![]() ![]() With the show set before Diana, it will have to center on other Amazons. Founded by Atalanta, this group acknowledges gods from the Greek pantheon, the Egyptian gods of the Bana-Mighdall Amazons, and the Incan gods, who were worshiped in that region. A third group of Amazons broke away from the Bana-Mighdall Amazons to live in the Amazonian Rainforest. Though the civil war itself happened after the timeframe of the upcoming show, Paradise Lost could explore the fractured relationship between the two factions. Though this is eventually resolved, it is a result of the accumulating tension between the different groups of Amazons. One Amazon, Malaga, feeds the division and manipulates the two into an Amazonian civil war while Diana and Hippolyta are away. The Themyscirian Amazons consider the others barbaric, and when the two sects are eventually reunited (after Diana became Wonder Woman) there is much discord. Without their connection to the Olympians, the Bana-Mighdall Amazons didn't receive the gift of immortality like their Themyscirian sisters. They renounced the Greek gods, worshiping the Egyptian gods instead. Bana-Mighdall, as they called it, was full of Amazons, but their culture was different. Though Hippolyta left for a new civilization, her sister and sometimes fellow queen, Antiope, stayed behind with several other Amazons to seek revenge on Hercules.Įventually, the Amazons who followed Antiope settled a new city in Egypt, hidden from the world. But in the second version of the story, the Amazons did not leave together. Both iterations of the story end with Hippolyta taking the Amazons to an island, where they founded the island nation from Diana's story, naming it after their old home. In another version, after Hercules attacks, Hippolyta asks Athena for help, who frees the Amazons on the condition that they don't seek revenge. Eventually, Hippolyta begged for help, and Aphrodite showed mercy, though she gave the condition that the Amazons leave their home for an island where no man can set foot. Aphrodite, furious with Hippolyta for falling for Hercules' tricks, abandoned the woman, leaving them to be enslaved by men. In one version, he steals Hippolyta's magic girdle, given to her by Aphrodite, which prevents her from losing. ![]() The all-female city-state, also called Themyscira, came into ruin after Hercules attacked them. The earliest settlement of the Amazons was in the land that later became Turkey. Whatever the show is about, it will certainly feature enough turmoil to justify a champion to claim the revered title.īy the time of Diana's story, Themyscira is a well-established and isolated society, but it wasn't always that way. ![]() ![]() Oftentimes, competitions are held to determine who will be Wonder Woman. The title is given to the Amazons' greatest warrior. Though Diana herself will not be alive during the show, there could be a Wonder Woman. But, perhaps, most important to the Wonder Woman mythos is the title itself. The Amazons bless the girls, making them honorary Amazons, before sending them back home through Thetis. This process is accomplished by the goddess Thetis, who brings baby girls who are lost at sea to Themyscira for healing. (Of course, what other sort of relationships can occur on an island populated only by women, but somehow that seems to surprise people.) Another notable Amazonian custom is the practice of rescuing and blessing girls from the world of men as Send Forths. One element of culture likely to appear in the show is the common practice of same-sex relationships. While there is much of the culture that Paradise Lost can create for itself, several elements are borrowed from Ancient Greece, and still, more is long-established in comics. The island is also home to Doom's Doorway, allowing the Amazons to guard the world against monsters. Where ever it is located, Themyscira is almost always shielded from the world of men. The location varies, sometimes in the Aegean Sea, off Bermuda, or occasionally not rooted in a single location at all. The island kingdom has been referred to as both Themyscira and Paradise Island, but no matter the name, the story remains the same. Thus, the Amazons received enhanced abilities and fighting prowess. The most common origins identify Amazons as the soles of women killed by men, which were reincarnated in bodies molded from clay by the goddess Artemis (sometimes assisted by other goddesses like Athena, Aphrodite, Demeter, and Hestia). What may be less apparent is that the Amazons can be found in Greek myths long before the character of Wonder Woman, though DC certainly added its own spin. Any knowledge of Themyscira, or Wonder Woman herself, would explain that this is an all-female civilization of Amazons and closely linked with Greek Mythology. ![]()
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