Anthropos: Anthropos, 30.1935

Anthropos, 30.1935

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Titel:: Anthropos

Untertitel:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Weitere Titel:: Anthropos

Erscheinungsort:: Fribourg

Verlag:: Ed. St. Paul, Anthropos-Institut

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1906

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Titel:: Anthropos, 30.1935

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1935

Signatur:: LA 1118-30

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 30, 1935, Heft 5, 6

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Who were the Scythians?

Sonstige Person:: Huntingford, G. W. B.

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Who were the Scythians? 785 Who were the Scythians? By G. W. B. Huntingford, Kiboloss, Turbo Valley, Kenya. Summary. 1. Introduction. 2. The name of the Scythians. 3. Scythian physical characteristics and 6. Shamanism. 7. Language and personal names. 8. Race. 9. Sources. 10. Bibliography. habits. 4. The Cimmerians. 5. Religion and superstition. 1. Introduction. The word “Scythian” was used by the ancients to describe all the bar barian inhabitants of what is now Russia, just as we, at the present day, speak loosely of “Tatars” or “Mongols”. In the 5 th century B. C. the word was applied to the peoples of European Russia; and later, when the con quests of Alexander the Great revealed the existence of similar peoples in Further Asia, the term was extended to them also. The South Russian steppe was invaded by these Asiatic Scythians about B. C. 700 1 ; and this no doubt is the invasion referred to by Herodotus when he wrote that “the Nomadic Scythians who lived in Asia were driven across the Araxes by the Massagetae, and invaded the Cimmerian country” (IV, 11). By Araxes Herodotus meant the Jaxartes (Sir-darya) which flows into the east side of the Aral Sea, and not the Araxes of later writers, which flows into the Caspian from the west. And Ptolemy places the people called Sacae above, i. e. east of, the source of the Jaxartes. The Scythians, therefore, in the 8 th century B. C. were in Central Asia; and we may legitimately understand the word to refer to a horde of peoples who were spread over the whole of Asiatic Russia as far as the Behring Strait. Archaeology, however, seems unable to tell us who these Scythians were; and we have to rely instead on the Greek writers who have described them, the most important of these being Herodotus (born about B. C. 484), and Hippocrates (born about B. C. 460). Herodotus devoted more than half of his fourth book to an account of the Scythians, and this includes a) their legendary origin; b) divisions; c) geography; d) manner of life; e) religion, and ceremonies connected with war and death. According to their own story, the Ploughmen Scythians of the Ukraine were descended from a man called Targitaus, whose three sons L.eipoxais, Arpoxais, and Colaxais, reigned together. During their reign, 1 A. M. Tallgren: La Pontide préscythique après l’introduction des métaux (Helsingfors 1926).

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