Amazons still rule in the jungles of Mazandaran

There were two types of Scythian tribes in the north of Iran: Saka Haumavargau (Amyrgioi Scythians) and Saka Haumazanu (Amazon Scythians), "Zan" in Persian language means woman and in Zoroastrianism "Hauma" is a sacred drink and also a powerful deity, in the middle Persian language, Haumazanu was simplified to "Mazan" and Mazan is the name of women who still live in Mazandaran province in the north of Iran.

If you remember I had posted a topic about Nizam-e Madarshahi dar Iran (The system of Mothers' reigning in Iran) in our old forum and I said there "From 7,000 years ago women started to organize small empires in the northern villages of Iran. These women always chosed their husbands from out of their villages and after one year living with them, they usually beheaded those poor men and used their bloods to fertilize their farms."

It is a fact which has been mentioned in Avesta, in modern times women don't kill men but it can be said that these are still women who rule in the villages of Gilan and Mazandaran in the north of Iran.

It seems strange but men work at home and women do hard work in the farms and other places!

http://www.parstimes.com/women/employment_rural_women.html

"Case studies show the situation of women and their labor force. In the villages of Gilan and Mazandaran provinces, women are considerably active and have a high share in productive activities. In the village of Ahandan in Gilan, women form 76 per cent of the labor force in rice-planting and 80 per cent in tea- planting."

"In most villages in Gilan and Mazandaran, a group of women under the supervision of a woman who is called "Mobasher" (Supervisor) go to the neighboring villages for weeding and planting seedlings."

Walking in the streets of Alasht, men should remember that facing any woman they must lower their head and say hello, because there is the Village of women.

Tehran, Jul.7, 2005, (CHN) — Alasht, a small isolated village in Savad Kooh region, north of Iran, with brooks flowing along side its narrow cobblestone streets, is entitled “the town of women.”
In this small community men are supposed to greet women first and say “hello” before them, a sign of respect in Iranian culture, which is not very common among the other rural communities.
Entering the village, first you will face with the ruins of a helipad, and a deserted and dilapidated hotel whose broken windows have melancholy in their impression. But down there laying on the bottom of a valley, is the small village, Alasht.
Locals call this town Elasht, which means eagle sanctuary. But the experts do not still approve of this interpretation.
From the top of the mountains surrounding the village, any traveler may notice a small home-like building few hundred meters off the village, to which a narrow winding path is led.
As a matter of fact this building is a shrine called Dokhtar-e Pak (Immaculate Girl). Locals believe that this shrine belongs to a grand lady and according to an old superstition, men should not approach the shrine or they will be bitten by its guardian serpent. Every weekend women and girls pray in the shrine in the hope of meeting their wishes.
Dr. Parviz Varjavand, an expert of cultural heritage, believes that this shrine was devoted to performing Nahid’s (a Persian goddess) ritual and added that, “there has been no research performed about this place so far, and we can’t approve or refuse the hypothesis of Alasht being a sacred place for performing Mithraism rituals or those rituals for worshipping Nahid.”
Alasht is situated on the flank of mountain stepping down into a valley and the minaret of its architecturally unique mosque in the upper part of the village makes an outstanding landscape which marks the village.
The bitter cold of the winters causes locals wintering for warmer regions and the town would be empty of its inhabitants, while there always remains one woman or a family as the guardian of the village.
Women of Alasht are the core of their family, who like the mountains of their residence, are proud facing the difficulties of life.
Walking in the streets of Alasht, men should remember that facing any woman they must lower their head and say hello, because there is the Village of women.