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 Ashukzi Or Sakzai Schthians.

By Athena Arya

𝗔𝘀𝗵𝗸𝘂𝘇𝗶 ᵃˡˢᵒ ᵒⁿᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᵃˢʰᵗᵘⁿ ᵗʳⁱᵇᵉˢ (𝗦𝗮𝗸𝘇𝗮𝗶/𝗦𝗰𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀) 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 

The earliest mention of the Scythians is in Assyrian records dating to the reign of Sargon II (prior to 713 BCE). They were called Ashkuzi by the Assyrians; a similar name is known from the Hebrew Bible in the pedigree of Noah's decadency (Gn. 10:1-3):

 Askeneze was the son of Gomer (i.e., Cimmerians). According to Herodotus (4.11) the Scythians came from the steppes east of the Araxes River (modern Syr Darya) and were pushed westward by the drying up of the steppe and by their eastern neighbours, the Massagetes (𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐤𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬) (cf. also Diodorus Sicarus 2.4337).

 The language of the Scythians belongs to the Indo-European group. Herodotus  gives two legends of their origin. The first describes Skythes as the youngest son of the first man, Targitaos (son of Zeus and the daughter of the Borystenes River, now the Don). He had two elder brothers, but only Skythes was able to touch the four gold objects that had fallen from the sky: plow, yoke, axe, and bowl. In the second version, the mother of the three sons is a goddess whose upper body is human and whose lower body is in the shape of a snake; their father is Herakles. Because Skythes was the only one who could successfully handle their father's bow, he became the ancestor of the Royal Scythians.

 A gold vessel from the Kul'-Oba kurgan displays this myth: two men hurt themselves while trying to handle the bow, and only the third is successful. Though the first mythological story speaks in favor of an agricultural ancestry, the Scythians were true nomads, with mounted archers as their main military force.

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