Women Warriors

"Warrior Woman" 48" wide x 23" high acrylic on canvas. Inspired by tribal bellydancers, weapon dances, female goddesses of the hunt - Diana (Roman), Artemis (Greek), Asian female warrior's Hua Mulan and Wang Cong'er. Her necklace is inspired by a Kit Rae knife design and the knives she holds are inspired by knife designer Gil Hibben. The Amazon horse women who I was taught were just myth do exist, there is evidence of graves found in Russia of women buried with weapons. Archaeologist Jeanine Davis-Kimball's book "Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines" goes indepth. Some of the weapons found buried with the women were battle axes, I can't help but wonder if the derogatory slang term "battle axe" (synonyms: battleaxe, old bat, old battleaxe, old dame, old girl, old prune, old witch) a noun used to describe a domineering, aggressive, sharp-tempered person, esp. a woman has anything to do with forgotton historical women warriors.

Click here for answers to the questions: Did Amazon warrior women, the Antiope and Hippolyte belong to an extinct matriarchal warrior society? Or were they simply fictional characters depicted in ancient Greek mythology?

For some brief information on ancient queens and other warrior women who led their people into battle: Amazons, Queen Artemisia, Queen Boudicca, Queen Samsi, Queen Tomyris, Trung Sisters, Queen Zenobia click here. For more about distinguished Matriarchal African Warrior Tribes and African Warrior Queens click here!

"Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior in Women and Girls" by Ellen Snortland who is a self defence advocate. Says that 1 in 3 women have been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in their lifetime. She believes if women learn to defend themselves things will drastically improve. Women today have risen into prominence in business, science, and as players on the political stage. However domestic violence and sexual and physical assault is still rampant, but is countered through legislation, political activism and, on a local level, through women's pursuit of fighting skills to defend themselves. At some point in history there were laws forbidding women from fighting, some refused to lay down their arms, disguised themselves as boys etc. Please click here to read more with respect to dates, periods and regions on Women Warriors (3500 BC to 20 Century), and maybe you will be inspired as to what your female warrior sisters did! If you are reading this and live in the Coral Gables, FL area consider taking a women's self defence class or enrolling in martial arts training at my friends US Kenpo Kai Karate Studio. Click here.