time of Re,” “the time of Osiris,” or “the time of Horus.” (Clark 1958, 27, 263)

( Pg. 13 )
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The Devils and Evil Spirits in Babylonia
R. Campbell Thompson, M.A. (1903)

As was to be expected, a number of misconceptions have arisen during the last few years as to the purport of certain magical texts, and as an example of this may be specially mentioned the views which have been promulgated concerning Tablet '' K," (11. 183 ff.), for it has been confidently asserted that this document contains an allusion to the Biblical Garden of Eden. The text of this tablet mentions a place called Eridu, and a plant or tree named kiskanu, of dense growth and shining appearance, which grew beside the abyss, i.e. the Ocean or Sea ; the place where the plant grew was said to be the couch of a god. Immediately following these statements is a reference to Shamash and Tammuz, who are said to dwell "in its interior," and mention is next made of the '' mouths of the rivers." Such are the statements of the tablet, but, basing their opinion on certain interpretations of the above text, some Assyriologists have asserted that the Babylonian Garden of Eden was in the immediate vicinity of Eridu, and they have identified the tree or plant with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which was believed to grow in the Hebrew Paradise. Quite recently, however, the missing portion of this text has been identified, and it is now clear that the text is an incantation and nothing more. This document, the opening lines of which have been so strangely misunderstood, indicated to the magician, who was about to treat his afflicted patient, that a certain kind of plant or tree, the original of which, according to tradition, grew in Eridu, and afforded a dwelling to Shamash and Tammuz, contained magical properties ; and acting on this information the magician was directed to make use of a portion of the kiskanu plant or tree on behalf of the said patient. The text actually states that the gods themselves made use of this plant to work a miracle of healing, and the implication is that as the kiskanu plant was on this occasion of great benefit, it may again be made to perform the healing of a sufferer, always provided that suitable Words of Power were recited by a duly qualified person, and appropriate ceremonies were performed, before the plant itself was used as a remedy.

( Preface )
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The Natural History of Pliny
John Bostock (1855)

We find, among the ancients, many traces of their acquaintance with the period of 600 years, or what is termed the great year, when the solar and lunar phenomena recur precisely at the same points. Cassini, Mem. Acad., and Bailly, Hist. Anc. Astron., have shown that there is an actual foundation for this opinion.

( Pg. 37 Footnote #3 )
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The Book of The Damned
by Charles Fort (Pg. 34)
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The Book of The Damned
By Charles Fort (Pg. 35)
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