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Murdock,50 makes the case that matriliny as the basis of social relations and organization dates to the period before proto-Bantu to the still-earlier periods of Niger-Congo history. 51
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This may indicate that the Picts routinely used Irish names for girls, which would be consistent with the colourful origin legend of the first Picts having obtained wives from Ireland see article on Pictish matriliny for the legend.
Archive 2010-01-01 Carla 2010
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This may indicate that the Picts routinely used Irish names for girls, which would be consistent with the colourful origin legend of the first Picts having obtained wives from Ireland see article on Pictish matriliny for the legend.
Pictish female names Carla 2010
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The sap's change, some claim, was evocative of an imagery connected with menstruation, and is thus widely associated with fertility and matriliny. 62 Because of its connection to fertility, it is widely associated with rites conducted in connection with pregnancy and birthing. 63 In some cases a * mwali's instructor would tell her, "it is the tree from which you have gotten your growth."
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Given that the Picts practiced a form of matrilineal succession according to contemporary writers such as Bede see article on Pictish matriliny, it seems surprising that so few royal female names were recorded.
Pictish female names Carla 2010
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Given that the Picts practiced a form of matrilineal succession according to contemporary writers such as Bede see article on Pictish matriliny, it seems surprising that so few royal female names were recorded.
Archive 2010-01-01 Carla 2010
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The biggest difficulty with arguments about matriliny is that it attracts people with agendas.
The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts? Carla 2008
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So while it seems plausible that the Picts practised a form of matriliny, I certainly agree that this doesn't mean they were matriarchal!
The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts? Carla 2008
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Carla, okay, here goes with some references, and I am rather behind the field here, but I don't think much more has happened in it on matriliny because I tend to ask Alex Woolf when I see him.
The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts? Carla 2008
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15Kwere and Zaramo placement of the umbilical cord at the * mkole tree, which is associated with the matriliny and fertility in a widespread range of Ruvu languages and was also the place where religio-ritual offerings were presented to ancestors as supplication for bringing life into the community.
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