Amage was a Sarmatian queen.
According to the writings of Polyaenus,
she was the wife and co-ruler of the Sarmatian king Medosacus.
They were from the coast of the Euxine Sea.
Having observed that her husband was “totally given up to luxury”, she took over the government, acting as a judge of causes,
stationing garrisons, repulsing enemy invasions, and was such a successful leader that she became famous through all Scythia.
As a result of this fame, the people of the Tauric Chersonesus, having been harassed by a neighboring Scythian king,
requested a treaty with her. As a result of the formation of this treaty, she wrote to the Scythian prince,
requesting that he cease harassing the people. When he replied contemptuously, she marched against him with 120 strong and seasoned warriors,
and gave each warrior three horses. In one night and one day, she covered a distance of 100 stades (roughly 184.81 kilometers),
and arrived at the palace, surprising the inhabitants and killing all the guards.
As the prince was taken off guard, and perceived her force to be larger than it really was, she was able to charge and personally kill him,
as well as his friends and relatives. Thus she enabled the people of Chersonesus to regain free possession of their land.
She allowed the prince’s son to live and rule the kingdom on the condition that he not invade nearby kingdoms.
This took place towards the end of the second century, BC.
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There are a few things we do, however, know for certain:
Rh(D) negative blood is the result of a gene deletion.
Blood type frequencies in ancient Europe were far different from today.
The gene deletion may have first taken place among the ancestors to the Yamnaya. Red hair among humans is known to originate among them as well and blue eyes are likely to have had originated there.
The function of the Rh proteins is oxygen and CO2 transport, so the reason our mutation has survived may mean that the conditions for us were ideal.
Today’s health issues among Rh(D) negative individuals likely indicate a drastic change in living conditions. Toxins present in air, food and medicine can affect us greatly. This doesn’t make us “sick people”, but rather healthy people reacting healthiest to sickening conditions.
Much is still unknown about us, but this much is clear:
We are different.
We are not aliens or beings not from this earth.
We are connected to the conditions once enjoyed by our ancestry.
The world that we are now a part of is very different and we feel it more than others.
