First Man Targitaos

Culture-hero / first-man tier (rendered 'demigod' per the type constraint, being the offspring of the sky-god and a river-nymph). The genealogical myth survives only through Herodotos 4.5-7; the Pontic-Greek doublet (4.8-10) substitutes Heracles and the snake-maiden. Native theonym unrecorded beyond the Hellenised Ταργίταος.

Parentage

• Sky-Father Papaios
• River-Daughter of the Borysthenes

Children

• Middle Heir Arpoxais
• Sun-King Kolaxais
• Eldest Heir Lipoxais

Domains

• first ancestry
• sacral kingship

Powers

• fathered the founding lineage

Sources

• Herodotos, Histories 4.5 (trans. A.D. Godley, Loeb)
• V.I. Abaev, Osetinskii yazyk i fol'klor (1949); R. Schmitt & contributors, 'Scythians,' Encyclopaedia Iranica