#anarya

"And, in addition to these, there are many eunuchs among the Scythians, who not only perform female work, but speak like women. Such persons are called effeminates... From continued exercise on horseback they are seized with chronic defluxions in their joints owing to their legs always hanging down below their horses; they afterwards become lame and stiff at the hip-joint..." -Hippocrates in his Airs, Waters, Places on the Enaree or Anarya of the Scythian people.

Eunuch is most likely used as a general term here and not strictly to refer to castration, and evidence of castration is tiny. The Hijra Khawaja Sira of India & Pakistan have also been called eunuchs, and that practice of castration is seldom documented to have ever occurred, nor occur today. Hermaphrodite has a very similar historical use, often used beyond the literal definition of the word and more so in the vein of androgynous people & those gender diverse, such as in the sources of Cabeza de Vaca & others in and around Florida in the 1500s. Eunuch has also, in some cases, been used to refer to asexual people, intersex people, aswell as those impotent. 'congenital eunuch' is one word.. and going back to the H word, we also have the 1800s 'pseudohermaphroditism' as a now archaic medical synonym for gender diversity & crossdressing; and as with Eonism, coined by Havelock Ellis and named thus in reference to the famous lady herself—Chevaliere D'eon.

Historically in relation to science and some pre-colonial cultures, there was indeed also a viewed connection between intersex and gender diverse people, and this was further posited in 'the west' by early sexology, and through concepts such as sexual intermediacy / intermediates; but although current science does seem to show that a human brain may have a Propensity to have certain respective physical signs that a person may be gay or gender diverse—also peep the controversial finger length ratio theory for sexuality and gender—, nothing, nor anyone reputable in the field has ever straight out asserted that it must be due to some kind of intersex of the brain. I personally just want science to do it's thing and see what it finds; I don't want to intrude, but alas—I am worthless. Currently, studies have been both elucdating and inconclusive in any staid or consistent sign(s) within the brains many parts, and has only been able to show that SOME brains of trans+ folks over the general cis population seem to have a propensity towards having a certain notable difference, but NOT all did! And some cis people also had this potential marker or what ever if we want to pathologize it! (pls no 😭).

Pseudo-Hippocrates also indicates they typically took on the receptive role during... coitus 🧐! Oh, jolly good! The Enaree often also acted as advisors to the kings, and we're also first to be consulted on a great variety of things.

And here's the video in question as it pertains to my earlier quip about transitioning in Scythian, Sarmatian etc culture, regarding the drinking of.... mare urine... to feminise! Which is what would later give us the imperfect Premarin estrogen substitute in the early 1900s; this and the few next that came after it were not bioidentical to ours, so it came with slews of issues such as risk of liver & heart issues, a belief that has been faultily been transferred over to human bio-identical estradiol that we have today, which does NOT! Now, oral estradiol CAN affect liver function, but it is seldom even prescribed in oral form unless it is at much lower levels—such as for menopausal cis women—that are often negligible and deemed safe.

A powerful group of ancient trans shamans use to live and work in the Pontic Steppe!

I have never thought of Ana and Zarya as a possible ship.

Now I am. 

Also, I’m calling their ship name Anarya and no one can stop me.

(NSFW below the cut)

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Fluff

You’ve got two workout buddies

Workout buddies that refuse to let you get out of shape

Well, Ana’s a bit more lenient; Zarya’s a bit tough

You also have extensive weapon training with both of them; they want to make sure you can take care of yourself and then some

You’re always sandwiched between them during cuddling, or you and Ana are in Zarya’s lap/wrapped in Zarya’s arms

They’re always up before you (if they don’t wake you up with them) and both of them can cook, so you’re usually greeted to breakfast in bed

Helping in the kitchen is a bit of a tradition and the process is always lively and pleasant

Zarya loves to randomly blow raspberries on your cheek or back or stomach or legs (she does the same to Ana)

Evenings usually consist of cuddling and watching shows and movies just to criticize them

Ana just randomly fiddles with your and Zarya’s hair when bored or distracted

Y’all just kinda sleep in a big heap on the giant-ass bed you share

Also there’s a chore chart