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I feel the second sword is Celtic.
There is coin depicting alex as Amon with the horns.
Horns appear in other Kings helmets too but possibly they are wearing the Paeonian officer helmet. Paeonians used the european bison as their emblem. So the leaders might be wearing the Bison horns on the helmet either as a preference or as a gesture.
Please elaborate on skythian sacrificial hands.
You might be right though because ancient practices were some form of common Indo-European origin.
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Quote:I feel the second sword is Celtic.
No it is Scythian....I sometimes forget which way the 'horns' turn...I also love the similar Celtic swords!
http://kursk.amr-museum.ru/Arch/english/page_16_eng.htm
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Ram was ascociated with the war god from the Neolithic era.
All European cultures seem to consider it that way.
According to Herodotus a clan called Royal Skythians thought everyone else as their slaves so possibly the comb depicts a king on a slave raid.
Yes you would kill your horse if you belived that you could have it in other world with you!
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Quote:[size=150:ep0nrwhk]This Queen look like Arthes! :wink: [/size]
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/C ... img021.jpg
Oh dear that is what happened.......I had imbibed a little too much that day :lol: I slept for over 2000 years and was awakened by someone slapping me.... :oops:
Quote:This are Scythians fighting each other?
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/C ... img018.jpg
No - just Pericles Pollis of Thespiae practising for next year...... :lol:
Quote:[size=150:ep0nrwhk]I will not do this to my horse for any reason 
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/C ... img023.jpg
No, that is horrible... :evil:
It is thought they often used older horses for cermonial sacrifices, poor things.
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Thanks for the tip, Gioi,
I'll check whether The Hoplite Association has a copy.
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If you want a decent replica Scyth bow check out this web site.
http://www.eastern-archery.com/tothframe.html
Rainer is a great guy to work with. I have got a couple of bows from him including Grozer's Scythian.
Want more info on Scyth bows go to
www.atarn.org .
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Quote:See the image?
Its the dead guy reconstructed with his facial tatoos. He is no indoeuropean but rather Kalmuk or Huigur and seems to verify Procopios about the Huns.
Do you have a source for this image? That looks like a Pacific Islander. In fact, I'm fairly sure than none of the Pazyryk mummies were tattooed on their faces.
Quote:My have had an incredulus look on her face when she translated that the most "incredible" thing on the man´s tatoos were that except the Mythical animals (elks with birdheads on their horns and something looking like griffin), all other animals tatooed on the guy´s body were depicted with their intestines turned inside out and their buttocks represented as they were "abused"!!!!!!! My wife was disturbed by that. I do not put the full description because we are not an adult site and we will violate the posting rules.
I don't think this is true at all. Some of the skin with tattoos can be viewed online in the State Hermitage's website and it shows no such thing. Every single tattoo I've seen from both the men and women of the Pazyryk barrows has shown mythical animals and animals hunting animals, and nothing as sinister as this. Given the stylization of the animals, I can't even imagine how they could depict "abused buttocks."
By the way, for those interested in representing Scythians... I heard recently from a scholar that an Achaemenid painted tomb was found that featured preserved painted images of Darius I's campaign against the Scythians. It shows mounted Scythian archers and foot archers armed with long handled axes (sagarises). The Persians are shown riding behind a war chariot and another scene shows the army on march including Immortals. The colours are badly faded but apparently show the Scythians, who wear pointed hats, with multi-coloured zigzag hose, and their gorytoi are painted white. This is all I've heard and I'm eagerly awaiting more (I think this was a very recent discovery).
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He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
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Ruben I agree with your reservations.
The site was a not historical site so the image might be questionable.
I will ask my wife to do a search in the Russian internet again.
Perhaps the exaggerations were used as a marketing ploy.
I agree with you that the Saggaris was principal Skythian weapon
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