Tabiti

Tabiti (Scythian: ; ; ) was the Scythian goddess of the primordial fire which alone existed before the creation of the universe and was the basic essence and the source of all creation. She was the most venerated of all Scythian deities.

==Name== The name "Tabiti" () represents a Hellenisation of the Scythian name , which meant "the Burning One" or "the Flaming One," and was related to the Avestan term () meaning "to warm", to the Latin and to several other Indo-European terms for heat, as well as to the similar name of the Hindu goddess Tapati () and to the verb related to the latter's name, (), meaning "burns" and "is hot", and to the Sanskrit term (), which denotes the cosmic warmth and the original nature, that is the cosmic principle out of which originated the multiple elements of the Universe and the order in the world.