Borysthenēs
deity water Scythian single tradition · 1
Borysthenēs is an aquatic god and the father of Api. His name might have meant "place of beavers," thus possibly connecting him to the mantle of beaver skins worn by the goddess Arəduuī Sūrā Anāhitā in Avestan scripture.
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Scythian tradition.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Arəduuī Sūrā Anāhitā, Papaios
- parent of
- Api
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“Api was the daughter of the god Borysthenēs, due to which she was also called Borysthenis (Ancient Greek: Βορυσθενίς). The identification of Api as a goddess of both Earth and water rested upon the conceptualisation in ancient cosmologies of Earth and water as being two aspects of the same birth-giving chthonic principle”
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