I was lucky to be born into a #matriarchal family. The women ran everything. They were the pillars of strength, the storytellers, the knowledge keepers, the healers, the mystics. When I first ran into the #patriarchal idea that men are somehow superior, I was baffled at how anyone could think that.
I'm grateful to all the women in my ancestry who blazed a trail for us today. May we continue to do so for all women. It's especially important now.
#internationalwomensday2025

Great @ConversationUS piece in which R. Pope not only discusses the recent #aDNA 🏺🧬 evidence of #IronAge #matrilocality in Dorset (SW England), but also the whole 165+ year old archaeological debate about #matriarchal societies:

https://theconversation.com/ancient-dna-study-shows-women-at-the-centre-of-societies-in-iron-age-britain-supporting-decades-of-archaeology-247810

Ancient genomes reveal Iron Age society centered on women
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250115124453.htm

* groundbreaking study finds land inherited through female line in Iron Age Britain
* husbands moved to live w. their wife's community
* 1st time such a system has documented in European prehistory

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08409-6

#history #prehistory #Britain #anthropology #genetics #matrilocality #matriarchal #IronAge #AncientDNA

Bringing the Ancestors Home

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
Sept. 9, 2024

OKEMAH, #Oklahoma --"Les Williston, #Choctaw, spoke on living life with honor, during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House on Sunday, hosted by the
#Mvskoke family of the international rights leader Phillip Deere.

"'Your ancestors are always around,' Williston said, speaking of the #SacredPlaces along the rivers. Williston is entrusted with bringing the Chahta ancestors home."

[...]

"Williston said that all along the rivers, like the #KiamachiRiver in southeastern Oklahoma, there are sacred places, places that are the heart of the people, places where the council was built.

"Speaking on bringing the ancestors home at the Phillip Deer Roundhouse on Muscogee Creek land, Williston was joined by Native people from throughout the nation during the two-day weekend gathering. They shared the history of the struggle for #NativeAmericanRights, the hard-won victories of the 1970s, and the ongoing struggles to protect the water and rivers -- as the #racism, threats of #EminentDomain seizures, the violence of #ManCamps of the #OilAndGas industry, the desecration of #LithiumMining in burial places, and the manipulations of the United States government continue.
With gratitude to the Native women gathered here, Williston said he appreciates the strength of the women speaking and their leadership, for it is a #matriarchal culture.

"'It is important that the women take the lead,' he said. 'I hear the wisdom come from these ladies.' 'We should always listen to the women, our clan mothers and clan sisters.'"

Full article:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/bringing-ancestors-home.html

#Chahta #FourWinds #WaterIsLife #ConveningOfTheFourWinds #DefendTheSacred #HonorTheAncestors

“the #Mahabharata is…a #patriarchal story. Moreover, it is composed in that period of #history that has left behind the age of #matriarchal cultures, metals like tin, bronze and iron have been discovered, #agriculture has appeared and starts flourishing and as a result the land becomes very valuable and needs more and more labour.”
#Indian #society #culture #traditions #mythology #folklore #history #identity

Dear likable Friends, :ablobwave:

I can not afford real friends/leeches/attachments. I dodon't have much #family now that our #matriarchal head is gone to the Great #Mother in the ashes. :hearthands:

That is why I like all (well nearly all, some Americans are an acquired taste, #Mastodoner kebabs. They seem delicious in their unique take on USA, Nature, Programming cats, Vegan Atheists and Generative Artisan Individuals (GAI) as opposed to bye-buy get rich quirk Generative AI ...

i can't help but wonder what my #firstnations community was like before colonization, as the ojibewa anishinaabe were #matriarchal and #matrilineal before roman catholicism came here and said our way was in fact NOT the way, the truth or the life, and that for millenia we were wrong. and so they decided to show us how their god loves ppl by building schools. where they abused us...

this was LONG before the #men in this community, and others, started sucking the milkless teat of the #patriarchy

"#Orcas, Hoare says, will have a clear sense of what humans have done to their environment. As demonstrated by the actions of #WhiteGladis, #OrcaSociety is #matriarchal, and females can live to 100: 'They will have a memory, almost a generational memory, of a time when the #ocean was not dominated by human beings"

The #OrcaUprising: #whales are ramming boats – but are they inspired by revenge, grief or memory? | #Oceans | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/the-orca-uprising-whales-are-ramming-boats-but-are-they-inspired-by-revenge-grief-or-memory

Why killer whales won’t stop ramming boats in Spain

June 29, 2023

"'In 2020, the attack lasted almost an hour and was not as organized,' Kriz said. 'This time we could hear them communicating under the boat. It only took about 10 to 15 minutes.'

"There are clues suggesting that White Gladis [a certain whale] may have become entangled in fishing gear — a common threat to orcas — either as an accident or during an illegal fishing attempt, López Fernandez said: Many boats use fishing lines at the stern, and this seems to be one of the motivating factors for orcas to approach and investigate the rear of the craft. Earlier this year, another killer whale in the area was spotted with a fishing line on its body, he said.

"Since White Gladis’ supposed traumatic event, two adult killer whales may have started teaching juveniles how to approach boats to disable their rudders — which seems to track with Kriz’s observation about the evolution of the behavior between his two encounters.

"'Orcas are a very #matriarchal society and all juveniles look up to these very important females in the pod; the juveniles are copying their behaviors because they believe that if these very important individuals do something, they have to do the same to ensure their own survival,' González said.

"Worryingly, the interactions seem to be on the rise: “From January to May, we’ve seen an increase compared to last year, but it’s too early to say if this will be maintained throughout the rest of the season,' López Fernandez said."

#Orcas #OrcaUprising #OrcaRevolution

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/why-killer-whales-wont-stop-ramming-boats-in-spain/1551060

So how are #dnd folks integrating religion & religious organizations into their campaigns? My #homebrew is roughly modeled after medieval Europe / ancient Rome, so I'm building a crosswalk for it. It's getting strange with the multiple goddesses (my world is #matriarchal), but the impact of the church on culture & life back then was undeniable. So players keep bumping up against abbesses, deacons, priors, & the influence the abbey has over local village politics. What's everybody else doing?