Magyar News, 1999. szeptember-2000. augusztus (10. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

2000-07-01 / 11-12. szám

This map shows the general area of the Sabirs in Mesopotamia. Being pushed out, they headed north and gathered on the east side of the Black Sea.

WITNESS FROM THE SOUTH

Let us summarize Gelb's contributions:

1. Gelb isolated the ancient Sabirs as a people DISTINCT from all other peoples.

2. He also discovered that the ancient Sabirs inhabited not only Mesopotamia, but the whole of Near East from Palestine to Armenia.

3. Gelb found the Sumerian tablets recounting that early Sabirs were "peacefully living side and side with the Sumers and the Akkad" in the land-mass controlled by the invaders. This is an authentic revelation that the ancient Sabirs had been a peaceful people. We can read this in a Sumerian poem. The poet nostalgically looks back and reflects on the peaceful past, when there was only the tranquil "Sabarian" peace: These verses also show that THEY were NOT identical with the Sumerians. The truthful Sumerian poet admits that they, the Sumerians BROUGHT WAR on them, and INTRODUCED HOSTILITY to the original Subarian inhabitants of the place, who lived peacefully there BEFORE the Sumers descended on them and enslaved them. Note the poetic descriptive imageries:

"... once upon a time, there was no snake, there was no scorpion, there was no hyena, there was no lion, there was no wild dog, no wolf, there was no fear, no terror, man had no rival. In those days, the land of Subur-Hamazi... ( i.e.) the whole universe... (used) one tongue..., "... Then ...defiant... ENKI, ('Enki' is the SUMERIAN name for the Sumerians) "put CONTENTION into the speech of man that had been one."

4. Thus we find the ancient Sabir to be a peaceful people, easily subjugated who became the proverbial SLAVES in

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Mesopotamia. Eveiy future government and empire PREFERRED Sabir slaves, because of their SKILLFULL nature and reliable SERVICES. (One of the meanings of their given name did also mean "slaves"). Records abound about their usefulness. The ancient Sabirs were "bright' in the sense of intelligence," adaptability to their rulers. Even the great Hammurabi, the famous babilonian lawgiver of a LATER date made certain that the monuments in his own memory would have on them engraved his conquest of the SABIRS, because conquering the Land of Sabirs counted even at that late date an achievement, even though the conquest was not total.

5. Because throughout the several millenia EVERY empire risen in the place used the early Sabirs as an apparently never ending pool of human resource, and since Gelb indicated that the Sabirs were the aboriginal inhabitants of the Near East, it is clear that the Sabirs survived throughout this vast space of time because their number was VAST and because they were a people with skill. Throughout the ages they helped build several empires. Records show that the Sumerians had come and gone, but the Sabirs SURVIVED and helped to overthrow the third (or last) Sumerian dynasty. They also witnessed the rise of the cruelest ASSIRIAN empire, and HELPED TO BURY later even the Babilonian (THE LAST) empire in early MESOPOTAMIA!

But, the records also show the slow but certain decrease of the Sabirs. No abuse can last forever. Waves of Sabirs began to move away in order to escape the harsh treatment first by the Sumers on the South, then later the NORTHERN government of the Assirians and later the Babiloniam. We have the witness of the mighty Sumerian king, Shulgi, who attempted to subjugate even those Sabirs, WHO ESCAPED his control on the South and found safety in the NORTH! The emissary of king Shulgi left letters of his mission to the Sabirs in the "far North." He indicated in his letter to his king that he "was greatly overwhelmed by tire Sabirs' WEALTH AND ROYAL treatment of him, but remarked that the Sabir king, or ruler, would not stand up to receive him at his arrival, but remained seated and left his feet resting on a footstool unmoved." Other records show that Shulgi suspected betrayal by his emissary or "treason for not prevailing over the Sabirs, but instead submitting to them." The Sabir aristocracy had immense wealth.

The cruelty of the Assirians had been notable. By this late date the Sabirs were so reduced that their territory did not extend to Southern Mesopotamia, but instead it had shrunk to a very limited area in the North, near the VAN Lake, where the Assirians controlled all "the land of the Sabirs" or "SUBAR.TU" as written in the Semitic AKKAD tongue.

These are concrete and clear evidences for the Sabirs' exodus from Mesopotamia. These records explain why they had appeared all over in the North. The period in which they have experienced the Assirian control is testified by the military loan words the Sabirs borrowed from their Assirian rulers. These Semitic

This map shows the Sabirs on the eastern side of the Black Sea from where they travelled North, East, and then back West till finally they reached the Carpathian Basin. At one point some of them returned back to the South.