{"id":2872,"date":"2020-07-22T12:43:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T11:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=2872"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:07:13","slug":"pantheon-scythe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/scythian-mythology\/pantheon-scythe\/","title":{"rendered":"Scythian Pantheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2872\" class=\"elementor elementor-2872\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f1480d9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f1480d9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-086cd5e\" data-id=\"086cd5e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d7e011 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"2d7e011\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/scythian-mythology\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Scythian Mythology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ad7cae9\" data-id=\"ad7cae9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0df9a40 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"0df9a40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religion_scythe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2449692 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2449692\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b1c0d8b\" data-id=\"b1c0d8b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8d508f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d8d508f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Herodotus gives a list of deities of the pantheon <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/scythian-mythology\/\">Scythian<\/a> with their equivalents <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythes-et-legendes-grecques-1664\/\">greeks<\/a>. For some of them, he specifies their Scythian name, but pronounced in the manner <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythes-et-legendes-grecques-1664\/\">Greek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Scythian pantheon\" width=\"25\" height=\"26\" title=\"\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-24cd5a6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"24cd5a6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/scythian-mythology\/pantheon-scythe\/#Pantheon-scythe\" >Scythian Pantheon<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pantheon-scythe\"><\/span>Scythian Pantheon<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-76318a9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"76318a9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-59e51096\" data-id=\"59e51096\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69dbf45a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"69dbf45a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p>Here is a non-exhaustive list of the Scythian pantheon:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tabiti, goddess equivalent to Hestia, the Greek goddess of fire and hearth.<\/li>\n<li>Papaios, god equivalent to Zeus.<\/li>\n<li>Apia, the Earth, wife of Papaios.<\/li>\n<li>Thagimasadas, god equivalent to Poseidon.<\/li>\n<li>Oitosuros, god equivalent to Apollo.<\/li>\n<li>Argimpasa, goddess considered as &quot;celestial Aphrodite&quot;.<\/li>\n<li>a god equivalent to Heracles and a god equivalent to Ares, the god of war of the Greeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Scythian Heracles must have been very close to his Greek counterpart, since the Greeks of the Black Sea mixed up their myths: they attributed to him the tenth job of their own hero, the one where he steals the oxen of Geryon (which turn into mares in the rest of their story).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The identification of these gods is problematic, but this work has benefited from the advancement of Indo-European studies. The Indo-Europeans put the god of fire at the head of their pantheon, which is the case here. Tabiti corresponds to an ancient Indian goddess whose name is linked to Sanskrit\u00a0<em>tapati<\/em>\u00a0&quot; to burn &quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Georges Dum\u00e9zil found his traces in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">legends<\/a> of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-ossete\/\">Ossetians<\/a>, people <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-of-the-great-iran\/\">Iranian<\/a> of the Caucasus. He also recognized in the Scythian Ares a hero <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-ossete\/\">Ossetian<\/a>, Batraz. These two characters are identified in particular both with a sword.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In the name of Apia, specialists agree to recognize Iranian\u00a0<em>\u0101p-<\/em>\u00a0&quot; water &quot;. According to Herodotus, it is the Earth, but the analysis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">mythology<\/a> Indo-European history shows that the Earth was represented in the form of a mountain &quot;secreting&quot; a river, that is to say a mountain-source. The Indo-Iranians accentuated its wet aspect. In the Greek texts, the Iranian god Mithra is identified with Apollo, which makes it possible to consider that Oitosuros is Mithra.<\/p>\n<p>This name must have been an Oito-suros compound, the second member of which came from Old Iranian\u00a0<em>s\u016bra-<\/em>\u00a0&quot;Strong&quot;. In L&#039;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/zoroaster-mythology\/\">Avesta<\/a><\/em>, this qualifier is attributed to Mithra. As for the term\u00a0<em>oito<\/em>, according to Fran\u00e7ois Cornillot&#039;s analysis, it was the Greek spelling of\u00a0<em>* wit\u0101w<\/em>, from *<em>hwat\u0101wah<\/em>\u00a0&quot;sovereign&quot;. Thus, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/scythian-mythology\/\">Scythians<\/a> nicknamed Mithras the \u201cStrong Sovereign\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This same author proposed another reading of the names of\u00a0<em>Sak\u0101 haumavarg\u0101<\/em>\u00a0: he makes his second member derive from\u00a0<em>hauma war\u0101gan<\/em>, where the term\u00a0<em>war\u0101gan<\/em>\u00a0means &quot;winner of\u00a0<em>* W\u0101ra<\/em>\u00a0\u00bbAnd ends in Osset\u00a0<em>W\u0153rgon<\/em>. In this way, the\u00a0<em>Sak\u0101 haumavarg\u0101<\/em>\u00a0are the \u201cSaces adepts of the cult of the victorious Haoma of * W\u0101ra\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To understand the meaning of this ethnonym, it is necessary to know that the\u00a0<em>Haoma<\/em>\u00a0is a deified plant and that its enemy\u00a0<em>* W\u0101ra<\/em>, called\u00a0<em>Vritra<\/em>\u00a0in Indian texts, is a demon who seeks to make the sun disappear and to obstruct the river which descends from the mountain-source. As\u00a0<em>* W\u0101ra<\/em>\u00a0represents death, the victory of\u00a0<em>Haoma<\/em>\u00a0(plant of immortality) is that of life over death.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scythian mythology Wiki Herodotus gives a list of deities of the Scythian pantheon with their Greek equivalents. 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