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that it remained as common as ever in the Europe of the 1600s.
In fact, the restless effort of human males to find more wombs
that will carry their seed has been dignified by the forefathers of
western civilization. The rape of the Sabine women, a bit of Roman
history anyone with a modest classical education can recount, was a
stunt very similar to those frequently pulled off by the Yanomamo.38
The heroes of the tale--a gang of early Romans--invited the neighboring
tribesmen and their wives over for dinner and entertainment. The
entertainment turned out to be a display of Roman weapons. The
hosts pulled their swords, grabbed the girls, then attacked and chased
away the husbands. There was a high time among the Roman
founding fathers as they indulged merrily in sex with the weeping
captives. And nine months later, there was more weeping as the
kidnapped ladies gave birth to a fresh crop of infants--the babies of the
banquet hosts.39
The Trojan War also ended with a scene that any Yanomamo
warrior would have understood. It started as a battle over one woman,
a lovely creature who behaved very much like Konrad Lorenz' female
duck. You remember, the aquatic female who triggered a fight, then
ran back to her mate and tried to get him to join in. The instigator, in
the case of the human conflict, was Helen of Troy. When the fighting
was over, the winning Greeks were rewarded with a Yanomamo-esque
bonanza--captured plunder and conquered Trojan females. The
warriors took the women home and ravished them. But you can be
sure they didn't bother to carry many Trojan infants on the trip back
across the Aegean Sea. (As Troy was going down in defeat,
Andromache, one of the Trojan wives, told her baby that the odds were
good "some Achaean will take you by the hand and hurl you from the
tower into horrible death....")40
Less than a year later, the fresh crop of babies from the Trojan
captives fattened the Greek bloodline.41
u'd attacked was common in the days of the Old Testament. And
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that it remained as common as ever in the Europe of the 1600s.
In fact, the restless effort of human males to find more wombs
that will carry their seed has been dignified by the forefathers of
western civilization. The rape of the Sabine women, a bit of Roman
history anyone with a modest classical education can recount, was a
stunt very similar to those frequently pulled off by the Yanomamo.38
The heroes of the tale--a gang of early Romans--invited the neighboring
tribesmen and their wives over for dinner and entertainment. The
entertainment turned out to be a display of Roman weapons. The
hosts pulled their swords, grabbed the girls, then attacked and chased
away the husbands. There was a high time among the Roman
founding fathers as they indulged merrily in sex with the weeping
captives. And nine months later, there was more weeping as the
kidnapped ladies gave birth to a fresh crop of infants--the babies of the
banquet hosts.39
The Trojan War also ended with a scene that any Yanomamo
warrior would have understood. It started as a battle over one woman,
a lovely creature who behaved very much like Konrad Lorenz' female
duck. You remember, the aquatic female who triggered a fight, then
ran back to her mate and tried to get him to join in. The instigator, in
the case of the human conflict, was Helen of Troy. When the fighting
was over, the winning Greeks were rewarded with a Yanomamo-esque
bonanza--captured plunder and conquered Trojan females. The
warriors took the women home and ravished them. But you can be
sure they didn't bother to carry many Trojan infants on the trip back
across the Aegean Sea. (As Troy was going down in defeat,
Andromache, one of the Trojan wives, told her baby that the odds were
good "some Achaean will take you by the hand and hurl you from the
tower into horrible death....")40
Less than a year later, the fresh crop of babies from the Trojan
captives fattened the Greek bloodline.41
u'd attacked was common in the days of the Old Testament. And
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