[Functions](social-structure-class-caste.md) /scythian-origin-myth # The Scythian Origin Myth - Recorded in Herodotus (4.5-6) - Three implments/objects of burning gold--a **[cup](cups-grail.md)**, an **ax**, and a **plow with yoke**--fall from the sky and are recovered by the youngest son of Targitaos, the primeval being. The objects symbolize the functions. From their recoverer, Kolaxaïs, springs the dominant Scythian class or tribe. He is the youngest brother and represents the [1st](first-function-sovereignty.md) function. From his two elder brothers, who failed in their attempts to recover the objects, issue the [2nd](second-function.md) (warrior) and [3rd](third-function.md) (food-producing) classes. The notion of Dual-Sovereignty is absent. # Sources - (c-littleton 1973p10) - (g-dumezil 1924A)