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* Heracles appears as the ancestral hero of Scythia in Herodotus ' text.

While Heracles is sleeping out in the wilderness, a half-woman, half-snake creature steals his horses.

Heracles eventually finds the creature, but she refuses to return the horses until he has sex with her.

After doing so, he takes back his horses, but before leaving, he hands over his belt and bow, and gives instructions as to which of their children should found a new nation in Scythia.