Magyar News, 1998. szeptember-1999. augusztus (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1999-07-01 / 11-12. szám
Images from the third millenneum B.C. found in Ur. Left: War; right: Peace. (Details) Wooden wheel found in UR from 2500years B.C. of the German Max Tilke, who studied Hungarian peasant wear, and accepting the erroneous notion that Hungarians are of Mongol origin, diligently searched all over Asia to find similar items, but was disap-Man s figure. Early 3rd Millenneum pointed. To his great surprise, he found that every' piece of Hungarian clothing had its correspondant piece in Persian- Caucasian cultures. The logical explanation is that that was the ancestral home of the Hungarians. The shepherds of Transdanubia wear a curious type of hat, such as may be seen on the statue of a Sumerian mler named Ur- Ningirsu, located in the Metropolitan Museum. It is also worn today in Iraq by priests of the Chaldean Church. As for the ladies, who like to adorn themselves, the Hungarian word ék (ornament) corresponds to the Sumerian word "aga" which was applied to a crown as well as to a belt, both of which are ladies' ornaments. If the archeologists had been familiar with the koszom (wreath, a word derived from the Sumerian "ka-ser", to weave), worn by Hungarian girls, they would have known how to reconstruct the head-dress of a woman from Ur, located in a museum Left: Statue of King Gudea. Above: Gudea ’s name inscribed in cuneiform. in Baghdad. The wreath of golden leaves and flowers, in a setting of semiprecious stones, is shown drooping down into a statue's forehead, instead of pointing upward, as it most probably should. • The Sumerians developed the first civilization, located in Mesopotamia, with tire first system of writing, and many other "firsts", including the first bi-cameral "congress", the first schools, tire first written medical prescriptions, etc. Abraham of the Old Testament came from Ur, tire main city of die Sumerians. In Sumerian culture, women had a great deal of independence. "They owned property, could go into business, and might even become rulers in their own right, like tlie first woman mler known to History: KU-BAU, 'the wine merchant'... Nowhere do an ancient people seem to have attached so little social importance to a human being's sex as in early Sumer, where in many sculptures we are not sure whether the artist was depicting a man or a woman. The freedom of women was later a characteristic trait of tlie city of Madzar, and tire same must have been tlie custom among the Caucasus people of the SABIR-HUNS whose woman mler, we read, negotiated an alliance with Byzantium. This reappears among the Hungarians, whose women-folk throughout tlie Middle Ages did not give up their maiden names in marriage, owned property and disposed of it freely, and who scandalized their western neighbors with princesses who. 'instead of spinning’, rode with the army and sat at meetings." Page 4
