Whenever I see an article about the great Scythian people I find myself wanting to remove the PC twaddle and rewrite it. So I did:
The Scythian people were an Aryan people of nomadic riders / warriors who appeared between the 8TH AND 6th century bc in the steppes of the north of the black sea but surely were around a long time before that. Some of the Scythians migrated to Iran so politically correct historians call then iranian / European. This is strange to me as the folk who went to Iran either died, were bred out of existence by locals or a few of them may have came back. The majority stayed in their Aryan homeland 'Europe'. Some of them also later mixed with Asian folk. So lets forget the PC talk and call them European or Aryan because that is who they were for the majority of their time on this earth. I suspect this miss naming comes from a time of ignorance when historians believed the European-Aryan culture and people came from places like India and Iran. Now, thanks to improved analysis of ancient DNA and etymology we know Aryan people, language and culture came from Europe.
'Here is a 3/4 century description of the Alans, a Scythian people who migrated to iran. Have a look on google and see how everyone describes them as an Iranian people........ Yea right, lots of Iranian people with yellow hair.........'
Ammianus Marcellinus: 'Nearly all the Alans are men of great stature and beauty; their hair is somewhat yellow; their eyes are terribly fierce; the lightness of their armour renders them rapid in their movement, and they are in every respect equal to the Huns; only more civilised in their food and their manner of life. They plunder and hunt as far as the Sea of Azov and Cimmerian Bosphorus, ravaging also Armenia and Media'
Some Greek authors of antiquity have written a lot about the Scythians. Herodotus in the 5th century bc, wrote about them extensively. Herodotus writes of an origin myth for the Scythians where a son of a God and a woman has 3 sons from which 3 tribes form. This origins myth is very similar to the Germanic Legend of the first King Mannus, son of the God Tiw / tyr who had 3 sons who started the 3 main Germanic tribes. Interestingly, it is also similar to the Atlantis and Celtic legends.
A 1st century Roman historian, Quinte-Curce, who staged the speech of the Scythians when they tried to turn Alexander the great from attacking them. This is what the Scythians said to Alexander:
" know that we have received donations: a yoke of beef, a cart, a Lance, an arrow, a cut. We use it with our friends and against our enemies. To our friends we give the fruits of the land that gives us the work of the beef; with them again, we use the cup to offer the gods wine libations; as for enemies, we attack them from far away by the arrow , up close by the lance ".
In these sacred objects of the Scythians, those who connect them directly to their most distant past, we recognize in a very easy way the symbolic objects of the three Aryan-European functions.
- the cup represents the sacred and ritual aspect of the sovereign function, which is equivalent to the first Aryan-European function, that of kings / nobles.
- weapons clearly represent the military aspect, which is equivalent to the second Aryan-European function, that of the warrior freeman.
- the yoke and the plow are symbols of the third Aryan-European function, the one that covers the production and reproduction, fertility and fertility aspects.
You will notice the similarities here with how Heimdal gave social order to the Germanic peoples.
There are also many similarities between the Scythians and the Irish Celts.
In modern times historians offer a confusing picture of the Scythians mixing different time periods and suggesting they were not Europeans due to who they mixed with when they traveled and migrated to other lands despite the VERY clear DNA evidence. During the early Anglo Saxon period in England the Kings and writers of the time were quite clear in regards to their connection to the Scythians. It's fair to say that the Scythians did a lot of traveling and greatly influenced the peoples of northern Europe.
The Scythians are another example, similar to the Romans in that all empires are born of blood and that all empires fail when they betray blood.
Source:
"Myth and epic", georges dumézil
and my own words Admin Gary.
