Dear friends, I start today a series in the style of 'Nymphomaniac Queens' this time, dedicated to famous, real and fictional Pirate and Warrior women who have stood out for their sexual appetite and passionate lives... Kipling wrote in a curious poem that any species of woman, including human, is always more deadly than the male. Historically war has been men's business and women have been excluded from the front lines of armies; however, the image of the armed and dangerous woman wielding a sword or defeating enemies with bow and arrows abounds in many mythologies... Dedicated to my friends @viciosomdq and @aleconticba who suggested the theme
ARTEMISIA OF CARYA
Artemisia I of Caria (Asia Minor, 5th century BC) Queen of Halicarnassus. She is known especially for her participation in the naval battle of Salamis as a Persian ally, commanding five ships. The only woman among her commanders, Artemisia advised King Persia's Jerjes I to coordinate a joint land and sea offensive. She thought that the best strategy was for the Persian army to march towards the Corinthian isthmus and attack the fortified Greek coalition there, while the fleet positioned itself to attack the Greek triremes. In this way, Artemisia hoped that the Greek ships would separate from their city-states, leaving them vulnerable to an intact Persian fleet. Jerjes rejected that plan, launching a joint Greek fleet attack at Salamis.
According to legend, Artemisia fell in love with a man named Dárdano and when he rejected her she threw herself into the sea from Leucades Rock, just like all unhappy lovers did, thus ending her life as a passionate warrior.
MARY READ
(London, England, 1697 - Jamaica, April 28, 1721)
From a poor family, after her brother's death, being a widow her mother dressed her as a man to deceive the family and get them to help raise her, which worked for a time. Later, her mother handed her over to a French lady, in the capacity of a footman, when she was 13 years old.
Mary didn't last long in service, and since she had been educated to hide her sex, it wasn't hard for her to enlist on a warship.
She met a soldier, fell in love with him, got married, and after becoming a widow...
What Mary Read did next was to set sail for the West Indies with her old disguise, that is, she went back to dressing as a man, and this is where it gets interesting.
It happened that the ship I was traveling on was captured by English pirates led by Captain John Rackman. And since Mary Read (who was still passing as a man) was the only English person on board the seized vessel, John Rackman wanted to keep him with them. And it seems Mary didn't mind the way of life they lived, joining them voluntarily.
Among John Rackman's crew was another woman, Anne Bonny (also disguised as a sailor), whose true identity was known only to the captain himself, since they were lovers.
So Mary Read's arrival caused certain changes in the behavior of the three. Anne felt attracted to Mary, thinking she was a man, Mary to Anne.
The fetishes then became intimate and this behavior would generate an attack of jealousy in Rackham, whom they would finally confess the secret to. If taking a woman on board was dangerous, two could be deadly, so he would also hide the truth and they would probably make very good use of the three of them on that Caribbean cruise 😉Unscrambling the mess, during one of the usual boardings, a young man was taken prisoner by John Rackman. Mary Read fell in love with him and it seems that the boy reciprocated her feelings and they made a promise to get married. As a consequence of these relationships, Mary became pregnant. But pirate life didn't give her a break, and she was finally captured and judged for piracy, dying before giving birth and having lived all those adventures in just 24 years.
Fuentes:
http://www.jo***.es/2013/07/armada-y-peligrosa-ii-mujeres-guerreras-de-la-antiguedad/
http://mujericolas.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/artemisia-i-de-cariareina-y-aventurera.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_I_de_Caria
http://www.isladelcofre.com/01mujeres.htm
http://pinake.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/mary-read-y-anne-bonny/
26 comentários - Pirates and Warriors
Me encantaron las dos historias !!!
A favoritos y volveré + Reco !!!
Gracias por compartir.
Angie te deja Besos y Lamiditas !!!
La mejor forma de agradecer la buena onda que se recibe es comentando, al menos al que te comenta. Yo comenté tu post, vos comentaste el mío?
Compartamos, comentemos, apoyemos, hagamos cada vez mejor esta maravillosa Comunidad !!!
Un placer
Bueno, y Artemisia I de Caria, sin palabras.
Muy bueno el post, amiga.
Por cierto, yo tengo cierta preferencia personal por Artemisia 😉 👍 😀 😀
una guerrera excepcional! gracias por todo 🙂
Muy buen info!!!
Gracias por compartir
Las mujeres cuando ponen pasión en algo son imbatibles, no me cabe duda que una mujer guerrera es lo más letal que pueda haber ....
Espero con ansias el siguiente capítulo 😘 😘
Muchas gracias por todo 😘
Genial lo tuyo mi Reina! Besos y mis 10!
Es un testimonio claro de que eso de "amo el drama" lo llevamos en la sangre no importa el continente!
para una proxima entrega le dejo el nombre de la viuda Ching que Borges incluyo en la historia universal de la infamia
seguro leera este comantario cuando vuelva de los festejos 😘
😀 😀 😀 es lindo festejar 😘
Me gusta mucho la tematica!!, bravo Lady!!
Hay personajes para elegir, incluiré alguna de sus sugerencias, gracias Invisible
Comentar es agradecer, la paja es extra
te sigo hermosa 😘
Clase magistral de historia...con la sensualidad de su puño y letra...
Muy buen post!!
Es mi deidad griega preferida.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atenea
Interesantísima la temática de la nueva serie. Ya lo creo que las féminas son mucho mas letales.
No sugeriré nombres, confío en su buen gusto y capacidad investigativa ampliamente demostrada...!
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