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Although the ancient Persians, ancient Greeks, and ancient Babylonians respectively used the names "Saka," "Scythian," and "Cimmerian" for all the steppe nomads, modern scholars now use the term Saka to refer specifically to Iranian peoples who inhabited the northern and eastern Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin; [7] [55] [8] [14] and while ...
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This is reflected in the original Scythian name of this god, which was *Pāpaya, [28] [29] meaning "father." [30] Papaios was the consort of the Earth goddess Api, hence why he was equated by Herodotus of Halicarnassus with the Greek god Zeus. [31] Papaios was the son of Tabiti, the primordial fire.
The Scythians (/ ˈ s ɪ θ i ə n / or / ˈ s ɪ ð i ə n /) or Scyths (/ ˈ s ɪ θ /, but note Scytho-(/ ˈ s aɪ θ oʊ /) in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, [7] [8] were an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the ...
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
The name Targitaus is the Latinisation of the Greek name Targitaos (Ταργιταος), which is itself the Hellenised form of the Scythian language name Targī̆tavah, meaning "possessing the strength of the goddess Tarkā." [1] The name Targitaos was previously explained as being derived from *Dargatavah, meaning “whose might is far ...
Like the Scythians whom Herodotus describes in book four of his History (Saka is an Iranian word equivalent to the Greek Scythes, and many scholars refer to them together as Saka-Scythian), Sakas were Iranian-speaking horse nomads who deployed chariots in battle, sacrificed horses, and buried their dead in barrows or mound tombs called kurgans.
A depiction of the Snake-Legged Goddess on a horse plate from Tsymbalova mohyla. Five variants of the Scythian genealogical myth have been retold by Greco-Roman authors, [2] [3] [1] [4] [5] which all traced the origin of the Scythians to the god Targī̆tavah and to the Scythian Snake-Legged Goddess: [6] [7] [8]