Enarees

Enarees (Auncient Greek: ἐναρής) - Scythie androgynous seeirs, linkit wi the cult o Artimpasa. The Enarees ettled a michty wicht poleetical pairt an war gey weel respeckit amang the Scythies, for it wis thocht they'd gotten the gift o prophecy stracht fae the goddess hersel. The Enarees wairt wummin's cleidin, did wummin's wark, keepit the customs meant for wummin, an spak wi a wumman's tongue.

A bit o the heidbress fae the Karagodeuashkh howe, shawin Artimpasa or her heid priestess i the mids, roondit by priestesses an Enarees til the richt.

Scythie releegion haed in it shamanism an seein the future, wurship o naitur an deities, an didnae bide by biggin temples. Herodotus tells o their seein weys like this:

The Scythies hae mony a seeir, wha micht will read the signs wi a muckle wiss o wands i this fashion: Efter fetchin a guid wheen o wands an layin them oot on the yird, they sinder them an syne, shiftin the wans yin by yin, they gie their readin; while tellin the foretells, they gathir the wands thegither ance mair an lay them oot separate. That's their auld-farrant gate o seein.

The wey the Enarees ettled wisnae the same as the ordinar Scythie seeirs:

Whaur the lave, for seein whit's tae come, ettled a bindle o widdie wands, the Enarees wad yase stryps cuttit oot o the linty's bark.

Scythie shamanism micht hae taen in rites tae win intae a speerit-heid by takkin cannabis. Modren scrievers say the Enarees wad maist likely hae dune thir ceremonies, juist like the "shamans, cross-dressers" in ither culturs.

Herodotus gies a reason for their wumman-like kynd, wi a tale o Scythies wha reived the shrine o Aphrodite Urania in Askalon, an aa their bairns efter them, smit by the goddess wi a "wumman's ailment." Pseudo-Hippocrates, wha speaks o the Enarees in ane o his warks, threapit they war impotent fae non-stop ridin, an that's hoo they cam tae tak the wumman's pairt. He aye mindit that anely the weel-aff an michty men (them that could ride horses) micht becam Enarees.

The airchaeologist Timothy Taylor ettles i his beuk "The Prehistory o Sex" that the Enarees micht could hae draucht the pish fae in-foal mares, tae bring on a wumman-like chynge i their hormones. He bigs his threap on the habit o some herd-fowk ettlin beast-pish for fuid .

Hippocrates scrieved that the Enarees "tak the wumman's pairt", whit's aye taen tae mean the passife pairt i man-luve affairs. Aristotle descrivit them wi the wird "malakia" (saft, wumman-like), haein a kin meanin.