PAGE 1. (PANEL) 2. NOW WE HAVE A WIDE SCREEN SHOT OF THE FIRST SOCIETY,A HERD OF FEMALES SLEEPING WITH THEIR YOUNG, THE CREATURES THAT WE SEE HERE ARE HOMINIDS, AND THE FEMALES THAT WE SEE IN THE FOREGROUND ARE SLEEPING PEACEFULLY BENEATH THE PREHISTORIC NIGHT SKY, HAIRY ARMS DRAPED CASUALLY ACROSS EACH OTHER, SLEEPING CHEEKS RESTING AGAINST FURRY FLANKS. ONE OF THE FEMALES HAS A SMALL AND MONKEY-LIKE CHILD CLASPED SLEEPING TO HER PENDULOUS BREASTS. AWAY ACROSS THE NIGHT CLEARING, BEYOND THE IDYLLICALLY DREAMING HERD THAT WE SEE SUGGESTED IN THE F/G WE CAN SEE THE SLOUCHING, KNUCKLE-DRAGGING FIGURES OF A FEW MALE HOMINIDS, WATCHING WARILY AND SOMEWHAT JEALOUSLY FROM NEAR THE DISTANT TREE LINE, PERHAPS JUST SEEN HERE AS WHITE SILLHOUETTES AGAINST THE JUNGLE DARK. CAP. : On land the first societies, great herds of she-beasts, raised their young together, without males, whose part in reproduction was unknown. CAP. : The women licked and groomed each other with men watching, circling, circling round... (PANEL) 3. NOW WE ARE UP TO AROUND 3000 B.C, IN ANCIENT SUMER AND THEREABOUTS. IN THE F/G HERE STANDS A MALE PRIEST, WITH THE ALTAR THAT HE IS STANDING BEFORE MERCIFULLY OFF PANEL BELOW. THE PRIEST HAS HIS LEATHERY AND FANATICAL FACE TURNED TOWARDS THE BOILING CLOUDS THAT FILL THE HEAVENS AND HAS HIS HANDS RAISED TO THE ANGRY- LOOKING SKY, ONE HAS THE FINGERS STRETCHED, BESEECHING, OUTWARDS. IN THE OTHER HAND HE HOLDS A KNIFE, BOTH KNIFE AND HAND AND FOREARM RUNNING WITH FRESH BLOOD THAT TRICKLES AND DRIPS. TO THE LEFT OF THE PICTURE, IN THE NEAR B/G, WE SEE A SCREAMING AND HORRIFIED WOMEN BEING HELD BACK BY A GRIM-FACED ACOLYTE AS SHE VAINLY TRIES TO STRUGGLE FORWARD, REACHING OUT ONE HAND TOWARDS THE GRIM SCENE IN THE F/G. HER TINY-PUPILLED, HORROR-WIDENED EYES ARE FIXED UPON A POINT OFF PANEL JUST BELOW THE LOWER BORDER, OVERHEAD, THE SKY CHURNS DARKLY. CAP. : In the beginning then, three million years of motherhood. CAP. : The WORD came LATER, and the word was power, was patriarchy: Firstborn children squirmed on altars of a father God. CAP. : The Word was LAW: In Sumer, women scorning men had teeth crushed with burned bricks. (PANEL) 4 NOW JUST A CLOSE UP OF A PAIR OF STRONG AND SUNTANNED CLEARLY-MASCULINE HANDS, THOSE OF AN ELDERLY MALE, AS THEY ENTER FROM THE LEFT OF THE FOREGROUND. ONE HAND HOLDS A CRUDE HAMMER, THE OTHER A CRUDE CHISEL, AND THE HANDS ARE PATIENTLY CHIPPING OUT A LIST OF LAWS IN ANCIENT ARAMAIC LATTERING UPON A ROUGH STONE TABLET, CHIPS OF BAKED CLAY SPRAYING THROUGH THE AIR. THE LAWS LOOK SOLID, IRREMOVABLE AND MADE TO LAST.