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 The image above comes from Frederick E. Forbes' //Dahomey and the Dahomans//, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,London 1851. It is his travel journal. On page 24 he begins describing the Dahomey Amazons, discussing the way in which they would dance around a victim while "sawing" his head off, thus the picture of her standing there with a decapitated head.  The image above comes from Frederick E. Forbes' //Dahomey and the Dahomans//, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,London 1851. It is his travel journal. On page 24 he begins describing the Dahomey Amazons, discussing the way in which they would dance around a victim while "sawing" his head off, thus the picture of her standing there with a decapitated head. 
 +
 +====== Ahangbe ======
 +Agbidinoukoun's barebones introduction of Ahangbe was considerably augmented in 1949 by Anatole Coissy (a/k/a Coyssi), a
 +Dahomean school director, writing in Etudes Dahomeennes. He said
 +that on Akaba's death (generally dated to 1708), Ahangbe was ap-
 +pointed regent because Akaba's designated successor, his son Agbo-
 +Sassa, was still a minor. (This contradicted Agbidinoukoun, who
 +said Akaba exceptionally chose his brother Dosu as his heir to avoid
 +any conflict between his and Ahangbe's sons.22) Ahangbe's regency
 +lasted only three months. A court faction resenting her bacchanalian
 +life-style assassinated her only son. She resigned the regency in
 +melodramatic fashion, stripping before the throne council and pub-
 +licly washing her private parts in a gesture of vast contempt. Dosu/
 +Agaja then took over and later thwarted Agbo-Sassa's efforts to ob-
 +tain the crown." The story implies that Ahangbe became an official
 +non-person because she opposed Agaja's irregular ascension to the
 +throne." (13) Source: [[Alpern, Stanley B.]]
 +
 +This is further supported by Suzanne Blier who confirms that Tassi-Hangbe (name variation) was a ruler. 
 +"Whatever the answer, today it is Huegbadja's wife's tohuio, Aligbonu, who
 +is worshipped by this king's descendants as the ancestress of the royal
 +dynasty, for she is the tohujo of his children, the early rulers Akaba, Tassi-
 +Hangbe and Agadja" (Blier 409).
 +
 +[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangbe|Wikipedia Link]]
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