Targitaus
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Targitaos or Scythes, was the ancestral god of the Scythians according to Scythian mythology. The ancient Greeks identified him with their own hero Hēraklēs.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Scythian
- Deity.consort
- Artimpasa and the Snake-Legged Goddess
- Deity.parents
- Papaios and Api
- Deity.offspring
- Lipoxšaya, Arbuxšaya, and KolaxšayaorAgathyrsos, Gelōnos, Skythēs
- Deity.gender
- Male
- Deity.Greek_equivalent
- Hēraklēs
- Deity.region
- Eurasian steppe
- Deity.ethnic_group
- Scythic peoples
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Names
- Targitaos
- Scythes
- Sanerges
- Identification
- Iranic origin
- Hellenic interpretation
- Hēraklēs
- Achilles
- Cult
- Function
- Shrines
- At Hylaea
- At Exampaeus
- On the Tyras river
- At Leuke
- At Borysthenes
- Iconography
- See also
- References
- Sources
Targitaos or Scythes, was the ancestral god of the Scythians according to Scythian mythology. The ancient Greeks identified him with their own hero Hēraklēs.
==Names== ===Targitaos=== The name is the Latinisation of the Greek name (), which is itself the Hellenised form of the Scythian language name , meaning "possessing the strength of the goddess Tarkā."
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