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The Scythian name of the goddess Tabiti (Ancient Greek: Ταβιτι) was *Tapatī, [13] which meant "the Burning One" or "the Flaming One," [10] [14] [15] was the goddess of the primordial fire which alone existed before the creation of the universe and was the basic essence and the source of all creation, and from her were born Api (the Earth ...
Tabiti (Scythian: *Tapatī; Ancient Greek: Ταβιτί, romanized: Tabiti; Latin: Tabiti) was the Scythian goddess of the primordial fire which alone existed before the creation of the universe and was the basic essence and the source of all creation. She was the most venerated of all Scythian deities.
The Sindo-Maeotian form of Targī̆tavah was named Sanerges (Ancient Greek: Σανεργες, romanized: Sanerges; Latin: Sanerges).Reflecting the role of Targī̆tavah in the Scythian genealogical legend, Sanerges was considered the partner of the goddess Aphroditē Apatoura, who was a local iteration of the Snake-Legged Goddess.
Artimpasa was the Scythian variant of the Iranian goddess Arti (𐬀𐬭𐬙𐬌)/Aṣ̌i (𐬀𐬴𐬌), who was a patron of fertility and marriage and a guardian of laws who represented material wealth in its various forms, including [1] domestic animals, precious objects, and a plentiful descendance.
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]
The Anarya were affiliated to an orgiastic cult of the goddess Artimpasa and of the Scythians' ancestral Snake-Legged Goddess in their forms strongly influenced by Near Eastern fertility goddesses, and the rites of the Anarya thus combined indigenous Scythian religious practices of a shamanistic nature, which were themselves related to those of indigenous Siberian peoples, as well as ones ...
The Scythians also borrowed the use of the war chariots [107] and of scale armour from West Asians, [113] [208] and Scythian warriors themselves obtained iron weapons and military experience during their stay in West Asia. [209] The Scythian Snake-Legged Goddess and other artifacts, from Kul-Oba.
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