Tuesday, October 18, 2011
ASGARDA
Asgarda is a group of women from Ukraine who are victims of trafficking and gender oppression. The women seek complete autonomy from men. Residing in the Carpathian Mountains, the tribe is comprised of 150 women of varying ages, primarily students, led by 30 year-old Katerina Tarnouska. Reviving the tribal traditions of the Scythian Amazons of ancient Greek mythology, the Asgarda train in martial arts, taught by former Soviet karate master, Volodymyr Stepanovytch, and learn life skills and sciences in order to become ideal women. Little physical documentation existed on the tribe, until recently, when renowned French photographer, Guillaume Herbaut, met the Asgarda back in 2004 in the midst of the Orange Revolution. I can sorta relate to these people I took karate for eight years and operated different kind of weapons including: Bo staff, kamas, nun chucks, sword, sticks, and The sai's. These women all live with one another and have moved themselves from regular society and live in the mountains with each other. The reason they all moved away is they all have the same believes and wanted to start a group to express themselves in my opinion a weird and awkward way lol :D That's everything on this specific subculture called Asgarda
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interesting blog tim. i learned something new! i think it should be a bit longer. good job though
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ReplyDeleteNice job! I would have liked to know more about the Asgarda women.
ReplyDeleteLike Sherley, I am interested in finding out more about these intriguing women.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about this tim very impressed. I also would like to know maybe a little more about the women (I guess we have google for a reason) but other than that very well done.
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