Amaze Dazzle Astound Amazon Mast Amastia

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~ AMAZE    id+ | SENSE ALTERING | sug> ASTONISH
^u         ply> | AMAZING AMAZONS BEWILDER |
~ AMAZON   id+ | FEMININE FREEDOM LOVING WOMAN |
           id+ | ASSERTIVE WOMAN |
  note MALE SUPREMACIST MAY USE THE TERM
       IN PEJORATIVE TERMS  also
  LIBERATED or ANTI FEMINIST WOMEN MAY ERRONEOUSLY
  BE CALLED "AMAZONS" WHICH WOULD DISREGARD THE
  FACT THAT AMAZONS PRESERVED THEIR FEMININE CHARMS
  AND LONG HAIR AT RISK OF THEIR LIVES
  note GREEKS TO DISMOUNT AMAZONS PULLED THEM DOWN
       BY THEIR LONG HAIR WHICH THEY KEPT AS A
  SIGN OF THEIR FEMININITY
  old en MASE     = BEWILDER
  unrelated according to experts to
  gr   A MAZOS      NO BREAST
  med>  MASTECTOMY  RESECTION OF BREAST
  biol> MAST        implies FAT  LARD
  ukr   MAZLO       LARD  OIL
  med>  MAST~       prefix for BREAST LIKE
  biol> MAST CELLS  LIPID RICH CELLS
        AMASTIA     AGENESIS or APLASIA OF A BREAST
  myth> LEGENDS SAY THAT AMAZONS ONLY REARED DAUGHTERS
        THEIR QUEEN see> HIPPOLYTA or see> ANTIOPE
  WAS ABDUCTED BY see> THESEUS
  ANOTHER QUEEN see> PENTHESILEA
  AIDED THE TROJANS AND WAS KILLED BY see> ACHILLES
  WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH HER AS SHE WAS DYING
  AMONG OTHER FAMOUS AMAZON QUEENS WERE
  LAMPETO
  MARPESIA
  CAMILLA WHO WAS A FAVORITE OF ARTEMIS
  hx> HISTORIANS SAY THAT THE AMAZONS
      WERE FEMALE WARRIORS THAT INHABITED
  THE COAST OF THE BLACK SEA AND ARMENIA
  THEY BECAME ALLIES OF TROY AGAINST THE GREEKS
  SOME SAY THEIR MATRIARCHAL CULTURE WAS ABSORBED
  ONLY TO A SMALL DEGREE BY THE
  see> SCYTHIANS and in see> SARMATIA
  hx> lit+ Edward Everett HALE [#] noted a
      CHIVALRIC ROMANCE CALLED "AMADIS de GAULA"
  considered by CERVANTES [#]
 "BEST OF ALL THE BOOKS OF THIS KIND"
  the story concerns a Christian and
  AMAZON army under QUEEN CALIFIA       sug> CALLYPYGIAN
  ruler of an ISLAND inhabited by       sug> CALISTHENIC
  warlike women and an air force of     sug> CALLIOPE
  FIVE HUNDRED GRIFFINS                 sug> CALIPH perhaps
  this enormously popular work in the early 1500's
  was probably also known by the
  SPANISH CONQUISTADORES who were
  ROAMING THE NEWLY DISCOVERED AMERICAS
  probably THE NAME CALIFORNIA
           HAS TO DO WITH Hernando CORTEZ [#]
  WHO TOOK POSSESSION IN 1535 OF
  WHAT WAS CONSIDERED AN ISLAND now BAJA CALIFORNIA
  perhaps DAZZLED BY ITS BEAUTY
  CORTEZ RECALLED THE BEAUTY OF CALIFIA AND
  NAMED THE AREA CALIFORNIA
  note JULY 2nd 1542 Juan PAEZ [#]
       WROTE IN HIS JOURNAL
  "WE CAME IN SIGHT OF CALIFORNIA"
  THE NAME ALSO APPEARS ON A MAP OF 1562
  alt others point out that the area was
      full of beautiful birds thus
  gr KALLI CALLI or CALI for BEAUTIFUL and
     ORNIS for BIRD thus CALI F ORNIA
  alt others suggested that CALIFORNIA derives from
  "CALIDA  FORNAX" for HOT as a FURNACE
  alt others suggested
  "CALPURNIA" the wife of Julius CAESAR [#]
  as a root for CALIFORNIA
  hx> note that likewise the
      SPANISH EXPLORER OF BRAZIL
  Francisco de ORELLANA [#] was probably also aware of
  the romantic story about CALIFIA
  ORELLANA WAS AMAZED BY MALES CLAD IN SKIRTS
  ROAMING THE COAST OF AN ENORMOUS AND BEAUTIFUL RIVER
  HE NAMED AMAZON
  art> RUBENS [#] painted "BATTLE OF THE AMAZONS"
       taking place on a bridge
  see> continue with  ~ MAST  MASTECTOMY  MASTODONT