03-10-2003, 04:57 PM
What about European and Persian queens and empresses? Russian Empresses, and Queen Victoria, for goodness sakes? It was all about family ties, and the apparent decision to change the custom of primogenitur from exclusively male to 'whoever is the heir.'
I saw an interesting lecture by a Persian/Iranian recently, former Education Secretary Ganji, who described pre-Islamic Iran, or Persia, as a matriarchical society. I don't know enough about Persian governmental forms to understand if he was packaging his message to the primarily female audience in the room, or if there was a deeper substance to what he was referring to. As his subject was the current regime --its use of "temporary marriage" loopholes to allow for polygamy and more among the Iranian men but not vice versa -- the ousting of his regime (the Shah's), and the brain drain in the past 20 years or so that apparently sustains, it was a tangential reference that was not explored in any depth.
And, please advise, how the Polynesian cultural model spread and influenced the rest of the world, I would appreciate any light you can shed on that.
I saw an interesting lecture by a Persian/Iranian recently, former Education Secretary Ganji, who described pre-Islamic Iran, or Persia, as a matriarchical society. I don't know enough about Persian governmental forms to understand if he was packaging his message to the primarily female audience in the room, or if there was a deeper substance to what he was referring to. As his subject was the current regime --its use of "temporary marriage" loopholes to allow for polygamy and more among the Iranian men but not vice versa -- the ousting of his regime (the Shah's), and the brain drain in the past 20 years or so that apparently sustains, it was a tangential reference that was not explored in any depth.
And, please advise, how the Polynesian cultural model spread and influenced the rest of the world, I would appreciate any light you can shed on that.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete