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The Scythian Enaree

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First batch of androgynous priests of the ancient world.

The thracian ktisti - androgynous iron/silverworker

The scythian enaree - Intersex priest of the snake legged Goddess and Artimpasa

The Canaanite Qedeshim - Eunuch priest of Ashehrah

[secondhand-wings]

I saw your reblog abt the sumerian trans history, and you commented along the lines of "oh to be a priestess to a snake legged goddess"

And i was like "what who? The gorgons? But they have snake hair...." but idk

Oh! The Snake-Legged Goddess is the Scythian mother goddess, who was sometimes depicted androgynously, with a beard, as well as with breasts and feminine clothing. She has snakes for legs, hence the name!

She is closely associated with Artimpasa, AKA Ishtar, who had a group of transfeminine priestesses, the Enaree. (I don't remember if this was covered in the original post). They were some of the first people known to use estrogen to transition, by drinking pregnant mare's urine. The Scythians also had transmasc warriors, who inspired the legend of the Amazons. I just love how queer their society is compared to ours, though to them, it was just their gender norms.

The wiki article also mentions Medusa and the gorgons, just because of the snake symbolism.

Snake-Legged Goddess - Wikipedia

I highly recommend this video and her whole channel.

It makes me happy that there was a goddess out there with a beard and titties, and snakes for legs who had trans priestesses worshiping her. It's such a vibe.

[purple-prose-posts]

Do y'all ever think about the fact the was a whole ancient society full of trans women with erectile dysfunction that smoked weed that the Romans were obsessed with

[survivethejive]

The gods of the Scythian horse lords and their bloody rituals!

[paranoidarkeolog]

The Enarei, singular Enaree, were Scythian androgynous/effeminate priests and shamanistic soothsayers who played an important role in the Scythian religion.

Rituals

The Anarya used cannabis in their rituals, including both those of a communal and those of a funerary or psychopompic nature, thus being among the earliest spiritual practitioners to have used cannabis to achieve altered states of consciousness, implying that that an ancient connection existed between gender non-conforming spiritual practitioners and the use of mind-altering substances..[5]

The Anarya participated in Scythian funeral rituals, which included shamanic practises, and after the burial of the deceased, they would ritually cleanse themselves with the vapour of cannabis, which is attested archaeologically in Saka tombs from Siberia, which contained tripods, braziers, pelts, and charcoal containing remains of cannabis leaves and fruits, with one of the Pazyryk burials containing a pot, inside of which were cannabis fruits, as well as a copper censer used to burn cannabis.[5]

Divination

The Anarya also acted as seers and performed a particular form of divination which used the inner bark of the linden tree, unlike the methods of traditional Scythian soothsayers which used willow withies.[6] The method of divination of the Anarya consisted of cutting the inner linden bark into three pieces, and plaiting and unplaiting these pieces around their fingers to obtain answers.[7][5]

The Anarya were especially consulted when the king of the Scythians was ill,[8][5] which was itself believed by the Scythians to be caused by a false oath being sworn upon the king's hearth.[6] Once the Anarya had identified the suspect who had sworn the false oath, the said suspect would claim to be innocent. If the Anarya maintained the accusation, six more soothsayers were consulted, and if they upheld the original accusation, the suspect was executed by being beheaded. If the additional soothsayers declared the suspect was innocent, the process of consulting more soothsayers was repeated, and if the larger number of soothsayers still declared the suspect to be innocent, the initial accusers were executed by being put into a wagon filled with brushwood which was set on fire, and their sons were all killed.[9]

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Enaree, Scythian priestess

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