God's Amazons

By Chinyere Ifeadikanwa Anayo

This book is written to support women with the tools they need, that will translate to a more fulfilled life.

We achieved this first by researching and sharing with our readers about the amazons of old, then the Biblical amazons. We examined how they lived their lives in a time peculiar to them, we highlighted their values & virtues, who they lived for, when they lived, and how they surmounted challenges that came their way during their lifetime. We also created a table to make an interesting contrast all in a bit to drive home our points.

This book will enlighten, encourage, equip & empower the women living now into the full knowledge of who they are in God, how they can live their lives optimally, what they should live for, who they should live for, the position they occupy in God, and the power of solutions they possess in matters that arise in these dynamic times.

• Language: English
• Publisher: COMMUNE WRITERS INT'L
• Release date: Apr 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9791222089966

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GOD'S AMAZONS

THIS IS A BOOK BIRTHED BY THE MOST-HIGH GOD HIMSELF,

AND ONLY BY HIS GRACE WILL IT SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.

CHINYERE IFEADIKANWA ANAYO

CONTENTS

Introduction

1 History of the amazons

2 Let's meet the undaunted, wise, focused, heroic, diplomatic Amazons

3 Let's meet the chaste, unique, beautiful, submissive, trustworthy Amazons

4 Let's meet the reliable, dedicated, godly, well informed patient Amazons

5 Let's meet the wise, humble, foresighted, generous, brave Amazons

6 Let's meet the teachable, submissive, discerning, patient, selfless Amazons

7 Let's meet the supportive, generous, selfless, loyal, dedicated and industrious Amazons

8 Let's meet the virtuous, beautiful, godly, devout, hospitable, industrious Amazons

About the Author

INTRODUCTION

I had never heard of the word Amazon until I heard it in a dream that seemed so real. On the 5th of November, 2015 after an awesome experience in God's presence at the Holy Ghost Adoration Ground, Uke, Anambra state. I was filled with joy and peace. When I slept that night I found myself in a very big mansion which was strange because I knew no one there. The setting was like that of a King's palace. There were lots of servants in the mansion, going about their daily chores. I also saw guards, or better still, men who looked like they were ready for war all around. These men were guarding their different posts dedicatedly. I moved around, and then I saw some beautifully dressed ladies whom I assume to be the queen and her entourage. These women were all going towards the same direction.

Great sights I must say yet no one bothered me as I move from one place to the other observing my new environment. Suddenly, news came to a very huge man who was referred to as TheAmazon about the war going on in the towns surrounding the mansion, and of the fact that it was approaching the Mansion faster than expected. At this point, I felt like I knew the war had been going on for a long time so I watched and listened closely. I was able to gather that the Amazon's men were losing and were being killed. He ordered for a reinforcement and that the mansion's security be increased to stop the enemies from penetrating and killing its inhabitants. I could feel the fear in his voice and I saw it in the eyes of the people in the palace. I was not sure how I felt but I looked on.

Suddenly something happened which I cannot explain, and then the mansion was no more. The maids, the guards, the beautiful ladies were all gone. I only saw myself hiding in a place that seemed like a village with a great wind blowing non-stop. This place was like a desert. I looked and there was level ground with very ancient looking people coming out stealthily from different directions. On seeing this, I stepped out and I could only recognize the huge man called the Amazon squatting and shivering, he was so scared. I was even more baffled when he saw me and bowed down begging me not to kill him for being an imposter all this years. Not knowing what he meant at first, I called him The Amazon but he shouted he was not anymore. I stood with so much strength (I didn't know where it was coming from) everyone else was afraid and shivering.

I woke up surprised and wondering what the dream meant. I prayed for the meaning of the dream because I was sure it was more than a mere dream. Then I was moved to check what the word Amazon meant. I was marveled to know its meaning.

The Objective of this Book is

To expose the lives of Women of God

who once lived,

how they lived,

what they lived for,

when they lived,

who they lived for,

where they lived,

and how they surmounted challenges

that came their way during their

lifetime.

To the Women now living,

so, they can come to the full

knowledge of

who they are in God,

how they can live their lives,

what they should live for,

who they should live for,

the position they occupy in God,

and the power of solutions they

possess in matters

that arise in these dynamic times.

DICTIONARY MEANINGS OF AMAZON

I

Women warriors who Lived in Scythia, an area of

present day Ukraine, or elsewhere at the Northern

limits of the world. According to one version, they

fought in the Trojan War on the side of the Troy.

2

Amazon; strong woman: a notably tall, physically

strong, or strong-willed woman.

The very day a potential Amazon finds God, that day a new phase in her life begins, If you find Him at a tender age, best for you. If you find Him as a lady, Good for you. If you find Him as an old woman, what a life you must have lived. Still good you found Him. Bottom line;

The earlier, The better, The more Glorious. Prov 8:17

CHAPTER 1

HISTORY OF THE AMAZONS

The Amazons are women who got a bum rap in antiquity. They wore trousers. They smoked pot, covered their skin Twith tattoos, rode horses, and fought as hard as the guys. Legends sprang up like weeds. They cut off their breasts to fire their bows better! They mutilated or killed their boy children! Modern(mostly male) scholars continued the confabulations. The Amazons were hard-core feminists, man haters, delinquent mothers, lesbians.

Drawing on a wealth of textual, artistic, and archaeological evidence, Adrienne Mayor, author of The Amazons, dispels these myths and takes us inside the truly wild and wonderful world of these ancient warrior women. Talking from her home in Palo Alto, California, she explains what Johnny Depp has in common with Amazons, why the Amazon spirit is breaking out all over pop culture, and who invented trousers. The real Amazons were long believed to be purely imaginary. They were the mythical warrior women who were the archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Every Greek hero or champion, from Hercules to Theseus and Achilles, had to prove his mettle by fighting a powerful warrior queen.

We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that.

But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.

The Greeks located them in the areas north and east of the Mediterranean on the vast steppes of Eurasia. Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. They turn out to be people whose women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men. Archaeology shows that these fierce women also smoked pot, got tattoos, killed—and loved—men.(See Masters of Gold.)

WHAT ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROOFS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED TO SHOW THAT THESE MYTHICAL BEINGS ACTUALLY EXISTED?

They've been excavating Scythian kurgans, which are the burial mounds of these nomadic peoples. They all had horse-centred lifestyles, ranging across vast distances from the Black Sea all the way to Mongolia. They lived in small tribes, so it makes sense that everyone in the tribe is a stakeholder. They all have to contribute to defense and to war efforts and hunting. They all have to be able to defend themselves.

The great equalizer for those peoples was the domestication of horses and the invention of horse riding, followed by the perfection of the Scythian bow, which is smaller and very powerful. If you think about it, a woman on a horse with a bow, trained since childhood, can be just as fast and as deadly as a boy or man.

Archaeologists have found skeletons buried with bows and arrows and quivers and spears and horses. At first, they assumed that anyone buried with weapons in that region must have been a male warrior. But with the advent of DNA testing and other bioarcheological scientific analysis, they've found that about one-third of all Scythian women are buried with weapons and have war injuries just like the men. The women were also buried with knives and daggers and tools. So, burial with masculine-seeming grave goods is no longer taken as an indicator of a male warrior. It's overwhelming proof that there were women answering to the description of the ancient Amazons.

WHY WERE THEY CALLED AMAZONS?

That's such a complex story that I actually devoted an entire chapter to it. It's the one thing everyone seems to think they know about Amazons: that the name has something to do with only having one breast, so they could easily fire an arrow or hurl a spear. But anyone who's watched The Hunger Games, or female archers, knows that that is an absolutely physiologically ridiculous idea. Indeed, no ancient Greek artworks-and there are thousands-show a woman with one breast.

All modern scholars point out that the plural noun Amazones was not originally a Greek word-and has nothing to do with breasts. The notion that Amazon meant without breast was invented by the Greek historian Hellanikos in the fifth century B.C. He tried to force a Greek meaning on the foreign loan word: a for lack and mazon, which sounded a bit like the Greek word for breast. His idea was rejected by other historians of his own day, and no ancient artist bought the story. But it stuck like superglue. Two early reviews of my book even claimed I accept that false etymology. Linguists today suggest that the name derives from ancient Iranian or Caucasian roots.

YOU REFER TO THE AMAZON SPIRIT. WHAT ARE ITS KEY CHARACTERISTICS?

I used that phrase in the dedication to