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  2. Scythian religion - Wikipedia

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    The only god to whom Scythians built shrines was the war-god, the Scythian "Ares," to whom a high place was made out of a pile of brushwood, of which the three sides were upright and vertical and the fourth side formed a slope on which worshippers could walk to the top of the high place, which was itself a square-shaped platform on which the ...

  3. Tabiti - Wikipedia

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    The "hearths" (Ancient Greek: ἑστίαι, romanized: hestiai) of Tabiti were likely the flaming gold objects which fell from the sky in the Scythian genealogical myth and of which the Scythian king was the trustee while Tabiti herself in turn was the protector of the king and the royal hearth, thus creating a strong bond between Tabiti and ...

  4. Lists of deities - Wikipedia

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    List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere; List of fictional deities; List of goddesses; List of people who have been considered deities; see also apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred king; Names of God, names of deities of monotheistic religions

  5. Targitaos - Wikipedia

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    Due to the sound change from /δ/ to /l/ which had already happened by the 5th century BC, the form *Skula was used by the Scythians by the time that Herodotus of Halicarnassus had recorded the Scythian genealogical myth, [4] [7] as attested by the name of the 5th century BC Scythian king Scyles (Σκυλης), which is the Hellenisation of the ...

  6. Lists of Greek mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Snake-Legged Goddess - Wikipedia

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    The Greek poet Hesiod might have mentioned the Snake-Legged Goddess in the Theogony, where he assimilated her to the monstrous figure of Echidna from Greek mythology.In Hesiod's narrative, "Echidna" was a serpent-nymph living in a cave far from any inhabited lands, and the god Targī̆tavah, assimilated to Heracles, killed two of her children, namely the hydra of Lerna and the lion of Nemea.

  8. Category:Scythian mythology - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Help. Pages in category "Scythian mythology" The following 4 pages are in ...

  9. Scythian genealogical myth - Wikipedia

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    The "Hēraklēs" of Herodotus of Halicarnassus's second version and from the Tabula Albana 's version of the genealogical myth is not the Greek hero Hēraklēs, but the Scythian god Targī̆tavah, who appears in the other recorded variants of the genealogical myth under the name of Targitaos or Skythēs as a son of "Zeus" (that is, the Scythian ...