By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) & Janet Kira Lessin (CEO, Aquarian Media
CATTLE HERDING YIELDS WAR
Ralph Linton wrote that Aryan village culture, trained and shaped by its Anunnaki mentors from Nibiru, carried forward an ideology of domination consciousness—a worldview of hierarchy and control that guided its economic and social institutions. When the Aryans moved north into the Eurasian steppes, they found a vast land of grass suitable for herding but poor in soil for farming. There, they learned that keeping cattle bred conflict.
CATTLE RAIDS ON THE STEPPE
“Cattle are easy to steal, and their owners must guard them constantly,” wrote Linton. The temptation to seize a neighbor’s herd was never far away. Cattle owners had to remain vigilant and organized—forever ready to raid or repel raids. Yet cows needed rest and steady pasture to produce milk. The herders thus became semi-sedentary, forming scattered settlements anchored around their herds.
This ecology rewarded the successful raider, who rose as chieftain or aristocrat, while defeated herders became clients or serfs. Those whose cattle were stolen often attached themselves to influential leaders in return for protection and a share of the herds’ increase. Thus, the patronage system—a domination pyramid—emerged from the very rhythm of cattle life.
Between 1800 and 1500 BCE, these Indo-European-speaking Aryans—a branch of the Caucasian Eurasian stock—expanded southward from the steppes along a broad arc from India to the Balkans, while Turko-Tatar tribes extended similar herding lifeways northeastward.
The Aryan cattle-keepers built wattle-and-daub huts, wore wool garments, used bronze and later iron tools and weapons, and trekked in ox-drawn wagons that carried entire communities westward in search of richer grass and softer neighbors. When victorious, they burned their huts and migrated as a mobile nation, bringing their herds and households with them. The conquered villagers—farmers of the plains—became their serfs; their women became wives and concubines to the victors.
Each successful herding leader became a noble, his followers commoners, his conquered peoples servants, forming the first layers of a feudal caste order. Within his compound, the chief lived with wives, children, brothers, and clients—all tied to his household’s herd and land. The chief’s retainers served as his bodyguard, bound to die beside him if their band was defeated.
OATH TO THE ARYAN CHIEF
Although property and succession were patrilineal, Aryan men could still matrifiliate—join their mother’s kin group when advantageous, since a woman’s relatives often offered generosity or sanctuary. Marriages were usually monogamous but fluid. A wife’s loyalty lay more with her father’s lineage than her husband’s; if a dispute arose, she sided with her natal clan. Wealthy men maintained multiple wives or concubines. “Concubines and wives all lived in the same hall,” wrote Linton, “and their children were raised together.”
Women of high lineage often dominated husbands of lower rank. Since female status derived from birth, many women exercised power within the hall and chose lovers at will. Before later Christian moral codes suppressed this independence, Aryan women—like their Greek analogs under Hera and Demeter—commanded respect as keepers of bloodlines and mediums of ancestral power.
THE LADY OF THE HERD-HALL
Spiritually, Aryan men acted as family chaplains, officiating at rituals to honor “The Shiny Ones”—the radiant Anunnaki overlords they remembered as Marduk (Zeus) and his celestial cohort. The old sky fathers, war gods, and storm lords of the steppes were Anunnaki memories transposed into new tongues—Enlil to Indra, Marduk to Zeus, Inanna to Aphrodite, and Enki to Poseidon.
Cattle-keeping Aryans stood at the intersection of ecology, economy, and cosmology—herding their wealth, defending it by the sword, and projecting their hierarchy onto Heaven itself.
FARMING & CATTLE KEEPING: 2 PATHS OF CIVILIZATION
Even before the Aryans rode south, humanity had divided along two ways of life—the farmer’s partnership and the herder’s domination.
After the last Ice Age, the domestication of plants and animals set humankind on twin trajectories. Farmers learned stability, irrigation, and community labor, while herders learned mobility, defense, and boldness. The farmer’s survival depended on cooperation, the herder’s on prowess.
From the first mud-brick walls of Jericho to the irrigation canals of Sumer, sedentary life produced surpluses and specialization—scribes, potters, architects, poets. Outside the walls, every man was a warrior; every boy trained for pain and arms. War became a rite of passage and a necessity.
The two ways clashed endlessly, shaping empires and myths alike. City-builders admired nomads’ freedom even as they feared their raids. Nomads despised city decadence but envied its abundance. The rhythm of attack and rebuild became the heartbeat of Eurasian history.
*Reference, Linton, R, 1961, The Tree of Culture, pp 257-279, Knopf
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Cattle-Keepers from the Eurasian Plains (and how Cattle-keeping (Caucasoid) Aryans went with their social stucture and stabilized settlement; they were pushed ever west by the horse-keeping nomads–Huns, Avars, Magyars, Mongols–further east, where the grass was insufficient for cattle) followed, in the second or third century.
