Chariots

[Vidhyanath Rao]

maher, johnpeter <jpmaher at neiu.edu> wrote:
>in Bulgaria/1966 I saw a long-legged man "riding" a donkey: He sat, feet
>dragging, not amidships, but back on the animal's hip [pardon: I'm a city
kid].

Actually this is said to be the right way to ride a donkey because donkeys
have carry their necks low.

In the earliest representations from the Ancient Near East, people ride
horses too this way. But it is bad for the horse. [That is why Littauer and
Crowell object to the idea that the horse was introduced to the ANE by
horse riding people. and not by trade.]

-Nath