Saka/Shakya princess tomb found (photos)

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, CC Liu, and Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS of 2013 report from TANN/TengriNews.kz via Archaeology News Network/Facebook.com)

The golden Sage of the Shakya reclining into final nirvana (Chris&Annabel/Chngster/flickr)

The Saka [Scythians, Tajiks] were a pastoral-nomadic people like the Shakyans, who were agrarian warriors when Siddhartha lived among them. Below, Princess/Queen Tomyris defeats Cyrus the Great in battle. Gold and red Saka princess gear and head wear.

Queen Tomyris by Alexander Zick

Golden Woman (Issyk Kurgan)

Sakas with Dragons artifact. Dragons or  nagas were associated with royals (wiki)

Saka princess tomb (TANN/yk.kz/archaeologicalnewsnetwork/Ра-меси-су Мери-Амон)

Gold feted bones of ancient Central Asian princess, a Saka, Scythian, possibly a Shakyan

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Formerly Buddhist nations of Central Asia

KAZAKHSTAN, Central Asia - Kazakh archaeologists have discovered a tomb of a “Saka[n] princess,”  reports the expedition head Timur Smagulov. The tomb was found during road maintenance in the district of Urdzhar, East Kazakhstan Oblast.

 

The burial site of a high-ranking young woman was discovered during reconstruction of Taskesken-Bakty Road in Urdzhar.
 
An expedition team composed of professors and students from Semipalatinsk and Pavlodar Institutes discovered the stone tomb-chest [a reliquary or urn like that containing "The Buddha's Bones" found entombed in a burial mound] with remains of the young woman at the depth of 1.7 meters under a burial mound [possibly a Buddhist stupa, which were reserved for royalty and saints, chakravartins and arhats].

The uncremated remains or ashes and bones of a ruler? (Ра-меси-су Мери-Амон)

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The artifacts found in at the burial site certify that the woman was from a distinguished tribe. According to archaeologists, golden head wear that looks like a Kazakh Saukele (the national headgear of Kazakh women, Saule being a common female name from prior to Islamization) was the most valuable research item found.

 

Kazakh eagle huntress/princess (BBC)

“The pointed golden head wear with zoomorphic ornaments has the top that looks like the arrows and is decorated with a spiral made of golden wire and jewels. A similar head wear used to be part of the official costume of the Saka tribe chieftains. It is quite possible that the woman was a daughter of a king of Saka Tigrakhauda tribe,” Timur Smagulov explained.
 

Ukrainian hair queen (W)

According to him, it is quite possible that young Tomyris, who later became a warrior-queen, used to wear similar head wear.

According to the expedition’s members, ceramic and wooden vessels, as well as bones of a sacrificial lamb, were also discovered in the tomb. Pieces of blue and green clothes still clung to the woman’s remains. Golden earrings and a stone altar were found next to her head. 

 

Caryatid, Crete, Greece (Acropolis Museum)

“According to the preliminary information, the tomb of the 'Urdzhar princess' is dated 4th or 3rd century B.C.,” Smagulov said.

He also notes that a similar tomb was discovered under the Issyk burial mound (called "Golden Man"). [If there were an Aryan "invasion" from the north, which there likely was not, it may have been roaming nomadic Central Asians coming into ancient Indus River Valley Civilization and/or modern India.] More (Tengri News, June 3, 2013)

Golden Man is a Woman
(Issyk Kurgan) Situated in Eastern Scythia just north of Sogdiana, the kurgan contained a skeleton, possibly that of a Scythian [Shakyan] woman, warrior's equipment, and assorted funerary goods, including 4,000 gold ornaments. Although the sex of the skeleton is uncertain, it may have been an 18-year-old Saka (Scythian) prince or princess. The richness of the burial items led the skeleton to be dubbed the "Golden Man" or "Golden Princess," with "Golden Man" subsequently being adopted as one of the symbols of modern Kazakhstan. A likeness crowns the Independence Monument on the central square of Almaty. Its depiction may also be found on the Presidential Standard of Nursultan Nazarbayev. More

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Eurasian people, as in the Caucasus region, traveled north taking Central Asian Buddhism with them, most notably the Kalmyks.

They settled along the Caspian Sea in Kalmykia opposite formerly Buddhist Kazakhstan, the only indigenously Buddhist region in Europe.

This should come as no surprise when we understand that the Buddha, who had blue eyes, was born in the "Middle Country" (Majjhimadesa/Kamsabhoja). 

This refers to the land between East and West, in what is now historically Buddhist Afghanistan (i.e., Bamiyan, Mes Aynak, Tepe Narenj), once the northwest frontier of India (Jambudvipa). The Silk Road went right through making the area very rich but susceptible to invasions by various empires including the American military-industrial complex.

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The "Longer Discourses of the Buddha" (Digha Nikaya 1.90-95) tells a story of the Buddha's people, the Shakyans, possibly Western history's Scythians. From an Indian point of view, they are "foreign." The Buddha describes them as extremely "proud." 

The Brahmin Ambattha (the youth Ambattha-mānava from Ukkatthā or the "Middle Country" of Uttarapatha, who later became a Buddhist) describes them as "fierce, rough spoken, violent, wanderers (referring to their itinerant or nomadic lifestyle, often incorrectly translated as "menials"). They do not respect Brahmins nor pay homage to them." 

Silk Road through Gandhara, Greek Bactria

In that area, the administrator-Brahmin caste (brahmanas) was subordinate to the warrior-nobles (kshatriyas). 

 

Upon visiting Kapilavastu, the Shakyan capital and the Buddha's hometown, Ambattha explains them as those who "sat upon high seats in meeting halls, engaging in laughing, rough playing, poking each other with fists and fingers and paid no regard to [Ambattha a Brahmin who felt he was deserving of their regard because of his caste status]."

 

In referring to the Buddha, the "Sage of the Scythians," Shakyamuni (DN 3.144), he is fair (golden hued) with blue eyes.

 

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Map of Kazakhstan (upper left) and Mongolia

Svidensky, a photographer and travel writer, shot five boys learning the skill as well as the girl, Ashol-Pan. 

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