Middle Heir Arpoxais
Scythian · scion · mythic primordium · Recorded classification
Second-son tier. Also repelled by the burning gold. Native form unrecorded beyond Hellenised Ἀρπόξαϊς.
Parentage
- parent: First Man Targitaos
Domains
- tribal eponymy
Relations
- sibling: Sun-King KolaxaisMiddle brother of Kolaxais in the three-sons myth of Targitaos.Herodotus, Histories 4.5-7 (primary)
- sibling: Eldest Heir LipoxaisReciprocal of scythian_lipoxais.sibling — Eldest and middle of the three sons of Targitaos; both repelled by the blazing sky-fallen gold.Herodotus, Histories 4.5-7 (primary)
Sources
- Middle son of Targitaos; ancestor of the tribes called Catiari and Traspians.: Herodotos, Histories 4.6 (Godley) (primary)
- Some scholars read the first element as Iranian *ap- 'water', aligning the middle brother with the second (warrior) function and/or the waters in trifunctional and tripartite-cosmos analyses of the myth.: G. Dumezil, Romans de Scythie et d'alentour (1978); D.S. Raevskiy, Ocherki ideologii skifo-sakskikh plemen (1977) (secondary)