The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1983 (10. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1983-09-01 / 9. szám

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THE EIGHTH HUNGARIAN TRIBE

September, 1983

frequently. The whole tract of land from the Caspian Sea to the River Indus, for example, was called Aria ‘The Land of the Aryans’, as indicated in the Dictionary of Mechitar. In that same zone lies Iran, whose etymological meaning is not Persian, but Hungarian: Ur-Hon ‘Abode of the Aryans’. Plinius, writing in the first century A.D., when listing the various peoples of India says this: Indum accolunt Megari... Uri and other peoples (P 092 p. 98). Toppeltinus writes in the same sense, stating that the inhabitants of India are called Magori even in his time, and that they are a powerful people, possessing a famous land, thanks to their victorius army.17 The seven great ancestors of the Hindus were the Mahar-Ishi (<H.: Magyar Os) ‘Magyar Ancestors’, and the most celebrated Hindu dynasty was also called ‘Magyar’: Maury. It was founded around 315 B.C., and at its hight, ruled over an immense kingdom, extending from Afghanistan to Ceylon. Finally, the first comprehensive name for India was Barai Varsha (<H.: Barát Városa) ‘Land of the Barats’.18

Apart from the numerous place- and and ethnic names built with the word Ur and Magyar, the presence of the Magyar population in all three focal points of the Ancient Near-East can be evidenced by pictorially written documents as well. This writing, as already explained, communicates abstract ideas with the pictures of concrete objects, whose names sound identically. In this way, the Magyars of a given place, could be identified with the picture of a bird, for which the Hungarian word is Madár, sounding like Magyar. A second animal, which was used to identify a Magyar ruler, was the lion Oroszlán (<H.: Ur-ös- Lény) ‘Primeval Divine Ancestor’. We have two good examples to illustrate the above. First, a lion-headed bird, Madar, found in the ruins of the City of Ur. It is represented with outstretched wings, hovering over two deer, Szarvas (<H.: Az Ur-ös) ‘The Divine Ancestor (Fig. 4). The meaning of this combined symbol (bird and two deer) is Magyar Ur-Ősök ‘Hungarian Divine Ancestors’. On the other hand, an early example of the use of the lion-symbol for identification purposes is the well-known image of Gilgamesh, the legendary ruler of the city of Uruk, who is depicted as holding a lion cub in his arm. The meaning is ‘Primeval Divine Ancestor’, a title similar to the pompous “king-of-kings”. Tn Egypt, we have found the Magyar name spelt with hieroglyphs very clearly as M-A-Kh-aR (land) (Fig. 7) and in another instance as A Ma-Ti-aR-Ku-Pa ‘The Ruler of the Magyars’ (Fig. 8). Thus, it seems clear that the Uri (=Ari) Magyar ethnic element was strikingly present in the whole Ancient Orient, in the B.C. times. This is a major historical discovery whose far-reaching significance hardly escapes the attention of the reader.

17. Toppeltinus: “...etiamnum vocantur Magori. Ingens populus et ipsi armorum gloria inclytum regnum possident” (P 092 pp. 98, 203).

18. L.A. Waddell comments Barat-Varsha thus: “The Land of the Barats (Barat Varsha) a name synonymous with ‘Barat Ana’ or ‘Land of the Barats’, which I have proved to be the original form of the name ‘Brit-Ain’ as given to Albion about 1100 B.C. by... the same Aryan race of Barats... who civilized India and the Ganges valley” (P 132 bis p. 10); see also the entry under ‘Barata Varsha’ in P 044).

Fig. 4. Turullu, the lion-headed Sumerian bird symbolized the divine ancestors of Hungarians. Uruk, Mesopotamia, c. 3200 B.C.

Fig. 5. Pictorial representation of the two Hungarian ancestors, carved by a shepherd in Somogy county. XIXth century.

(To be continued)

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