The First Horse People

By Gerald Brefka

The Yumnayas were the ancestors to all the first horse people. The Botai were the first horse people. The Sarmatians were the second horse people. Of all these first tribes, they were the most European-looking with blond hair and blue eyes, even though they all had the same root language given by the Yamnayas. The third was probably the Androvo tribe but would not be heard from in the west until they found the fastest horses in the world in Siberia. The true menace was the fourth tribe, the Scythians, the number 1 competition to the Sarmatians.


This is the story of how these tribes interacted with one another. It’s a story with action from beginning to end.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796064230

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Copyright © 2019 by Gerald Brefka.

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Foreword

The Yumnayas were the ancestors to all the first horse people. The Botai were the first horse people. They were in the east part of ancient Kazakhstan and looked more like East Asians. They mostly traveled east and married within the eastern tribes, until they rode west into the Sarmatians.

The Sarmatians were the second horse people. Of all these first tribes, they were the most European-looking with blond hair and blue eyes, even though they all had the same root language given by the Yamnayas. According to all the major empires—the Chinese, the Greek, the Roman, and the Persian—the Sarmatians appeared to come out of nowhere. In fact, they were located at the very of the steppes, in the exact middle of all the empires. The Sarmatians looked different and fought and defended different from all their neighboring tribes. This was because when they first came to the steppes as shepherds of flocks of sheep and goats, they found the migration of many animals. When the tribe outgrew the flocks to survive, they began to follow the migrations to hunt. Their attacking style was to line up as if they were hunting a herd during migration. Their defense was exactly the same. Whereas the other tribes would ride around and fling arrows, the Sarmatians neutralized them by charging straight on with spears. Also during the migration hunts, the Sarmatians ran into the ancient Slavic people, who found safety among the Sarmatians’ defense. The Sarmatians took in all wandering tribes, while the others took slaves to sell to the southern kingdoms.

The third was probably the Androvo tribe but would not be heard from in the west until they found the fastest horses in the world in Siberia. When they came to hunt on the steppes, the speed of their horses forced the Sarmatians to migrate west. The Androvos looked more Siberian and the tribes north of the Mongols and Tartars.

The true menace was the fourth tribe, the Scythians, the number 1 competition to the Sarmatians. The western world knew about the Scythians long before the Androvo tribe returned to the steppes. The Scythians look more like the Middle East with black hair and black eyes and had some East Asian look to them as well. They were located to the southwest of the Sarmatians and east of the Roman Empire.

This is the story of how these tribes interacted with one another. It’s a story with action from beginning to end. It’s about the Sarmatians and the Amazons, who were actually the daughters of the Sarmatians. You will find an element of the Amazons’ prehistory in this story and how the Sarmatians came to depend on the Amazons as warriors for the tribe. You will also find that the horses taught the Sarmatians, especially when it came time to find food for them in the first winter. The Sarmatians influenced the history of the entire world more than any other tribes. They were the mercenaries of every known empire without creating an empire for themselves. The lost Roman legion of the Chinese empire was, in fact, Sarmatians by the descriptions of their armor. Their DNA is shown in the people around the area, where they served the Chinese empire.

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In a dugout home of mud and wood and sod for the roof, a Botai father, who has an Eastern Asian look to him but a bit taller than the tribes to the east, calms his family down during an extremely severe spring storm. His family lives in the house that is the farthest north from the chief’s village, and his family is the youngest family in the village. The rain has continued for three more days. When it finally breaks, the men begin to hunt, searching for tracks, and cannot find any near the village as the men talk about the storm, the likes of which no one has ever experienced before.

The men from the villages to the south head to the north village to fish before they head toward the steppe to hunt. When the women of the north village see all the tribesmen show up, they think it is a call to arms for the entire tribe. They watch their men talk with the other men who show up and begin to fish on the river the village is settled next to. When enough fish is caught for the entire village to cook and eat, the boys of the youngest family come running to their mother and sisters.

As they eat as a family, separate from the rest of the tribe, the boys are speaking excitedly about all their cousins who are going on a hunting trip tomorrow, and they expect to go along. The mother, who looks East Asian but darker-complected, laughs at hearing this, saying to her husband that the women thought the men were going to war when all the tribesmen showed up. Then as she looks at her two eldest sons, knowing that they are still a little too young to go hunting yet, she knows that they will be heartbroken, when they won’t be allowed on the hunt. She knows her husband, who has the look of East Asian, lighter-complected with long dark hair and dark eyes, is a quiet man and will not speak up for his sons yet. She knows he is more a follower than a leader, being the youngest of seven brothers.

In the morning, all the fathers from the other villages who come here looking for any traces of the animals to hunt all gather to be sorted out for the hunting parties. The storm has chased the game away that they hunt and depend on. Along with all the new hunters from all the villages, they surround the village fire. They wait to hear how the warriors will be separated in hunting parties to go to hunt. The two young boys are not chosen on any of the hunting parties because they are still too young. Their village elder, their grandfather, leaves the eldest son a hunting knife to protect his mother and sisters while the men are gone hunting.

The mother of the three sons left behind sends them fishing for the entire village. She knows she doesn’t have to worry about them being picked on or anything being taken from them while all the other boys are gone. She sends the sisters to bring the family’s water home for the morning and then sends them by their brothers with baskets to gather leaves and mushrooms. They are not to eat anything until their mother or grandmother check their baskets. The mother and grandmother collect firewood downed by the storm on the other side of the village.

As the two girls are walking farther away from their brothers who are fishing, the elder sister hears something in the distance by some fallen trees. It is a horse calling out, trapped by fallen trees from the storm, and sticking its nose through the branches, trying to reach the grass to eat. The elder sister starts to pull up grass to feed the horse, but as she looks into the downed branches, she sees five mother horses with five baby horses. Who must have taken the babies into the tree line to protect them from the storm and the herd stampede during the lightning strikes? The girl starts to pull the grass and puts it where the horses can get it. The mother horses are so hungry they start to nudge one another for what little grass is coming to them. The little sister can’t pull up the grass and goes to her brothers to tell them to come help feed the horses.

The eldest brother is laughing, saying there are no horses here. That is why all the hunters left the village. Then the other sister is calling for their little sister, who has wandered off. The boys stop fishing to take their little sister back to their other sister. The other sister tells the same exact story about the horses that the brothers need to help pull grass up for.

The elder brother quickly climbs through the branches to find the horses trapped by the downed trees. He quickly comes out of the branches, pulling out his knives, saying he will show the hunters they should have not left these three brothers behind. The boys quickly sharpen poles as spears and then climb through the branches to find good spots on the downed trees to stab at the horses. The sister is yelling to not hurt her horses as she is still pulling up grass.

The littlest brother falls in the pen and is immediately kicked by a horse. The eldest brother jumps in between his brother and the horse to get him out, while the middle brother jumps in the back of the horse that kicked. The eldest brother gets his brother out and sits him on the ground, crying and holding his shoulder. The horse, weak from hunger and with very little room with baby horses, doesn’t buck very long before the horses settle down. Then the elder brother jump on a horse as well. The elder sister is trying to calm the crying boy while pulling grass. The littlest sister is running to tell her mother about her brother being kicked.

The littlest sister finds her grandmother first, who takes her to her mother. She tells her mother that the boys ware trying to stab the horses the girls found. And her brother got kicked by a horse and is crying. The mother immediately runs to where the boys are supposed to be fishing. She hears her other daughter calling out for the one who wanders away again. As the mother runs to her calling daughter, she sees her youngest son sitting on the ground crying, holding his shoulder. The mother pulls his shirt over to see a large bruise forming. Then she tells her daughter that they don’t need to eat grass as the girl goes back to pulling grass. She tells her mother it is for her horses trapped in the fallen trees.

Then the mother hears her sons carrying on behind the branches. The mother climbs through the branches to see her sons riding on the horses and yells at them, Get off those horses and get back to fishing before I take a switch to you both! Then the mother sees a horse come up to the grass from where the daughter is placing it. The mother grabs a giant leaf to put water in it for the horses. The grandmother comes walking up with the littlest girl in her hand. The mother tells the grandmother, I’ll tell you as soon as I do this. The mother walks by the daughter with the grass to see if the horses need water. A horse takes the water way too fast. Then the mother comes back to stand up the injured boy. The other brothers go back to fishing. The mother tells the grandmother, We need to go back and get waterpots for the horses and some wooden hoes to cut up grass for the horses. We need to keep them alive until the men return.

In the village, the mother makes a sling for her son’s shoulder and gives him something for the pain. She tells him to stay in bed and go to sleep. Then she grabs all the extra pottery pots and vessels and wooden hoes. She tells all the women in the village about the horses and that they need to keep them alive until the men return. The entire village walks out to the downed trees to see the horses before they start pulling up grass and fetching water for the horses.

For three days while the men are gone, the women attend to the horses, as the boys are fishing. When there is enough fish each day for the entire village, the boys get to ride before and after they eat. Only their sister and some other village young boys ride the horses. No one realize that with so little room in the fallen trees and with babies, the mother horses can’t really try from being ridden.

The third evening, the men show up with fresh and smoked meat. Finding no one in the village while nothing is missing, the men start calling out to their wives. The women slowly start walking out of the tree line, answering back. The men show them the meat for the women to cook. While the women are cooking a meal in the village fire, the mother tells the men about the horses trapped in the downed trees and the children have been riding them except for her son who got kicked by a horse. The men start laughing about this far-fetched story they are being told about the horses. Then the mother takes the shirt off her son to show them the bruise, telling the men the children are riding the horses right now.

The men make the mother show them where the horses are as they take their bows and spears. As they walk to the downed trees, the daughter, waiting her turn to ride, tries to stop the men from getting to her horses. The mother tells her it was all right. Then the mother shushes the men as they walk to surround the pen to see the horses and boys riding on them. The men can’t believe what they are seeing. Only the most ornery man of the village tries to aim his spear while the children are riding, and the father actually stops the man from releasing his spear, telling him, We need to think about this, if we can ride horses while we hunt. Then the father calls the men back to the village to talk about the horses.

After dinner, the men gather by themselves to talk about the horses. They decide they need to bring the horses out of the tree line to the grass. They also decide to build a corral to keep the horses fenced in. The men take two days to build a fence for the horses and then to clear the branches first before chopping into the thinnest tree to clear for moving the horses. When the time comes to cutting the tree to bring the horses out, the father wants to make sure the men can ride the horses, so he tries first. But the ride is very short, when he can’t stop or turn the horse. The father becomes very scared for his children riding the horses. He tries to put a rope on the horse’s