"The sword likely meant to convey 'made by a Scythian" ' but the proper way to write that would have been: Scytha Fecit “a Scythian made this.” If it meant to say "Scythian Artist" Its fine if ambiguous on gender but it uses Scythia as a noun. Which is... weird but acceptable. However the proper way to do that would have been: ARTIFEX SCYTHIAE.
Amazon, from the Greek "a-" prefix meaning "without" and "mazōn" meaning "breast". The legend goes the Amazons would remove their right boob so they could effectively draw a bow.
This would be a MAJOR medical procedure, and still is, so the likelihood that they could perform this surgery 2500 years ago in any kind of successful way without killing 99.9% of the "patients" is also pretty much zero.
Even the Incans had a survival rate for trepanning of only a little over 80% according to the Smithsonian's 160 studied skulls. I'd think that's probably as good as it gets for major surgery pre modern antibiotics, and 20% chance for death to get a sleight supposed archery advantage isn't worth it.
PutItInNeutral
Chuds
zufallszahlen
Amaponian
baldbear
Poor horsy
thebonesofmyancestors
cousteau
Monoboob Amazon mare? I thought they only did that for archery.
SteelFret
That is so cool, love it
Florafiel
Hrojan torse.
Xendrash
"The sword likely meant to convey 'made by a Scythian" ' but the proper way to write that would have been: Scytha Fecit “a Scythian made this.” If it meant to say "Scythian Artist" Its fine if ambiguous on gender but it uses Scythia as a noun. Which is... weird but acceptable. However the proper way to do that would have been: ARTIFEX SCYTHIAE.
cousteau
I'd imagine they meant to write "Scythian artifact" and went with the English word order.
ShimmerinStrider
Well....they are mammals.
EverNotRelevant
Top surgery on installments
UserNamesArentEasy
Now the question is, are they adding or removing?
ScarecrowSticks
Yes
Lampmonster
I'm guessing it's a reference to the legends that Amazon women would cut one boob off to aid with archery.
EverNotRelevant
Yes.
ElbowDeepInLeBronsPuzzy
why does it have one singular tit
OnyxTurret
He traded the other for a tat.
DippinDerps
That ususally was done for women who used bows in wartime. A lot easier to use a bow and arrow without a perky mound getting in the way.
knotydes
Slannashi Gladiator
knotydes
Slaaneshi* I'm bad at spelling
diezl97
Amazon, from the Greek "a-" prefix meaning "without" and "mazōn" meaning "breast". The legend goes the Amazons would remove their right boob so they could effectively draw a bow.
cousteau
I thought that was apocryphal and non-canon. Genuinely surprised if that's the etymology though.
CallMeCourierSix
The legend is just that. A made-up story: https://jmelliott.substack.com/p/the-great-amazon-breast-question
ThatGuy42
Fighting with swords does that.
ProfFurryPaws
Archery too
SnozzBerries6969
Exactly! Female warriors would remove a breast to better be able to use a bow and arrow, I believe that's the origin of the word "amazon."
CallMeCourierSix
This is a myth, and there is basically zero evidence it was ever actually done in any kind of systematic way: https://jmelliott.substack.com/p/the-great-amazon-breast-question
This would be a MAJOR medical procedure, and still is, so the likelihood that they could perform this surgery 2500 years ago in any kind of successful way without killing 99.9% of the "patients" is also pretty much zero.
TheForgewright
Even the Incans had a survival rate for trepanning of only a little over 80% according to the Smithsonian's 160 studied skulls. I'd think that's probably as good as it gets for major surgery pre modern antibiotics, and 20% chance for death to get a sleight supposed archery advantage isn't worth it.