Enaree
Sign in to saveThe Enarei, singular Enaree, were Scythian priestesses and shamanistic soothsayers who played an important role in the Scythian religion. The Enarei were assigned male at birth but considered to have undergone a divine/religious transformation of their sex, after which they assumed feminine roles and lived as women. They served the Snake-Legged Goddess and the goddess Artimpasa.
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- Name
- Religious role
- Rituals
- Divination
- Regalia
- Sex
- Central Asian origins
- West Asian influences
- Heredity and age
- Sexuality
- Archaeology
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
The Enarei, singular Enaree, were Scythian priestesses and shamanistic soothsayers who played an important role in the Scythian religion. The Enarei were assigned male at birth but considered to have undergone a divine/religious transformation of their sex, after which they assumed feminine roles and lived as women. They served the Snake-Legged Goddess and the goddess Artimpasa.
==Name== The English name is derived from the Ancient Greek name recorded by Herodotus of Halicarnassus as (), itself derived from the Scythian term , meaning "unmanly." The term is composed of the elements , meaning "non-," and , which was derived from , meaning "man." The name Anarya was more accurately represented in Ancient Greek by Pseudo-Hippocrates as ().