Arimaspians

A Slavonic equivalent of the name "Arimaspians," from the Scythic _arima_ = one and _spû_ = eye.

Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858

But at least one scholar has an intriguing answer: "The discovery of material evidence of a distinct hominin (human) lineage in the father of historians, wrote about these human cousins, the" Arimaspians, "around 450 B.C.

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Proconnesos, said in the verses which he composed, that he came to the land of the Issedonians being possessed by Phœbus, and that beyond the Issedonians dwelt Arimaspians, a one-eyed race, and beyond these the gold-guarding griffins, and beyond them the

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

These then also are known; but as to the region beyond587 them, it is the Issedonians who report that there are there one-eyed men and gold-guarding griffins; and the Scythians report this having received it from them, and from the Scythians we, that is the rest of mankind, have got our belief; and we call them in Scythian language Arimaspians, for the Scythians call the number one arima and the eye spu.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Hyperboreans, beginning with the Arimaspians, were continually making war on their neighbours, and the Issedonians were gradually driven out of their country by the Arimaspians and the Scythians by the Issedonians, and so the Kimmerians, who dwelt on the Southern

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

The skipper made answer: Be not afraid, my lord; we are on the confines of the Frozen Sea, on which, about the beginning of last winter, happened a great and bloody fight between the Arimaspians and the Nephelibates.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Arimaspians are better than we are in that point; yet I speak to the purpose.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Arimaspians are better than we are in that point; yet I speak to the purpose.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The skipper made answer: Be not afraid, my lord; we are on the confines of the Frozen Sea, on which, about the beginning of last winter, happened a great and bloody fight between the Arimaspians and the Nephelibates.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Thus they believed in the existence of the Arimaspians, a race of one-eyed people; there are legends, too, of the Agrippei who were described as bald and snub-nosed.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen