Original subtitles

(thrilling instrumental music)

- [Narrator] Our knowledge of the prehistoric world,

before the first historian sat down

to write the story of his people, is vague.

It's founded on the research of archeologists.

Their studies of people and dwellings

which existed in those times

existed not only in rocky wastelands,

but in the warmer climates, in lush, prehistoric jungles.

Not so very long ago, an explorer in a wild tropic jungle

found evidence which told this story.

Nobody knows when these events took place.

Maybe 10,000, maybe 100,000 years ago.

It's the story of romance when the world was young,

and, as all romance as must,

it concerns itself mainly with one man, Engor,

and one woman, Tigri.

This is the woman of our story.

She is Tigri, the leader of her tribe.

Under the spell of a full moon,

Tigri and the women of her tribe dance restlessly, savagely,

compelled by a feeling of frustration,

of a promise unfulfilled.

They dance not knowing why, and continue until exhausted.

(tribal drum music)

(speaking foreign language)

The Wise One tells them to be calm.

This is Lotee.

This is Arva.

This is Tigri, you've met her before.

This is Tulle.

This is Eras.

This is Nika.

This is the Wise One.

Old as the moon and wise as the sun.

She knows why the young ones

dance so restlessly in the light of the full moon.

She's telling them a story of the founding of their tribe.

She explains that, many moons ago,

the tribe was founded by Tana, the mother of Tigri.

In those days, the women were the slaves,

and, in Tana's tribe, as in all other tribes,

no woman dared question the men.

The men needed only to order,

and the trembling women hastened to obey.

She tells them that when they were small children,

they lived deep in the jungle,

the young ones of a band of jungle dwellers.

(bright instrumental music)

This is Tigri's mother, Tana.

She and the others have stopped for a momentary rest,

tired from carrying the carcass of a dead animal.

(speaking foreign language)

The angry leader of the tribe comes back

to find out why the women are falling behind.

To him, weariness is no excuse.

(speaking foreign language)

Tana and the other women wearily pick up the carcass

and continue.

(orderly instrumental music)

By now, the women are completely exhausted,

and must pause again for rest.

Angrily, the leader storms back

and yells for them to get going.

(speaking foreign language)

The rebellious Tana tells him

that the men should carry the dead animal.

Knocked to the ground, the infuriated, desperate Tana

throws a rock at the leader, felling him.

Tana immediately realizes

that they must flee with the children

or the men of the tribe will take revenge on them.

The women quickly gather the children

and rush off into the jungle.

The stunned leader orders the men to go after the women,

but the women have eluded them.

The wise old woman tells them how, as time passed,

the tribe prospered under Tana's able leadership,

and the little girls learned how to fend for themselves.

They all learned the skills of hunting

and fishing for their food.

(bright instrumental music)

(speaking foreign language)

The child on shore, like all children are wont to do,

decides to wander off and do a little exploring herself.

The entire tribe is unaware

that they have been sighted by the terrible Guaddi.

This nine foot tall monster has roamed the jungle for years,

bringing death and destruction to whatever he touches.

Tana sees the little girl is missing

and calls to the other women to follow her

in search of the child.

Savage, merciless, possessed of herculean strength,

Guaddi is the most feared thing of the prehistoric world.

The girl explains to the Wise One as best she can

that she has seen the terrible giant.

- Guaddi?

Guaddi!

(speaking foreign language)

(screaming)

- [Narrator] Guaddi has successfully captured

two of the women, and is carrying them off!

Tana was the only one to get away,

but has been mortally hurt,

and dies with Guaddi's name on her lips.

- Guaddi...

Guaddi...

- [Narrator] The wise old woman flees with the children.

Even now, 15 years later,

the mention of the dreaded name of Guaddi

still strikes terror in the hearts of these same girls.

They know that the hideous giant still ranges the jungle.

(wondrous instrumental music)

(speaking foreign language)

The Wise One tells them that they must forget

their hate for the "Anir", their word for men.

The moon is full.

By the time of the advent of the next full moon,

they must find and capture themselves husbands

if the tribe is to survive.

And the next morning, the six determined women

set forth on their mission,

accompanied by one of their panthers.

This is the man of our story.

He is Engor.

This is Engor's friend, Ruig.

This is Kama, and the bearded Adh.

Engor and his friends are on a foraging expedition.

They are hunting food for their cave dwelling tribe.

They've cornered a savage tiger,

and are pitting their skill with stone-headed war clubs

against this vicious monster of the jungle.

(tense instrumental music)

(speaking foreign language)

The panther, smelling the blood of a dead tiger,

excitedly breaks away from the girls.

They chase after their pet.

(panther shrieking)

- Anir!

(speaking foreign language)

- [Narrator] Adh uses the sap from a tree

to sooth Engor's wounds.

Suddenly, Adh falls unconscious.

Engor and his tribesmen are amazed to see

that they've been attacked by members of the weaker sex.

(exciting instrumental music)

(speaking foreign language)

The women order the men to pick up the dead panther

and carry him back to their camp.

In the meantime, Engor stumbles along through the jungle

back to his people.

(speaking foreign language)

(laughing)

"What type of women are these," Ruik wonders,

"who attack men and live in trees?"

Nika gazes at her captive,

entranced by her first close look at a male.

This cave is the home of Engor's tribe,

and these are his people.

They are mountain people, cave dwellers.

Their leader looks skyward at a soaring vulture,

knowing that where the vulture settles,

they will find a wounded or dead animal.

He motions for his hunters to follow him.

(vulture calling)

- Engor!

(speaking foreign language)

- [Narrator] The men find the wounded and exhausted Engor

and carry him back to the cave.

- Engor! Engor!

- [Narrator] Engor's mother

and the rest of the cave dwellers

crowd around the wounded Engor.

His mother motions them to carry Engor into the cave

where she can tend to him.

Weeks have gone by, and the leader of the cave dwellers

is marking on the rocks the story of the women

as Engor has told it to him.

Time has healed Engor's wounds,

and despite the leader's protest,

Engor is determined upon revenge.

(speaking foreign language)

Engor vows to rescue his tribesmen,

and to bring back to this cave as slaves

the women who captured them.

- Engor!

(speaking foreign language)

- Engor's mother, who knows of the women tribe,

points out the right direction to Engor.

She tells him he must cross two mountain ranges,

but it will take him two days journey

to reach the country of the women tribe.

Every sense alive for the sound or sight of danger,

Engor makes his way through the jungle

toward the camp of the women.

(elephant shrieking)

(dramatic instrumental music)

Engor stumbles and loses his weapon,

but cannot stop for it.

He finally eludes the elephant

by jumping behind a large boulder,

and the lumbering animal passes him by.

Having lost his only weapon, Engor must make a new club.

His only protection against

the many dangers lurking in the jungle.

(pensive instrumental music)

Engor gathers some stones to use for the head of his club.

He starts hacking two of them together to make a sharp edge.

A spark ignites the dry leaves on the ground,

and Engor is taken aback by the strange, unknown phenomenon.

Fire!

He stretches his arm out to touch it,

and draws his hand back in pain.

He doesn't understand it,

but he knows that this new discovery of his

has the power to inflict injury.

He is fascinated by the wonder of the first torch.

- Pir!

- [Narrator] He calls it "Pir," his word for fire.

(snake hissing)

The hiss of a python in the trees startles him to his feet.

He jabs the torch into the water after the snake.

To his surprise, he finds the fire has disappeared.

He jabs the torch back again, trying to regain the fire.

But it's gone.

Strangely enough, the swan dive

was invented before the swan.

(peaceful instrumental music)

Tigri's jungle women have developed great skill in swimming,

and it's one of their favorite recreations.

On this night, Tigri, Eras, and Tulle,

are enjoying an evening swim in this jungle pool.

(screaming)

(dramatic instrumental music)

(adventurous instrumental music)

Over rocky bed streams, Engor continues on his way.

He is now approaching the outskirts of the jungle territory.

Suddenly, he sees ahead of him the huge giant Guaddi.

Terrified, Engor decides that

the tree is his best hiding place,

and quickly climbs up into it.

- Anir!

Anir.

Anir.

(speaking foreign language)

(panther shrieking)

- [Narrator] It seems that women were women

in those days too.

A handsome male captive makes his appearance,

and suddenly, there's trouble.

- Engor!

Engor!

- Ruik!

- Engor!

Engor!

- [Engor] Adh!

- Engor!

- [Engor] Tana!

- [Narrator] Tigri is not sure yet why she objects.

But she wants no interference

until she decides whether or not she, herself,

wants him as her husband.

(speaking foreign language)

Engor is tempted to strike back at his captor,

but the ever watchful snarling panther

is a warning for him to be careful.

He decides that caution is better

than tangling now with this strange band of women.

(peaceful instrumental music)

That night, with the rest of the camp asleep,

Engor decides that this is his chance for escape.

Quietly, he starts to climb down the vine.

"This is easy," Engor thinks.

But he's not reckoned with the ever alert panther,

who evidently has just been waiting for him.

(speaking foreign language)

(tranquil instrumental music)

(speaking foreign language)

Tigri orders the women to feed their men.

Arva decides that this is a good time to make up to Engor,

and starts to bring him some food.

- Arva!

- [Narrator] Sudden rage floods Tigri as she sees this.

- Arva!

- [Narrator] She angrily informs Arva that she has decided

that Engor is to be her husband.

- Arva anir!

- [Narrator] But Arva violently disagrees.

- Tigri anir!

- [Narrator] And so, the fight is on.

(dramatic instrumental music)

(speaking foreign language)

- Tigri anir!

(peaceful instrumental music)

- [Narrator] Engor labors over a huge rock,

which Tigri has ordered him to move.

He can't budge it.

Tigri shakes her head at the stupidity of men.

Engor finally gives up, humiliated by her look of scorn.

(speaking foreign language)

He asks her, if she is so wise and superior,

why doesn't she see if she can move the rock?

Tigri picks up a huge branch, and using simple leverage,

shows Engor how easy it is to move the rock

if you use your head!

- Engor!

- Tigri.

Engor.

- Tigri, Engor.

- [Narrator] This is the night before the full moon.

Time is running out for the male captives.

By tomorrow, the marriage ceremonies

will have been completed.

(tribal drum music)

The Wise One drums, and the women dance

as Engor and the men look on with mixed emotions.

Engor knows too well what the coming of the full moon means,

either escape or servitude.

And as he watches the dance,

the women pick up their clubs and demonstrate

that in their homes, they will be the master.

Surrounded by the watching women

and the ever guarding panther,

the men sit idly, while Ruik,

who seems to have a fetish for being clean shaven,

is scraping his cheek with a sharp edged stone.

(mystical instrumental music)

(speaking foreign language)

Engor is trying to figure a way out of this trap.

(rocks clacking)

Suddenly, a tremendous black shadow sweeps over the camp.

It is Corax, the flying dragon, the scourge of the skies!

(shouting)

(screaming)

(Corax roaring)

(speaking foreign language)

(panther shrieking)

And so, the tables are turned.

The dominant male is happy and contented.

Women wait on him as though he were a king.

(slow instrumental music)

- Tigri...

(speaking foreign language)

(speaking foreign language)

- [Narrator] Tigri, at Engor's command,

is out gathering fruit.

She is hungry, and would like to eat some of the fruit,

but no, Engor forbids it!

The once proud fiery leader of the tribe meekly obeys.

(piglets squealing)

(speaking foreign language)

(growling)

(speaking foreign language)

(speaking foreign language)

He offers a piece of raw meat to Engor,

who is intrigued by the scent of the meat in the fire.

It tastes fine, and he offers some to Kama and Tigri.

At first they refuse.

But when they taste it,

they both agree that it is delicious.

And so, for the first time,

cooked meat goes on the menu of this primitive tribe,

and civilization progresses another step.

Engor's thoughts are of his home and his people.

(speaking foreign language)

He gives orders that they will start on their long trek back

to the mountain home of Engor's tribe.

(speaking foreign language)

Engor leads them through the jungle,

ever alert for the lurking dangers which abound there.

(ominous instrumental music)

Engor spots a natural cave off in a clearing.

He orders the group to rush toward it.

(grunting)

- Guaddi!

(screaming)

(deep laughter)

(pained groaning)

- [Narrator] Then, Guaddi decides to use

his tremendous strength to topple over

the huge rock covering the top of the cave,

so that it will crush the men and women inside.

- Pir!

- [Narrator] Engor orders the other men to make torches.

(pained shouting)

As the giant stumbles away, howling with pain,

Engor orders the other men to encircle the area with fires,

so they can forge a burning circle of death for Guaddi.

Guaddi is completely bewildered by the leaping flames,

and terrified by the fire!

He screams in fear!

(screaming)

Engor finds himself also trapped by the encircling fire,

and sees that his only escape is to go over it.

Tigri looks with admiration at Engor.

(speaking foreign language)

She asks him to change his mind

and return to the women's camp with his men,

where they can start a new tribe.

(speaking foreign language)

Engor agrees, and tells his friends

he has decided to remain.

(peaceful instrumental music)

The wise old woman is happy

as she sees the pairing off of the couples.

She knows now there will be peace between the tribes,

and that the tribe will increase.

She motions for Engor and Tigri to come to her.

(speaking foreign language)

She is going to perform

the only kind of marriage ceremony she knows.

With the blending of their blood,

Engor and Tigri's marriage is completed.

The first of four marriages

to be celebrated that moonlit night.

As the women dance the marriage ceremonial

to show their happiness...

(tribal drum music)

And so, in those distant days, even as today,

the eternal battle for supremacy between woman and man

was solved not through the claw and the club,

but through romance.