Study on matrilineal and matriarchal societies (second part) The legend says that if amazons decided to keep male babies or male adults, they had to break their leg or arm or even made them blind to be sure that they will not represent a threaten for the community. Moreover, for amazons once males were handicapped, they represented good servants and great lovers because according to amazons they were not anymore tempted to abuse of their physical forces. So Amazons disliked men, but in order to make sure that the community will still exist and grow, they had one time per year sexual relations with man, but not with anyone, they made their choice among men on the standard of beauty. In spite of their cruelty towards men, amazons had values: for those women the most important was the loyalty of each member at the community and they also wanted to prove to others populations that they were real warriors who were in capacity to win in front of men. For example, to be as good as men in war they cut their right breast to not be disturb when they had to archery. After this description, it seems clear that Amazons are a perfect illustration of matrilineal but also matriarchal society. What is the most exiting is that recent researches made near Russia permit to tell that the story of amazons is maybe not a legend. Effectively, they found out coffins that contain warrior women who had with them weapons, (fleches) and jewels. This discovery show out that matriarchal society has maybe existed in the past. B- Reality: the society established by women of Meghalaya The state of Meghalaya, localised on the North-East of India, is the biggest matrilineal society of the world with five millions of people. In this state the power is given by the mother to his daughter since more 2 300 years. Meghalaya is composed by many tribes, which one of them (the largest) the Khasis give all credit to women. The Khasis’ tribe follows a matrilineal system of inheritance. In the Khasi society, it is only the youngest daughter who is eligible to inherit the ancestral property. It’s her who’s going to assume the higher function in the family but also in the society. If the youngest daughter dies without any daughter surviving her, her next elder sister inherits the ancestral property, and after her, the youngest daughter of that sister. Failing all daughters and their female issues, the property goes back to the mother';s sister, mother';s sister';s daughter and so on. Moreover when women get married they don’t have to bring a “dot” because they automatically inherit all the properties.