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LESBIAN
PEOPLES
MATERIAL FOR
A DICTIONARY
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MONIQUE WITTIG
AND SANDE ZEIG
LESBIAN
PEOPLES
MATERIAL FOR
A DICTIONARY
MONIQUE WITTIG
AND SANDE ZEIG
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We want to thank Paulette French, Eleanor Hakim,
Jezabel Kaye, and Mary Jo Lakeland for their help.
'In the beginning, if
there ever was such a time,''
(Phyllis Chesler).
Age
After harmony had been, destroyed in the ter-

restrial garden, the end of the Golden Age fol-
lowed. And things have gone from bad to worse.

After the Golden Age came the Silver Age (some-
times mistaken for the Golden Age), after the
Silver Age came the Bronze Age, and after the
Bronze Age came the most terrible of all, the
origin of chaos, the Iron Age.With this last age,
there came numerous dark ages to darken it even
more, casting the greatest confusion over what
for too long a time has been called history.
From the chaos of the Iron Age emerged such
ages as the Soft Stone Age, the Steam Age, the
Concrete Age, the High-Speed Steel Age (the
same as the preceding one). The lesbian peoples
do not hold themselves responsible for the con-
fusions, contradictions, incoherences of that his-
tory.
We have now entered the Glorious Age. This
was not achieved without difficulty.
Agriculture
At the end of the Golden Age, either because the

land had been depleted or its physical aspect had
changed following new climatic conditions, it be-
came necessary to develop agriculture in order to
survive. That discovery is attributed to the
mothers. ^
AGRIPPINA and LIVIA
Famous companion lovers who lived in Etruria

during the Bronze Age. Before the Glorious Age
they were known as "Rome's two most notorious
lesbians" (found in the Bibliothec, assemblage of
books and fragments from the past, salvaged by
the companion lovers during the last chaotic
period).
Albixa
Celebrated as Albina the Fiery Chest. Ancient

Libyan amazon who lived during the Bronze
Age in the Danaide tribe.
Albion
Large island east of the Celtic island, northwest

of ancient Brittany, once called Great Britain.
ALIMENTATION'
Subject of much discord. Some companion lovers

have inherited customs from the ancient ama-
zons who drank the blood of their mares and ate
their flesh raw after they had died. The partisans
of raw flesh are in opposition to the vegetarians
who prefer to eat plants. Vegetarians say that it is
hardly possible to eat living creatures whom you
have loved or whom you could love. Carnivores
say that they eat, with pleasure, raw flesh still
alive several hours after its death. They say
that
no one can seriously believe the difference estab-
lished between living creatures (animals, per-
sons) and inert creatures (plants). They say that
plants are alive and nevertheless vegetarians
cook them. Xo one, however, can ignore that
plants are telepathic, that they grow better when
they are loved and spoken to, that they know
when one is about to water or cut them, that they
are sensitive to music and colors. They say that,
m
the domain of ahmentation, exquisite cadavers
are the only solution, since one waits for animals
and companion lovers to die by themselves be-
fore eating them. For plants this is not possible
because when they are dead they rot, therefore
one eats them alive.
Alley
Once exclusively designated the inner roads of

gardens. Today this word is usually employed for
every type of way. Broad or narrow, covered with
sand, alleys are passed through either on
mareback, donkey, elephant, giraffe or on foot.
"I speak from here but I could speak from
elsewhere. Don't they say commonly, for one lost
alley, one hundred to be found" (Berengere,
Chronicle of an Alley, Etruria, Glorious Age).
Almond
Once symbol of the vulva. I<Jumerous rings with
a
an oval shaped stone have been found in the
graves of ancieqt cities. There is no doubt that
these rings, today known as almondines, were
used by lesbians as a sign of recognition. Accord-
ing to the metaphorical poem by Eleni Borta,
"Almonds that you bite in full daylight, are bitter.
Only the morning dew sweetens them. The lin-
gers then exude their savor" (Eleni Borta, Jw/^Vz,
Pelasgia, Iron Age).
Alphabet
The alphabet that we use here was invented by

Carmenta. Before her, Thetis had emerged from
the sea to teach an alphabet. Kali also invented
an alphabet, composed of fifty signs. Each of
these signs appears on her effigy figured by the
skulls on her necklace.
Alveole
Place of retreat and rest in the donasteries or

companion lovers' houses. This individual cell
has either the shape of an alveole in a hon-

eycomb, from which its name comes, or the shape
of an egg, or the shape of a sphere. Its size may
vary according to the needs and desires of the
companion lovers concerned.
Amastris
Celebrated as Amastris the Fatal. Ancient Ther-

modontine amazon, foundress of a city which
was given her name during the Bronze Age.
After the time of the amazons Amastris was
celebrated as a goddess.
Amastris
Name of a city founded by an ancient Ther-

modontine amazon. This town situated by the
Black Sea was famous for the blue color of its
cliffs and walls.
Amazons
In the beginning, ever was such a time, all

if there
the companion lovers called themselves ama-

zons. Living together, loving, celebrating one
when work was still a
another, playing, in a time
game, the companion lovers in the terrestrial
garden continued to call themselves amazons
throughout the entire Golden Age. Then, with
the settlement of the many companion
first cities,
harmony and called

lovers disrupted the original
themselves mothers. Thereafter, amazon meant,
for them, daughter, eternal child, she who does
not assume her destiny. Amazons were banished
from the cities of the mothers. At that time they
became the violent ones and fought to defend
harmony. For them the ancient name amazon
had retained its full meaning. From now on it
signified something more, she who guards the
harmony. From then on, there were amazons in
every age, on every continent, island, ice bank.
To the amazons of all these times, we owe having
been able to enter the Glorious Age.
Ament
Aments are sought after by the little companion
lovers who scour the bushes in springtime and
return at night to their villages, arms filled with
their long stems, some budding, others split and
downy.
Anactoria
A companion lover of Atthis and Sappho. "Anac-

toria whom wfe both love, Atthis, remains now
/
in far off Sardis / but she says that she
thinks of our days together when she loved
/
you / equal to a goddess and took such pleasure

in your songs. / Now among the Lydians she
shines / like after the sunset / Selene, the red
fingered moon / overshadowing all the
stars, / shedding her light on the salt sea / and
the fields thick with bloom. / Then dew pours

its beauty on the roses, / the delicate chervil, the
flowers of melilot. / But she, endlessly going

and wandering, / remembers the tender Atthis
and / dry with desire, her heart is heavy. /
,
Then she calls us and shouts that we come / ,
we can hear it, / the night with a thousand ears

sings it to us across the sea" (Sappho, Po^m5, Les-
bos, Iron Age).
Anahita
Celebrated as Anahita the Devastating. Ancient

amazon who lived in Anatolia during the Bronze
Age. Omphale was her companion queen.
(Found in the Bibliothec assemblage of books and
,
fragments from the past, salvaged by the com-

panion lovers during the last chaotic period.)
After the time of the amazons Anahita was cele-
brated as a goddess. Her most recent name is
Tanaquil.
Anatolia
In the past, Anatolia was a privileged land among

amazon empires. It was also called Asia Minor
after the name of the amazon Aso. During the

Bronze Age and during the Iron Age, the Ca-
rians, the Lycians, the Mysians, the Lydians had
settlements there. Among the famous cities
founded by amazons, there are Sinope, Smyrna,
Ephesus, Magnesia.
Because of the great number of amazons who
crossed Anatolia, it has been called by the lesbian
peoples, "the land to which I am bound," "em-
pire of empires."
Ancestress
Ancient. Still used in the expression "the ances-

tresses' houses." These are summerhouses built
on flowering squares or at the crossways of alleys.
The companion lovers go there to burn incense
and to sing in celebration of those who have died
before the Glorious Age.
Andro
Celebrated as Andro the Defiant. Ancient ama-
zon who lived during the Bronze Age. "Andro, a
famous amazon in the army of Penthcsilea, was
said to have been undefeatable" (Shirley Holmes,
Traces, Albion, Glorious Age).
ANDROMEDA
Foundress of Lesbos which became a society for

poetry and music. She was the companion lover
of Atthis, the dearest of Sappho's lovers. "You
Andromeda." "Indeed she has made a
dart off to
pretty exchange / Andromeda." (Sappho,
Poems, Lesbos, Iron Age.)
Animal
Frequently, to please a companion lover, one

works with gestures to become the animal or
animals to whom she feels close. It is an easy thing
to do in a hypnotic state. One must cast aside
one's most habitual gestures to find those of one's
animal or animals. It is not imitation but mime.
This is difficult to do at any given moment, even
upon the tender request of a companion lover.
"When she asks me to play the camel, I am un-
happy, being so rarely capable of doing so"
(Charlotte Plume, My Personal Circus, Gaul,
Glorious Age).
Anita
"Foundress of the Hittite Empire, in Asia Minor"

at the end of the Silver Age. There are ruins of
her empire in Bognaz Keni. (Found in the Bi-
bliothec, assemblage of books and fragments from
the past, salvaged by the companion lovers dur-

ing the last chaotic period.)
Antenna
Invisible organ that one has at birth which allows
for instantaneous perception of the possible al-
liances between was once spoken of in

lesbians. It
relation to the divining rod which, when held in
both hands, detects water by pulling the holder to
the exact location where it can be found. The
antenna functions on a similar principle and yet
has the advantage of being carried everywhere
with oneself. The antenna is generally situated at
the neural-gic points on the medial line of the
body (middle of the forehead, throat, plexus,
navel, clitoris).
Arena
Formerly a circular place where the killing of

animals was practiced. This practice has been re-
placed by games where companion lovers vie in
strength, laughter, songs, discourse, during a
grand festival called the Arena. The onlookers
encourage the efforts of the actresses. Often,
unable to hold themselves back any longer, they,
in turn, go down into the arena. There is an
incessant movement to and fro of companion
lovers who mutually entertain one another and
then each one differently in her turn. Arenas
have for the most part retained their former
circular shape. Planted with trees, they are the
gathering places in areas inhabited by lesbian
peoples.
Ares
Island in the Black Sea, thus named after an

ancient Thermodontine amazon who lived dur-
ing the Bronze Age. It was Ares who initiated, on
the island, the amazon festival of seared breasts.
Ares and Menelippa
Famous companion queens of the Bronze Age.

They were in an amazon tribe which was a branch
of the Thermodontines. Both were outstanding
They became known
for their strength in battle.
principally during one of the sieges of Athens
where they held their ground, resisting on a hill,
which was later called Ares, in her memory. On
this hill "Menelippa defended Ares' belt"
(Franfoise d'Eaubonne, Gaul, Glorious Age).
Menelippa thus enabled Ares to leave safe and
sound.
Armour
Certain amazons wore armour painted in every
color with geometrical patterns or images of
exploits, for which they have been called
"flourishing." (Found in the Bibliothec, as-
semblage of books and fragments from the past,
salvaged by the companion lovers during the last
chaotic period.)
Armpit
Some companion lovers have a clever chemistry.

Their armpit perfume has the scent, for exam-
ple, in the summer sun, of pepper or musk. In
winter the companion lovers produce modifica-
tions in their secretions that completely change
their odors. That is called "to take on one's winter
perfume." The most sensitive change is effected
in the region of the armpits.
When the companion lovers of the Belts Tribe
(Large Country, First Continent, Glorious Age)
take on their winter perfume, they do it very well.
But they cannot account for how they do it.
Artemis
The only known amazon goddess to whom all the

lesbian peoples remained attached, after the time
of the amazons, writing poems and celebrations
in her name. Artemis had many temples and
many consecrated places. Her last known temple
in Ephesus was until its destruction one of the
Seven Wonders of the World. Amazons habitu-
ally brough't their removed right breast to this
temple, from which comes the famous statue of
Artemis with multiple breasts.
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Asp
This small, extremely venofnous serpent rescued

many amazons from servitude when they were
caught in a trap, and in the last resort applied it to
their breasts so as to die infreedom. The last
person who used an asp for this purpose was
Cleopatra VII. "By the asp, I die in full liberty.
Prison does not exist for me" (Cleopatra VII,
letter to her friend Julie, Egypt, Bronze Age).
Atalanta
Celebrated as Atalanta the Swift-Footed. Ancient

amazon, who lived in Greece during the Iron
Age. As an infant, Atalanta had been abandoned
on a hill in the Calydonian mountains near the
city of Calydon. There, she was nursed by a bear,
and later educated by a tribe of wandering ama-
zons. Then she became a huntress and never
took a step without her bow and arrows. Since she
had had a predilection for races from childhood,
she always hunted on foot, unlike the other ama-
zons. Because she was unsurpassed in racing, she
won the name of Swift-Footed. Atalanta also
went to Colchis to participate in the expedition of
the Golden Fleece.
ATHENA
Celebrated as Athena the Valiant. Ancient Lib-

yan amazon who was born on Lake Triton during
the Bronze Age. Foundress of a city which was
given her name.
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Athens
According to some companion lovers Athens was

not, as has been said, besieged several times by
the amazons. For them, the amazons were be-
sieged in their own city. According to others, the
amazons were the besieged and, at different
times, also the besiegers, since the Athenian wars
continued, intermittently, for a long time,
perhaps millenniums. The Libyan amazons who
founded the first Athens were besieged in their
own city and had to surrender it. According to
this last version, when, thousands of years later,
the Thermodontines in turn besieged Athens,
they were trying to recapture an amazon city.
Afterwards Athens definitively became "hos-

tile to the amazons who moored their ships on the
coast of Attica in search of help in defending

their rights" (found in ihe Bibliothec, assemblage
of books and fragments from the past, sahaged
by the companion lovers during the last chaotic
period).
Atossa
Queen of Asia who is said to have in\ented letter

writing.(Found in the Biblwthec, assemblage of
period.)
Atthis
Born on Lesbos, the most dear of Sappho*s com-

panion Lf>vers. Later the companion lover of An-
dromeda. "You came, you did well. / I needed
you. / And you set ablaze my heart devoured
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with desire. / Be blessed / several times and as
many times / as there were days to separate us."
"Could this night last / as long as two entire
nights." "Atthis, thus I will not see her again. / I
wish Iwere dead. / When leaving me she

cried / with all her body and she said / truly we
suffered too much / my Sappho and I leave you
unwillingly." {Sappho, Poems, Lesbos, Iron Age.)
Axe
The double-headed axe was the first known

weapon of the ancient amazons. This axe,
famous above all others, never left their side.
After the time of the amazons, the
double-headed axe in the form of a cross with
equal arms was retained as a symbol for
numerous goddesses. In the Glorious Age some
companion lovers carry a double-headed axe
strapped to the side of their boots.
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Bacchante
Those who worshipped the goddess Bacche, fre-

quendy burst into the streets of the cities, redis-
covering the olulu ololu of the ancient amazons.
These festivals could keep them away from their
towns for several days. "And with fury in their
breast the mothers set aflame, / this, the same
ardor agitates them all to search for new
skies. / Deserting their dwellings, to the wind
they offer their throats and their hair. / But
with other, with quavering ululations they fill the
air, and, girdled with skins, brandish spears
/
wreathed with vine branches." "lo! Mothers, lis-

ten, wherever you may be, mothers from
Latium / if ever in your hearts you have for the
unfortunate Amata / some kindness left, if for
maternal rights the concern torments you, re-
lease your banded hair, and join the orgy with
me." (Found in the Bibliothec, assemblage of
the companion lovers in the last chaotic period.)
Bacche
A goddess of amazonian features who called the

mothers to arms. Like Artemis she had many
companion lovers among whom were Macris,
Nysa, Erato, Broihie. She was represented hold-
ing snakes. Her celebration indicates a counter-
current in the politics of the mothers. Turned
into bacchantes, they would run across plains,
forests, mountains, with their hair loose, prey to a
furor that they called sacred. They could stay in
this state for several consecutive days in the open
air.
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Balloon
The balloon, as a means of transportation, had

been invented as early as the Steam Age. But
since the Concrete Age, this type of vehicle had
been abandoned. In the Glorious Age, the com.-
panion lovers use balloons. They make them in
every shape and color. Then they invite the in-
habitants of neighboring hills to participate in
large tournaments. In these tournaments, the
game consists of one balloon approaching
another as closely as possible. Flowers, sugared
almonds, confetti, fruits, perfumes, drugs, and
even at times letters are sent through the air. The
spectators below have musical instruments. They
jump and they dance applauding particularly
audacious approaches, stylized figures in the sky
or merely assemblages of forms and colors that
please them.
Bandoleer
Highway robberesses who often practiced in

mountains, gorges and passes. They used a horn
as a signal among them from one mountain to the
next, and wore over one shoulder and across
it
their chests. From which comes the expression

"to wear something bandoleer style" and later,
"to sling a bandoleer." The bandoleers often op-
erated in bands or in twos and threes. But some-
times they stayed alone. One of the most famous
smuggled in the Iberian peninsula, and was
known by the name of Jill the Flighlander.
Baobab
Tree for idleness. Universally thus called by the
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companion lovers because of its comfort, its
numerous branches, and its broad width. It is one
of the trees most valued for hanging sacks which
one inhabits for idleness or for sleep.
Baodicea
Celebrated as Baodicea the Red. Warrior queen

from Celty who lived during the Iron Age.
Baodicea crossed the sea from Brittany in order
to capture many cities in Albion, including Lon-
don, Colchester and Albans. During battle she
killed seventy thousand of her enemies. She also
invented a war machine which was pulled by fast
mares. It was composed of a chariot with a row of
scytheson each side, moving at head level. When
defeated, in order not to participate in her
enemy's triumph, she poisoned herself.
Barrier
The language barriers fell on the day of the van-

^^V^. ishing powder. The lesbian peoples who ap-
'(_i-%^«^-
t peared just about everywhere had no difficulty in
speaking a single language. Each companion
lover loved another who, loving her in turn,
began to speak a language familiar to them all.
This very ancient and rediscovered tongue is
called the lesbian language.
BATHS
These are overlooking the sea where

city palaces
a vast colony ofcompanion lovers gather to take
their baths. In these baths or therms, the cal-
darium is the pjace for inducing a rapid elevation
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of temperature. It is recommended to first pass
through the tepidarium when the body is too
cold for a rapid heat elevation. The frigidarium,

as its name indicates, permits complete cooling,
agreeable in cases of high fever. The sudatorium
is the perspiration room. In the ointuary, com-
panion lovers anoint one -another's bodies with
oils, sandalwood, amber, benzoin, bergamote,
jasmine, cinnamon, cumin, opoponax, myrrh,

vetiver, musk. The strigil is the room where the
most courageous practice physical exercise and
slap their muscles to relax them with bare hands
or with clappettes.
Bearded
Said of the companion lovers who have a pre-

dilection for the hairon their chin which they
maintain with great care. To some the bearded
lesbians seemed a new species of companion lov-
ers. (Catherine Deudon, The Bearded Lesbians,
Gaul, Glorious Age.) Actually, for a long time,
more than one companion lover had a beard
which she cut secretly. The expression "flower-
ing beards" comes from a habit that the bearded
have of putting flowers in their beards.
Bearers (Of fables)
In the Glorious Age, the lesbian peoples call the

old storytellers, bearers of fables. The bearers of
fables come from everywhere and go
everywhere. "The bearers of fables are very wel-
come. A party is given in their honor. Tables are
set up in the greenhouses, in the orangeries.
The drinks are mixed with narcotics, there are
belladonna henbane nightshade datura in the
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wines in the spirits. There are also aphrodisiacs
hashish opium" (Theophano, Conjuration of Bal-
kis, Lesbos, Glorious Age).
The bearers of fables take elements out of the

Bibliothec and integrate them into fables that they
take from place to place. They also act upon
certain words by recording their changes, distor-
tions, shifts and by creating new uses for them.
Bed Animals
Even when there are two or more sleeping to-

gether, the companion lovers like to have their
favorite animals as bed companions. They call
them their bed animals.
Bedjas
An ancient race of amazons who lived between

Red Sea during the Bronze Age.
the Nile and the
They were known for their spears, whose forging
process they kept secret. The Bedjas wore red
leather armour, snakeskin boots, and used
shields made of python. They always carried in
their belt the double-headed axe which they
handled with great dexterity when they had to
dismount their mares and fight hand to hand.
On the left they had their quiver and on the right,
their bow.
Their infants never suckled at their mothers'
one breast but drank milk from the mares. "Milk,
honey, blood, raw meat, marrow from reeds"
such was the regimen of the ancient amazons
who never ate bread, whether of barley, wheat,
oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Bedjas as of other amazons
that their daughter empires had an amazonian
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structure without compromise in contrast to the
mother empires. Long after their splendor has
"paled, however, something of their indestructi-
ble nature simmers on and, from time to time,
breaks out of its obscurity." (Helen Diner,
Mothers and Amazons, Germany, High-Speed
Steel Age.)
Belt
The belt of the ancient amazons was used to hold

the double-headed axe, their oldest weapon.
When one of them was in trouble during battle,
her companion lover came to her rescue. Thus
one could say that "Menelippa defended Ares'
belt" or that "a lover defended her lover's belt"
(Frangoise d'Eaubonne, Gaul, Glorious Age).
Blank-et
"Blankets for sleep are particularly pleasurable

during long moments of idleness" (Sseu
Tchouan, The Book of Idleness, China, Glorious
Age). A blanket for sleep is made with an arm,
two arms, a thigh, a foot, a head, with all these
parts of one's companion lover and even more.
Blissful
The blissful companion lovers are those who

forget, according to the axiom "happy is she who
forgets." {Thus Spoke Fredenca, tale for children,
Germany, High-Speed Steel Age).
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Blood
Among the witches and le^sbians of old, some had

the reputation of possessing a blood privilege.
They were ghouls, vampires, lamias, sirens.
Bow
Ancient amazon weapon whose shape had been
borrowed from the most narrow crescent of the
moon. Since the amazons were always fighting
lover beside lover, they described love in their
paintings and poems in the figure of two bearers
of bows. "Together with the bow are always the
arrows of love" (Geronima, Anatolia, Bronze
Age).
BRITOMARTIS AND ARTEMIS
Famous companion lovers who lived during the

Bronze Age in the Nubian Mountains. They
hunted together, at first with bows and arrows.
Later Britomartis invented a sort of hunting net.
After having set her nets, Britomartis ran with
her pack of dogs beside Artemis while the latter
drew her bow.
Broom
For several centuries up to the end of the Steam
Age, there were rebels called witches. The broom
was supposed to have been their means of
locomotion for going to their festivals or sab-
baths. Their opponents always described them
riding brooms. (Found in the Bibliothec, as-
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chaotic period.) Though traveling by broom is a
pleasant idea, seems that m reality witches
it
could move without transportation, as de-

scribed in the writings of Maria Feiticeira {Acts of
the Witches, Iberia, Iron Age). According to her,
witches knew how to reach a state which permit-
ted them to go to the sabbath and, at the same
time, remain materially in their prisons. From
which come the expressions "second sight" and
"second state."
BURMNG
The ancient amazons removed their right breast
by burning the lactiferous gland with a hot iron.
The amazons performed this ritual at the age of
fifteen. The bearers of fables say that the ancient
amazons took great pride in the star-shaped scar
that they had in place of their right breast. Most
of the time, during the burning, there were festi-
vals with chariot races, mare races, music and
dance in honor of the new amazons. The new
amazons who could not participate in the games,
took their place in tribunes built for them. They
wore the weapons and ornaments offered to
them for the occasion by their companion lovers,
their friends and their admirers. They stood in
full dress, their breast uncovered and bandaged.
On their left side they had the quiver and in their

right hand the bow. The last testimony of these
festivals was the statue of Artemis in Ephesus,
bearer of many amazon breasts.
Burst
The bursts of love are the most pleasant. They

invade the body by surprise and provoke an in-
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ternal bombardment of joy, often at throat or
plexus level and an overflowing of all humors.
"Tears, tears of joy," saidthe great Pascale (Gaul,
Steam Age), and she knew what she was saying in
those obscure times.
Butch
A tough companion lover is called a butch. This

word was used to designate lesbians at the end of
the Concrete Age. In spite of the fact that butch
was not a friendly designation, it was, for the
most part, adopted by the lesbian peoples. At
present it is often said of a little companion lover
who goes traveling alone.
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Cadavers
Since the beginning of the Glorious Age,

whether of animal or companion lover, cadavers
are always exquisite. They are either embalmed
with spices and aromatic herbs, or they are eaten.
The expression, "exquisite cadavers" was
adopted in the donasteries when the companion
lovers began eating their dead friends. It seems
that this term is due to the intense sense of plea-
sure obtained through the absorption of these
dear beings rather than to the care involved in
their preparation. (Evelyne, The Beautiful Stories
of the Ghena Goudou, Gaul, Glorious Age.)
Calafia
Celebrated as Calafia the Great. Amazon queen

who lived in the Large Country during the Steam
Age. Calafia gave her name to the expanse of
land called California. "There ruled over that
island of California a queen of majestic propor-
tions. She was desirous of accomplishing great
deeds. She was valiant and courageous and ar-
dent with a brave heart, and had ambition to
execute nobler actions than had ever been per-
formed" (found in the Bibliothec, assemblage of
period).
California
Formerly called "the island of amazons." Name

of a region in the western part of the Large
Country that was once believed to be an island.
There was much written about the "island of
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amazons, abounding in pearls and gold, lying ten
day's journey from Colima." "Their weapons
were all made of gold. The island everywhere
abounds with gold and precious stones, and
upon it no other metal was found. They lived in
caves, well-excavated. They had many ships with
which they sailed to other coasts to make forays
and the prisoners, they killed." (Found in the
assemblage of books and fragments
Bibliothec,
from the past, salvaged by the companion lovers
during the last chaotic period.)
Camilla
Celebrated as Camilla the Avenged. Ancient

amazon, queen of the Volscians, she had Acca for
companion queen. "But through the midst of the
slaughter, the amazon rejoices / one breast laid
bare for the attack, with the quiver, Camilla. /
Now ready to release them she grips the supple
javelins, / now her right hand seizes relendessly
the double axe. / Golden at her shoulder

sounds the bow with all the weapons of
Diana. / Even if at times she has to retreat, she
turns in flight / and shoots arrows from her bow
backward. / But, surrounding her, her chosen
companions, Larina, / and Tulla and brandish-
ing, Tarpeia, the brass axe, / Italides who for
her glory the divine Camilla / chose herself, in
peace as in war good ministresses. / Like the
Thracians when on the banks of the
Thermodon they trample and war, these ama-
/
zons with painted armour, / surrounding it may

be Hippolyte or Penthesilea when in her
chariot she arrives and in a great ululating
/
movement / these troops of amazons with

luniform shields exult" (found in the Bibliothec',
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assemblage of books and fragments from the
past, salvaged by the companion lovers during
the last chaotic period).
Carcass
"You tremble, carcass. But if you knew where I

lead you, you would tremble even more." Sen-
tence that one companion lover is accustomed to
say when she prepares herself to do research into
the past (Louise Marmotte, conversation with a
friend every morning, Large Country, First Con-
tinent, Glorious Age).
Carians
An ancient race of amazons who lived in Anatolia

during the Bronze Age. They were related to the
Mysians. The bearers of fables say that the Ca-
rians were the only amazons whose defeat sur-
vived in memory after the chaotic period that
followed. They were
say that the fallen Carians
visible in theform of Caryatids. They say that
they passed through the ages figured as prison-
ers in long rows beneath the architraves of the
Iron Age temples.
The Carians always carried in their belt the
double-headed axe which they handled with
great dexterity when they had to dismount their
mares and fight hand to hand. On the left they
had their quiver and on the right, their bow.
oats, or rye.
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It can be said of the Carians as of other ama-
zons that their daughter empires had an amazo-
nian structure without compromise in contrast to
the mother empires. Long after their splendor
has "paled, however, something of their inde-
structible nature simmers on and, from time to
time, breaks out of its obscurity." (Helen Diner,
Steel Age.)
Carmenta
In Etruria, after the time of the amazons, Car-

menta was credited with giving the world an al-
phabet, as was the goddess Thetis in Pelasgia.
Cartismaxdua
Celebrated as Cartismandua the Tempest. War-

rior queen who lived in Celty during the Iron
Age. Cartismandua triumphed over several
powerful adversaries in battle, but she was de-
feated by a most powerful one.
Cat
Cats are among the companion lovers' favorite

bed animals. They are most fond of sleeping the
companion lovers. They press their fur closely to
the bare skin. Their favorite places to coil them-
selves are bellies, necks, armpits, loins, crook of
the knees. They sometimes stretch in their sleep
and pads of their paws against the body of
set the
their bed companion, pushing with all their
strength, their limbs straining, their mouth
yawning, their head thrown back.
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Celty
Large island west of Great Britain, once called

Ireland, plus a part of Gaul once called Brittany.
Cerne
Large island situated east of Africa, once called

Madagascar.
Chaldeans
Throughout all of the Bronze Age the Chaldeans

traveled in small tribes of wandering magicians
across Mesopotamia, Egypt and Libya. They
were astrologers, astronomers, fortune tellers.
They said, "No one can see me." Their adver-
saries said, "Your wisdom and your knowledge
have perverted you." Then they said, "I am she
who is and there is no one at my side" (Beni
Amer, Genesis, Cerne, Glorious Age). Thus their
adversaries were speechless.
Chariot
Vehicle used for races by the ancient amazons

during the games and festivals. The chariots
were made with a simple wooden platform set
upon two wheels, with just enough room for two
lovers to stand sicê by side. The chariots were
pulled by two or four mares. During the festivals

as many as thirty chariots in a row could be seen.
The Lydians, who enjoyed games and had, it is
said, invented of them, preferred to hold
all
chariot races on wide beaches. After

all the
chariots had been broken, they continued the

race by leaping on the backs of their mares.
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Chickpeas
"Golden chickpeas grew on the shores of the sea"

{Sappho, Poems, Greece, Iron Age).
Choere and Phorcis
Two famous companion lovers who, it is said,

were accustomed to meet each other in the form
of two white sows. They looked so much alike
that no one knew which had earned the name of
Marpessa the Robber. That is why both were
indiscriminately thus called.
Christina and Ebba Sparre
Famous companion lovers who lived in Sweden

during the Steam Age. Christina, queen of Swe-
den, was called "Minerva of the North" because
of her intelligence and strength. Her ring bore
the figure of a phoenix which meant in her lan-
guage both reborn from one's ashes and free.
Christina abdicated her throne after the loss of
Ebba Sparre.
Circe
Celebrated as Circe the Falcon. Magician queen

who livedduring the Bronze Age on the island
Aeaea in the Adriatic Sea, near Etruria. She is
credited with having had an extensive knowledge
of plants and their possible uses. She contributed
to making widespread the use of ointments.
After her, all the magician queens on the island
Aeaea were called Circe.
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The bearers of fables say that Circe rejoined
Medea when she escaped from the Golden Fleece
expedition. Medea sojourned on the island
Aeaea, with her companion queen and lover
Circe. Together they perfected the transforma-
tions of their enemies whom they irreversibly
turned into sows, lionesses, wolverines, snakes
and jackals.
Circulation
Physical process of intermingling two bodies.

Given two bodies full of heat and electricity re-
leased from the skin through every pore, if these
two bodies embrace, vibrate and begin to mix,
there is a circulation and conduction reaction
which causes each pore to reabsorb the energy
that it had previously emitted in another form.
This phenomenon, by the rapid transformation
of heat and electricity into energy, produces an
intense irradiation from those bodies which are
practicing circulation. It is what the companion
lovers mean when they say, "I circulate you," or
"you circulate me."
Circus
Small, unestablished groups of wandering com-

panion lovers, when visiting the lesbian com-
munities scattered along islands and continents,
perform stunts and games for amusement.
their
They have a predilection for mime, acrobatics,
juggling. Some, as in ancient circuses, are ac-
companied by animals. There are kangaroos, ot-
ters, cats, seals, dwarf goats, mares, monkeys,
chickens, jaguars, pelicans, big grasshoppers.
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Group number seven was the first lesbian circus
in the Steam Age. Its tradition has been pre-
served in the Glorious Age. "It is those of group
number seven who are the mountebanks. Their
capers their gesticulations their juggling their
exclamations their songs their garments made of
a patchwork of bright color produce an eddy in
the midst of the assembly. An increasingly large
forms around them. Each bears the
circle
number seven marked on the front of her shoul-
ders (Theophano, Hippolyte, Lesbos, Glorious
Age).
City
Since the beginning of the Glorious Age, the

lesbian peoples have left the cities to live in fields,
mountains, forests, plains, hills, near rivers,
streams, springs, on islands. The populating of
warm regions has been done by the companion
lovers mainly in tropical rain forests spared by
the last ages of chaos. These zones are situated on
either side of the equator, between the tropic of
Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn.
Clasp
Once a weapon of the defeated Athenians. They

used this dagger camouflaged as a brooch for
fastening their clothes to mortally pierce their
adversaries. In order not to be injured by their
own weapons, they slid them into ornamented
cases of every color.
Cleite
City founded by an ancient amazon in Etruria
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during the Bronze Age. Cleite was the largest
amazon settlement in Etruria. Wild herds of
animals that amazons hunted for food, roamed
in this area.
Cleite
Celebrated as Cleite the Ambusher. Ancient

amazon who founded the city of Cleite in Etruria
during the Bronze Age. After the first Cleite, all
the amazon queens from that region were called
Cleitae.
Clitore
One often sees companion lovers wearing rings

on their fingers, with the clitoris of a dead friend
as a setting. These rings are called clitores.
Clitoris
The companion lovers call the clitoris the organ

of pleasure since it is the only organ in the body to
have pleasure as its function.
CoLCHic Day
Colchic Day is not only celebrated in Colchis but
also in any other place where companion lovers

gather, and, wearing the old lesbian dress and
ornaments, walk in a procession with their arms
full of colchicums or lavender autumn crocuses.
They are dressed in tuxedos and top hats, leather
jackets, slacks, jeans, purple sashes, leather strips
on chests, knees, calves, forearms, high soft
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leather boots, narrow silk trousers, helmets with
gray and white ostrich feathers, painted armour,
black velvet pourpoints with breeches and white
lace shirts.
Colchis
Land of the colchicums or meadow saffrons or

autumn crocuses. They grow there by the
thousand in autumn and are picked for the la-
vender festival or Colchic Day. Colchis was once
the country of Medea, an ancient magician
queen. Medea left Colchis when Orphire's tribe
came to recover the Golden Fleece.
Colony
Designates the colonies of arboreal companion

lovers. These colonists, living in tropical regions
all around the earth, have rediscovered the old
tree-dwelling tradition.They keep close com-
pany with monkeys and birds. The largest set-
tlements have been established in the Second
Continent of Large Country on the top of moun-
tain zones formerly called the Andes. The An-
dean colony is starting to practice a language
which enables them, it is said, to communicate
with a certain number of animals. The bearers of
fables, unaccustomed to travel on trees, have not
until recently brought back much information on
these arboreal colonies.
Color
All the companion lovers emit their own specific

color. With caresses, embraces, kisses their color
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isviolently released and it spreads. Some people
are capable of recognizing the color emitted by a
companion lover at the first encounter.
Comb
Of all types of combs, the honeycomb is the most
pleasant to the body, according to the companion
lovers of Helen Reef, Micronesia. The bearers of
companion lovers of this island
fables say that the
use giant combs with hollow teeth to pour floods
of liquid honey on the bare body of the one who
wants to be sweet when another licks her. The
orifices of these giant combs have the shape of
honeycomb alveoles.
There are other kinds of combs which do not
arrange a head of hair. The singing combs are
common enough not to need description.
Another type widely used at the end of the Con-
crete Age was the killing comb whose sharp cut-
ting teeth were able to tear half the throat. The
bearers of fables say that they were used in am-
bushes by lesbians at night in the cities.
Companion Lovers
The companion lovers are those who, violently

desiring one another, live/love in peoples, follow-
ing the verses of Sappho, "in beauty I will sing my
companions." The companion lovers gather
from lesbians all of the culture, the past, the
inventions, the songs and the ways of life.
Conflict
"No one can understand the tragic turn of our
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history if she underestimates the basic conflict
between the amazons and the mothers. All of the
unfortunate defeats that both suffered origi-
nated there" (Julienne Bourge, Dialectics, Gaul,
Glorious Age). According to Julienne Bourge,
this conflict has marked our past in such a defini-
tive way that one could expect this history to
repeat itself. The mothers would develop their
dream of absolute and totalitarian engendering,
give birth throughout the ages, while the ama-
zons would desperately try to find a breach in this
reality.
Country
Since the beginning of the Glorious Age, only

some denominations recall that once the com-
panion lovers were cooped up in zones from
which it was difficult to leave without a permit.
These denominations remain only as landmarks.
It seems that at the beginning of the Glorious
Age they also had a poetic function.
Crete
Island in the southern part of the Aegean Sea

where the Danaids and the Telchines lived dur-
ing the Silver Age. From there they traveled
throughout the Aegean Sea. These amazons,
who had come from Libya, founded flourishing
civilizations. The double-headed axe was, it is
said, their invention.
Cut
Companion lovers can *'cut" each other for di-

verse reasons, and sometimes unwillingly. Ab-
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L-JJ
sence, travel, often a sentence may provoke a

cutting sensation as rapid as the change of inten-
sity in light. "You cut me" is said frequently
within a year.
Companion lovers in uninterrupted com-
munication are more susceptible to being cut
than others. That is why numerous companion
lovers have decided against dual relationships.
If, when one of the two cuts the other, the
incident can be taken on the spot as benign, the

cutting sensation is followed by a burst that erases
all of its effect.
Cyprine
Secretion produced by the companion lovers

when they are in a state of love. Therefore, it is
also called the "love secretion."
Cyprinery
Place where the cyprine harvesters gather to taste

and compare the different kinds of perfumes
collected. No one is unaware that cyprine is differ-
ent in taste depending upon the climate where it
is produced and the diet of its producer.
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Damia and Auxesis
Famous companion lovers who lived in Greece

during the Iron Age. The bearers of fables say
that Damia, whose name meant "night," and Au-
xesis, whose name meant "day," went separately
as the night and the day, but together they came
to an agreement. They would go to sleep after
their afternoon snack and wake up at midnight,
in order to have both the night and the day.
Damophyla
Anatolian poet who came from Pamphylia to

Sappho's school in Lesbos. The names of her
companion lovers are not known. She wrote a
volume o^ Hymns to Artemis, destroyed at the same
time as Sappho's poems by the enemies of les-
bians. (Found in the Bihliothec, assemblage of
period.)
Danae
Celebrated as Danae of the Sea. Ancient amazon

who lived in Crete and went to Libya during the
Silver Age. She also traveled throughout the is-
lands in the Aegean Sea. Danae invented the
trident. She gaê her name to the Danaide tribe,
which she founded with her sisters, her
daughters and their lovers. Later when cele-
brated as a goddess of the moon, she was the
origin of all the names of places or countries w ith
the root "dan," Denmark, the River Don, Dan-
nemarie, Dannemartin. Still later she became
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Diana and retained her bond with the amazons,
hunting with bow and arrows, living and running
in the woods with her companion lovers.
Danaides
An amazon tribe that lived in Libya, dur-

ancient
Age and the Bronze Age. This tribe
ing the Silver
was founded by an amazon, Danae, who came
from Crete. Cameira, Albina, lalysa, Linda were
also part of the Danaide tribe. They led long,
hard wars and finally were scattered. The
Danaides wore tunics made of animal skins at-
tached at their left shoulder. Their right breast
was visible, with its large star-shaped scar. They
wore soft trousers tied to their ankles. The
Danaides always carried in their belt the
had their quiver, and on the right, their bow. In
place of a shield, they wore for protection a skin
wrapped around their arm.
oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Danaides as of other ama-

Steel Age.)
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Daughter
Designates a genetic bond between the compan-

ion lovers from which comes the expression "like
mother, like daughter." As a result of this rela-
tionship, daughters are their mother's lovers and
mothers are their daughters' lovers. There is a
reference to this in the myth of Demeter, the
lover mother. After the brutal disappearance of
her daughter, "Demeter was grieved beyond and
before reasoning. Remembering an oracle's
prophecy of a splitting, a scattering and an exile,
she said to the sun: yea if that be the natural fate
of daughters, let all my kind perish. Let there be
no crops, no grain, no corn if this maiden is not
returned to me" (Phyllis Chesler, Demeter Revi-
sited, Large Country, First Continent, Glorious
Age).
Delight
The Day of Delights occurs on the small Ayu

islands, New Guinea. Many companion lovers
travel for months to arrive on time. It is the island
and the festival which attract the largest number
of companion lovers. The inhabitants of the
nearby Asia islands have to welcome a great
many of them through the week of the festival.
The bearers of fables say that the festival of com-
panion lovers which takes place on the Ayu is-
lands has been called the Day of Delights after
Bruni sang her first poem there (Bruni, Songs of
Delights, Large Country, Second Continent,
Glorious Age). This festival is a kind of fair for
delights where the companion lovers exchange
everything delectable in which they take pleasure
by night and by day.
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Demeter and Persephone
Famous ancient goddesses, companions and lov-

ers from Pelasgia. One was born from the other.
When Persephone had to part from her, Deme-
ter would show her sorrow by destroying every-
thing alive on the surface of the earth until Per-
sephone returned. From this come the winter
and the autumn, it is said.
Desert
Once, an arid land, an expanse of sand, every

place which was not inhabited by lesbians. From
which comes the expression, "to go into the des-
ert."
Desire
To someone who asked her what is the most

mysterious thing in the world, Phenarete invari-
ably responded, "I don't know anything in the
world more mysterious than desire in its manifes-
tations, its appearances, its disappearances. Not
one of you, my beautiful companions, is unaware
of it."
Dew
The moon is supposed to set dew on the grass, on
the trees, on the flowers, on the bushes. In an
obscure time, dew had been called the honey of
the moon'. From which comes the expression
"honeymoon" to designate the dew.
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Diana
Most recent name of Artemis, the only known

amazon goddess fo whom all the lesbian peoples
remained attached after the time of the amazons,
writing poems and celebrations in her name.
Diana was represented as a goddess of the
horned moon, hunting with bow and arrows. She
was celebrated in Etruria during the beginning
of the Iron Age as the one who calls to arms once
again the amazons who, in that obscure time, had
already begun to scatter. Each of those eager to
rejoin the dispersed amazons consecrated her
daughter to Diana.
Dictionary
The arrangement of the dictionary allows us to

eliminate those elements which have distorted
our history during the dark ages, from the Iron
Age to the Glorious Age. This arrangement
could be called lacunary. The assemblage of
words, what dictated their choice, the fiction of
the fables also constitute lacunae and therefore
are acting upon reality. The dictionaryis, how-
ever, only a rough draft.
DiCTYNNA
Later name for ^ritomartis, the companion of

Artemis, when she was celebrated as a goddess in
Crete after the time of the amazons.
Die
Since the day when the lesbian peoples re-
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nounced the idea that it was absolutely necessary
to die, no one has. "I am in the garden / where
to die of delight / does not mean to end" (Bruni,
Songs of Delight, Large Country, Second Conti-
nent, Glorious Age). It seems that Bruni was the
first to depart from the original meaning of the
term to die, which now means to have extreme
pleasure.
Difference
"The exquisite difference of being a companion

lover is the first major suggestion" (Martha
Ephore, Major Suggestions, Gaul, Glorious Age).
Digitalis
Also called the flower with a thousand fingers. It
isfound in numerous tapestries, drawings,

poems as a symbol of love. "May you, my dark
touch me with your ten thousand fin-
digitalis,
gers" (Marie-Rose Parme, letter to a friend, Gaul,
Glorious Age).
Dimension
Formerly was believed that there were only

it
three dimensions. The fourth dimension was

spoken of as an extraordinary and strange possi-
bility. This was because one lived separately in
space and time. For example, in counting time, it

was called chronology and the instruments for
measurement were called clepsydra, hour glass,
sundial, clock, watch. And one also measured
space. But since they have expanded and mixed
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at one and the same time, one knows that one
slipsfrom one dimension to another, sometimes
without desiring to do so. "Shit, we slipped into a
dimension" (Christiane Rochefort, At Least We're
Going Toward Summer, Gaul, Glorious Age).
Disappear
To disappear and perhaps to reappear is an ap-

titude of thecompanion lovers. Said when play-
ing a joke on one or several friends. Some com-
panion lovers disappear when it is least expected.
Others disappear unwillingly. Some companion
lovers do not take any pleasure in the repeated
disappearance of their partners. "She disap-
peared in a burst of laughter that lasted until she
reappeared" (Dragonfire, /owrria/ of the Commun-
ity, Community of disappearing belts. Large
Country, First Continent, Glorious Age).
Dog
The dog has been one of the bed animals of the
companion lovers as well as other small animals,
such as the bird, the snake, the mouse, the cat. Of
all of them she is the deepest sleeper. There are
still some companion lovers in the Glorious Age
who prefer dogs to all other bed animals. Such is
the case ofLynn Akins who has chosen a dog as

her bed animal. Lynn Akins has perfected a
complicated system for watering her plants from
her bed and can thus remain lying down with her
bed animal for a large part of the day (Lynn
Akins, Harp of the Dogs, Large Country, First
Continent, Glorious Age).
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DONASTERY
The communal houses of the companion lovers,

some made of adjoining alveoles, have been
called donasteries by one companion lover of the
Glorious Age who lives in Gaul. (Evelyne, The
Beautiful Stories of the Ghena Goudou.)
DOTO AND GALATEE

Bronze Age. Superb swimmers "with the point of
their breast / they break the foaming wave"
(found in the Bibliothec assemblage of books and
,

panion lovers during the last chaotic period).
Dream
Dreams for idleness are one of the many activities

of the companion lovers. After absorbing decoc-
tions of herbs or dry macerated mushrooms, they
enter into a state of total idleness. They are inha-
bited, it is said, by all kinds of dreams. Though
these practices provoke torpor they never fall
asleep. It seems that at a given moment they are

able to reach this state without further use of
drugs. They enter at will into dreams for idle-
ness. The lesbian peoples from the islands, living
very close to the sea, are most fond of this sort of
state. "In groups of two or more and even some-
times alone, they may be seen wandering silently
on the beaches. Some nest in the rocks several
days in a row without moving" (Sseu Tchouan,
The Book of Idleness, China, Glorious Age).
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Dyke
"If you're then you're a dyke / if you're

poor /
rich / you're sapphic / / but if you're neither

one nor the other / a lesbian, a lesbian is what
you'll have to be / / if you're strong / then
you're a dyke / and if you're weak / you're
sapphic / / but if you're neither one nor the
other / a lesbian, a lesbian is what you'll have to
be / / if you're earthy / then you're a dyke /
and if you're aesthete / you're sapphic // but if
you'reneither end round the middle / a lesbian,

a lesbian is what you'll have to be" (Eleanor
Hakim, song, Lesbian Play for Lucy, Large Coun-
try, First Continent, Concrete Age).
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Ear
This previously neglected organ is the object of

much attention in the Glorious Age, given the
role it plays in the propagation of companion
lovers. To the question, "How will the lesbian
peoples reproduce?" asked during a large as-
sembly, one of the Red Dykes, thus named in
sheer modesty, let out quite by chance the now
famous reply, "By the ear." Thus the little com-
panion lovers are born today from ear to ear.
Many companion lovers are of the opinion that
these new births are no worse than the old ones.
This method has the advantage of dispensing
immediate pleasure and enjoyment both to the
newborn and to those who make them. In addi-
tion, the atrocious mutilations once suffered by
the newborn when their cabbages were cut acci-
dentally are thus avoided.
Ecstasy
Internal movement of the body when reaching

an extreme harmony. Eyes have been seen falling
during ecstasies, ears becoming longer, hearts
becoming visible on the surface of the chest, bel-
lies turning around the navel at full speed, all
that without death resulting for the persons con-

cerned. It seems that this state is not to be feared.
Egg
The eggs for idleness are numerously arranged

in places inhabited by the lesbian peoples. They
are seen in the alleys, in the arenas planted with
trees, in the meadows, in the orchards, in the
gardens. They are inhabited by one or several
persons. Their shapes are suited to oscillations
with the movements of the bodies. The wind also
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moves them. Their colors are seen from far away
when one approaches a lesbian people.
Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby
Famous companion lovers who lived in Albion

during the Steam Age. They tried to create a
Utopian way of life in a place called Llangolen. In
spite of the most unfavorable conditions of that
obscure time, Llangolen has been synonymous
with peace and harmony ever since.
Embalming
The majority of the companion lovers in the

Glorious Age practice embalming of the living.
In ancient times embalming was reserved for the
dead. Now, the balsamic essences formerly in-
tended to protect bodies from putrefaction, are
used as applications and ointments on the bare
skin. The balsamic essences gurjun, Tolu,
Judaea, benzion, styrax, pure or in the form of
oils, act upon the cell tissues. Embalming of the
living is alsodone through the absorption of a
liquid clay mixed with different essences for re-
generating the organs (esophagus, stomach, in-
testines).
Energy
The body constantly produces energy which may

take all sorts of forms yet unknown. The most
commonly observed issues from the body in rays,
from which comes its name, "energy rays." Each
companion lover produces energy through ex-
citement, joy, laughter, tension. This kind of
energy takes on the specific color emitted by each
person. Blue, black, white, gold, orange, green,
red rays have been seen. The density, the force of
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the emitted energy is not always identical. One
may thus register variations within the same
ft color.
Ephesus
Famous of Anatolia, on the coast of the Ae-

city
gean which attracted a large number of ama-
sea,
zons from all times, because of the temple of
Artemis. "Amazo was said to have built both the
city and the temple of Artemis for her daughter
Ephesus" (Shirley Holmes, Traces, Albion, Glori-
ous Age). This temple was called one of the Seven
Wonders of the World during the millenniums
preceding the last chaotic period.
Erinna
Companion lover of Sappho, a poet born on

Telos, an island near Rhodes. She wrote a long
epic poem which, according to fragments quoted
here and there, celebrated Sappho. This poem
was destroyed at the same time as Sappho's
poems by the enemies of the lesbians. "These are
the chants by Erinna, how pleasant they are, how
light. / If death had come late, what fame would
have been equal to hers" (found in the Bibliothec
Etriria
Expanse of land in the shape of a boot, com-

pletely surrounded by the Mediterranean sea.
Situated west of Greece, north of Africa, south-
east of Gaul, it was once called Italy.
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EURYPYLE
Celebrated as Eurypyle the Superb. Queen of the

Nubian amazons during the Bronze Age.
Eurypyle seized Babylon with her army of ama-
zons. (Found in the Bibliothec, assemblage of
period.) The bearers of fables say that Eurypyle
greatly admired Babylon, the city founded by
Semiramis. The double walls that fortified Baby-
lon and suspended gardens were each called
its
throughout the ages, one of the Seven Wonders

of the World.
EVADNE AND PASIPHAE
Famous companion lovers who lived in Pelasgia

during the Bronze Age.
Eve and Lilith
Two famous companion lovers who lived in

Palestine during the Bronze Age. Their love was
so strong, it is said, that it survived a long, forced
sojourn in the desert. There they developed their

legendary endurance.
Excitement
"They rested for some time to see what they had

done and what world they had created. They saw
that it was beautiful to look at, pleasant to live in,
and they rejoiced" (Beni Amer, Genesis, Cerne,
Glorious Age).
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Fall
If it is a question of falling, better to do it into the

arms of one's companion lover, forward or
backward, with eyes open or closed. If this is not
possible, one would do best to fall upon piles of
leaves, sand, hay, snow.
Famed
During the dark ages the amazons were called

They were such be-
the well famed, the famous.
cause they always fought lover beside lover, each
immediately going to the other's aid when
needed, as seen on the bas reliefs of the monu-
ments.
Far Away
It is Marie-Therese Xenville, a companion

to
lover living in Gaul, that we owe the theory of
"far away love" and the formula "a latent but
absent lover." In her book she describes at length
the delights of far away love. (Marie-Therese
Xenville, About Love, Gaul, Glorious Age). Most
companion lovers of the Glorious Age have one
or several far away lovers.
Fast
Some companion lovers can fast for several

months without harming their bodies. In re-
sponse to those who tell them that they should
eat, they say that they eat foods of which we know
nothing. It seems that they attain a euphoric state
that ordinarily only drugs produce. "Thus one
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finds oneself in an intense, pleasant state of
euphoria, where both the head and body are
extremely light" (Marcia Sare, Why Eat? Gaul,
Glorious Age).
Fenja and Menja
Famous companion lovers who lived in Scan-

dinavia during the Bronze Age. These two giant-
essesturned a monstrous millstone the size of a
mountain. Fenja and Menja protected each other
from the polar cold at night. They held each
other so tightly that one still says, to be "like Fenja
and Menja."
Festival
One of the festivals celebrated by the companion

lovers called a love festival may take many forms.
Love festivals are generally a mutual celebration
of two or more companion lovers. They may
choose to make of that celebration a flower festi-
val. Thus during the days which precede it, they
and their friends scour the countryside picking

every variety of flower. They devastate the gar-
dens. They are seen returning at night riding
their mares, with their arms full of thistles, sand
lilies, wild irises, rose mallows, camomiles,
daisies, black opium poppies, cornflowers, la-
vender meadow saffrons, wood campanulea, eg-

lantines, dahlias, genistas, rosemarines, sunflow-
ers^ zinnias.
Or else they decide upon a perfume festival.
For several days they prepare oils with which
each participant will be anointed. During a walk
in their immediate surroundings, the smell of
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jasmine, vetiver, bergamot, amber, benzoin,
myrrh, musk, patchouli, cardamon, cinnamon,
iris can be recognized. Some companion lovers
do not attend- these festivals because they are

made sick by the numerous and strong smells.
For many, it is the most enjoyable festival.
Fetch
"Home again," "to fetch home," expressions

once used by the witches who effected passages
and transformations, meaning "return to one's
own shape." "Yet I shall go into a bee / and flit to
hive / ere I be fetched home." (Transformation
song, sung by the witches during the Iron Age
and the Steam Age. Found in the Bibliothec, as-
chaotic period.)
Fleece
The companion lovers say "fleece" to designate

the hair that covers the pubis. The famous fleece
of Orphire had been called the Golden Fleece
when it was so abundant that it covered, in a
quadrangular shape, part of her belly and part of
her thighs. In order to please the amazons of her
tribe who admired her fleece, Orphire scalped
her pubis during a festival of the full moon. The
Golden Fleece became the tribal emblem, and it
always waved in the height of the melee during
war. One day the Golden Fleece was stolen from
the tribe to be set upon the altar of a remote
amazons then undertook a
divinity. Orphire's
long journey by land and sea to recover the
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From which comes the famous voyage of
fleece.
the Golden Fleece which lasted for many years.
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Floating
Said of a companion lover who "has her home in

her shoes." The companion lovers of the lesbian
peoples are all more or less floating. Among
them, the most floating are the mountebanks, the
acrobats, the tightrope walkers, the equilibrists,
the wrestlers, the clowns, the jugglers, the magi-
cians, the musicians and all types of itinerant and
strolling players.
Fly
To be supported by the air and to fly is spontane-

first years of one's life. One
ously practiced in the
may easily forget how to fly if one stops doing so.
Previously the memory of it was lost by nearly
everyone of adult age, with some exceptions, as
surprising as that may seem today. Flight is not
the means of locomotion at which our species is
most apt. Nevertheless, it is pleasant. Practiced

from the top of a cliff, with a high wind, it permits
mental concentration and reflection.
Flying Lesbians
Tribe of companion lovers who, as their name

indicates, are wanderers. The Flying Lesbians
come from Germany and have companion lovers
everywhere. Singers and musicians, they owe
their celebrity to the fact that they were the first
group of wandering lesbians in the raving that
began the Glorious Age.
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Fog
A kind of white, transparent mist that forms at

eye levelwhen the companion lovers are in a state
of love. A thick halo may likewise appear all
around their bodies. The bearers of fables say that
the ancient amazons called this their camouflage
cloud when they were in a state of love outside in
the forest or on beaches. From which comes the
expression "to be in a fog."
FUMIVORE
Designates those among

the peoples of compan-
ion lovers whose diet composed of all the nutri-
is
tive elements found in smoke fumes. Fumivores

claim to have the best alimentation that exists.
Since fumes differ according to one's location,
fumivores travel especially to what was once
called Colombia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Morocco.
There smoke is said to be the most delicious for
its odor and taste and effect.
FUR
Numerous companion lovers have adopted fur

implants of all kinds on their skin. Some let their
fur grow all over their body, the face included.
Others keep their faces bare and their own heads
of hair. Some ha\ê stripes on the back, on the
shoulders, on the thighs, and on the cheeks
spreading out to accentuate the shape of their
mouth and eyes. Others have solid colored furs.
Many have chosen the otter because of the black-
ness of its color and the softness and luster of its
hair.
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It is not infrequent that one sees two furred
companion lovers rolling and intertwining in the
grass, on a carpet, in the sand.
Furies
An ancient race of amazons who lived during the

Bronze Age. They were, like the Gorgons, a
branch of the Libyans. They were known for
their great familiarity with snakes which they put
in their hair. Some fell onto their necks when
their movements were too violent.
When the last Furies were confronted with one
of the numerous chaotic periods that our history
has known, they undertook avenging and hope-
less wars with their snakes standing upright from
their heads, hissing. It was at that moment that
this race of amazons received the immortal name
of Furies. Megaere, Alecto, Tisiphone were the
most well-known. The famous statement of the
Furies was, "the wind I breathe is fury and utter
hate" (found in the Bibliothec, assemblage of
period).
The Furies wore tunics, attached at their left
shoulder. Their right breast was visible with its
large star-shaped scar. When they mounted their
mares they attached their tunics between their
thighs. They wore tight-fitting boots of soft
leather. They always carried in their belt the
had their quiver and on the right, their bow. For
shields J;hey used a very light pelta in a crescent
form.
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oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Furies as of other amazons
that their daughter empires had an amazonian
structure without compromise in contrast to the
mother empires. Long after their splendor has
"paled, however, something of their indestructi-
ble nature simmers on and, from time to time,
breaks out of its obscurity." (Helen Diner,
Steel Age.)
Future
"Let me tell you / this, someone in / some fu-

ture time / will think of us" (Sappho, Poems,
Lesbos, Iron Age).
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Gades
City founded by the Gorgons, a branch of the

Libyan amazons, on the Guadalquivir in Iberia.
This city was called Cadiz, when Iberia was called
Spain and Portugal.
Gagans
An ancient race of amazons who lived in north-

ern Africa during the Iron Age. The Gagans
wore red leather armour, snakeskin boots, and
used shields made of python. They always car-
ried in their belt the double-headed axe which
they handled with great dexterity when they had
to dismount their mares and fight hand to hand.
their bow.
oats, or rye.
can be said of the Gagans as of other ama-
It

Steel Age.)
Galanthus
Artie giantess who hunted mountain animals, fol-
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lowed by a pack of seventy dogs who were named
after birds.They are Siskin, Oriole, Gerfalcon,
Ara, Greenfinch, Menura, Goura, Magpie, Owl,
Egret, Jabiru, Hawk, Puffin, Whipperwill, Dodo,
Merl, Gull, Jay, Goose, Crane, Swallow,
Ibis,
Hummingbird, Grouse, Swan, Eagle, Eider,
Junco, Petrel, Loon, Emu, Fulmar, Squab, Mock-
ing, Vulture, Phoebe, Raven, Parakeet, Condor,
Auk, Dunlin, Peregrine, Solan, Lark, Pelican,
Tern, Quetzal, Dove, Snipe, Ouzel, Grebe, Kite,
Mina, Robin, Nightingale, Rhea, Ptarmigan,
Stork, Bobolink, Duck, Crow, Wren, Ortolan,
Kea, Linnet, Mavis, Phalarope, Garganey, Teal,
Weaver. (Found in the Bibliothec assemblage of
,

period.)
Gathering
Picking up wild vegetables and fruit for alimen-

tary purposes. This was the means of survival of
the amazons during the Golden Age when all the
earth was still a garden. When the mothers
discovered agriculture at the end of the Golden
Age, the amazons preferred gathering, an activ-
ity which is said to complete hunting.
Gaul
The expanse of land east of Celty and southwest

of Etruria, once called France. It was inhabited
by Scythian amazons at different intervals during
the Bronze Age. Later, during the Iron Age
Boadicea and Cartismandua, two Celtic warrior
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» queens lived and fought in the western part of
Gaul, called Brittany. By the middle of the Con-
crete Age, one large Gaul was particularly
city in
attractive to many was in this city that
lesbians. It
the Red Dykes, thus named in sheer modesty,
invented the vanishing powder.
Geminae
Constellation of the perfect lesbian love rep-

resented by two gemellary figures embracing.
The Geminae, also called the Twins, are Leto and
Niobe, whose tender love was celebrated by Sap-
pho.
Germany
Germany is an expanse of land situated east of
Gaul, north of Etruria. Late in the Concrete Age
an international lesbian front was created in a
German city. Some companion lovers say that the
idea ofmaking half of the population take a
powder originated amidst this front. They disa-
gree that the credit for this outstanding large-
scale operation should be attributed to the Red
Dykes from Gaul.
Ghoul
Only when she is thirsty for blood is there a
ghoul.
Glorious
There have been the Golden Age, the Silver Age,
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the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the
Steam Age, the Concrete Age or the High-Speed
Steel Age. We have now entered the Glorious
Age. For almost two millenniums lesbians had
been represented with glories around their
heads. This was mistaken for a sign of sanctity
and was not yet recognized as a form of energy.
When the companion lovers appeared to one
another in their brilliance and were able to stand
the sight, they caught and used this energy that
they immediately called "glorious." From which
comes the "Glorious Age."
GOMORRHA
Before being destroyed by fire, by brimstone,
before being changed into statues of salt, the
lesbians of Gomorrha had long preserved har-
mony in their city. That city, one of the largest
ever built, it is said, times when the sun
appears at
is particularly bright, withgolden roofs and its
its
white marble terraces, in the bottom of the sea.

At the end of the Concrete Age, Gomorrha had
become, together with Lesbos, a strong figure of
lesbianhood, of the rebirth of amazonian love for
one's companion, the last challenge to the de-
stroyed culture of the mothers and its degenerate
remnants.
GONGYLA
A companion lover of Sappho, born in Colophon

near Ephesus. "Come back to me tonight
Gongyla / I Appear with your milk-
ask you.
colored garment. Around you still / circles my
desire."' "My most beautiful one, seeing your
scarf has been enough / to become madly in
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love and I am happy." (Sappho, Poems, Lesbos,
Iron Age.)
I GORGO AND ARCHEANASSA

Famous companion lovers from Lesbos. Sappho
spoke of one of them to her lover Gongyla "Like
Archeanassa, you will be called Gorgo's wife"
(Sappho, Po^m5, Lesbos, Iron Age).
GORGONS

ern Africa during the Bronze Age. One among
them. Medusa, was most famous. The Gorgons
wore red leather armour, snakeskin boots, and
used shields made of python. They always car-
theirbow.
oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Gorgons, as of other ama-
zons, that their daughter empires had an

amazonian structure without compromise in
contrast to the mother empires. Long after their
splendor has "paled, however, something of
their indestructible nature simmers on and, from
time to time, breaks out of its obscurity." (Helen
Diner, Mothers and Amazons, Germany, High-
Speed Steel Age.)
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GOUDOU
Term of affection frequently used among the
companion lovers in Gaul. In Gallic goudou also
means sweet taste (gout doux). There is a song
about it called "the sweet taste that I have of you"
(Laure Arpouxva, How sweet the taste, song,
Slavonia, Glorious Age).
GOUINE
Old word which means dyke. Gouine was a

Gallic
derivative of "queen" during a time when a les-
bian could easily say to her companion lover "my
queen" {YA\2iS'w^n,Notes About Gaul, Large Coun-
try, First Continent, Glorious Age).
The queens were traditionally the most valor-
ous companion lovers. Later they were called
dirty queens, in mockery, which, when distorted,
became dirty gouines. And thus they had their
heads cut off in those obscure times when it was
not safe to be either a queen or a lesbian.
Gourmand
"She is a gourmand of sleeping" is said of a com-
panion lover who enjoys sleeping her lover. It is
also said of a companion lover who enjoys sleep-
ing herself.
Grail
The Grail cycle is a series of tales, referring to

thirteen knights who gathered at a round table.
The number of knights was identical to that of
witches in a coven. Each knight swore not to rest
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until she found a certain cup full of blood. The
meaning of this cup has been lost. For some, the
cup had once held the blood of the beloved ama-
zon, Oreithyia, killed in combat. This cup, having
disappeared in the confusion of battle, thus be-
came the object of the quest of her lovers and
companions. According to others, the Grail had
once held the sacred blood of Sappho, for which
the knights, her lovers, dedicated themselves to
search without respite.
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Hair
The glorious fleece covering legs, arms, armpits,

pubes, and the face is called hair. Some admire
the design it forms. Some admire the color of the
hairs, their consistency or their length. Some
admire the way it numer-
divides the body. For
ous companion lovers the most admired are
those who have vigorous and black hair. They cut
their hair in order to have it grow stronger and
thicker.
Hallucination
The companion lovers go on frequent retreats to

develop their individual faculties such as the fa-
culty of exchange. They become able, for exam-
ple, to exchange their hallucinations. Or better
yet, they combine them with those of their com-
panion lovers. Two companion lovers together
can make new constructions and move without
discomfort in their mutual worlds. The compan-
ion lovers who settled on the island Phoenix in
Polynesia are given to daily hallucinations. The
bearers of fables tell what they have been able to
understand of the hallucinatory state of the
companion lovers on the island Phoenix. They
incorporate hallucinations into tales which are
long, repetitive, monotonous for those who lack
the patience to remain attentive to the distortions
introduced each time into the repetitions.
HARMONY
Long after they had disappeared, the ancient

amazons of the empires were still called the
daughters of the goddess Harmony. The ama-
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zons had attempted "to unite the two fundamen-
talforms of life in paradisical harmony which
had been divided by the Great Mother" (Helen \
Speed Steel Age).
Harpalyce
Celebrated as Harpalyce the Vigilant. Ancient

amazon, powerful queen of Thrace who lived
during the Bronze Age. She dressed in a lynx
skin. Not one of her companion's names have
survived. The bearers of fables say that she fabri-
cated the first pelta, a small crescent-shaped
shield with an indentation at its top.
Harpies
The bearers of fables say that Harpies were

amazonian figures. They had the body of a bird
with a prominent belly and breasts, the wings of a
bird, and amazon faces. The Harpies, beating
their wings, emitted long ululations. They stole
their enemies' food which they seized in flight.
Afterwards, they would vomit it up in the enemy
camps and also soil them with excrements. Meals
and befoulment were followed by violent impre-
cations. The most well known Harpies were
Celeno, Aello, Ocypete. Harpies laid big oval
eggs which were used in the Lycian funerary
rites, famed for their beauty. The Lycians
painted the Harpies' eggs, and in the spring ran
Q^^ races.
Harvest
To gather diverse sorts of cyprine or love secre-
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tion for the preparation of perfumes. This activ-
ity is not practiced uniquely by those who have
many companion lovers. It is very rare, indeed,
that a companion lover passes an entire year
without harvesting. Harvesting has become more
and more a part of the general taste and habit. It
is difficult to know if this phenomenon is related
to an increased consumption of cyprine per-
fume, or if the harvesters have increased their
number for personal convenience.
Have
The evolution of this verb is related to the huge

revolution that has taken place after the night of
the vanishing powder. "To meaning
have," in its
of "to possess," was formerly a key word both

practically and philosophically. The companion
lovers decided that they would not use this word
anymore, except as an auxiliary which would
permit speaking about the past.
Hera
Celebrated as Hera the Leader of War. Queen of

the Mysian amazons who lived in Anatolia during
the Bronze Age. The names of her companion
lovers are unknown.
She has been celebrated after the time of the
amazons by the name of Hera the Great, she who
does not reconcile. The celebrants of Hera or
those who accomplished feats in her name were
called heraines or heroines.
Herb
Among the different varieties of known herbs
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the lazy herb is much appreciated by the lesbian
peoples who practice an intensive idleness. "It
gives an exquisite somnolence, a bliss, a state of
well-being. The shapes seen by the eyes mix and
appear like mists of colors. The sounds soften
and prolong. The lazy herb gives consciousness
without consciousness" (Sseu Tchouan, Book of
China, Glorious Age).
Idleness,
Hermit
The most recent type of amazon tribe. The her-

mit tribe has a reputation for its perseverance in
collective activities for one or two. This type of
tribedemands of its member or members a with-
drawal from the lesbian peoples. Carmen San-
chez, a companion lover from Large Country,
Second Continent, was the first to say, "I am
going to become a hermit" and she did. Others
do likewise or are about to. This tribe, although it
does not facilitate endogenous exchanges, has
the advantage of moving about easily.
Hero
A companion lover of Sappho, born on an island
west of Lesbos, "young Hero with winged feet."
"I taught everything to Hero from Gyara / the
swift- footed." "There will not be / to see the
sunlight / a sole companion / in any other
time / as wise as she" (Sappho, Poems, Lesbos,
Iron Age).
Hill
Since the beginning of the Golden Age the ama-
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zons have gathered on hills for festivals, as-
semblies, sojourns in the woods. On hills they
built cities, villages, communities. Much later in
the Bronze Age, when the first chaotic periods
and wars began, the amazons installed strong-
I holds on hills. "Here is the Hill of Ares, here the
amazons / encamped and built their shelters
when they came in arms, / here they piled their
rival towers to rise, new city, / and slew their
beasts for Ares. So this rock is named / from
then the Hill of Ares" (found in the Bibliothec,
On hills, the mothers, after their secession
from the amazons, maintained places of worship.
There they celebrated their goddesses, those
who reign and who engender. There they built
temples and communal edifices. The surround-
ing woods became sacred. Sometimes near the
temple of a hill a palm tree would grow.
HIPPODAMIA
Celebrated as Hippodamia the Incomparable.

Ancient amazon who lived during the Bronze
Age, well-known for her swiftness and agility
during chariot races. Some bearers of fables say
that Pelope was her companion queen. The
bearers of fables say that her mares were the
fastest ever seen. They say that she could be seen
jumping on her mare's back when her chariot
broke, while keeping the three others at the same
gait.
HIPPOLYTE AND ANTIOPE
Famous companion queens who lived in Themis-
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cyra, a city of the Thermodontine amazons on
the Thermodon River. The bearers of fables say
that Hippolyte devastated Attica to avenge the
capture of her companion lover Antiope. An-
tiope had been taken prisoner when she went, as
an ambassador, on a foreign boat which raised
anchor as soon as she was aboard. Later Antiope
was killed during the siege of Athens led by Hip-
polyte. After having seen her companion lover
die, Hippolyte continued to fight furiously until
night, when the battle ended. Then she left
Athens and died of rage on the way back to
Themiscyra.
History
According to Julienne Bourge, the historian

from Gaul, "the lesbian peoples who began our
history — if this history ever had a beginning —
were gathering the fruit from trees, hunting,
raising their infants together and moving in
small groups all over the earth, which at that time
was a garden. They were called amazons and
they created harmony on earth. This was easy
because their world was gentle and good to live
in. Work, suffering, death did not yet exist in the
terrestrial garden. They loved one another, it is

said. It was the Golden Age. It has left diverse
traces in our memories. One day an amazon
thought of building a place in which everyone
could live or return to at night. It was a good
enough idea in itself, exactly like getting dressed
to protect oneself from the cold. Other tribes
imitated this first settlement. This was the origin
of cities but also of the dissension among ama-
zons orr earth.
"Some amazons continued to wander because
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they liked to travel through diverse places. They
did not want to settle. They said that an estab-
lished amazon was no longer free. Others con-
structed larger and larger cities without defen-
sive ramparts.
"In the beginning of this new state of things, all
went well. The wanderers stopped from time to
time in large and small cities to greet the amazons
who lived there. They brought news. They
served as a connection between cities as much as
they could.
"Slowly the behavior of the settlers began to
change. They were reluctant to leave their cities.
They gave up violent physical exercise.
"Then the wanderers became less welcome.
Their information was ignored for the most part.
Each city, each community, whether small or
large, had its own problems and the problems of
others became bothersome. They retreated be-
hind their walls. Then they were struck with
wonder over one of their physiological processes,
childbearing. They stopped calling themselves
amazons, and used that term thereafter, to de-
signate the others, the foreigners. They called
themselves mothers. They developed a whole
'new' culture in which nothing could escape
analogy to their own engenderment.They were
fascinated by myths about rotundity, germina-
tion, earth and fructification of trees. Then
mothers began fabricating representations of
themselves in dried mud, sculptured stone, or on
flat surfaces with ôlors. This brought about the
procession of pregnant goddesses that history

has since known. Fascinated by these representa-
tions, the mothers multiplied them. Although
bearing children at times, the amazons refused to
go along with the mothers. At that time they were
permanently banned from the mother cities. At
that time, the most contemptuous term used to
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describe someone in the cities was amazon. Ama-
zon finally signified, contrary to all evidence, she
who does not bear children. The mothers
considered amazons eternal infants, immature,
those who have no destiny.
The amazons began their wars. The mothers
became reigning goddesses who demanded sac-
rifices. Confined mothers were
to their cities the
no longer separate, free, complete individuals
and they fused into an anonymous collective con-
sciousness. Their ideal drew nearer to the model
of a hive with several queens hatching an egg
every three minutes, which, fortunately, they
never managed to do. The dissension that surged
between mothers and amazons marked the end
of harmony and of the Golden Age.
"There were still good moments in the Silver
Age which followed. The great mothers had
their festive occasions. The amazons, banned
from the mother cities, built cities in turn.
"The terrestrial garden for one reason or
another stopped being the horn of plenty. It
became arid in many places. Then the mothers
discovered how to turn over the soil and plant.
They sorted out the most edible cereals between
the gramineae. They realized that the earth was
not uniform. Some soil was good to eat because of
the various elements it contained, another was
good to fire into the shapes needed for contain-
ers. They observed. that among the wild plants
and flowers most were good body because
for the
of their curative properties. They discovered
that some plants could be spun. Once they had
obtained the threads, they learned how to assem-
ble them in different ways. They acknowledged
that those animals fitted with spinnerets could,
like some plants, produce a textile. After having
tried to use spiders' thread, they perfected the
raising of silk worms. They chose hair and wool
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instead of animal skins for making clothes, car-
pets, tapestries, blankets. During the Silver Age
the mothers domesticated large and small cattle
and initiated milking. They milked cows, goats,
and sheep. They did so after having noticed that
ants milked a kind of greenfly in order to collect
its sugared nectar.
was during the Silver Age that amazons
"It
passed through continents, islands and inhabited
vast territories. They also built empires but on a
different economic basis than those of the
mothers. They were huntresses and riders. They
kept their weapons and became the violent ones.
They did not plant or cultivate or domesticate
cattle. They domesticated mares instead. They
did not milk animals, except for their mares,
whose milk would feed their daughters. They
invented different sorts of artcraft. Forging was
necessary to them for their weapons. They also
baked clay to fabricate bricks. They mainly used
animal skins and leather for their clothing, tapes-
tries and carpets. They did not give up the use of
tents as habitations. They could sleep in the open
for pleasure as well as for military reasons. They
continued to develop music and through forging
invented numerous instruments. They did not
cook their food but ate it raw. They elaborated all
kinds of war strategies at the same time that the
mothers built cities without defensive walls. De-
fense, however, was not the area in which the
amazons excelled. They were superior in attack.
Above all, they perfected surprise operations,
harassing the enemy and withdrawing, remain-
ing very flexible in their maneuvers. They in-
vented the bow, the arrow, the spear, the double-
axe, the sword, the shield and different kinds of
traps. They fabricated war machines with straps
of leather to throw stones. They also used hemp
and flax but only to fabricate bundles that they
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would set on fire and throw in battle. The ama-
zons did not accept defeat, even after having lost
empire after empire. All of them during various
epochs tried to recover them in Libya, in India, in
Africa. The last ones who fought to recover their
empire were the Thermodontines. They succes-
sively attacked Athens, wave after wave, until the
last treaty, celebrated for one thousand years
after their withdrawal.

"It was also during the Silver Age that the
languages diversified. After the amazons had
stopped being a link between the mother cities,
the mother language changed. The mothers
modified the original tongue by introducing the
sacred into the 'meaning,' confusing the basic
literal sense with their symbols. The amazons
called the language of the mothers the 'slow lan-
guage' because the pronunciation had also un-
dergone a change. When during the following
ages communication was restored between the
mothers, they did not understand one another
and would undertake infinite exegesis and de-
coding of meanings because even between them
suspicion arose. The amazons, who were uncon-
cerned with the new theatrical dimensions de-
veloped through the mother languages, kept the
'old language of letters and numbers.'
"During the following ages things continued to
deteriorate. The mothers from then on, unaccus-
tomed to wearing weapons, exercising and de-
fending themselves, were defeated on a large
scale. They fell into servitude and became those
who belong to another. The amazons scattered,
fighting fierce battles, in which they would die
rather than fall into servitude. After their total
disappearance there is nothing more to add ex-
cept for the final defeat and enslavement of the
mothers which led to the last chaotic period be-
fore the Glorious Age. The courage of the rebels
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who never bore with much patience the name
'woman' has survived" (Julienne Bourge, Dialec-
tics, Gaul, Glorious Age).
Many companion lovers think that this in-
terpretation of the past by Julienne Bourge is
plausible. Some support the mothers and their
first constructive civilizations. Others say that
their inability to maintain civilization was at the
origin of the first dark age. Others say that their
dissension with the amazons destroyed
paradisiac harmony. Some say that cities are vul-
nerable to being attacked, seized and sacked, and
that the first city was the first mistake. Others say
that it is impossible to know because there are too
many gaps in our history.
HOLDA
Celebrated as Holda the Expert. Huntress of a

wandering amazon tribe which left the Mediter-
ranean regions for the north in the beginning of
the Bronze Age. They were the first amazons
who, it is said, hunted with dogs. Their packs
were composed of twenty-four running dogs. In
this tribe, all of the amazons rode goats instead of
mares. When they stopped to rest they drank
their milk and sometimes took the time to make
cheese.
Hoop
Circle made of wood or light metal rolled by

tapping and grazing it with a stick. Some use it as
a code when they do not dare to speak openly of
their desire and for whom. They then go hoop-
ing back and forth in front of the habitation of
their friend. The most shy, for whom to pass with
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a hoop by day is still too open an avowal, use a
hoop with bells, called a ringing hoop. Much care
is taken to choose the bells for one's hoop.
Everyone has her particular timbre and her ways
of producing it. Each one hopes that the desired
person will be able to tell whose hoop it is that
passes at night, recognizing it by its music.
House
The place or the space where a companion lover

feels at home. It is said in the Glorious Age "my
house has wings," meaning that one does not like
"To have one's home in one's shoes" is
to settle.
an equivalent expression (Joanna Russ, Large
Country, First Continent, Glorious Age). A com-
panion lover thus committed to her shoes may
share them with another lover, for reasons of
convenience, love or friendship.
Hypnosis
Some say that hypnosis can be induced when, as

with a kitten, one lifts a friend or a companion
lover by the nape of the neck. Others are con-
vinced that they are hypnotized by listening to a
voice of calm and equal rhythm. Still others claim
that it takes place for them when looking into the
eyes of a friend or a lover. In the latter case, it is
most difficult to know who

hypnotized by
is
whom, but from the information gathered on the

subject, no one seems to care.
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Iberia
Large peninsula, once called Spain and Portugal.

The Gorgon amazons had a setdement on the
Guadalquivir called Gades which later became
Cadiz. Still later Cekic warrior queens had armies
all over Iberia as in Brittany, Gaul, Albion.
Ida
Celebrated as Ida the Triumphant. Ancient

amazon, renowned for her hunting, who lived in
Etruria during the Bronze Age. "Ida, huntress
with the javelin and archer with light arrows"
(found in the Bibliothec assemblage of books and
,

panion lovers during the last chaotic period).
Her name was given to a mountain in Etruria.
Idleness
A pleasant state of leisure practiced to excess and

systematically by nearly all of the lesbian peoples.
In The Book of Idleness (China, Glorious Age) Sseu

Tchouan enumerates the places for idleness such
as soft grass, foam, sand, air, water. She also
enumerates objects for idleness such as eggs,
boats, rafts, tree sacks. There are also dreams for
idleness which are accessible through hypnosis.
The companion lovers practice them after long
walks when they arrive at an oasis, a community,
so as not to be in discordance with their welcom-
ers.
Indolence
Not one companion lover on the island Enggano

in Indonesia can ignore indolence, which they
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call "the nonchalant love of ease" or "the golden
doors of the dream" (Sseu Tchouan, The Book of
Idleness, China, Glorious Age). The bearers of
fables who have sojourned for a while on the
island Enggano say that they have had the
greatest difficulty leaving this place, despite their
taste for journeys.
They say that in the cooler hours of the day,
the companion lovers of the island gather the
fallen petals from the flowers and with them
make litters. Each may lie down on the fragrant
beds, refreshed incessantly by water poured
from large watering combs.
Innocent
Person whose principal quality is not to be harm-

ful.During the Concrete Age, the word degen-
erated since no one could imagine not being
harmful as a quality. It only applied to "weak
minds," oppressed enslaved persons, to foolish
persons or to children. At that time no one was
allowed to be innocent except in Arcadia, a
mythic land where anyone could be happy, inno-
cent and harmonious, as they were supposed to
have been during the Golden Age. The word
innocent now has its original meaning.
lO AND LEUCIPPA
Two famous companion lovers who met each

other by assuming, lo, the form of a white cow
and Leucippa, the form of a white mare. It is no
doubt in memory of their predilection for barley
that later when they were celebrated separately
as goddesses, they were offered barley cakes.
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Iris
Irises bloom on the side of streams in the valleys

by the seaside in Celty. Most are yellow. Accord-
ing to some companion lovers, the violet ones are
more fragrant. The bearers of fables say that
groups of goats or cows are often seen lying in the
irises.
IRREALS ^ ^ ^,;^^
The Irreals are so irreal that they only man-
ifested themselves one single time, the night of
the vanishing powder^ That night, they appeared
in dreams to the numerous companion lovers.
To some they said. Arise, go and rejoin on the
island Alor in Indonesia. There you will find
other companion lovers and you will found a city.
To others they said, Arise, go and rejoin on the
island Enggano in the Sonde archipelago. There
you will find cities of companion lovers. Some of
these companion lovers will join you to establish a
colony of the trees. To certain others they said,
Arise, go and rejoin on Desirade, a Windward
island. There you will find companion lovers and
you will found small communities dispersed all
over the coast of the island. To others they said.
Arise, go and rejoin on the island Phoenix. There
is the land of companion lovers for which you
long. Thus, in the course of that night, they

named of fhe companion lovers a fringe of
to all
islands situated on either side of the equator, all
around the earth. The companion lovers arose
and departed, leaving their houses, their
mothers, their sisters, their friends. Some de-
parted in small groups. All had seen the Irreals in
their dreams. They exhorted the companion lov-
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ers who did not remember their dreams to join
them.
Immediately the bearers of fables began their
journey. They also had seen the Irreals in dreams
who had said to them, Arise, go and rejoin in the
immense desert where the famous conqueresses
of Libya have died. Remain there and fast for
forty days and forty nights. You will find other
companion lovers and you will do as the Lycians,
who played and fasted on alternating days. Then
you will go and disperse over the face of the
earth.
The bearers of fables say that the Irreals ap-
peared to them radiant and of every color. Some
even were black and golden. They say that all the
companion lovers arose transported by love, be-
cause such are the companion lovers, and that
they immediately began their journey to their
different destinations. Except for those who did
not have one. To them the Irreals had said, Arise
and go nowhere, my daughter of the sun, of the
moon, and of the wind. Do as you have always
done and you will find companion lovers who, as
you, go nowhere. And you will go together.
IRRORATE
In the first Athens, at each full moon, the little

amazons went in groups to collect dew from the
woods and fields. Then they irrorated certain
plants for their benefit. This practice of exposing
plants to dew has now become common among
the companion lovers living in septentrional re-
gions. The bearers of fables say that they pour
the dew with great care on the plants after they
have collected it in the nets for dew.
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ISIS AND NEPTHYS

Bronze Age. was impossible to see one without
It
immediately seeing the other because "they were

like two hands of the same person" (Melissa Veii,
Shadows on the Black Sea, Egypt, Glorious Age).
Later when they were celebrated as goddesses,
their priestesses were always two companion lov-
ers. One bore the name Isis engraved on her
right shoulder and the other the name Nepthys
on her left shoulder.
Islands
Migrations to islands were already reported in

the Steam Age. They came on foot, walking in
single file to the sea singing, "Farewell, Pont-
Neuf, Samaritaine / Butte Saint-Roch, Petits-
Carreaux where we spent such beautiful
/
days. / Now we will spend them on islands /

since they want us no more in the cities" (found in
the Bibliothec, assemblage of books and fragments
during the last chaotic period). In large numbers,
the companion lovers of the Glorious Age have
started looking for islands. Most have chosen
islands where the great tropical rain forests con-
tinue to grow. These islands form a belt on both
sides of the equator.
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Jade
According and their

to those interested in stones
properties, jades act upon the nervous system.
They say that jades protect the memory of those
addicted to hallucinogenic mushrooms. Even if
they do not destroy the memory, as it was once

believed, some mushrooms modify it in such a
way that rather spectacular identity distortions
may occur. Jades, also called persistent
memories, prevent a total loss of identity. That is
why jades are worn so frequently by the compan-
ion lovers. Those who prefer to multiply the var-
do not wear jades to pro-
iations in their identity
tect themselves from memory alterations.
Jaguar
The companion lovers who live in the forests

bordering the Amazon River have jaguars at
times for their bed animals. Many are in a state of
love with them. The bearers of fables say that it is
some settlements because of
difficult to sleep in
the growling and snarling of the jaguars who are
found in the morning holding their bed compan-
ions by the shoulders with their paws.
Jasmine
Jasmine, a perfun\e that increases the sensations

of pleasure for the one who sniffs it, is often used
by the companion lovers. "What is Delphine do-
ing? Well my precious, she is sniffing Julie. No,
Julie's armpits are not rubbed with yellow saffron
oil. Those armpits come right from a jasmine
bath" (Joana Save, My Paradise, Gaul, Glorious

Age).
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Joan of Arc and Haiviette
Famous companion lovers who lived in Gaul dur-

ing the Iron Age. "It seems, you see, there was
someone / named Haiviette,/ with whom Joan
lived, loved, slept, / and fought in battle" (Robin

Morgan, Monster, Large Country, First Conti-
nent, Glorious Age).
Joy
This sort of sovereign well-being is difficult to

gain, difficult to retain, difficult to develop. "To
complete her perfect joy / shespat her diamond
liver / she spat her zircon liver" (Charlotte
Plume, My Personal Circus, Gaul, Concrete Age).
Juggler
The first companion lovers to begin the juggling

tradition did so during a dark period of the Iron
Age to cheer it up, it is said. They combined their
movements with songs and brought perfor-
mances from village to village, in exchange for a
bed and a bite to eat. In the long run they
specialized in throwing objects into the air just
above them and caught them with great skill.
They began with one, two, three, four objects,
generally spheres and often succeeded in jug-
gling twelve objects of every size and every color.
They threw hoops, flaming torches and thin
matches, as well.
Julia Quinta and Claudia
Companion lovers who lived in Etruria during

the Iron Age.
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Kaleidoscope
The small bags for images that the companion

lovers call kaleidoscopes are made with chips of
glass, metal, colored paper, feathers and differ-
ent minuscule pieces of objects. A cylinder is
adjusted to the bag, at the top of which one places
her eye. The kaleidoscopes containing the most
( diverse materials permit the best compositions.
The companion lovers on the island Sarupai, east
of Papua, indulge in bags for images all year
long. The kaleidoscopes that the bearers of fables
bring back from the island are singing. The com-
panion lovers make small orifices at the bottom
of the bag through which air rushes as soon as
they are moved whether there is wind or not.
They produce hushing sounds, sighs, whispers,
long laments, hissing wails, comparable to the
sounds heard in some caves and whose origin is
unknown.
Kali
Celebrated as Kali the Black, the Devourer who

dances on cadavers. She wears skulls around the
neck and her lips part from her gums. She is,
along with Artemis, Athena, and Diana, the favo-
rite warrior of the companion lovers. Ariane
Wales wrote of her "You jump, barbarian, your
skull necklace on your chest, / like Attila with
her heads dangling around the joyous saddle of
her mare, / victorious and laughing, / you
jump and shriek for joy" (Ariane Wales, Black
Goddesses, Large Country, Second Continent,
Glorious Age).
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Kangaroo
The little companion lovers are taken for walks
by the kangaroos who jump in the gardens of
Noumea. Sometimes the kangaroos are tired of
jumping and take the little companion lovers out
of their stomach pouch. Then the little compan-
ion lovers cry angrily and roll in the grass, hitting
it with their heads and their Some kan-fists.
garoos are seen sleeping under the trees with a

little companion lover in their stomach pouch,
sleeping as well.
Kaolin
A sort of white clay. Some amazons used it to

make white mud masks. When they advanced
during battle, their faces thus hidden, it was im-
possible to differentiate one from another.
Kite
This kind of big butterfly made of paper which

flies at the end of a string on high, depending
upon the way it is unwound, was utilized by the

amazons as a signal, every time they opened hos-
tilities or responded to a sudden attack. Then
they released a multitude of black and purple
kites direcdy above their heads. On seeing them,
their immediate neighbors on the closest hills
could rescue the endangered amazons without
delay. In turn, and often on mareback to avoid
slowing down the maneuver, they would send up
blackand purple kites to alert the next hill. And
thus,from relay to relay, an immense crowd of
amazons could gather in a very short time. Be-
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cause of their harmless appearance and bright
colors the kites which looked like children's
games never aroused the slightest suspicion
among their adversaries.
Knee
By weakness of the knee joints or bend of the

companion lovers mean a reflex reac-
knees, the
tion toan unexpected encounter. "Very dear
Lucy and very dear Joan met in an alley. They
both had weak knees. Stephanie suddenly disap-
peared" (Berangere, Chronicle of an Alley, Etruria,
Glorious Age).
Knight
She who goes on a quest deserting her compan-

ion lover fornew love wars is called a knight.
What characterizes knights is that they are un-
satisfied in a permanent adven-
place. Travels,
tures, new encounters suitthem. The first com-
panion lover to have used this term was knight
Eleanor whom Emmanuelle Riviere celebrates in
her Songs of the trade-winds (Gaul, Glorious Age).
In the Tarot cards, knights go before pages
and ride on mares. They are called the knight of
cups, the knight of wands, the knight of penta-
cles, the knight of swords.
Koumiss
A liquor prepared in Anatolia by fermenting

mare's milk with lactobacillus and yeast.
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Labe (Louise)
Poet and warrior who lived in Gaul at the end of

the Iron Age. She was the companion lover of
Clemence de Bourges, to whom she wrote fam-
ous letters. It was upon thinking of her that she
thanked the one who, in her hands "has given the
lyre whose verses / wont to sing of lesbian
love / and now will cry of mine" (Louise Labe,
Elegies, Gaul, Iron Age).
Labyrinth
Originally meant "house of the double-headed

axe" (found in the Bibliothec, assemblage of books
and fragments from the past, salvaged by the
companion lovers during the last chaotic period).
Labyris
Name given to the double-headed axe of the

ancient amazons and to the representation of this
arm as the emblem of amazon empires.
Lance
When the amazons invented the lance they bor-

rowed the model from the exterior appearance
of the vulva. From which comes the expression,
"a lance-shaped vulva." "My little lance lend me
your strength an^ your sharpness" (Hippolyte to
her companion lover Antiope, Bronze Age, re-
peated from one amazon to another after An-
tiope had been captured by the adversary). "My
lance head, when I hold you in my hand I cannot
be defeated" (Myrine to an unknown companion
lover. Bronze Age, heard under their tent).
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Language
"When language became diversified at the end of

the Golden Age, the civilizations of the mothers
transformed the original language into multiple
languages. In these languages the meanings were
redoubled and multiplied, through redundan-
cies which functioned like a gallery of mirrors.
They were languages completely adjusted to the
mothers who lived in permanent representation.
The langiiages were thus entered into the ritual,
they became the ritual, incantatory, sacred,
evocative, obsessional and tyrannical.
"Less well known is the original language of
'letters and numbers' which the ancient amazons
did not relinquish. It was, without doubt, a lan-
guage at the same time much more simple and
much more complicated than those which were
known later. The legend says that the old lan-
guage was capable of creating life or of 'striking'
death. The legend language
says that the old
could displace mountains or, in any case, enor-
mous stones. The legend says that the old lan-
guage could stir up storms from the sea or ap-
pease them. Nothing is known anymore of these
'letters' and of these 'numbers.' The significa-
tions and the phonemes had without doubt a

different relation between them. One cannot im-
agine that this language was composed of 'sen-
tences' with a construction and a syntax as rigid,
rigorous, repressive as those we know. The
legend had been transmitted by the mothers, the
great mothers who had deformed the original
language and then realizing what they had done
felt full of regret for the past" (Julienne Bourge,
Comments on the Past, Gaul, Glorious Age).
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I Laodamia
Celebrated as Laodamia the Powerful Singer.

Queen of the Lycian amazons who lived in Crete
and later in Anatolia during the Bronze Age.
Laodamia turned funeral ceremonies into grand
festivals. The festivals took place during several
days, with songs, games, fasts. In the course of
the centuries, the ceremonial became more
elaborate. An entire architecture developed.
Rows of steles, bearing names, were aligned
along the alleys where processions of amazons
celebrated the mourning. Later, after the time of
the amazons, the Lycian monuments were still
used.
Large Country
This assemblage of two continents called

America which has been "discovered" several
times, throughout the ages, has recently been
rediscovered by many companion lovers alone or
in groups. Emmanuelle Degiali one of the first
travelers of the Glorious Age gave America its
new name. She called it "Large Country" in recol-
lection of the lesbian force encountered in this
land of numerous companion lovers. Thus
America is now called Large Country, the First
Continent being north and the Second Continent
being south.
Law
"The laws of the Thermodontines remained en-

tirelyuncomplicated even at the zenith of their
power. The abysmal contempt of amazons for
statutory law permits the recognition of only two
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crimes, theft and mendacity" (Helen Diner,
Steel Age). The single law of the amazons was "do
not nor beg." The companion lovers of the
steal,
Glorious Age maintain the same "abysmal con-
tempt" for statutory law as the ancient amazons.
Some have adopted "do not beg" as a major
suggestion. At the end of the Concrete Age,
many small groups of companion lovers inten-
sively practiced as a major suggestion "do not
beg, but steal."
Leak
There are leaks comparable to water leaks in the

consciousness of every person. Many companion
lovers begin to fast when confronted with this
drain in their memories, their information, their
knowledge. Others take baths of volcanic mud or
clay. In vain. "When the memory leaks, it's
forever," says an old song from the Concrete
Age. There are also leaks in interest, leaks in
feelings, leaks in energy, leaks in imagination.
There is still another kind of leak called a "gallop-
ing leak" which helps one forget all of the others.
Leather
Whether it was for their tight boots made of soft

leather or the strips of their ornaments, many
amazons had a predilection for this material.
They also made leather quivers, shields, war
machines and tents. Most of their carpets and
tapestries were made of leather. Lesbians have
used leather as well, throughout the ages, as a
sign oFrecognition, either as clothing or orna-
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ments. Necklaces, wrist laces, knee laces, chest
laces, calf laces were used for this effect.
Lena Vandrey
A strong giantess of the Glorious Age, often

caught by the lilliputians who attach her, in her
sleep, to the ground with invisible bonds to
paralyze her. As soon as she is free, Lena Van-
drey fabricates a world of frescos. From her an
entire people of giantesses are born. They escort
her, forcing the quarrelsome lilliputians to re-
treat from day to day. Her triumph shall con-
tinue.
Lesbian
Before the night of the vanishing powder, les-

bian meant she who was interested by "only" half
of the population and had a violent desire for
that half. A lesbian is a companion lover, or a
companion lover is a lesbian. The lesbian peoples
had been called such after Lesbos, the most be-
loved center of their culture. The word is still
used in the Glorious Age, despite its geographi-
calmeaning.
Lesbos
Lesbos is, in everyone's opinion, a special place.

Some say that only Lesbians frequent Lesbos.
Others are of the opinion that all the lesbians or
companion lovers go there one day or another.
The bearers of fables say that they, as a matter of
fact, also go to Lesbos.
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At the end of the Concrete Age Lesbos had
become, together with Gomorrha, a strong fi-
gure of lesbianhood, of the rebirth of amazonian
love for one's companion, the last challenge to
the destroyed culture of the mothers and its de-
generate remnants.
Leto and Niobe
"Leto and Niobe were two companions who

loved each other with a tender love" (Sappho,
Poems, Lesbos, Iron Age).
Libyans

ern Africa during all of the Bronze Age. One of
theirs, Myrine, was most famous.
The Libyans wore red leather armour, snake-
skin boots, and used shields made of python.
They always carried in their belt the double-
headed axe which they handled with great dex-
terity when they had to dismount their mares
and fight hand to hand. On the left they had their

quiver and on the right, their bow.
oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Libyans as of other ama-
zons that their daughter empires had an amazon-

ian structure without compromise in contrast to
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Steel Age.)
Light
Since two companion lovers were discovered sur-

f rounded by a faint luminescence while sleeping
and embracing in a wood, the body has been
known to produce a light of its own. All kinds of
lights run through the body. Little is known
about them. The eyes, the ankles, the chest are
passages and gates for the light of the body. But
depending upon its course, this light does not
appear in the same form. Thus during their most
pleasant and shining moments, two companion
lovers unite through rays, sparks, beating glows,
strokes of lightning, mists of more or less intense
light.
Long Live Gomorrha
Morning greeting of the companion lovers in the

Glorious Age. When a companion lover meets
another in the morning, she greets her by saying,
"Long live Gomorrha." The reply is, "Thank
you, you too."
Lost
One who did not live with lesbians in the lesbian

peoples was said to have been "lost."
Love
Because of the tribute that companion lovers
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have to pay, with their own skin, in order to use
this word, it is very rarely employed. All of the
companion lovers have not however renounced
love.
In Mandoukai, for love, two companion lovers
draw a line in the sand on a beach and arrange
ambers on each side for ten meters. Each one
advances to meet the other, barefoot. Those who
draw back before the ambers cannot use the
word love with their lovers, it is said. In the snow
countries, for love, something comparable exists.
Two companion lovers walk in the snow on either
side of a line. Those who leave tracks, when walk-
ing barefoot, cannot use the word love with their
lovers, it is said.
For companion lovers may exchange one
love,
or several teeth. They wear them as necklaces or
earrings. Other companion lovers, for love, offer
each other one breast. It is said that in Ephesus,
Anatolia, Artemis received so many single
breasts from her lovers that they completely co-
vered her chest as ornaments.
In Mongolia, for love, two companion lovers
fight a white bear together. Despite the fierce-
ness of this animal and the dangers of a fight
without death, they do not kill the bear. Their
goal is to immobilize her. This is done with bare
hands by the most skillful. Others use different
kinds of belts.
The most simple tribute for love is still an ex-
change of tattoos. The pattern is identical for
both companion lovers and it is drawn on the
same part of the body. The companion lovers
from communities in the First Continent of
Large Country, for love, shave each other's
heads. They do this with great pleasure, it is said.
On their bare skulls, they mutually apply oint-
ments, oils, essences or perfumes.
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Lycians
An ancient race of amazons who lived in Crete

during the Bronze Age. Later they left Crete for
southern AnatoHa.
terity when they had to dismount their mares
oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Lycians as of other ama-
Steel Age.)
Lydians

Bronze Age in Anatolia, near Sardis. One of
them, Omphale, was most famous. "The Lydians
say that they invented games." "It was in a time
when the Lydians entertained themselves with
games, they fasted, played, and held festivities
and, rested on alternate days." (Found in the
assemblage of books and fragments
Bibliothec,
01
during the last chaotic period.) They always car-
their bow.
oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Lydians as of other ama-

structible naturesimmers on and, from time to
Steel Age.)
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Macedonians
Sporadic tribes of amazons who lived in

Macedonia during the Iron Age. Thalestris was
one of their queens. The Macedonians were a
branch of the Thermodontines. The Macedo-
nians dressed in a piece of violet material tied
around their bare thighs. On their torso they
wore leather armour. They had a helmet some-
times embellished with ostrich feathers. For
shields they used a very light pelta in a crescent
form. They always carried in their belt the dou-
ble-headed axe which they handled with great
dexterity when they had to dismount their mares
oats, or rye.
Although the Macedonians constituted groups
of lesser strength and power than the Ther-
modontines, it can be said of the Macedonians as
of other amazons that their daughter empires
had an amazonian structure without com-
promise in contrast to the mother empires. Long
after their splendor has "paled, however, some-
thing of their indestructible nature simmers on
and, from time to time, breaks out of its obscur-
ity." (Helen Diner, ^Mothers and Amazons, Ger-
many, High-Speed Steel Age.)
Magnesia
Name of three amazons who lived during the

Bronze Age. All three founded cities called Mag-
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nesia. The bearers of fables say that Magnesia
who came from Caria founded her city in Thes-
saly. They say that Magnesia who came from
Lydia founded her city in Caria. They say that
Magnesia who came from Thrace founded her
city in Lydia. They say that not one of the three
built her city in her own amazon empire, from
which comes the expression, "no one is a prophet
in her own country." The bearers of fables say
that when the three Magnesias discovered that
each had founded a city of the same name, each
decided that there was one too many. Thus one
Magnesia aimed her bow at the second Magnesia,
who aimed at the third Magnesia who, in turn,
aimed at the first one. If one considers their
dexterity in shooting with a bow, all three should
have died immediately.
Malinalko
Celebrated as Malinalko the Cunning. Ancient

amazon who lived in the Large Country, Second
Continent during the Iron Age. She practiced
magic. This is why she founded a city and re-
turned there to work her art.
Marie-Antoixette and Marie-Laure de Lamballe
Two dirty "gouines" or dykes who had their

heads cut off.
Maryhood
founded by Mary Frith in
Coalition of the Marys
Albion during the Steam Age. At that time the
Marys were so numerous that their association
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grew rapidly. Every Mary could enter into the
coalition by swearing to help all of the other
Marys. Their ringleader, Mary Frith, also called
"Moll Cutpurse," was a famous robberess who
operated in London.
Mastication
Some companion lovers have this custom of deli-

cacy during meals. When one of them is tired,
lazy, or has her appetite, another one of them
lost
voluntarily offers to masticate her food for her,
and gives it to her from-the tips of her fingers,
from her palms, or mouth to mouth.
i Masturbation
There exists an organic machine called "tempta-

tion." When it begins to work in the body not one
companion lover can remain indifferent. "Her
heart beat fast, she recognized the forerunning
signs, the wonderful machine that she once
and which
called with a sacred fright 'temptation'
she never knew how was working"
to resist,
(Christiane Rochefort, At Least We're Going To-
ward Summer, Gaul, Glorious Age).
Medea
Magician queen wh^ lived in Colchis during the

Bronze Age. She was the guardian of the Golden
Fleece until wandering amazons came to take it
away. They also took Medea with them. They
learned magic from her. The bearers of fables
say that later she joined Circe on her island Aeaea
and there became her companion queen and
lover.
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Medusa
Celebrated as Medusa the Ferocious. Queen of

the Gorgon amazons who Hved in Libya during
the Bronze Age. Medusa had an abundant and
curly head of hair, into which she intermingled
black snakes. When Medusa galloped the snakes
moved around her head, and some coiled
around her neck. But when she joined in battle
on her mare, all the snakes would rise at once,
hissing, furious, agitated with movement, sowing
panic among her enemies. Medusa could petrify
all those who rose up against her by the look in
her eyes. The Gorgons were separated from the

Libyans for a thousand years before Medusa be-
came queen. The Gorgons under Medusa, and
the Libyans under Athena, were led to fight dur-
ing the most terrifying battle known within ama-
zon memory. After the Gorgons were defeated,
thatsame day, the Libyans celebrated their vic-
tory. festivity the Gorgon prisoners
During the
led byMedusa attempted an uprising. At that
very moment Medusa was killed by Athena,
queen of the Libyans. Later on, even when she
was celebrated as a goddess, Athena kept on her
chest the head of the terrible Gorgon whom she
secretlv loved, it is said.
Megere and ALLECTO
Famous companion lovers, ancient amazons who

lived in Libva. Megere and Allecto were part of a
tribe which, like the Gorgons, was a branch of the
Libyans. During the Bronze Age this tribe re-
ceived the immortal name of the Furies.
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Melt
"I have to find a way to show you that I am yours

and have no wish apart from yours, and the
thought caused my body to find a way, which
later on we made a name for. We called it melt-
ing" (Isabel Miller, Patience and Sarah, Large
Country, First Continent, Glorious Age).
Mnasidica
A companion lover of Sappho, born on Lesbos,

"Mnasidica has a more beautiful body / than the
fragile Gyrinno" (Sappho, Poems, Lesbos, Iron
Age).
MOLPADIA
Celebrated as Molpadia the Rabid. Ancient ama-

zon, queen of the Scythian amazons who lived
north of the Black Sea during the Iron Age.
Oreithyia was her companion queen throughout
the many wars that they led together. The mas-
sive rising of amazons which she initiated, gallop-
ing across the empires at Oreithyia's side, was her
last enterprise. Molpadia died in the course of
battle during the siege of Athens.
There she w as buried as were many other ama-
zons before her. Her companion queen did not
survive long after Molpadia's death. With the
impossibility of destroying Athens, as she had
sworn, Oreithyia 3ied of rage.
Moon
The ancient amazons acknowledged only the
new moon, the first thin, shiny and white cres-
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cent whose shape they borrowed for their
weapons, bow and shield. From which they won
the name "warriors of luniform shield" (found in
the Biblwthec, assemblage of books and fragments
during the last chaotic period).
Mother
'"During the Golden Age, everyone in the terres-
trial garden was called amazon. Mothers were
not distinct from daughters. They lived in har-
mony and shared pleasures. They enumerated
every beautiful and pleasant place in the terres-
trial garden and invited one another to visit them.
They hunted together. They gathered together
and they wandered together. They described
their deeds and exploits in epics. There were no
limits to their adventures and age had no mean-
ing in their lives or in their poems. Everyone
thought of herself as an amazon.
"After the first settlements in the cities every-
thing continued as before. The amazons lived far
from, rather than inside, their cities. After hunt-
ing or gathering, the food was prepared out of
doors and a festival was held. \>ry often the city
was completely deserted and vacant for several
days.
"Then came a time when some daughters, and
some mothers did not like wandering anymore in
the terrestrial garden. They began to stay in the
cities and most often they watched their abdo-
mens grow. This activity brought them, it is said,

great satisfaction. Things went so far in this di-
rection that they refused to have any other in-
asked them to join
terests. In vain, their friends
them in their travels. They always had a new
abdomen to watch. Thus thev called themselves
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mothers. And they found qualifications corre-
sponding to this function of childbearing, for
example, mother the plenary, mother the one
who engenders. The first generation of static
mothers who refused to leave their cities, began.
From then on, they called the others 'eternal,
immature daughters, amazons.'
"They did not welcome them cordially when
they came back from their travels. They did not
accounts of discoveries or explora-
listen to their
tions anymore. The joy of hunting, gathering
and wandering had disappeared. At that time the
mothers stopped calling themselves amazons and
the mothers and the amazons began to live sepa-
rately" (Julienne Bourge, Comments on the Past,
Gaul, Glorious Age).
Mouth
often said of the vulva, that it is a mouth.
It is
Mouths and vulvas are the two most sensitive

zones in a state of love, one often going joined
with the other. 'T put my upper mouth on your
lower mouth and I weaken" (Genevieve Page,
Letter to her companion lover, Gaul, Glorious
Age). "The small mouths are a lunch of sun"
(Ruth Collins, Aphorisms, Sappho's journal, Al-
bion, Glorious Age). "A thousand mouths, a
thousand waves of the sea, coming and going,
alive" (Sue O'Neil, Song-5 of October, Large Coun-
try, First Continent, Glorious Age).
Myrine
Celebrated as Myrine the Victrix. Ancient ama-

zon who lived in Libya during the Bronze Age.
Myrine, the Lybian, conquered Syria, Phrygia
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and several islands in Greece including Samos,
Lesbos, Patmos, and Samothrace. She lived on
Samothrace for some time, and, by boat, set out
with her army to conquer more land than any
other amazon of her time, it is said. The bearers
of fables say that Myrine was an expert strategist
and that unlike many other amazons, she was also
an excellent navigator.
Mysians
An ancient race of amazons who lived in Anatolia

during the Bronze Age. "From the Sinai Penin-
sula to the Sarmatian plains the Mysians fought
on horseback under the leadership of their
queen. The Mysians were a branch of the Ly-
dians, neighbors of the Lycians, and relatives of
the Carians" (Helen Diner Mothers and Amazons
,
Germany, High-Speed Steel Age.)

The Mysians, like the Lydians were very inven-
tive in their games. The bearers of fables say that
the Mysians held great games on the open plain
with lionesses. The Mysians painted their bodies
indigo blue and fought with the lionesses. There
were pursuits, wrestling matches, and races. The
Mysians always carried in their belt the double-
terity when they had to dismount their mares and
fight hand to hand. On the left they had their
oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Mysians as of other ama-
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structible naturesimmers on and, from time to
Mothers and Amazons Germany, High-Speed Steel
,
Age.)
Ill
Name
Each companion lover chooses her own name
according to her skills, her preferences or her
actions. Whatever be the chosen name, it is, for
each, a manifestation of her particular being.
Only an uncompanionable can lose her chosen
name after a certain time of uncompanionability
Name Day
The day that the companion lovers have a festival
for their chosen names. This day is so important
to them that they have created such days for the
ancient amazons, their ancestresses, according to
their fame.
Nation
The very last nation to exist before the begin-

ning of the Glorious Age was the Lesbian Nation.
(Jill Johnston, Lesbian Nation, Large Coun-
try, First Continent.) A group of lesbians living

between the mouth of the Meuse and the point of
Helder, in the expanse of land once called
Netherlands, have adopted the name "lesbian
nation" in remembrance of the former one.
Nectar
There exists by this name a sort of cyprine in the

back of the throat. It is formed in rich, sweet
droplets, bringing about an almost deathly plea-
sure. Some say that it is the taste of desire.
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Need
"Milk and honey under your tongue, / is all you

need" (Song of the companion lovers on the is-
land Baggai, Polynesia).
Net
Dreams are fluid and inconsistent upon waking.

Nevertheless they exist. Companion lovers who
combine their energy rays may thus create a de-
vice apt to collect dreams, even the most fugitive
ones. The lesbian peoples call it the dream net.
NICIPPA
Celebrated as Nicippa the Victorious Mare.

Thermodontine amazon who, like her mother
Hippodamia, caught wild mares during races.
Jumping on their backs without interrupting
their gallop, she subdued and tamed them for
chariot races.
NINE Giantesses (thE)
These nine companion lovers lived together in

Scandinavia during the Bronze Age. All of them
were founders and casted metal in a foundry
built on the site of a volcano. They all slept to-
gether, embracing at night, to protect themselves
from the polar cold.
NTSE AND SPIO

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NUMIDIANS

Bronze Age in northern Africa. They founded a
cityon Lake Triton.
The Numidians wore red leather armour,
snakeskin boots, and used shields made of
python. They always
carried in their belt the
oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Numidians as of other
amazons that their daughter empires had an
Speed Steel Age.)
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Obi
The bearers of fables say that the companion

lovers on the island Obi are slow. They say that
these companion lovers know how to live at the
same speed as the trees in their own physical
form. A new evaluation of their space and time
has made this possible through a series of exper-
iments. The bearers of fables say that they are
able to perceive the density and weight of space
when they move in a slow movement. They per-
ceive time through the slowing down of their
bodily functions, respiration, circulation, assimi-
lation, secretion, and nutrition. They can also
perceive that each one of their gestures is made
in slow motion. In this way they embrace and kiss
each other, take each other, make and unmake
each other, absorb each other. The bearers of
fables say that the companion lovers on the island
Obi find it pleasant to live like the trees, slow and
continuous.
Oblivion
(to fall into), if you do not want to fall there by

yourself you will be pushed.
Ocellus
The pores of the skin are said to become ocelli

when they enlarge. Blue, red, green ocelli may be
seen all over the surface of the body. This
phenomenon is produced when two companion
lovers' bodies circulate. The companion lovers

on the island Phoenix commonly describe one
another with ocelli of every color completely cov-
ering their bodies.
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Odius and Epistrophus
Famous companion lovers, epoch unknown.

"But of the amazons Odius and Epistrophus
were captains having come from Alope, where is
the race of amazons" (found in the Bibliothec,
the last chaotic period). According to Shirley
Holmes, "Alope was the original name of
Ephesus" (Shirley Holmes, Traces, Albion, Glori-
ous Age).
Ointment
The companion lovers make a great number of

ointments which are prepared with many per-
fumes. When they use them for embalming the
living, they mix them with aromatic plants,
rosemary, thyme, basil, benzoin. As for the
anointings practiced in the baths, they incorpo-
rate strong perfumes into them, musk,
opoponax, amber. When they coat their fingers
and their palms before passing them over the lips
of vulvas, the companion lovers use ointments
with light and non-irritating perfumes, jasmine,
rose, lilac, violet, lily.
Olivarian
The olivarians are bearers of olives, who go from

one lesbian people to another. Olivarians are
most welcome during the oil-making season.
Their fruit is reputed to give love virtues to the
less ardent companion lovers.
The 'olivarians are traditionally dressed as
peace messengers and always wear crowns of
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olive leaves. They are supposed to bring peace as
well as olives.
Olulu Ololu
Famous cry of triumph of the Tritonians, ama-

zons from Libya. This branch of the Libyan ama-
zons were conqueresses and initiated the olulu
ololu, the general cry of triumph of all amazons.
They would shout it from announce their
far to
victory in battle. Olulu Ololu was modulated ac-
cording to different rhythms, speeds, volumes.
"The Libyans plunged into the Nile after battle.
They came out of the river, water streaming, and
jumped onto their mares. Thirty thousand ama-
zons could be seen galloping and shouting with
all their might olulu ololu" (Melissa Veii, Shadows
on the Black Sea, Egypt, Glorious Age).
Omphale
Celebrated as Omphale the Perfect. Ancient

amazon, queen of the Lydians who lived during
the Bronze Age. Anahita was her lover and com-
panion queen. (Found in the Bibliothec, as-
chaotic period.)
Oreithyia
Celebrated as Oreithyia the Black. Ancient ama-

zon, queen of the Scythian amazons who lived
north of the Black Sea during the Iron Age.
Molpadia was her companion queen during the
numerous wars they led together. The bearers of
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fables say that Oreithyia and Molpadia galloped
across empires and instigated a massive rising of
amazons in order to destroy Athens. Oreithyia
and Molpadia started from the Thermodon
River. They went across the Caucasus. They
crossed the Bosphorus to go into Thrace. They
went across Macedonia. Then they routed to-
ward Thessaly. The Thermodontine, Thracian,
Macedonian, Thessalian amazons joined them to
invade Athens, and they immediately occupied
the Acropolis.
The bearers of fables say that after the treaty
that ended the four-month siege, when discover-
ing that her oath to destroy Athens would not be
accomplished, Oreithyia died of rage.
Orgasm
The companion Taprobana say that on

lovers of
their island the blue lights produced by orgasms
can illuminate the sky. Once this light or orgastic
energy was measured by Whilemina Reich in the
Large Country (First Continent). Since most of
the companion lovers are unwilling to use this
energy other than in its immediate consumption,
these measurements are no longer in use.
Outcry
The companion lovers vociferate, they cry out at

the top of their voices, they howl, they storm,
they shout themselves hoarse, they split their
lungs, they they stridulate, they growl, they
yell,
roar, they whistle, they hiss, they hoot, they
whisper, they ney, they hum, they chirr, they
crow, they coo, they ululate. All outcries exer-
cised simply to pass the time in whatever occupa-
tion.
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Overpopulation
With the massive rising of the lesbian peoples in

the Glorious Age, the problem of overpopulation
has disappeared. "They live happily together
and never have children" {Ba.2i\a.,Population Cen-
sus, Africa, Glorious Age).
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Page
A page is a little companion lover who wants to

travel with a knight. Often she follows this knight
clandestinely. When she is discovered, it is gen-
erally too late for the knight to send her back.
Thus they go a good way together. In the tarot,
the page comes directly after the knight, always
behind her and without a mare. The pages are
called thepage of cups, the page of wands, the
page of pentacles, the page of swords.
Passage
The last people known to have practiced pas-

sages were witches. When a passage failed a com-
plete transformation occurred. Sirens, for
example, were witches with a fish tail. Angels
never became complete birds, but they had wings
with feathers to fly. Sphinx had the head of an
amazon, the body of a lioness and the wings of an
eagle. Witches made successful passages into
bodies of hares, eagles, goats, wolverines, does.
During the chaotic ages, passages into animals
were often a means of escaping pursuit. The
witches had a song of transformation that dates
from the Bronze Age. In this song "to be fetched
home" means "to go back into one's first form."
*'I will turn into a mare / for I like changing
forms, / yea, to celebrate my lady's name / till I

be fetched home. / Mare, take shelter / from a
fierce red cat / since I will bite the nape of your
neck / for here I come in your lady's name / all
but for to fetch you home. / Then I will turn
into a snake / and fool you through many a
trick / for I will go in other form / yea till I be
fetched home. / Snake, take shelter / from a
bright eyed eagle for I will carry you into the
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air / come in your lady's name / all
since here I
but for to fetch you home. / Then I will turn

into a fly / that buzzes around and teases insane
/ for I will go in other form / yea, till I will be
fetched home. / Fly, take shelter / from the
^vind and strong rain / for I will destroy you
here and there / since I come in your lady's
name but for to fetch you home. Then I
/ all /
will turn into a hen that has white feathers

'
and no fear / —but I come to bleed your chest /

that soon you be fetched home. (found in the '
Bibliothec, assemblasê of books and fraornents

fi om the past, salvaged by the companion lov-
ers during the last chaotic period) .
Patience and Sarah
Famous companion lovers from the Large Coun-

try (First Continent, Steam Age). They lived on a
farm that they built west of the Green Mountain
State. They worked in polyculture and did a little
breeding. Sarah was a woodcutter and Patience a
painter. She painted in particular the episode of
the destruction of Gomorrha.
Pelasgia
Area composed of both continents and islands

lying west of Anatolia, in the Mediterranean Sea,
once called Greece. The Pelasgian language has
not yet been deciphered. This work is considered
urgent by the companion lovers since part of our
earliest liistory remains hidden because of the
impossibility of reading Pelasgian.
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Pelta
Small oval-shaped shield of an arm's length, with

an indentation at the top in the form of a crescent
moon. Light weapon which permits good visibil-
ity and does not hinder movement. Invented by
the ancient amazons from Thrace.
Penthesilea
Celebrated as Penthesilea the Ardent. Queen of

amazons who lived during the Bronze Age. She
was originally from Cleite, a city in Etruria. Cleite
was also the name of her companion queen, the
foundress of that city. Traces of Penthesilea were
found in Troy, Anatolia. There she was seen,
fighting bare-breasted, with a golden scarf.
(Found in the Bibliothec, assemblage of books and
panion lovers during the last chaotic period.)
People
On the day of the vanishing powder the sun was

very bright in the clearings, forests, moors,
plains, plateaux, mountains, hills, and on the sea.
It so happened that a large number of compan-
ion lovers appeared to one another in their full
brilliance. Since they could easily stand the sight,
they gathered, fdrming lesbian peoples here and
there. These lesbian peoples took pleasure in
reviving the customs of the ancient amazons.
Some tribes have settled and cultivate the fields.
Others try to live in areas of gathering and hunt-
ing. Though the land is impoverished for the
most part, it still permits gathering in the glacial
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and equatorial regions. Each has chosen a direc-
tion according to the cHmate she prefers. There
are also wandering tribes, acrobats, circuses. Sev-
eral groups of companion lovers have decided to
live on the sea and become fishers. Others have
set out in search of islands. Some of them are still
searching.
Perfume
Most of the lesbian peoples use perfumes ob-

tained through the maceration or distillation of
plants. They process cumin, cinnamon, anise,
almonds, iris, rose, bergamot, vetiver, thyme,
mint, pine resins, lemon and orange rinds. Some
of these perfumes have healing properties for
the skin, just as the essences used in embalming
the living regenerate the organs. The perfumes
made with cyprine are selected only for their
odors. Collecting these perfumes is called har-
vesting.
Phoenix
A lesbian people have settled on one of the

Phoenix islands in Polynesia during the Glorious
Age. Some of them live in arboreal colonies.
Others live in villages. The companion lovers of
the island Phoenix are known for their constant
hallucinatory state. The bearers of fables tell of
the hallucinations of the companion lovers from
the island Phoenix in long, repetitive tales. They
say that when the companion lovers develop
these hallucinations, one or several of them can
be caught by the repetition. It even happens that
the phenomenon becomes collective. The bear-
ers of fables say that they themselves may fall into
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the repetitionwhen telHng the tale of the com-
I panion lovers of Phoenix, by the action of re-
counting something monotonous.
Pig
Some companion lovers mime an animal for

theircompanion lover's pleasure. Wolves, cats
serpents have been seen. The pig, generally
speaking, is the animal most often mentioned.
To be or to become a pig does not mean grunting
like a pig or enjoying truffles like a pig or being
bristled like a pig. It means to stop washing, to
keep corporal odors in order to delight one's
companion lover.
Pirates
Amazons who in remote times would kidnap

mothers by boat in order to bring them to their
country and teach them the exercise of weapons
and the domestication of mares.
Pleistodica
A companion lover of Sappho. "And you Dica for

a wreath / one bough of anise to another /
tie
set them in your beautiful hair. / Because the

blest prefer / to see those who wear flowers /
and walk with grace, / but from those without a
wreath they turnâway" (Sappho, Po^m^, Lesbos,
Iron Age).
Poisoning
Throughout all of the Iron Age and into the

Steam Age poisoning was considered an art. One
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of the most famous poisoners was Locusta w ho
li\ ed in Etruria during the Iron Age. Locusta not
only practiced her art on ten thousand persons,

she also opened a school for poisoners.
Powder
Tw o strikes with one powder, as it is said of the

vanishing powder since the Glorious Age. This
powder permitted an explosive operation at the
end of the Concrete Age, when half of the popu-
lation took it. From which comes the expression
"to take apowder." It therefore caused a double
disappearance through which both parties for-
got each other, did well and continue to do so.
The vanishing powder was invented by a small
group of companion lovers who called them-
selves the Red Dykes, in sheer modesty. Its in-
stantaneous diffusion was accomplished through
the Irreals who distributed all kinds of dreams
that same night. The day after when exulting
companion lovers wanted to compliment them
for their trick and hug them tightly, the Red
Dvkes said as modestly as ever '"taking a powder
is easy, it is staying which has been hard."
Power
When the little companion lovers begin to shine

and emit colors, they become powers. Mei Savajo,
a companion lover from Gaul, has established
distinctions between various sorts of energy ac-
cording to the power to which it may be related.
(Mei SavdLJo, Powers from the South, Gaul, Glorious
Age.) In her book, she says that her preference is
for the *'warm" powers from the south in contrast
to the formidable powers from the north.
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Queen
Among the ancient amazons, the most vaHant

warrior of a region or a tribe was called queen
temporarily or over a long period. There were
always two queens of the amazons at the same
time, twocompanion queens. They were lovers
and fought side by side.
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Rage
Principal cause of death of a great number of

ancient amazons. It was said that if ever they were
captured or wounded in battle, then "they died
of rage" (Deirdre Ailm, Dies Irae, Celty, High-
Speed Steel Age).
Rain
In Africa some have considered it like the erotic

stimulation of the inhabitants from above. From
which comes the expression "happy rain" in
speaking about the cyprine. One also finds "little
rain" as an equivalent expression for the secre-
tion of love. The rains, in any case, are generally
more appreciated among the companion lovers
when they come from below and are all the more
sought after.
Rave
This verb had varying meanings during the dark

ages. It is now said to express an affection lived
through jubilation, effervescence, ebullience,
agitation, outburst, transport, explosion, rap-
ture, exaltation, fever, frenzy, excitement, mad-
ness, trances, intoxication, rage, violence, ar-
dour.
The companion lovers all rave one day or
another on continents, islands, ice banks. The
great rave designates a state that only some com-
panion lovers reach when they let their eyes,
their limbs, arms and legs, and their clitoris fall.
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Ray
There exist rays such as the rays of the eyes, or

Hghts produced by the eyes of companion lovers
who are in a state of great contentment. The
bearers of fables say that they have seen compan-
ion lovers induce with the rays of their eyes wide
colored circles on the skin of those reached by
them, blue, purple, red, ochre ocelli.
Red Dykes
The glorious group of companion lovers who live

in Gaul and who discovered the vanishing pow-
der call themselves the Red Dykes, in sheer mod-
esty. The bearers of fables say that they acquired
the habit of painting their faces and their hands
red.
Release
The companion lovers are trying to perfect what

they call a release machine. This machine is used
for evacuating nightmares, obsessions, irritation,
anger, boredom, inertia, dullness, bad will. But,
in the absence of an efficient discovery, they
utilize a set of suggestions. "If your friend is in a
bad mood, strike her with all your might." "If
your companion lover is bored, leave her im-
mediately." "If you have nightmares, don't sleep
anymore." "If anger suffocates you, suffocate."
(Martha Ephore, Major Suggestions Gaul, Glori-
,
ous Age.)
Rescue
The rescue of defeated amazons was systemati-
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cally practiced by their companions. When fallen
into the hands of their adversaries, amazons
would either kill themselves when their rescue
was too slow or die of rage. But it happened that
they were rescued on time by their companions.
When amazons fought their last war against
Athens, it was in order to rescue Antiope, com-
panion queen of Hippolyte, captured by the
enemy. Many rescues did not have the same fame
as this one. With their decreasing numbers the
desperate amazons multiplied ambushes to res-
cue either their captured companions, or un-
known prisoners whom they would turn into new
amazons.
Ring
Round, black rings seem to be the most efficient

as a means of communication. They are held
close to one's eye while one concentrates. The
first image of the eye which appears in the ring
then transforms. There is however no precise

rule. Companion lovers have seen their eye be-
come away lover. The vapor
the eye of their far
which forms in the interior and around the ring
may reproduce the entire face of one's compan-
ion lover, as well as her surroundings. Pleasur-
able sensations often occur with the visual image
and are yet to be explored, as well as the distance
of communication possible between two rings
situated in different geographical points.
ROSARIAN
The rosarians are the bearers of roses or rose

bushes who go from one lesbian people to
another. The companion lovers of the Glorious
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Age consume many roses to make rose waterand
to give them away. They also obtain syrup from
the hips or fruit of the rose. The rosarians pro-
vide rose water and rose hip syrup to those who
lack the patience to make them.
RUGILA AND STIKLA
Two famous companion lovers who lived during

the Bronze Age. They "fought together and im-
prisoned their adversary, gaining the crown of
Sweden. Later they gained the throne of Nor-
way" (Franfoise d'Eaubonne, Gaul, Glorious
Age).
Ruth and Naomi
Famous companion lovers who lived in Palestine

during the Bronze Age. "Do not force me to leave
you or to return from following you, for where
you go, I will go and where you live, I will live and
your people will be my people. Where you die, I
will die and there will I be buried and then death
alone will separate you and me" {The Book of Ruth,
1, 16-17, Palestine, Bronze Age).
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Sack
Tree sacks are set at different heights upon the

trees in places inhabited by the lesbian peoples.
Sycamore, chestnut, lime, cedar, eucalyptus, fig,
plane, baobab trees are spacious enough to hang
many sacks on. The tree sacks are made of fur in
the cold countries, of net in the others. They may
take on all kinds of shapes according to the de-
sired use of its occupier or occupiers. They are
generally inhabited for sleep or for idleness.
Samos
An island in Greece, situated along the coast of

Anatolia near Ephesus. During the Silver Age
and the Bronze Age numerous amazons went to
this island.
When in danger, the amazons who lived in
Anatolia, the Lycians, the Lydians, the Carians,
the Mysians, theThermodontines withdrew to
Ephesus or Samos or western Anatolia.
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Sappho
1,S6
Savage
A qualification once used for the ancient ama-

zons. The bearers of fables say that there are also
savage companion lovers. They say that, among
the lesbian peoples, savages are those who go
bare handed and never beg.
Scale
The scale that Sappho used is composed of the

following notes: mi, a quarter tone above mi, fa,
la, ti, a quarter tone above ti, do, mi.
Scar
Embellishment added to the skin and practiced

on its surface or through several layers of flesh by
cuttings, burnings, stitchings, puncturings. They
are marks, lines, tattoos. Scars are of every color
and every shape. Some cover the face, starting
from the temples. They form beads in the shape
of rice grains. Many companion lovers have one
or several motifs on the body. Some prefer
geometrical ornaments. Others have their whole
body covered with shape of flowers,
scars in the
trees, or birds. Itrecorded that for the ancient
is
amazons the most celebrated scar was the one

they had in place of their right breast.
Scatter
Term frequendy used to describe a reaction to a

stimulus created by a companion lover. It indi-
cates fast shifts in sensual perceptions. "You scat-
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terme, Sarah" (Bruni, Songs of Delights, Large
Country, Second Continent, Glorious Age).
Science
"In truth I tell you, chaos, all has been systematic

chaos, obscurantism, falsification, mystification,
since the beginning of writing. My beloved
friends, do not say that there have been chaotic
periods. As if we have known other times. Dark
age after dark age, such has been our history. It
would have been better for each one of us had
her mother put out her eyes at birth than to see
what there is to see today under the sun. Lie has
been added upon lie and it has been called sci-
ence. My beloved friends, what is science? What
are history, psychology, sociology, theology, ar-
chaeology, biology, ethnology, etiology, zoology,
philosophy, botany, physics, geography,
medicine, numerology, economy, mythology,
semiology? I tell you, all is a lie" (Marie Isar,
Invectives, delivered during a large assembly of
companion lovers at the end of the Concrete Age
in Flanders). The bearers of fables say that Marie
Isar said to conclude, "There have been lesbian
peoples who have successfully lived on the fringe
of society, but how, I do not know."
Scythe
Long narrow blade in a crescent shape, used for

cutting tall grass or wheat. The bearers of fables
say that was first used as a weapon in wai and
it
that it was invented by the Scythian amazons,

from which comes its name.
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Scythians
An ancient race of amazons who lived north of

the Black Sea, between the River Don and the
Carpathian Mountains, throughout the end of
the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. The
Scythians constituted an important branch of the
Thermodontines.
The bearers of fables say that they invented
mosaics. The first mosaics formed the streets of
the cities. The Scythians used black and white
round pebbles that they fitted closely together.
The surface was smooth enough permit the
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mares to come and go. The bearers of fables say
that the motifs were simple circles, triangles,
flower designs. Later they used cubic stones of all
colors. For weapons, the Scythians had a shield in
a crescent form. They always carried in their belt
the double-headed axe which they handled with
Later they also used a lance and a short sword.
They dressed in a long narrow trouser, a coat,
high and soft boots. In winter they wore a fur
attached at the left shoulder.
oats; or rye. ^
It can be said of the Scythians as of other ama-
the mother empires. Long after their spendor
Lsg
time, breaks out of
its obscurity." (Helen Diner,

Steel Age.)
Shadow
In the Glorious Age the companion lovers treat
their shadows This permits
like living persons.
them to face the daily dissociation that everyone
experiences and that language records, "I said to
myself," "I see myself in the mirror." It is rare
that someone develops a bad relationship with
her shadow. Some companion lovers display a
great affection for their shadows, and therefore
give them names. Shadows are particularly vi-
brant on days of a full moon. Companion lovers
have been seen embracing their shadows and
manifesting the greatest contentment.
Shield
Defensive weapon of the ancient amazons. The

Thermodontines carried a shield in the form of a
crescent moon with a double indentation for the
face. The Thracians invented the pelta, small
shield in the form of a crescent moon with a
single indentation. The Libyans, the Lydians, the
Carians, the Mysians, the Nubians generally car-
ried circular skin-covered shields in celebration
of the full moon.
SiNOPE
A city founded on the coast of the

in Anatolia
Black Sea by a Scythian amazon.
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SiNOPE
Celebrated as Sinope the Armed One. Ancient

Scythian amazon, foundress of a city in AnatoHa
which was given her name. The bearers of fables
say that Sinope had a predilection for weapons,
and that she was always in search of new ones.
They say that Sinope was the first to think of
making a mask to protect her face. They say that
Sinope's golden mask soon served as a model for
many other Scythian amazons.
Sirens
These were famed races such as the Lorelei from

Germany, the Aphaeans and the Altergatians
from Pelasgia, the Dictynians and the Britomar-
tians from Crete. There were also sirens from the
island Ogygia in Celty. Some, such as Tiamat,
came out of the sea to teach the amazons how^ to
build a city. Later, Tiamat was celebrated as a
goddess in Sumer. Scotia of Cyprus and
Anathaounta, the Aegean, also came out of the
sea to teach the amazons how to build cities.
There were Mary the Egyptian and Mary the
Bohemian who emerged from the sea with a mir-
ror and a comb (originally a plectrum). Whether
as a black or a white siren, Mary was later cele-
brated as Venus, a goddess of love, who emerged
from the waters.
Some believe that sirens are the result of
missed passages into the bodies of fish. Others
say that there is no way of knowing whether or
not the transformation into sirens was a complete
metamorphosis. Under the form of a siren a
companion lover may travel conveniently. In the
sea, sirens breathe through gills which are be-
hind their ears. On land they breathe through
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their noses. Sirens have very beautiful voices.
Singing with a siren's voice is said to bring you a
great number of companion lovers. Some com-
panion lovers have even thrown themselves from
the top of rocks to join the one whose voice has
charmed them. The sirens, when seeing this,
must perform rapid transformations to avoid
having to cry over drowned ones. Never within
living memory has one accident been reported.
The expression "to take someone into one's nets"
does not come from the siren custom of throwing
nets, since they never did so. Sirens have the
reputation of being very sociable. They particu-
larly rejoice when the companion lovers come to
join them. Then they hold one another around
the neck and move towards the surface of the sea
to sing their long siren chants at night.
Skull
A metonym when used to designate the whole

head. Tenderly spoken of as the most fragile part
of one's companion lover's body. "Dearest skull"
is a common expression. "Poor little skull" is said
to a companion lover who has lost her mind.
"The golden" means that the most fragile
skull is
is most precious. "Never walk without

also the
holding your skull in your hands," one of the
suggestions of Martha Ephore (Martha Ephore,
Major Suggestions, Gaul, Glorious Age).
Slave
Obsolete since the beginning of the Glorious

Age. Considered by many companion lovers as
the most infamous designation. This word once
was applied to beings fallen in an absolute state of
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servitude. Its meaning was "one who belongs to
another."
Sleep
Physical time is no longer mechanically divided
into sleeping and waking hours since the com-

panion lovers sleep at any moment. To sleep has
therefore changed its meaning. This explains
how one companion lover may say to another, "I
sleep you." To sleep someone means both to
sleep beside her and to sleep the love of her.
Sleeping someone takes precedence over many
other activities. It is often called "an exercise of
total idleness, the highest delight" (Sseu
Tchouan, The Book of Idleness, China, Glorious
Age).
Sleeping Beauty
Generally said of a companion lover who is

forgetful of her clitoris. She falls then into a kind
of somnolence whose motive she does not know.
She may remain in that state an indeterminate
lapse of time. One particularly solitary beauty has
been widely known because that sleeping state
overtook her in the middle of a wood. One
hundred years passed before one of her compan-
ion lovers found her in the course of a long walk.
That state of somnolence ends for the beauty
when a companion lover tactfully reminds her
that she has a clitoris.
Smyrna
Name of a cityfounded by an ancient Libyan

amazon in western Anatolia. This city, later
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called Izmir, is situated on the coast of the Ae-
gean Sea.
Smyrna
Celebrated as Smyrna the Charmer. Ancient Li-

byan amazon, foundress of a city which has been
given her name, on the coast of the Aegean Sea in
Anatolia.
The bearers of fables say that Smyrna was the
most famous storyteller of her time. She jour-
neyed between Libya and Anatolia, stopping
among the amazon tribes that she met, to recount
stories. The bearers of fables say that she was the
author of the epic, The Amazon with Golden Boots.
Snack
In its moments for the

beginning, a leisurely few
companion lovers. Presendy snacks have
little
evolved into something quite different. The

exact time is so widely varied that there exists a
kind of snack epidemic, so that it is difficult to

know when it starts and for how long it lasts. 'Tor
the companion lovers / it is four / at all
hours / of night and day" (lullaby, Glorious
Age).
Snakes
The companion lovers who sleep with snakes are

careful not to crush them during their sleep.
They hold them around their wrists, their arms,
their legs, their ankles, even around their necks,
each place which leaves their snake a space to coil
up. The bearers of fables say that they never
heard 'of any case of a snake crushed by her bed
companion. Nevertheless, despite all her care, a
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companion lover often awakens lying flat on her
back or flat on her stomach, on top of her snake
who is deeply asleep.
Snapdragon
Many companion lovers cultivate snapdragons

because they resemble vulvas, with their invo-
The litde companion lovers
luted labiate corollas.
know how to open them by pressing the bottom
of the corolla with their fingers on each side.
Snarling
Specific language of the companion lovers on the

island Flores in Indonesia. It sounds like a low or
loud grumble, a hoarse outcry, a muffled rumble
in the throat identical to the growl of a bear. It is
difficult to list all of the modulations and stridu-
lations of the voice that may be classified in this
category. This language is known to have a pow-
erful effect both upon the companion lover who
emits it and the one who receives it. Snarling is
supposed to increase the physical strength of the
companion lovers on the island Flores. When the
companion lovers on the island Flores speak
Snarling, there is, according to some, an evident
reminiscence of the ancient goddess Vac from
Asia who incarnates language. She says, "I roar
through all of creation like a gust of wind, over
the skies and over the earth" (Helen Diner,
Mothers and Amazofis, Germany, High-Speed
Steel Age).
SPIT
All forms of secretion are appreciated in the

Glorious Age when one swallows the spittings of
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her companion lover. The act of spitting requires
amount of training if one wants to avoid
a certain
scattering the saliva all around the mouth and
attain the aimed spot with only a compact jet.

Caution. When out of doors always spit in the
direction of the wind.
Suggestion
Since the beginning of the Glorious Age written

laws no longer exist. There remain, however,
some suggestions. They are spread by word of
mouth through the bearers of fables or through
migratory birds. A few arboreal companion lov-
ers tie suggestions on to the birds' feet.
The last important suggestion has been, "if you
sleep, don't sleep forever" (Martha Ephore,
Major Suggestions, G2iu\, Glorious Age).
Swallow
Beyond sabers, grass snakes, frogs, fire, beyond
her own saliva, one can, in certain circum.stances,
swallow the saliva of her companion lover, her
blood, her chewed food, her mucus, her snot, her
nose bleeds, her spit, her burps, her winds, her
cyprine, her vomit, her tears, her urine, all prac-
tices that maintain affection and are agreeable to
the m.outh. From which come the expressions,
"delicate mouth", "to be open mouthed", "prone
to the mouth" or to the contrary, "to be bad-
mouthed" to speak of someone who does not
appreciate the pleasant attributes of her compan-
ion lover. "To mouth" is also said to signify two
companion lovers disposed to swallow one
another.
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Taprobana
This large island south of Asia, once called

Ceylon, was the extreme geographical point
reached through the centuries by the
conqueresses from Libya during their advancing
operations.
Telchines
Tribe of wandering amazons who came from

Rhodes during the Silver Age. At that time they
settled in Crete where they were the first inhabit-
ants. During the Bronze Age one of their tribes
returned to Rhodes and founded the cities
Cameira, lalysa and Linda.
terity when they had to dismount their mares and
fight hand to hand. On the left they had their
quiver and on the right, their bow. They wore for
protection an animal skin wrapped around their
arm, instead of a shield.
oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Telchines as of other
amazonian stri^lcture without compromise in
Speed Steel Age.)
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Thalestris
Celebrated as Thalestris the Irreconcilable.

Queen of the Macedonian amazons who lived
during the Iron Age. The names of her compan-
ion lovers are not known.
Thalie and Cymodoce

Thelis and Melita

Themiscyra
Largest city of the Thermodontine amazons,

built at the mouth of the Thermodon River dur-
ing the Bronze Age. Themiscyra was the pivotal
citybetween the northern and southern amazon
settlements.From there the amazons set out for
Anatolia once again, like their illustrious ances-
tresses.
Thermodontines
An ancient race of amazons who lived through-

out all of the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age.
Their glorious empire "extended from the Sar-
matian plains to the Aegean Sea" (Helen Diner,
Mothers 'and Amazons, Germany, High-Speed
Steel Age), that is to say from the Baltic Sea to the
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Mediterranean Sea. For a long time they limited
theiradvance within the Sarmatian plains. Then
gradually they setded in the southern lands of
their illustrious ancestresses, the Lydians, the
Mysians, the Carians, the Lycians, and they de-
finitively left the North. Some founded a capital
city in Themiscyra, at the mouth of the Thermo-
don River. At that time their infiuence spread to
either side of the Black Sea. The Scythians origi-
nated from them. Later, the. Thermodontines
conquered all of Anatolia. As vanquishers they
settled in Smyrna. They fought battle after battle
and warred up to Central Asia.
The Thermodontines invented short swords
and integrated them into their dances. Their
most famous festival took place on the island
Ares. There they danced all in arms with their
helmets, their shields, and their swords. The
bearers of fables say that this festival occurred
every year in the spring to celebrate the seared
breasts of the new amazons. Then all sang a song
in memory of the onewho was bellicose. Their
torsos were bare, their star-shaped scars painted
of every color. For weapons, the Thermodon-
tines had a shield in a crescent form, the double-
headed axe which they always carried in their
beltand which they handled with great dexterity
when they had to dismount their mares and fight
hand to hand. On the left they had their quiver
and on the right, their bow. They dressed in a
long narrow trouser, a coat, high and soft boots.
In winter they also wore a fur attached at the left
^
shoulder.
who never ate bread, whether ol barley, wheat,
oats, or rye.
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•v^(
It can be said of the Thermodontines as of
other amazons that their daughter empires had

an amazonian structure without compromise in
Speed Steel Age.)
Thetis
In Pelasgia, after the time of the amazons, Thetis

was credited with giving the world an alphabet, as
was the goddess Carmenta in Etruria.
Thracians
The ancient amazons who lived in Thrace during

the Bronze Age and part of the Iron Age did not
constitute an empire. The bearers of fables say
that they formed small wandering tribes, most of
the time living in woods or on hills. The bearers
of fables say that they modified the shape of the
Thermodontine shield. The Thermodontines
carried a crescent-shaped shield with a double
indentation at the top which permitted vision
from two places. The Thracians adopted a sim-
pler form by eliminating one of the indentations.
Their shield was called a pelta. Thus they earned
the name of "amazons of the luniform shield."
The Thracians wore purple tinted tunics that
they' tied in a knot when mounting their mares.
They wore sandals. They had peltas and always
carried in their belt the double-headed axe which
they harldled with great dexterity when they had
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their bow. They also used a lance and a short
sword.
oats, or rye.
It can be said of the Thracians as of other
Speed Steel Age.)
Thyone
During the ceremony which was dedicated to the
"wild daughters"and held on the dance ground
in Athens, Thyone "was celebrated with chants,
dance, and flute music, while flower petals were
thrown from baskets." (Found in the Bibliothec,
the last chaotic period.)
TIMAS
A companion lover of Sappho, born in Phocaea.

She died on Lesbos when she was still a child.
"This is the dust of Timas, dead, / the black bed
of Persephone has received her / her friends
sharpen an iron / to cut all their hair" (Sappho,
Poems, Lesbos, Iron Age).
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TiSIPHONE
Celebrated as the Formidable Killer. Ancient

amazon who lived during the Bronze Age. She
belonged to a tribe that was like the Gorgons, a
branch of the Libyans, and in the course of time
received the immortal name of the Furies. The
famous statement of the Furies was attributed to
Tisiphone: "The wind I breathe is fury and utter
hate" (found in the Bibliothec, assemblage of
period).
Torpor
Torpor is a state of idleness widely practiced by

companion lovers. One lets herself hang in a tree
sack or she swings in an egg for idleness until
torpid. seems that in this state all kinds of
It
colors, of dreams, of shapes, of visions are per-

ceived without the intervention of any drug.
Some arboreal colonies of companion lovers ex-
perience a very profound type of torpor. "They
reach torpor and hardly hold on to the trees,
either by a hand or a leg. But a finger is sufficient.
Sometimes one or another is seen falling on the
ground all curled up in a ball. But she does not
hurt herself even when she comes from the top of
the tree" (Sseu Tchouan, The Book of Idleness,
China, Glorious Age).
Transportation
Recendy mares are of litde use as a means of

transportation. As a matter of fact it is nearly
accepted that they are reluctant to be ridden.
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Camels and donkeys seem to share their reluc-
tance and are hardly solicited. Elephants are very
often meditating. But giraffes are always availa-
ble. It seems that they find this a game and ap-
pear as soon as they are called. Each companion
lover who rides them enjoys herself as well.
Giraffes areno longer unusual. They are seen in
ever-increasing numbers in the alleys with some-
one hanging onto their necks.
Trap
The companion lovers of the Glorious Age like

all kinds of traps. They use them in the love wars.
They set traps for their favorite animals, even for
their bed animals. Then they have the satisfac-
tion of taking them into their arms and rocking
them so that they forget their bad treatment, just
as they do with their companion lovers during
the love wars. There are iron, wood, word traps.
There are dream traps and telepathic traps.
There is also a kind of trap that the companion
lovers do not choose. These are repetition traps

often produced in some hypnotic states. In this
case it is difficult to come out of hypnosis because
of a recurring phenomenon which forces the en-
trapped to relive endlessly the same phase of
hypnosis, repetitively from the beginning. Repe-
tition traps can also occur in dreams when the
sleeper cannot wake from a dream that she be-
gins endlessly, introducing into it only a slight
correction. Someone, or an entire lesbian people,
may fall into a repetition trap and reproduce the
same series of hallucinations for several days.
Tree
There were once companion lovers in the trees.
153
They built their houses in trees, and lived be-
tween the leaves and branches. They made a roof
from the bark and green of their particular tree
and it protected them from the rain and wind.
They lived in apple, pear, almond, palm, fig
trees. Thus they ate their fruit and exchanged
with others from tree to tree.
Since the beginning of the Glorious Age, sev-
eral tree settlements have been started. They are
found in large tropical rain forests all around the
earth. The combination of several thousand
species of trees permits the companion lovers to
live at different levels in the forest without ever
on the ground. Generally they prefer
setting foot
the crowns because of their proximity to the sky
and the sun. They share their habitat with ani-
mals who live there.
Tribe
A tribe can be created by mere decision. One

person alone will do. She is the first cell of the
new tribe. She may found a hermit tribe or it may
multiply. It may happen that two companion lov-
ers decide that they are the beginning of a tribe.
The enlargement of a tribe is accomplished in
diverse ways, through affinities or by this public
announcement, "wind and willows / river which
flows / by Artemis' arrows / fast and fluid /
the tribe will grow" (round, indetermined
epoch). Lack of attachment to a particular local-
ity, sense of adventure, taste for journeys,
movement, physical exercises and life in the open

air are the characteristics of a tribe.
Trivia
Celebrated as Trivia the Thunderer. Ancient
154
amazon who lived in Etruria during the Bronze
Age. She called to arms the amazons who had
already begun to scatter in that obscure time.
Afterwards she was celebrated as a goddess by
those who were eager to rejoin the dispersed
amazons. Each one of them consecrated her
daughter to Trivia.
Troy
This city in Anatolia "was once an amazon set-

tlement" (found in the Bibliothec assemblage of
,

period). Troy, like Athens, had been besieged by
the amazons. Throughout the Bronze Age and
the Iron Age several generations of amazons at-
tempted to recapture their lost city.
Truth
If an affirmation is repeated two times, on the
third it becomes a scientific truth.
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Ululation
This prolonged cry of an owl is used by some

companion lovers to find each other in the wood
at night when the moon is dark.
Uncompanionable
Said of a companion lover when she is in a bad,

aggressive or generally unpleasant mood, as
rarely as that might occur. The bearers of fables
tell how certain lesbian peoples deal with an un-
companionable. In some arboreal colonies the

most uncompanionable has to temporarily with-
draw from the top of the trees where her com-
munity lives. She stays alone resisting approaches
of birds or monkeys without talking to anyone.
Many lesbian peoples are less sophisticated with
their uncompanionable. They plunge her hands
or sometimes even her whole body into a full
bucket of cold water.
Unconscious
Warning to the companion lovers, if you have an

unconscious, you know all about it. But if you
have one, all the more reason to be careful of the
traffickers of the unconscious.
57
Valeska and Libussa
Famous companion lovers who lived in Bohemia

during the Bronze Age. Libussa was the Duchess
of Bohemia and Valeska was the chief of her
army. When Libussa died she made Valeska the
heiress of Bohemia which was then declared an
amazonian state. Peasants came by night and day
from everywhere to constitute this State. They
fought side by side with Valeska against their
enemies, and fortified several places. Their war
lasted for eight years.
Vandyke
During the Concrete Age this name designated

alllesbians. It meant that they were of the van-
guard. The companion lovers agree that all the
lesbians before the Glorious Age were Vandykes.
Violence
Exercised throughout the ages by the amazons

who remained the violent ones in their time and
in our memory. According to Julienne Bourge,
the historian from Gaul, "the mothers discussed
violence as if one could choose time and necessity
for violence. Therefore they were defeated and
wore the slave attire for centuries. Nevertheless,
they found inner and public justification for this
state of things, their aversion to violence was
stronger than their defeat. This point of view
who,
reflected the conflict of old with antagonists
having refused defeat, disappeared. Thus the
amazons sank temporarily into legend" (Julienne
hour gG, Dialectics, Gaul, Glorious Age).
159
Vision
Like hallucinations, visions are phenomena that

the companion lovers develop when in a state of
idleness. In the sacks for idleness on trees, in the
eggs for idleness in gardens, the companion lov-
ers swing "tormented" bv visions. During the
chaotic ages, the persons who had visions were
said to be "tormented* by visions. They were
considered "sick" and were often locked up. The
companion lovers of the Glorious Age excel in
visions when they arein a state of idleness. The
visions may be imagesof past, present, or future
events. Visions of the past enable us to reassem-
ble the fragments of our history that were dis-
torted by most of the texts before the Glorious
Age. Past visions are recounted by the bearers of
fables from place to place, community to com-
munity, island to island, continent to continent,
inhabited forest to inhabited forest, ice bank to
ice bank. Present visions serve as communication
between companion lovers who li\e in remote
places. Some companion lovers have vision ap-
pointments. These are occasions for festivals and
intimate rejoicing. Future visions are often in-
comprehensible, but always joyful.
Voice
There exists what is called a "small voice" within

each companion lover. Often the small voice of
companion lovers send one another an identical
message at the same time. The small voice of a
companion lo\er may speak only to her. Often
the small voices turn into warnings and sumimons
either for the present or for the future. "My small
voice said don't go, don't go everytime I wanted
160
to leave the island" (Anna Walsh, Sounds from
Everywhere and Nowhere, Celty, Glorious Age).
VOLSCIANS
An ancient race of amazons who lived in Etruria

during the Bronze Age. They were a branch of
the Lycians. Camilla, Acca, Larina, Tulla and
Tarpeia were the most well-known.
The Volscians wore a tunic attached at their
left shoulder. Their right breast was visible with
its large star-shaped scar. They attached their
tunic between their thighs. They wore long tight
fitting boots of soft leather. They always carried
in their belt thedouble-headed axe which they
handled with great dexterity when they had to
dismount their mares and fight hand to hand.
For shields they had a very light pelta in a cres-
cent form. On the left they had their quiver and
on the right, their bow.
oats, or rye.
can be said of the Volscians as of other ama-
It

the mother empire^. Long after their splendor
has "paled, however, something of their
indestructible nature simmers on and, from time
to time, breaks out of its obscurity." (Helen Di-
ner Mothers and Amazons Germany, High-Speed
, ,
Steel Age.)
161
ill
Vowel
The lesbian people who have settled on Tonga, a
Polynesian island, now speak a language without
consonants. They speak a language that resem-
bles a song. The voice swells, rises, falls, crosses
the register of low pitches and sharps. It vibrates,
stops, diminishes, spreads. It creates long
stridencies, discords, crashes, long slides, soft
shocks. It has closed sounds, open sounds, short
sounds, long sounds, liquid sounds, nasal, labial,

dental, palatal, guttural, velar vocalizations. She
who once heard the song of a white whale has an
approximate understanding of this language.
"When thecompanion lovers speak with their
voices held on e, o, or whichever vowel, for me it is
not a sentence but a modulation. Practicing this
language modifies the facial muscles. I have the
impression that the muscles shift somehow, in
the same way a snake creeps" (Anna Walsh,
Sounds from Everywhere and Nowhere, Celty, Glori-
ous Age).
162
War
"For the near and departed / for the fallen
comrades / for the vanquished / in lamen-
tation / in tribute / in yearning evocation"
(Eleanor Hakim, Song, Lesbian Play for Lucy,
Large Country, First Continent, Concrete Age).
With the uncertain outcome of war, losses were
especially cruel for the amazons, as each one of
them lost a lover or a companion or both.
Wars (Of love)
The only wars that have any charm. When two

companion lovers decide to undertake a love
war, they give each other permission to develop
all the cruelty and delicacy of which they are
capable. The love wars proceed in the same way
as an epic. The companion lovers must find
points of confrontation, encounter, periods of
truce or, on the contrary, assault, vigils. They
have to find the procedure for their war, its in-
tensity, its extent. The goal of the love wars seems
tobe to surprise, stun, hit, disconcert one's com-
panion lover, to strike an accurate blow. They
allow the tension inherent in a love state to de-
velop into play and entertainment. The cruelty
of combat is comparable to the passion of little
companion lovers at play. The games of the little
companion lovers are never tragic, the same
holds true for the love wars. It is why they are
called the happy wars.
6:^
Wife
Obsolete. Once designated a being who, when in

a state of servitude, was set under the yoke. It was
done to oxen, slaves, women, beings specifically
destined to the yoke.
Wind
"Strong creature before the Flood / without

flesh, without bone, / without vein, without
blood, / without head, without feet, / in a field,
in forest, / without hand, without foot, / it is
also as wide / as the surface of the earth, / and
it was not born, / nor was it seen" (Charlotte
Guest, Mabinogion, Albion, Steam Age).
Wing
The word "nymphae" has been gradually re-

placed by the more convenient "wings" to desig-
nate the small lips of the vulva. The wings beat or
also transport. The expression "to have wet
wings" designates all states of excitement. Some
say,"you are going to wet your wings" to a com-
panion lover who sleeps outside at night without
worrying about the dew or to one who goes out
when a storm is anticipated. "To fly with one's
appropriate wings," expression whose usage is
lost and whose meaning is "to fly appropriately
with one's wings."
164
wnvH
1^ ^^tchcs hxtxi during ihc chaotu a>;vs, siu h as
the hxMt Aiir and the Steam Agx\ Ihoii inipor-
U«cc ^s ix^bels was not undoi>itiHxi until just ho-
tv*i>r ihc I^mSimjs Agr. l.ito in the open air, taste
R-*!^ V^hx^Ml exeixisc, their attitude and their au-
Kvionix mîe them the last ix^preseniatixes ot

amanonun cuhuix' during the chaotic period
which proceeded the Glorious Age. W itches were
ihie K> pa<is into animals' bixiies in a case ot ahso-
hrtc neofssitv or in order to tra\ el. Their ta\ orite
aiumab ^^re cats, wolverines, dix's, lionesses.
The-* also maintained an old bi^tanical knowl-
ed^ tc^pether with a phvsiological and anatomi-
cal scienoe.
WOL\T3aNES
The red wolverines from Amazonas died of rage,

k is said, w hen they were caught in a trap.
WOM-\N
Obsc4eie since the beginning of the Glorious

Age. Conadered by many companion lovers as
the most infamous designation. This word once
applied to beings fallen in an absolute state of
fcrvhude. Its meaning was v.ne who belongs to
another."
\i,-,
Word
Because of all the variations in meaning, shifts in
meaning, losses of meaning that words may un-
dergo, it happens that at a given moment they no
longer operate upon reality or realities. Then
they must be reactivated. This is not a simple
operation and it may be accomplished in various
ways. The most widespread is the one practiced
by the bearers of fables. Since the bearers of
fables are constantly moving, they recount,
among other things, the metamorphosis of
words from one place to another. They them-
selves change the versions of these metamorpho-
ses, not in order to further confuse the matter
but because they record the changes. The result
of these changes is an avoidance of fixed mean-
ings.There also exists the tribute that the com-
panion lovers pay for words. They constitute as-
semblies and together they read the dictionaries.
They agree upon the words that they do not want
to forgo. Then they decide, according to their
groups, communities, islands, continents, on the
possible tribute to be paid for the words. When
that is decided, they pay it (or they do not pay it).
Those who do so, call this pleasantly "to write

one's life with one's blood," this, they say, is the
least they can do.
Work
Submission to work was once such that idleness
was considered a sickness. Christine Fabre wrote
a book on this subject (Christine Fabre, To Live in
Leisure, Gaul, Concrete Age), but the book was
condemned. "Accursed beautiful life" said
Louise' Bellasorte (Louise Bellasorte, Song,
Large Country, First Continent, Concrete Age).
166
Yam
Yams are cooked preferably on flat rocks in the
fieldsor else in the middle of clearings for mid- ^ : '
night meals when the companion lovers gather

for long chants of unity.
167
i
Ailm,Deidre,Z)z>5 Ime. Celty, High-Speed Steel Age.
Akins, Lynn, Harp of the Dog. Large Country, First Continent,
Glorious Age.
Amer, Beni, Genesis. Cerne, Glorious Age.
Baala, Population Census. Africa, Glorious Age.
BerengerE, Chronicle of an Alley. Etruria, Glorious Age.
Bibliothec, assemblage of books and fragments from the past,
salvaged by the companion lovers during the last chaotic
period.
Book of Ruth. 1,16-17, Palestine, Bronze Age.
BORTA, Eleni, Julia. Pelasgia, Iron Age.
BOURGE, Julienne, Comments on the Past. Dialectics. Gaul,
Glorious Age.
Bruni, Songs of Delight. Large Country, Second Continent,
Glorious Age.
Chesler, ?HYLLlS,Demeter Revisited. Large Country, First Con-
tinent, Glorious Age.
Collins, Ruth, Aphorisms. Sappho's Journal, Albion, Glorious
Age.
Deudon, Catherine, The Bearded Lesbians. Gaul, Glorious
Age.
Diner, Helen, Mothers and Amazons. Germany, High-Speed
Steel Age.
DRAGONFIRE,7owr?2a/ of the Community. Community of disap-

pearing belts. Large Country, First Continent, Glorious
Age.
Eaubonne, FRANgoiSE d Gaul, Glorious Age.
.
Ephore, Martha, Major Suggestions. Gaul, Glorious Age.

Evelyn, The Beautiful Stories of the Ghena Goudou. Gaul, Glori-
*
ous Age.
Fabre, Christine, To Live in Leisure. Gaul, Glorious Age.
Feiticeira, Maria, Ac/5 of the Witches. Iberia, Iron Age.
Guest, Charlotte, Mabinogion. Albion, Glorious Age.
Hakim, Eleanor, A Lesbian Play for Lucy. Large Country, First
Continent, Concrete Age.
169
Holmes, Shirley, Traces. Albion, Glorious Age.
ISAR, Ma.^\Y., Invectives. Gaul, Concrete Age.
Johnston, Jill, Lesbian Nation. Large Country, First Conti-
nent, Concrete Age.
Labe, Louise, £/^g7>5. Gaul, Iron Age.
Miller, Isabel, Patience and Sarah. Large Country, First Con-
tinent, Glorious Age.
Morgan, Robin, Monster. Large Country, First Continent,

Glorious Age.
Pascale. Gaul, Steam Age.
Phenarete. Pelasgia, Iron Age.
Plume, Charlotte, M); Personal Circus. Gaul, Concrete Age.
ROCHEFORT, Christiane, A^Lm5/ Were Going Toward Summer.
Gaul, Glorious Age.
RUSS, Joanna. Large Country, First Continent, Glorious Age.
Sappho, Po^m5. Lesbos, Iron Age.
Sare, MarcIA, Why Eatl Gaul, Glorious Age.
,
Savajo, M.Y.\, Powers from the South, Gaul, Glorious Age.

Save, JOANA,Afv Paradise. Gaul, Glorious Age.
Swan, YÎLA, Notes About Gaul. Large Country, First Continent,
Glorious Age.
TCHOUAN, SSEU, The Book of Idleness. China, Glorious Age.
T llEOPH AN O, Conjuration of Balkis. Hippolyte. Lesbos, Glorious
Age.
Veii, M.YA.ASS a, Shadows on the Black Sea, Egypt, Glorious Age.
Wales, Ak\ an, Black Goddesses. Large Country, Second Conti-
nent, Glorious Age.
Xenville, MariE-Therese Mô?^^ Love. Gaul, Glorious Age.
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After harmony had been, destroyed in the ter-

lowed. And things have gone from bad to worse.

At the end of the Golden Age, either because the

AGRIPPINA and LIVIA

Famous companion lovers who lived in Etruria

Celebrated as Albina the Fiery Chest. Ancient

Large island east of the Celtic island, northwest

Subject of much discord. Some companion lovers

Once exclusively designated the inner roads of

The alphabet that we use here was invented by

Place of retreat and rest in the donasteries or

has either the shape of an alveole in a hon-

Celebrated as Amastris the Fatal. Ancient Ther-

Name of a city founded by an ancient Ther-

In the beginning, ever was such a time, all

the companion lovers called themselves ama-

harmony and called

A companion lover of Atthis and Sappho. "Anac-

you / equal to a goddess and took such pleasure

the fields thick with bloom. / Then dew pours

flowers of melilot. / But she, endlessly going

Then she calls us and shouts that we come / ,

we can hear it, / the night with a thousand ears

Celebrated as Anahita the Devastating. Ancient

fragments from the past, salvaged by the com-

In the past, Anatolia was a privileged land among

after the name of the amazon Aso. During the

Ancient. Still used in the expression "the ances-

Foundress of Lesbos which became a society for

Frequently, to please a companion lover, one

"Foundress of the Hittite Empire, in Asia Minor"

the past, salvaged by the companion lovers dur-

liances between was once spoken of in

Formerly a circular place where the killing of

Island in the Black Sea, thus named after an

Ares and Menelippa

Famous companion queens of the Bronze Age.

Some companion lovers have a clever chemistry.

The only known amazon goddess to whom all the

This small, extremely venofnous serpent rescued

Celebrated as Atalanta the Swift-Footed. Ancient

Celebrated as Athena the Valiant. Ancient Lib-

According to some companion lovers Athens was

Afterwards Athens definitively became "hos-

coast of Attica in search of help in defending

Queen of Asia who is said to have in\ented letter

Born on Lesbos, the most dear of Sappho*s com-

wish Iwere dead. / When leaving me she

The double-headed axe was the first known

Those who worshipped the goddess Bacche, fre-

wreathed with vine branches." "lo! Mothers, lis-

A goddess of amazonian features who called the

The balloon, as a means of transportation, had

Highway robberesses who often practiced in

their chests. From which comes the expression

Tree for idleness. Universally thus called by the

Celebrated as Baodicea the Red. Warrior queen