Zeno of Elea, Italy (b. c 490 BCE) described a Nation’s Genius after Democracy reappeared in Athens after its disappearance from Neolithic Sumer some 2,600 years earlier as Masculine, aristocratic, discriminating, radiant, selective, regnant, spiritual, never feminine, which is concerned only with petty matters and insistent trivialities. never democratic, for democracy is a destructive thing, conspired in the inferior minds of envious men (Caldwell)…

But, did Zeno know the difference between a Nation and a Realm, the first being an Entity Born (Na) Of The People (t-ion), and the second being the Bronze Age creation of Royalty and Religion, where a Sacred Ruler held the power and owned the wealth derived from Rivers? In fact, So historically persistent has the institution of Royalty been in the lives of the Indo-European peoples over the last 6,000 years, that it has shaped the very nature of our language and conscious reality as the development of languages shows in that all four words, Real of Realm, Realm itself, Religion, and Rich are all synonyms or variations of the word Royal. Realm = Royal Real Estate as in Real = Royal as in Montreal = Mountroyal. Real and royal are two different spellings of the same word. Similarly, Re [a] ligion or Royaligion = Religion.

By contrast, the Greek compound Democracy, Demos (The People) + kratia (as in krater, mixing bowl) describes a Nation. Though Demos is masculine in the collective, it derives from Demeter the contraction D + eme of emmer (wheat) + meter, mother, + variant of Semitic Ema also meaning wheat (emmer, red wheat) and mother and Eleusine, wheat (finger millet), which, given the Greek/Semitic identification of the nursing mother to the food source and the fact that women first domesticated wheat. As finger millet also looks like the fingers of a hand, it further evokes the earth goddess; millet and barley were also, not surprisingly, the intoxicants of female centered beer cults. Thus, rooted from Demeter Eleusine, the Grain Mother, Democracy is Neolithic, agricultural and gender balanced in origin.

As Demeter Eleusine also provides the root of Greek Eleutheria, Freedom, from Gk. Eleutheros, free, basic meaning growing (WEBSTER’S III INTERNATIONAL. II.1303), which, like pre-Bronze Sumerian Amargi, from Ama, Syr. variant of Semitic/Greek Ema (meter, mother, nurse) + argi, anagram of agri, Latin ager, field, agriculture defines Freedom as Return To The Agricultural or Grain mother (Klein 25), the Gender-Balance of Settled Agriculture [Agri, (a, animal) ox + (g, female earth) gaia + ri (male river water) irrigation] independent of rainfall, make both Greek Eleutheria and Sumerian Amargi, Freedom maternal synonyms of Democracy.

Like Sumer (5000 BCE), irrigated by river water, Catalhoyuk, a town in central Turkey (7000 BCE), situated by a river and surrounded by marshland where a 2.8 centimeter high female figurine with a seed embedded in her back, indicating women’s early role in domesticating plants, was found (Hodder), is another Neolithic example that where natural conditions favor the development of settled agriculture, Gender Balance and Democracy result, Gender Balance and Democracy, in turn, being what define Freedom.

So, not surprisingly, as a condition of settled agriculture the term Irrigation geographically conveys gender balance as male river (Irri) + the female earth (ga of Gaia, Earth Mother). Similarly, in what is more than a play on words, the geographical and geological origins of the English word equality as level or even water refer both to the eponymous mother of humanity, Eve, as the root of level and even, and to El of level the first title of god in Iberia (today’s Georgia on the Black Sea) meaning At the Head of All Waters.

Early Anatolian and Sumerian Democracy, then, where gender balance finds expression in settled agriculture, invented the first civilizations, Pericles, unlike Zeno, spoke of Democracy as superior, not inferior, in his describing Athens as a liberal education to Greece … (whose citizens)… excel (led) all men in versatility, resourcefulness, brilliance and physical self-reliance (Burns 263)…

Democratic government in Neolithic Sumer, before the Early Dynastic Period (3100-2500 BCE), would likely have 1) distributed the food from a temple named for the grain mother (including, besides grain, figs, olives, dates, and animals), 2) insured Dike, or Justice , concerning gender balance according to Natural Law, 3) overseen public works, and 4) conducted the ancient mysteries celebrating agriculture in the orchards at harvest, these orchard celebrations providing, as we will see later, the origin of the Greek chorus in Tragic Drama. As people less subject to the unpredictable forces of nature for food, and, therefore, not having to compete with other cities or peoples for limited resources, the Sumerians, having, as a result a benign and balanced view of nature, each other, and gender, were peaceful, there being no defensive walls around the ancient city.

By contrast, the stress of drought on the Neolithic Queendoms of Europe and the West Asia appears to have produced a right-brain ed, schizophrenic gender-imbalance which resulted in temple prostitution and the sacrifice, ritually lamented by the early unreformed West Asian Vegetation Cult of the God Dionysus, of boys and would-be husbands of these Neolithic Queens to insure rain and the fertility of crops. Greek aster, star, derived from Greek hystera, uterus, which roots the words hysteria and history, (the story of the uterus), disaster, and destruction , prefixes the names of the goddesses of the Bronze Age descendants of these Neolithic Queens such as Phoenician Ishtar and Astarte, Assyrian Asherah, and Hebrew Ashtoreth after the nomadic chieftains of the Great Uralic Migration (beginning 4000 BCE) invested West Asia from the vast areas of western and south-western Siberia (Eastern and Central Asia-the Uralic-Altaic), the Baltic, the Volga basin, and the Ukraine bringing with them the gods Egyptian Set, Greek Uranus, Kronos, Zeus, Poseidon, Hebrew Yahweh, and Phoenician-Canaanite Baal, imaged as desert, rain, storm, flood, and ocean. Hybridizing these Queendoms through incest and war, these nomads added Bronze Age (The Age of Thunder) incest, rape, and gender strife to Neolithic murder and cannibalism, a practice that appears to derive from the worship of Canaanite Baal throughout West Asia.

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