Quote:Toward the end of close of the Age of Bronze and, more strongly, with the dawn of the Age of Iron (c. 1250 B.C. in the Levant), the old cosmology and mythologies of the goddess mother were radically transformed, reinterpreted, and in large measure even suppressed, by those suddenly intrusive patriarchal warrior tribesmen whose traditions have come down to us chiefly in the Old and New Testaments and in the myths of Greece. Two extensive geographical matrices were the source lands of these insurgent warrior waves: For the Semites, the Syro-Arabian deserts, where, as ranging nomads, the herded sheep and goats and later mastered the camel; and for the Hellenic-Aryan stems, the broad plains of Europe and south Russia, where they had grazed their herds of cattle and early mastered the horse
Um, somebody needs to tell this guy about the Sea Peoples who overthrew the Late Bronze Age kingdoms of the Hittites, Cyprus, Mainland Greece, Crete, and Asia Minor and damn near took out Egypt. Not so coincidentally the city which Schliemann identified as "Troy" fell to unknown attackers right around 1190 BC which is right at the onset of the Sea People invasion. These invaders did not come by horse or camel. They came by boats.