Amazon Queens
Oil, 76 x 75 cm
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The Amazon nations developed a practical two-queen system, each queen alternately presiding over home affairs whilst the other undertook military leadership.
Amazon III
Oil pastel/gouache
38 x 48 cm
$350
Amazon as hunter. Diet of meat, fruits, mare's milk and honey.
Amazon II
Oil, 76 x 76 cm
$1000
The horse became the totem animal of the Amazons, with its symbolic associations of fertility, strength, speed and madness.
Amazon and Child
Oil, 76 x 76 cm
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The Amazons kept annual fertility assignations with the men of neighbouring tribes. Female children born of these brief unions were raised and trained as warriors.
The Queen's Girdle
Oil pastel/gouache
44 x 56 cm
$350
The girdle or belt was not a symbol of virginity, but of the unmarried state. Permanent emotional ties were forbidden.
Amazon Magic
Oil, 76 x 76 cm
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Rites and sacrifices demonstrated the Amazons' profound magical connection with the horse.
Amazon Child
Oil pastel/gouache
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Girl-child anticipating her life as Amazon warrior.
Amazon and Griffin II
Oil, 107 x 152 cm
$1500
The horse - symbol of fertility and life - was the natural prey of the griffin, representative of death and winged fear. Amazons became famous as slayers of the griffins.
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