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Hans Peter Duerr – Dreamtime

Aristeas flew to foreign lands ‘like a bird’, while his body lay, ‘as if dead’, according to the testimony of a Sophist, Maximos of Tyros.  Similar journeys were carried out by the Hyperborean Abaris, who would mount the arrow of Apollo or assume the shape of a raven

Mircea Eliade – Shamanism Archaic techniques of ecstasy

Carrying in his hand the golden arrow, the proof of his Apolline origin and mission, [Abaris] passed through many lands dispelling sickness and pestilence by sacrifices of a magic kind, giving warning of earthquakes and other disasters.  A later legend shows him flying through the air on his arrow, like Musaeus.  The arrow, which plays a certain role in Scythian mythology and religion, is a symbol of magical flight.  The occurrence of the arrow in many Siberian shamanic ceremonies will be recalled in this connection