Okay but the funny thing about the Scythians is that contemporary recorded literary sources say the wildest, most hearsay sounding things about them, and then half of it is backed up by archeological evidence.
Like, they really did train their women in combat and have them serve as warriors and military leaders. They really did make cups out of the skulls of their enemies. They really did hang scalps from their saddles. They really did smoke cannabis and apparently they liked to howl while doing so. They really did cover their war arrows in absurdly deadly poison made of snake venom, snake guts, and human poop, and they also sometimes carved their shafts to look like serpents with the heads as fangs. They were really were covered in rad animal tattoos. They were among the more metal cultures of all time.
