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  2. Scythians - Wikipedia

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    The Scythian and Cimmerian movements into Anatolia and the Iranian Plateau would act as catalysts for the adoption of Eurasian nomadic military and equestrian equipments by various West Asian states: [125] it was during the 7th and 6th centuries BCE that "Scythian-type" socketed arrowheads and sigmoid bows ideal for use by mounted warriors ...

  3. Scythian culture - Wikipedia

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    After these movements, no Scythian burials of the Mid-Scythian are known from Ciscaucasia, which ceased being part of Scythian territory; although the Mid-Scythian period kurgans at the Seven Brothers , Yelizavetovskaya , and Ulski contained elements of the Scythian Culture, they belonged to the Sindi rather than to the Pontic Scythians.

  4. Scythian Suite - Wikipedia

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    The Bermuda Triangle (1978) is an electronic adaptation by Isao Tomita that includes the first movement (The Adoration of Veles and Ala) of the Scythian Suite. [9] The track "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" on Works Volume 1 by progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer is an arrangement of the second movement.

  5. Scythia - Wikipedia

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    The territory of the Scythian kingdom of the Pontic steppe extended from the Don river in the east to the Danube river in the west, and covered the territory of the treeless steppe immediately north of the Black Sea's coastline, which was inhabited by nomadic pastoralists, as well as the fertile black-earth forest-steppe area to the north of the treeless steppe, which was inhabited by an ...

  6. Scythian religion - Wikipedia

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    Scythian religion was largely aniconic, [73] and the Scythians did not make statues of their deities for worship, with the one notable exception being the war-god, the Scythian "Ares," who was worshipped in the form of a sword. Nevertheless, the Scythians did make smaller scale images of certain of their deities for use as decorations, although ...

  7. Scythian genealogical myth - Wikipedia

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    The Scythian genealogical myth was an epic cycle of the Scythian religion detailing the origin of the Scythians.This myth held an important position in the worldview of Scythian society, and was popular among both the Scythians of the northern Pontic region and the Greeks who had colonised the northern shores of the Pontus Euxinus.

  8. Bartatua - Wikipedia

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    In the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, a significant movement of the nomads of the Eurasian steppe brought the Scythians into Southwest Asia. This movement started when another nomadic Iranic tribe closely related to the Scythians, either the Massagetae [9] or the Issedones, [10] migrated westwards, forcing the Early Scythians of the to the west across the Araxes river, [11] following which the ...

  9. Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex - Wikipedia

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    The arrival of the Scythians and their establishment in this region in the 7th century BC [28] corresponded to a disturbance of the development of Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex, [23] which was thus replaced through a continuous process [29] over the course of c. 750 to c. 600 BC by the early Scythian culture in southern Europe, which itself nevertheless still showed links to the ...