This article is dedicated to the study of some proper names, place-names and ethnicons of Scythians, Sarmatians and Meotians (Sindians), otherwise Indo-Aryans or Proto-Slavs. As a result, several Scythian/Sarmatian records are decoded. The languages (dialects) of the Scythians, Sarmatians and Meotians - Barbarians in the Greek terminology - are closely related to the Old Indian language, moreover, some connections of these languages with the Iranian and other Indo-European languages may be traced. The Barbarians lived not only at their own territories, but also in antique towns at the Black sea, in antique towns of the Bosporan kingdom (the vast area near the Black sea and the Sea of Azov). Here I use results of my own decipherment of their writing system, otherwise the Scythian/Sarmatian script. This writing is based on the syllabic Linear; besides, some inscriptions contain original ideograms, determinatives, Greek letters. The Scythian, Sarmatian and Meotian names are an important key to Scythian/Sarmatian texts. Let us study two patronymics, Radamyw(n)tos and Raqagwsou, of inhabitants of the antique town Olbia (the Ukraine). In the first case I distinguish the following original Scythian/Sarmatian words: Rada M- pso-*(n)t-, i.e. the names Rada (Lada, Rata) and Ma (Mai) of the supreme goddess of the sun and fire of the Scythians, Sarmatians and Meotians known also as Tabiti. The Scythian goddess Tabiti Heating is related to the Indo-Aryan god Agni Fire. According to the History of Alexander the Great by Quintus Curtius Rufus, a Scythian ambassador spoke about the brightness of the great sun deity. Undeniably the worshipping this deity (in different forms and rites) was a basis of the archaic religion. Scythian/Sarmatian pso-*(n)t- consists of the root p(a)s- cattle and the suffix *(n)t- signifying the plural. Scythian/Sarmatian pas- cattle is comparable with Old Indian pacu cattle. The second name contains Scythian/Sarmatian Rata go s- (The goddess) Rata - the sun, cow - the sun, cf. Scythian/Sarmatian go the sun; cow, so the sun; shine. Let us study a Bosporan proper name, Radam.... Here I read Scythian/Sarmatian names of the sun goddess, Rada and M-. Let us study a Bosporan proper name, Radamofourton. Here I read Scythian/Sarmatian Rada, Mo (the names of the sun goddess) and *fur-t fires, cf. Old Indian vilas to shine, English fire. According to a Bosporan Greek text, the people of the Bosporan kingdom worshipped the goddess Ma. I conclude that Ma (the Maiden) is the main Bosporan (Scythian/Sarmatian) goddess of the sun; cf. Scythian/Sarmatian ma the sun; solar; solstice; fire; funeral pyre. It is known from a Greek text that the citizens of the antique town Chersonesus (the Crimea, Ukraine) made a vow to the god Zeus, the earth, the sun, the Maiden, the Olympian deities. I believe that the Maiden by the archaic name Ma is relevant to the earth (ground, agriculture) and to the sun. Four lines of a Greek text are preserved on a fragment of a Bosporan slab; the text is very damaged.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:40:12 +0000
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