Wandering Sage Anacharsis

Mortal culture-bearer / sage tier. Included as the human face of Scythian religion in Herodotos: his death dramatises Scythian rejection of foreign cult and frames the cult of the great goddess (Cybele/Mother) the Greeks paired with Argimpasa.

Domains

• wisdom

Relations

• sibling: King Saulios
• enemy: King Saulios
• descendant of: Sun-King Kolaxais

Sources

• Herodotos, Histories 4.76-77 (Godley)
• Diogenes Laertius 1.101-105; J.F. Kindstrand, Anacharsis: The Legend and the Apophthegmata (1981)