Most often, the matriarchal civilizations of the past were conquered or captured by cunning by paramilitary groups of men who rebelled and united against women. Matriarchal civilizations were alien to war, violence and murder. Women did not produce weapons, did not create armies to exterminate people. Civilizations coexisted, crafts, trade, arts developed, cities were built and flourished. But this was exactly until the men's gangs came, as a result of which many women began to raise armed uprisings.
We find a mention of one of them in the "Czech Chronicle" by Cosmas of Prague (XII century). Libuse, one of the daughters of the Czech prince, was elected leader (judge) after the death of her father. Libushe ruled wisely, but the men began to complain about being ruled by a woman. But Libuse continued to rule. After her death, the close women saw that they were no longer revered by men, as it was before. Then women wanted to regain power. Vlasta (around the 740s), who had previously been the eldest in the retinue of Libushi, became the leader of the women.
Greatness took up arms, called out a battle cry, united the girls and women, and they began to build an impregnable castle - the Devin fortress. The women began to convene others to declare war on the men from Vysehrad. The female warriors realized that men were not their friends or relatives; women abandoned their fathers, sons, husbands and went to Vlasta. All this was watched nonchalantly from Vysehrad by men, and all they were doing - as usual, laugh and insult women.
The warriornesses of Vlasta took an oath that it is better to die by the sword than to betray the cause. So they swore allegiance to the ruler. She wisely distributed women. The wisest of them ruled the fortress, the strongest conducted training, the slimmest and youngest girls lured men and stabbed them to death. For a while, the men of Visegrad were confused, and then they took up arms and went to Devin. They decided that the women would be frightened and immediately run away. But Greatness called the army to battle and the warriors stepped out of the gates of the fortress. The women knew that if they lost, the men would make them slaves; knew that it was necessary to destroy them all, and it did not matter whether it was a father or a brother.
Greatness rushed to the front line, and with it Mlada, Svatava, Radka and Chastava and the rest of the female army. At first, the women shot arrows and the men were no longer laughing, as the bloodied bodies fell in rows. Then the girls burst into the line of men and began to stab and chop them. Those men who survived frightenedly rushed into the forest, and only this saved them from inevitable death.
The news of the victory of Vlasta scattered throughout the country and ignited hope in the hearts of women who still had doubts. At this time, men had a hard time all over the country: women's groups hunted men: in the mornings, bloodied dead bodies were often found. Many men fled in terror into the woods. For a long time, the warriors could not take Devin either by cunning or by force, and the secret news about the plans of the enemy was passed on to the warriors by their girlfriends from Vyshegrad.
Warriornesses often exterminated men with cunning. One day, a beautiful girl lured a young man and asked him to release her when she went with her friends along the road. The young man gathered his comrades and came to the appointed place. The girl arrived with her girlfriends. At that moment, the warriornesses ran out of the ambush and killed all the enemies. Another young man became a victim of his own stupidity, to whom the beauty from the Vlasta squad promised that she would help capture Devin. The young man gathered a huge squad, and the girl secretly let everyone into the castle. None of them returned. For a long time, men could not defeat Vlasta and her comrades-in-arms, who were not afraid to enter into open fights with the male horde distraught with hatred. Women's resistance of Gratness went down in history and is called the "Bohemian War of Women." According to legend, Vlasta, like many other warriornesses, died heroically during the battle with the enemy.
What lesson can be learned from all this? First, women's struggle is impossible without the realization of the fact that men are not our relatives; they are now openly waging war against women, selling and buying women's bodies; fathers and brothers rape daughters and sisters. The war has been going on for a long time and men are still doing well in it. We should renounce sons, husbands, brothers and fathers. They are not our friends or allies. Secondly, one way or another, sooner or later, women's wrestling will become paramilitary, since men have left us no choice. Thirdly, it is worth understanding that the women's struggle for liberation can be lost and started again at any moment. But losing the battle does not mean losing the war.
Author: Shveia Krovavaiatranslator: anonymous1.Cosmas of Prague. Czech chronicle.
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