Scythian Snake Goddess APA; Drakaina Skythia
Ancients claimed Heracles and a Dracaena half serpent (mermaid like) being as the ancestors of the Scythians. Both have ties with similar stories among other Ural-Altaic legends. Starting with the serpent like mother of the Scythians, who in India was called Naga, by the local Scythian incomers. The NAK suffix and root word also has a very rich set of meanings in the Ugrian languages, including
( 4, feminine, joint-vertabra, genetive - source, navel, rule of
important person.)
To a lesser extent the root word is part of most U.A. and Sumerian languages. Several of the local Scythian tribes use this word for chief/ruler "Naick". Similarly the Ugrians Nay=queen, Nayer=king. Hungarian Nyek tribe. (Scythian NAICK-erde tribe next to the Aral Sea.). The Scythian goddess, "Api", depicted as having snakes instead of legs, which is evocative of Shameran, the goddess of wisdom and guardian of the secrets in. In Anatolian mythology, the goddess of wisdom and the guardian of secrets is Shahmeran, an anthropomorphic figure with a female head on a snake body. Her story can be traced from the Middle East to India with different fictions, one variation is also found in the Arabian Night Tales as the story of Jemlia - the Sultan of Underground (Mardrus, 1992: Vol.7, 68-131). Herodotus mentioned a woman, semi-human semi-snake, who had given three boys to Heracles in relation with an epic been told about him, in his fourth book in which he tells about the life and traditions of Scythians (Herodotus, 1996: 219). The end of the story points out Shahmeran's part in Anatolian mythology. According to this, the personification of Shahmeran exhibits a character who treats and heals the sick. In some parts of Anatolia it had been claimed that Lokman Hekim - the doctor hero of an another myth - was indeed educated by Shahmeran (Öz, 1994: 24). Shahmeran who possesses the secret of long and eternal life has been accepted as auspicious because of her compassion, self-sacrifice and absolute goodness as it was mentioned in the story. That is why her pictures are hung on bedroom walls of young girls and women, especially in the eastern and south eastern parts of Anatolia (Aksoy, 1997: 40).
Obviously, the goddess Aphrodite, otherwise the Scythian/Sarmatian goddess Argimpasa having snakes instead legs, describes the chthonic waters. The name Apatura (Apa-tura) is translated as '(The goddess) overcoming waters' (Trubachev 1977: 19). I translate this name as Scythian/Sarmatian *Ap- tur - 'The waters - the abundance, fertility', cf. Old Indian ap 'waters', tura 'strong, powerful, excelling; rich; abundant'. It is known that burials of priestesses of the goddess Argimpasa (Tabiti) were discovered in the Bolshaya Bliznitsa barrow (near the village Vyshesteblievskaya, the Krasnodar region, Russia) not far from Phanagoria (Rjabchikov 2002e: 167-168). Designs of a head-gear and ornaments from this burial are devoted to the deities of the sun, thunderstorm and water. I can say with reasonable confidence that these priestesses were served at the temple of Apaturon somewhere in the environs of the modern villages Sennoy and Vyshesteblievskaya.
Ancients claimed Heracles and a Dracaena half serpent (mermaid like) being as the ancestors of the Scythians. Both have ties with similar stories among other Ural-Altaic legends. Starting with the serpent like mother of the Scythians, who in India was called Naga, by the local Scythian incomers. The NAK suffix and root word also has a very rich set of meanings in the Ugrian languages, including
( 4, feminine, joint-vertabra, genetive - source, navel, rule of
important person.)
To a lesser extent the root word is part of most U.A. and Sumerian languages. Several of the local Scythian tribes use this word for chief/ruler "Naick". Similarly the Ugrians Nay=queen, Nayer=king. Hungarian Nyek tribe. (Scythian NAICK-erde tribe next to the Aral Sea.). The Scythian goddess, "Api", depicted as having snakes instead of legs, which is evocative of Shameran, the goddess of wisdom and guardian of the secrets in. In Anatolian mythology, the goddess of wisdom and the guardian of secrets is Shahmeran, an anthropomorphic figure with a female head on a snake body. Her story can be traced from the Middle East to India with different fictions, one variation is also found in the Arabian Night Tales as the story of Jemlia - the Sultan of Underground (Mardrus, 1992: Vol.7, 68-131). Herodotus mentioned a woman, semi-human semi-snake, who had given three boys to Heracles in relation with an epic been told about him, in his fourth book in which he tells about the life and traditions of Scythians (Herodotus, 1996: 219). The end of the story points out Shahmeran's part in Anatolian mythology. According to this, the personification of Shahmeran exhibits a character who treats and heals the sick. In some parts of Anatolia it had been claimed that Lokman Hekim - the doctor hero of an another myth - was indeed educated by Shahmeran (Öz, 1994: 24). Shahmeran who possesses the secret of long and eternal life has been accepted as auspicious because of her compassion, self-sacrifice and absolute goodness as it was mentioned in the story. That is why her pictures are hung on bedroom walls of young girls and women, especially in the eastern and south eastern parts of Anatolia (Aksoy, 1997: 40).
Obviously, the goddess Aphrodite, otherwise the Scythian/Sarmatian goddess Argimpasa having snakes instead legs, describes the chthonic waters. The name Apatura (Apa-tura) is translated as '(The goddess) overcoming waters' (Trubachev 1977: 19). I translate this name as Scythian/Sarmatian *Ap- tur - 'The waters - the abundance, fertility', cf. Old Indian ap 'waters', tura 'strong, powerful, excelling; rich; abundant'. It is known that burials of priestesses of the goddess Argimpasa (Tabiti) were discovered in the Bolshaya Bliznitsa barrow (near the village Vyshesteblievskaya, the Krasnodar region, Russia) not far from Phanagoria (Rjabchikov 2002e: 167-168). Designs of a head-gear and ornaments from this burial are devoted to the deities of the sun, thunderstorm and water. I can say with reasonable confidence that these priestesses were served at the temple of Apaturon somewhere in the environs of the modern villages Sennoy and Vyshesteblievskaya.
Arrata
http://www.arattagar.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImPSfcnlCiY
http://ukray.com.ua/2017/08/28/atlantis-is-crimea-and-the-sea-of-azov/
http://www.arattagar.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImPSfcnlCiY
http://ukray.com.ua/2017/08/28/atlantis-is-crimea-and-the-sea-of-azov/
Ancestors
"I am no longer threatened by the dead, since I accepted their demands though accepting the serpent. But through this I have also taken over something of the dead into my day. Yet it was necessary, since death is the most enduring of all things, that which can never be canceled out. Death gives me durability and solidity. So long as I wanted to satisfy only my own demands, I was personal and therefore living in the sense of the world. But when I recognized the demands of the dead in me and satisfied them, I gave up my earlier personal striving and the world had to take me for a dead man. For a great cold comes over whoever in the excess of his personal striving has recognized the demands of the dead and seeks to satisfy them. While he feels as if a mysterious poison has paralyzed the living quality of his personal relations, the voices of the dead remain silent in his beyond; the threat, the fear, and the restlessness cease. For everything that previously lurked hungrily in him no longer lives with him in his day. His life is beautiful and rich, since he is himself." ~Carl Jung; Red Book