to
Scythia. (4) In the Homeric "Hymn to Hermes" Battus almost disappears from the story, and a somewhat different account of the stealing of the cattle is given.
Seeing, on the other side, some Cossacks (les Cosaques) and the wide-spreading steppes in the midst of which lay the holy city of Moscow (Moscou, la ville sainte), the capital of a realm such as the
Scythia into which Alexander the Great had marched- Napoleon unexpectedly, and contrary alike to strategic and diplomatic considerations, ordered an advance, and the next day his army began to cross the Niemen.
Here, too, when they came, they found the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who, expelled from
Scythia had mated with the devils in the desert.
Antithetical to his own position, Harold Bloom eulogizes Walt Whitman as "the American Shaman," whose work we can understand, according to Bloom, "when we see in him a throwback to ancient
Scythia, to strange healers who were demonic, who knew themselves to possess or be possessed by a magical or occult self." (20) However, it is not clear why Bloom fails to consider Tony Morrison as "the African American Shaman" who invokes the ghost to depict African Americans' loss of self, which could only be remedied by the acceptance of the past and the memory of their original identities.
Although there have been debates on evangelisation in today's Dobrogea (
Scythia Minor) by Saint Andrew the Apostle, the first historical records of Christianity in this province date back to the end of the third century.
114, 127-28, 131-33, 327-29; Mihail Zahariade,
Scythia Minor: A History of a Later Roman Province (284-681) (Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2006), pp.
Reports of Cannabis growing in two phases of domestication--wild and cultivated-- trace back to
Scythia, now Ukraine, in 440 BC (Herodotus, 2007).
but toward these erstwhile fellow Hellenes they maintained a hard and steady rigor unmitigated by any kindly feelings such as Greeks elsewhere at times were wont to show toward slaves bought from
Scythia and Asia."
Girlfiend Gladys was in his thoughts too as he made the six-week journey to Burma on RMS
Scythia.
It was part of
Scythia in ancient times, but then Slavic expansion began.