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- narratives refer to the women soldiers as "Amazons", they called themselves ahosi (king's wives) or Mino (our mothers). Ghezo recruited both men and women...
- Benin to learn about the history and culture of an all-woman army, the Ahosi (Ahojie or Ahoji), referred to by early European historians as the Amazons...
- aho means widow and the suffix si or shi means female so ahosi literally means widow. Ahosi started as group of wives of departed kings in the kingdom...
- army. Dahomey instituted an elite female soldier corps variously called Ahosi (the king's wives), Mino ("our mothers" in Fongbe), or the "Dahomean Amazons"...
- icchitadesaṃ apatvāva samuddamajjhe vipannā. Mahājano macchakacchapabhakkho ahosi. Bāhiyo pana ekaṃ nāvāphalakaṃ gahetvā taranto ūmivegena mandamandaṃ khippamāno...
- Indefinitely effective kamma (aṗarāpariyavedaniya kamma) Defunct kamma (ahosi kamma) Place of taking effect Immoral (akusala) kamma pertaining to the...
- of the Oyo Empire including the Dahomean infantry, the kingdom's elite Ahosi corps of female soldiers, as well as levies from the Oyo Empire, were able...