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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] Graves' The Greek Myths is an excellent source for this kind of thing. Diop (can't recall which work) posits the Amazons as 'non-african' women -- his bias against Berbers -- who found respect for females among Africans. He makes good points, based on cultural analysis, for why Amazons aren't native to Africa. Truth to tell, I wonder if the metal age Imazighen were the product of the indigenous North African males taking Sea Peoples' women and gelding or otherwise hampering Sea Peoples' men from leaving progeny? Don't really know enough about north and northeast Med culture but those lightest skinned Imazighen of 3000 years ago, or even in the rock art, don't display anything like what I imagine north/northeast Med culture to have been like at that time. Fig 1. Top of image: North African males in the Aegean w/t kind of females who lightened their complexions? [IMG]http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1206/therawarscene016zn.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] By the way, I don't know how much this helps the issue but the earliest Greek references to Libya (west of Egypt) speak of the 'Gorgon Amazons'. There are 2 main groups of Amazons in Greek legend-- the Gorgon Amazons of Libya and the Themiscyran Amazons of Asia Minor with the former being older by several millenia before the latter appeared. ... The idea of a nation ruled by a queen corresponds to the matriarchal societies of many Berber groups, and there are rock paintings of females armed with bows and arrows. Also, I have always wondered about the relationship between North Africans and North Mediterraneans who both had '-esh' to their names. ... I read that the scholar Gordon Childe proposed that these north Mediterraneans were probably peoples who adopted the Berber languages. Is this true? ... ...heck, we have white Berber speakers in North Africa! [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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