Why did the Scythians wear golden bowls on their belts? Detailed answer

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Why did the Scythians wear golden bowls on their belts?

To prevent Hercules from delivering Gerion's cows to Hellas, Hera sent a gadfly to the herd, who drove the cows into the Scythian desert. Hercules went after the cows.

One cold night, in bad weather, he wrapped himself in a lion's skin and fell fast asleep on the slope of a rocky hill, and when he woke up, he found that the mares, which he had unhooked from the chariot the day before to let them graze, had disappeared. When Hercules went in search, a strange creature, a half-maiden-half-snake, shouted to him from the cave that she had his mares and that she was ready to give them up if he agreed to become her husband.

Hercules reluctantly accepted the offer and kissed her three times. After that, the serpent-tailed maiden passionately embraced Hercules, and then asked: "What should I do with the three sons whom I already carry in my womb? When they mature, settle them where I reign, or send them to you?" “When they grow up, be careful!” replied Hercules. “If any of them bend this bow as I do now, and gird themselves as I do now, then appoint him the ruler of your country.” Having said these words, he gave her one of his two bows and a belt, from the buckle of which hung a golden cup, and went on his way.

The maiden named the triplets born Agathirs, Gelon and Scythian. The first two could not cope with the condition that the father had given them, and the mother drove them away. And the Scythian succeeded in both cases and became the ancestor of all the kings who ruled the Scythians, who always wore golden bowls on their belts.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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