The Love of the Tayamni series

The Love of the Tayamni series is based on what I see as the reemergence of a healthy, balanced, matriarchal human energy. In fact, towards the end of the first book, Batresh explains to Jerry, “One-day, human culture will evolve to a Matriarchy once again. In fact, it is already starting.”

By using the term, matriarchal, I’m referring not only to the power of women, but to the power of LGBT+ people as well. It seems obvious to me that the rights of women and the rights of LGBT+ people are inextricably tied together. In fact, Nastia Kushnarenko says, “I believe that the basis for homophobic and transphobic attitudes is the inequality between men and women.”

To those of us who live in the LGBT community, it can seem as if the traditional power structure established by straight-white-Christian males, stands in opposition to anyone who isn’t a straight-white-Christian male. But the transformation away from those traditional, patriarchal cultural forms is well underway.

By using the term, reemergence, I assert that the earlies human societies were matriarchal. Since early human matriarchal information has been largely lost or erased, we can extrapolate from what archeologists have found that the earliest Gods were female. Not only that, but the oldest extant literature was written by a priestess about the ancient Sumerian Goddess Inanna, Inanna’s Descent to the Netherworld.

We can also make assumptions about human matriarchy based on the behavior of bonobo matriarchal groups. Strong comparisons have long been made regarding the behavior of humans and chimpanzees. Similar comparisons and differences have been observed between the chimpanzees and those of their bonobo cousins just across the Congo River. In order to make more accurate assumptions about human behavior, it is necessary to look at both groups. When we look at the environments of chimpanzees and bonobos we see that chimpanzees operate in a less food-secure environment than bonobos. Chimpanzees exhibit more competitive behavior or aggression while bonobos are more tolerant and more freely sexual with each other.

When resources are scarce, competition/aggression is useful. But when resources are abundant, tolerance is preferable. In fact over long periods of observation, when environments change from resource-constricted to resource-rich, chimpanzee groups have changed behavior. They become more like the bonobos. Their society transforms into one where females are more dominant. In these transformed groups, females begin to use sexuality as a way to diffuse tension. In these environments, male dominant behavior lessens.

The same has happened with human culture. As resources become more abundant, the power of women and sexual minorities emerge.