A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum évkönyve 47. (Nyíregyháza, 2005)

Régészet - János Makkay: The Miracle Stag in Ancient Greek mythical stories and their Indo-Iranian counterparts

Makkay János (i.e. the pictorial transformation of antlerless deer to antlered ones by the Scythians), to very early periods of human history, i.e. Upper Palaeolithic times, and he considered the southern appearance of this custom, in the Ancient Greek mythology, as a result of strong northern influences, coming into Ancient Greece from steppic, or even from more northern, areas of the European tayga belt: on a few sacral representations, the antlered stag is, in fact, a hind wearing an antlered mask. Since then, the number of Scythian representation of horses bearing deer or reindeer masks, and also of antlered hinds, has risen. Here follows a short list of such representations: Fig. 2 2. kép 16