Where did you pick up all the lore on soothsayers and Scythian spiritualism? If it’s mostly an imaginative reconstruction, it’s very convincing. I had a professor who had studied with Mircea Eliade and Mary Boyce and was able to breathe life into Zoroastrianism. But at the end of the day, most of our knowledge of these ancient practices in the Near East derive from Herodotus.
A wish was only salt for a wound - gotta be proud of that one! 👏🏻
Where did you pick up all the lore on soothsayers and Scythian spiritualism? If it’s mostly an imaginative reconstruction, it’s very convincing. I had a professor who had studied with Mircea Eliade and Mary Boyce and was able to breathe life into Zoroastrianism. But at the end of the day, most of our knowledge of these ancient practices in the Near East derive from Herodotus.