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The Unavenged Outrage: Christ’s Exsistence Not Substantiated By Historical Evidence

Written by Ben Klassen.
Thanks to HPs Maxine for sharing it.

“In the previous material it has been fairly well proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Christianity is a suicidal philosophy or teaching. If taken seriously enough by its followers it will destroy them, and if a whole race or nation takes it seriously enough and faithfully attempts to follow the teachings of the The Sermon on the Mount then that whole nation will destroy itself.

The great Roman nation, the finest civilization produced by the White Race in classical times, in the first few centuries A.D., did take Christianity seriously, and it did destroy itself, never to rise again. Where did Christianity originate ? If we read the Jewish Bible, the Old Testament and the New testament, we will not get the correct answers. The fact is Christianity is, and was, a Jewish creation, dreamed up, composed, and promoted by the hierarchy of the Jewish Race, undoubtedly, by the Elders of the Sanhedrin itself.

It is, in fact, an unholy teaching designed to unhinge and derange the White Gentile intellect and to cause him to abandon his real responsibilities of doing that for which Nature created him. It is an unnatural and completely perverted attitude towards the natural surroundings with which Nature has provided us. Whereas the full impact of it completely destroyed the Roman Empire within less than two centuries after it became the adopted religion of Rome, it is today still an overriding influence hanging like a shadow over affairs and thinking throughout the world. It is, therefore, important that we trace its origin, despite the fact that much evidence has been deliberately destroyed and many roadblocks have been placed in the way of objectively even considering the evidence that still survives.

Anyone recapturing his senses and looking at that evidence will find hat its origin is much different from what our church fathers today would have us believe. However, let us take at face value what the church fathers and the “Holy” bible are teaching us today. The first page of the New Testament, Matthew 1, immediately makes it clear that Jesus was a Jew and it traces his genealogy all the way from Abraham through David through Joseph to Christ. At another place it gives the genealogy of Mary, and makes sure that we are fully aware that she, too, is a Jew.

Here, immediately, the first major contradiction is revealed, glaringly revealed, that is, if Jesus was the Son of God how could he also be the son of Joseph ? Anyway, be that as it may, we now look at the disciples of Jesus and the apostles and we find that Matthew, who supposedly wrote the first book in the New Testament, was also called Levi, son of Altheus and was, as so many Jews are, a tax collector in Capernaum. We find that the Apostle Mark, who wrote the second book of the New Testament, was also called John Mark, he son of Mary, in whose home in Jerusalem the early Christians gathered and he was a cousin of Barnabas. We find, that above all, Mark was also a Jew. We now come to St. Luke, who was probably the only Gentile in the group of twelve.

Historians regard him as a Gentile physician. However, he was under the complete dominance of Paul, who was a proselyte Jew, and Luke spent most of his life as a disciple traveling around in the company of Paul, the Jew. We now come to Apostle John whom we find is also a Jew, along with his brothers Peter and James. We now come to the Apostle Paul, who changed his name from the real name of Saul, born in tarsus, of Jewish parents, and a man who was reared strictly in the Jewish tradition of the Pharisees of his time. Of the 27 books of the New Testament, it was Paul who is credited with writing 14 of them and credited with writing well over half of the New Testament itself.

And so it goes. Of the 12 disciples that Christ supposedly had, all of them Jews with the possible exception of Luke and as we noted he was completely under the influence of Paul. It is more than passing strange that, according to the New Testament itself, the writers, preachers, and apostles of this “New Teaching,” as well as the supposed founder himself, are all Jews with very little exception. It is more than passing strange also that the Jews themselves never accepted this highly suicidal teaching but were tremendously active in promoting and foisting it on the Gentiles in general, and the great Roman nation in particular. We do not doubt that these Jewish characters were fanatically active in promoting the suicidal new teaching of Christianity, nor do we doubt that they had not only hundreds but thousands of Jewish helpers that were the “Hidden Hand” that promoted the spread of this teaching among the Romans and Gentiles in the Roman Empire.

There is, however, serious doubt that such a character as Jesus Christ ever lived at all, and there is, however, overwhelming evidence to indicate he did not exist, but was figment of the Jewish of the Jewish imagination. The beginning of the Christian era found Rome near the height of her civilization. Her supremacy, in the then known world, was pretty much unchallenged and it was the beginning of a long period of peace. To be specific, Pax Romana (Roman Peace) lasted approximately 200 years beginning with the reign of Caesar Augustus. Rome was highly literate, there were many great writers, scholars, historians, sculptors and painters, not to mention other outstanding men of philosophy and learning. Yet it is highly strange that despite the great commotion and fanfare that supposedly heralded the birth of Christ and also his crucifixion (according to the bible), we find not a single historian nor a single writer of the era who found time to tale note of it in their writings. Outside of the fabricated biblical writings, no Roman historian, no Roman writer, and no Roman play-writer, has left the slightest hint that he had the faintest awareness that this supposedly greatest of all greats was in their very midst and preaching what is claimed the greatest of all the new gospels.

Whereas Caesar left voluminous writings that are still extant today and can be studied by our high school boys and girls, Christ himself, who had supposedly the greatest message to deliver to posterity that the world has ever known, left not the slightest scrap of paper on which he had written a single word. This, in fact, the biblical literature itself confirms and mentions only that once he did write in the sand. Today we can still study Cicero;s great orations and writings. He has left over 800 letters behind that we can study to this day.

We can study whole books of what Marcus Aurelius wrote, we can study what Aristotle wrote, what Plato wrote, and scores of others wrote that were contemporary with the first beginning of the Christian era, or preceded it. But strangely there is not a word that is in writing hat can be attributed to Jesus Christ himself. Furthermore, the Greeks and the Romans of that era, and even previously and afterwards, had developed the art of sculpturing to a fine state. We can find busts of Cicero, of Caesar, Of Marcus Aurelius and innumerable other Greek and Roman dignitaries and lesser lights, but nor one seemed to think it important enough to sculpture a likeness of Jesus Christ. And the reason undoubtedly is there was none to model at the time.

There were undoubtedly numerous skilled artists and painters at that time, but again strangely enough none took the time or the interest to paint a likeness of this purportedly greatest of all teachers, who in fact was proclaimed the Son of God come to earth. But no painting was ever made of this man, who, we are told, gathered great multitudes around him and caused great consternation and fear even to King Herod of Judea himself.

Now all of this is very, very strange, when, if, as the Bible claims, the birth of Jesus Christ was ushered in with great fanfare and great proclamations. Angels proclaimed his birth. An exceedingly bright star pointed to his place of birth. In Matt. 2:3, it says, “When Herod, the king, had heard of these things he was troubled and all Jerusalem with him.” We can hardly gather from this that no one was aware of the fact that the King of the Jews, the great Messiah, was born, for we are told in the preceding verse that the Wise Men came to King Herod himself saying, “Where is he that is born King of the Jews, for we have seen his star in the East and we are come to worship him.” Evidently the event was even lit up with a bright star from heaven.

In any case, King Herod, we are told in Matt. 3, was so worried that he sent the Wise Men to Bethlehem to search diligently for the young child to bring it to him so he undoubtedly could have him put to death. As the story further unfolds we learn that Joseph heard of this and quietly slipped out in the night taking with him his wife, the young child and a donkey and departed for Egypt. When Herod found out that he had been tricked it says that he “was exceedingly wroth and sent forth and slew all children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under.” Now this is a tremendously drastic act for a King to take, that is, to have murdered all the children in the land that were under two years of age. Again we can hardly say that the birth of Jesus was unheralded, unannounced and unobserved, according to the story in the bible. However, it is very, very strange that this act of Herod, as drastic and criminally harsh as it is, is nowhere else recorded in the histories or writings of any of the other numerous writers of the times. All we have is the claims of those people who wrote the New Testament. In fact, whoever wrote the New Testament invented so many claims that are inconsistent with the facts that they even made a rather glaring error by pulling King Herod into the story. History tells us that in the year 1 A.D. When Christ was supposedly born, Herod had already been dead for four years. He could hardly been disturbed or very wroth about the birth of anybody in the year 1 A.D.

There is further great evidence that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John never wrote any of those chapters that are supposedly attributed to them. What historical evidence can be dug up reveals that they were written much later, not at the time that Jesus supposedly said all those things, but somewhere around 30 to 50 years later by a person or persons unknown. Furthermore, when we compare the first four books of the gospel with each other, which supposedly tell more or less the same story, we find that they contradict each other in so many details that one need only read them for himself to pick them out. I neither have the time, the space, not the inclination to go into all these contradictions. They are too numerous. I do not contend that it really makes a great deal of difference whether there ever was a Jewish character by the name of Jesus Christ that led to the creation of a new religion to be foisted on the Gentiles for their destruction. The point is that, in any case, it was the Jews collectively who created and promoted this new teaching upon and it did destroy the Roman civilization.

Nevertheless, the evidence is overwhelming that these ideas long preceded the Christian era and it was not Christ who came out with them but a Jewish sect called the Essenes who lived on the border of the Dead Sea. It was they who had already evolved the ideas contained in the Sermon on the Mount but have been attributed to Christ. Not only had they evolved the same ideas as set forth in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but the wording, the phraseology and the sentences were the same and they preceded the supposed time of the Sermon on the Mount by anywhere from 50 to 150 years.

The Essenes were a Jewish religious group living in approximately the first century B.C. And the first century A.D. We have important sources of their contemporary writings in the historian Josephus and also in the philosopher Philo. They are also mentioned by various other Roman and Greek writers of those times in which their religious teachings are revealed in considerable detail. However, in the last twenty years the thousands of Dead Sea Scrolls, many of which were written by the Essenes themselves, reveal a tremendous amount of insight into their religious teachings, and above all, reveal that they preceded and preempted the Sermon on the Mount word for word, so that the so-called “new” teachings of a figure supposedly appearing from heaven in the year 1 A.D. And preaching during the years 3 to 33 A.D. Were neither original nor were they new.

Furthermore, we learn that the Essenes were notable for their communistic society, their extreme piety and purity and their practice of celibacy. They possessed all their worldly goods in common and looked upon private property as an evil which might divert them from sanctity. They engaged in agriculture and handicrafts, considering these occupations less sinful than others. They also practiced baptism, and this practice preceded the the Christian era by at least one hundred. So the Christian apostles can hardly be credited with having instituted the ritual of baptism, as is claimed.

Why, the average reader might ask, haven’t we been told more about the Essenes if they were the original practitioners of Christianity? There are two good and overriding answers for that. The Christians on their part, although the early Christian fathers were well aware of the Essene teachings and writings, took every measure possible to destroy them and purge them from circulation. The reason being they did not want their presence known because it would undermine their dogma that Christ was the originator of the New teaching. It would make impossible the claim that this was a great new revelation sent forth by God himself amid the hosannas and singing of angels. The Jews, on the other hand, did not want to reveal the presence of the Essenes because they wish to completely hide any connection between the Jews and the new religious teaching that they were about to administer unto the Gentiles. They even went to great lengths to appear hostile to it.

Before I go further into the highly illuminating and highly interesting Dead Sea Scrolls I want to make just one further point that is that the original manuscripts on which the New Testament supposedly based is always alluded to being translated from the “Original Greek.” Since the New Testament repeats over and over again and again that Paul spoke to his flock in Jewish and that Jesus spoke in Jewish and that the Apostles were Jewish, why, then, is it that the manuscripts were all in Greek?

The historical facts add up to this : the Jewish hierarchy and undoubtedly the whole conspiracy was well coordinated and had many, many members and co-workers. It was not written at the time of Christ at all, but the movement was given great promotion by the combined efforts of the Jewish nation. As they organized and promoted their ideas further, these were reduced to writing considerably later than the years 30 to 33 A.D. When Christ supposedly came out with these startlingly and “new” revelations. The conclusions are that they were written by Jewish persons whose identity we shall never know and were written by collectively by many authors, were revised from time to time and not only in their original formation and formulation but have been revised time and time again throughout the centuries to become more effective and persuasive propaganda.

However, we want to go further into the teachings of the Essenes and who they were and why their particular teachings were pounced upon by the Jews to be formulated into a well distilled poisonous brew and then fed to the Gentiles. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which are more numerous and much more revealing than the Jewish press of today has informed us tell us much about the teachings and the life of the Essenes. One of the important things that they tell us about the Essenes is that they vanished from the face of the earth after about two centuries of existance and the termination date being somewhere around the year 100 A.D. They were, needless to say, only a very small sect of the Jewish tribes and not a part of the Jewish conspiracy as such. Being outside of the mainstream of Jewish activity and thought, the Jews nevertheless observed from them that this kind of teaching could ruin and destroy a people. The Jews, looking for a way to destroy the Roman nation, who in the year 70 A.D. had destroyed and levelled Jerusalem to the ground, noted well what these teachings were and decided to perpetuate them on the Romans.

Essenism was really a revolutionary new form of social order, an ideal cooperative commonwealth in miniature. Instead of the Messiah, the ideal of the Essenes was the “Teacher of Righteousness.” They established a new cooperative communitarian brotherhood and they were the first religious society to establish and observe the sacraments of baptism and the eucharistic meal. Most important of all they were the firs group to condemn and abolish the age old institution of human slavery. Furthermore, the “Teacher of Righteousness” as promulgated by the Essenes may not have been the first pacifist in history, but he was the first to implement his pacifist theories with an overall practical measure, which if generally adopted, would abolish war. This, of course, was a wonderful religion for the Jews to sell to the Romans, for if they convert the Romans into submissive pacifists they could certainly soon thereafter dominate them in full. And this they did.

The Essenes lived in the area of Qumran near the Dead Sea and according to Philo, the Jewish Philosopher and writer contemporary of that age, “the Essene brotherhood would not allow the manufacture of any weapons or allow within their community any maker of arrows, spears, swords or any manufacture of engines of war, nor any man occupied with a military avocation, or even with peaceful practices which might easily be converted to mischief.” Not only does Philo tell us about the Essenes, but also Josephus and Pliny, both contemporary historians, tell us much about the Essenes.

As mentioned before, much is emerging also from the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The overriding fact that emerges from the study of the writings of the historians of that time and the Dead Sea Scrolls is this tremendously significant fact: namely that the beliefs, teachings, and practices attributed to Jesus Christ, although not exactly identical in all respects with those of the Essene school, were nevertheless, closer to those of the Essenes than to those of the Bishops of the Ecumenical Council which determined the Nicene Creed of orthodox Christianity.

So we can come to the obvious conclusion that the Christian beliefs and doctrines as supposedly enunciated by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount did not originate at all at that time but at least 100 years earlier from a Jewish sect called the Essenes living near the Dead Sea; that the Elders of Sanhedrin recognized this teaching as being deadly and suicidal; that they further took this doctrine and distilled and refined it into a working creed; the Jews then, with a great deal of energy and tremendous amounts of propaganda (in which they excel), promoted and distributed this poisonous doctrine among the Romans.

Setting this creed down in writing in what is now called the New Testament evolved over the next several centuries. It was written by persons unknown to us today but undoubtedly of Jewish origin. Furthermore, to give it a mystical and heavenly sent deification, they invented the person of Jesus Christ, and claimed that he was the Son of God. Then, having laid the ground work for this new church, they consolidated that power at a meeting in Nicene, where the creation of the new church was solidified, the creed formalized and given official sanctification. Thus, in short, was launched the new church and the new religion of “Jesus Christ” which was fabricated out of thin air. Not a single trace of the Jesus Christ personage can be found in authentic history. Nevertheless, this newly fabricated hoax of Jesus Christ, the Son of God this idea, with all its suicidal doctrines, was soon to pull down in ruins the great Roman Empire and the great White civilization that went with it.”

The Way of the Hosts – The Legend of Csaba

In Hungarian mythology the youngest son of Attila (Etele) was called Csaba, which in Turkic and old Hungarian also meant shepherd, the “shepherd of the people”. This legend is about the mythical guardianship he symbolizes for the people of Transylvanian Hungarians who treat him as their ancestor and guardian “angel” in a loosely translated sense. The Transylvanian-Hungarian anthem even calls to him for his protection.

After the death of Attila in 453AD, his elder son Aladár, rushed to take the reins of government. The Germanic chiefs and their allies were able to surprise and kill him before he reached his destination. His brothers, scattered over the country, were pushed out by the rebellion of the Gepids, Sverves and Visigoths (Germanic tribes). Dengezik ruled from the area of the Don and Dniper rivers, a still large Hun Empire, constantly fighting the Gepids, Goths and Byzantium (Eastern Roman Empire). In 469 he died in battle. The Hun nations however continued in this region.

Attila’s youngest son Chaba (historic Irnak), whose mother was the daughter of the Byzanteen general Honorius, relinquished the Carpathian basin with his depleted nation, to rejoin his eastern relations. They returned to strengthen themselves, so they may be strong enough to return and also to cleanse Attila’s holy sword in the waves of the circular sea, to restore it’s magical powers.

At the border territory of Transylvania, he left 3,000 young warriors under the leadership Örmedzur, to keep guard over the land. These men were the ancestors of the Seklers. (Segel=border guard). The field of Chigle was their home, which today is the country of Csík in Transylvania. Before their separation Chaba prayed to their god Damacsek, that whenever his people were in trouble the forces of nature shall warn him, and he will return to protect them, even from the ends of the earth. The message carriers of earth, water, air, and fire will reach him wherever he might be.

They barely reached the other side of the Carpathian mountains, before the neighbors of the Sekel rose against them. The earth began to tremble and the crowns of the pine trees shake and sent the news to the departing men of the imminent danger of their brothers. So a party of their armies returned and scattered their enemies.

One year latter the residents of the valley again became jelous of the tranquility of the Sekel’s and they threatened them with their armies. The stream ran screaming into the river, the river to the sea, carrying the message for help, which arrived in time and saved them. Three years later new nations surrounded the Sekel, and it soon became a contest of life and death. The breeze would not be fast enough to reach their kinsmen, staying at this time among kinsmen in Greece, but sitting on the wings of the windstorm or the plains, it found them far in the southwest and for the third time helped them to achieve victor over their enemies.

After a while, Chaba and his people left Greece and returned to Scythia. He took with him his mother who he presented to the nobility of Scythia. The Hun nobility looked down on him for he was not a pure noble Hun blood and even more so after he married a Choresmian woman. His clan grew into a tribe in Scythia and is believed to be the Aba clan which returned to Hungary with Arpad’s Magyar confederacy.

Meanwhile in Transylvania, a long time elapsed, the young saplings became giant old trees, the weapons of the young warriors were handed down to their grandchildren. From the boarder guards a new nation developed. From the border lands a new country developed, which were led by their chiefs, the Rabon-bán. (Bán is marsgrave in Hungarian) It was a long time before new neighbors came to being who dared to threaten them. This however did not take forever to happen and again a tremendous army arose and attacked the Sekels, who in time began to waiver. But the traveling star of the Sekel’s did not sleep, remembering the promises to the gods, carried their message in burning light from the earth to the halls of heaven, to the long dead hero Chaba. Down below, the last of the battles was in preparation, with a handful of the survivors facing the enemy, when all at once the drumbeat of the hooves of their steeds and the clatter of arms and armor was heard from above, and the brilliant starry army paraded in the heavens above. The brothers, who in times of danger returned three times in the past, have again returned in just a nick of time again.

Like silent ghosts in a long line they crossed the heavens and flew down to earth, where the snow capped mountains reach to the sky. No one could escape the ones who cannot be wounded. Panic struck the sea of attackers and they fled in all directions. Since then the Sekel has been at guard on the frontier and soon perhaps this trust will no longer be required… (Through most of Hungarian history their special charge was boarder-guardsmen.) The path of the shining ghostly army, on which they came and went, became permanent and unremoveable from the dome of heaven, caused by the hooves of their horses, which are visible during midnight as the milky strip shinning in the sky. This strip of light, the “Way of the Souls” from thereafter we called the “way of the hosts”, reminding us of Chaba and his heroic father Attila.

When, under the leadership of Arpad, the Magyar brother nation appeared in the east, to take over the inheritance of Attila, they immediately made alliance with them. They were kept in their tasks as boarder guards for the new nation, with special priviledges and their own lands and leaders. They have never waivered in their duties to the present, as Rumanians and Russians have taken their lands, they are still there.

Definitions and comparisons of the legend and its names and terms:

Attila’s son Dengezik means “sea storm” in Cuman Turkic.

Attila’s son Aladár supposedly is from the Alanic language meaning centurion. They were one of the allied people of the Huns, of Indo European origin (Iranic language). In Hungarian legends they are also the wives of the Scythian men of the ancestors of the Huns and Magyars indicating a close family relationship. They are credited in transferring the Hun and north Messopotamian sword cult to early England as Excalibur and King Arthur legends, since they were recruited from Pannonia by the Romans, including their sword smithing tribe known as caliburnus. The sword in the rock was a north Messopotamian motif originating from the Scythians who are also North Messopotamian in origin who eventually were conquered by the Iranian Sauramatians. “black cloaks”.

The explanation of Attila and fejEDE-lem (ruler)

The name Attila as written today is completely in a wrong form, based on western European spelling rather than old Hungarian. That is why it’s explanation from German is also totally wrong and illogical.

The Ural-Altaic explanation of Attila’s name

Ete-le =old Hungarian for Attila. The meaning can be easily explained using old FinnoUgrian as well as Altaic languages to which the Huns belonged. Proto Uralic *ede = lead, front becoming in Hungarian elö due to a common *D’ > L change. Proto Altaic *ed-er=lead man, leader with an identical root to Uralic & FinnUgor. That is why some people claim that there was an earlier Ural-Altaic language family to which, the eastern Altaic and western Uralic branch of languages descended from. Hungarian belonged to an ancient western branch with very little eastern traits among Hungarian racial types except of course the allied Turkic groups. These two forms of the word are recreations based on descendant languages in both groups and as such are many thousand years old — at least 8,000 years old, which coincides with the great flood of the Black Sea which is recounted by the Sumerian myth of Gilgamesh. There were other languages which also have this word in new word of derivation which I will now introduce.

Old Hungarian fej-EDE-lem = ruler, archaic term for king. fej=chief/head/main while the suffix lem is a generic suffix like the English -ship suffix. Also in Turkic “lem” and in Sumerian it’s “-nam”. Hurrian is an ancient northern Messopotamian language of the earliest non Semitic people of North Messopotamia, who were there long before the Semites who came from Arabia and north Africa. The land and aboriginals of the area were also called Subar, Supar, etc by many ancient languages of Messopotamia. A name which one of Arpad’s sons in Byzantium also claimed as the original name of his people. Whether this meant just the Magyar clan or all Hungarian tribes is unknown. Up to the 15th century there was a county of Madzsar Agadzor in Armenia preserving their memory along with legends of their origin from Nimrod’s son Sevortik. (see the New Arab Encyclopedia) Egyptian literature also claimed all of north Messopotamia to be designated as MAGAR, while Messopotamians called it SUPAR. (Wallace Budge, “an Hyeroglyphic Dictionary”-see the geographic index in volume 2.)

AD-AL =king in Hurrian, AL can also mean lord in Hurrian but more likely just a suffix here. IURI =lord in Hurrian (UR in Hungarian, but also in FinnoUgrian for the lead male!) BARI =kingdom in Hurrian, which in Hungarian is BIRO-DA-LOM, meaning empire. The same term BAR in Sumerian means king, ruler. TARSHUA=all the people in Hurrian, which in Hungarian TARSHA-SAG=society using a suffix SHAG in Hungarian for the generalization found also in Hurrian as SHA where the G ending was dropped. In Sumerian SHAG =head, high just as in Ugrian and it also is used to designate people in general. For example SAG-GIG=black heads, refers to the common people. Refer to the works of Speiser on Hurrian/Subarian language research.

It is especially in the mythology and art of the Hurrians where we find the prominent place of the tree of life which in some art forms is the prototype of the 8th century Hungarian palmette style found on many metal ornaments and which is mistakenly atributed to Iranian influence. The fact is that much of Iranian art and building forms originate from the Hurrians which have been in north Messopotamia well before 3,000 BC. Their lands coincides with the Biblical land of Mount Ararat, from whence the great rivers of Messopotamia originate. This is also called the land of Eden in the Bible although the Sumerian term EDEN means plains not mountains.

Similarly southern Messopotamia originally was also non Semitic, and the main culture there which we now call Sumerian, whose origin was also from the north, from around the Black Sea area. However the so called Sumerians never called themselves or their language by this term since their chief tongue was called EMEGIR and their country was called KIENGI. The term UR in their language means hero, giant and also guard. Hungarian ÖR=guard, ORI-as=giant. Possibly linked to ÖR-medzur. MEDZUR actually sound like an archaic form of Madzar=Magyar the ruling/kingly tribe found amongst eastern Scythians also.

And now for the main point to this long winded introduction to ancient history;

The legend of Csaba (Chaba) the shepherd and guardian of the people is originally written down in Sumerian, though this does not prove it’s Sumerian origin, for it could be much older and be but a story brought by the Sumerians from their original northern home beyond the Caucasus. See the National Geographic underwater expeditions in the Black Sea, researching the biblical or Sumerian legend of the Flood.

Chaba or SEB was a guardian and shepherd also in Turkic and Hungarian, CHOBAN, Sumerian �ib-ad = shepherd, pasture; but he was a semi-divine person who was the husband of the Sumerian goddess INANA who every fall is taken down into hell causing the death of vegetation and every spring is released to cause the rebirth of nature. No his name has nothing in common with the English Sheep-herder since the root word is not sheep. This is a good example of a coincidence. His most commonly known name is the later Messopotamian TAMUZ or the earlier Sumerian DAMUZIG the person to whom Chaba prayed to in the written account of the old Transylvanian Chronicle as DAMACSEK.

The old Hungarian language also has an unusual sound change where the intervocalic M often changes to V, in the root word. There are ample evidence of this in many examples compared to the other FinnoUgrian langauges and Sumerian. Similarly here the TAMUZ name changed to TAVASZ meaning Spring time, the rebirth of nature/plants etc. This rebirth was also symbolized by the ancient custom of preparing Easter eggs by Hungarians, Ob-Ugrians, Iranians, Huns etc. Hun painted eggs have been found in Hun graves in Hungary! I have examples. The act of watering the ladies was also to make them fertile symbolically.

There is another aspect of the legend of Chaba from yet another northern source. The legend of the Khorezmian Scythians Chaba was also symbolized as the guardian semi divine horseman “Sabasios” or “Sievus” the divine ancestor of Chorezm, often shown on their seals and art. (S.P. Tolstov, Ancient Chorezm- in Russian & Hungarian) Naturally here we are only assosciating a common name to Chaba and not the same person. Chorezmia was founded also by the Hurrians “churri”.

Remember that Chaba married a Chorezmian woman in the legend. There is another distant corroboration to this story from as far away as India where there are stories of Scythians of the Chaba tribe of Chorezm since some of them also went to India.

by Fredi Hamori

Scythian Origin of the Hungarian People

Scythian Warrior of Satan

The origin of the Hungarian people has been a subject of debate for centuries. That is, among historians but not among the Hungarian people themselves. The Hungarian Chronicles show that the Hungarian people have been aware of their Scythian ancestry long before they settled in the Carpathian Basin. Not only that, other nations throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia refer to them as Scythians, and directly relate them to the Huns of Attila.

No genetic study that attempts to disprove their ancestral knowledge has been successful in changing their understanding of their past. During the Austrian and Communist oppressions, false theories of their origins were forced upon them and forced into the history books. However, ancient and medieval sources all confirm the Scythian origin of the Hungarians. Since the fall of Communism in 1989, Hungarian historians have been able to trace the Scythian ancestry of the Magyars with access…

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Hungarian Mythology I.

God and his helpers
by Fred Hamori

The follwing essay also reveals who is the true creator of the humanity…

This only a short summary of Hungarian Mythology starting from before their conversion to Christianity. This first part will mainly be about God and his helpers, other parts will deal with the Devil and his deimons and Mythical Heroes.

The last millennium has obliterated much of the old traditions, especially since there was a strong anti-Hungarian propaganda in the Church, which tried to prove that the Christian Church was responsible for all that was good like religion, culture, letters and everything was thought to the “wild and nomadic” Hungarians by the church. This must always be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism especially since we have records and physical proof showing that Hungarians were literate using a script similar to the Central Asian Turks and the some of the Scythians, whose earliest remnants were found near Alma Ata. (Isik) Words for book, letters, writing are all from the east. Most of the words associated with religion, farming, cities, tools and basic professions were not European in origin in Hungarian but were from Asia.. therefore they were brought with them from their earlier homeland and not thought to them by the “civilized and cultured” Europeans, as the church maintained so long. Especially since this was the Dark Ages in Europe at that time. In any case after more than a millennium of living in the center of Europe, much of the Hungarian language has been Europeanized in the sense and meaning of their words. This sometimes causes problems in properly understanding the old meaning of some words in ancient times.

The type of religion they practiced was monotheistic, where god was a formless spirit, never represented with images and often associated with the Sun and the sky. Remnants of this association are found even today in remote Transylvanian villages. The following references from the European chroniclers of the time remain.. Recent evidence and research that many of the Huns & Sabirs who lived in the Caucasus were Christianized and these were in close contact with the Hungarians. The Georgian and Albanian early chronicles documented their conversion to Christianity under the guidance of Cardinal Israel and their building of Churches and translating and writing of the bible into their own language and their own runic script, whose remnants (the writing method) survived in Hungary into modern times.

Early Reference to their religion.

Theopylaktos Simocata /Greek/ : “The Turks (Hungarians) respect fire, air, water and even the earth and sing praises to earth, however they only worship the one who created heaven and earth.” [Note the Greeks called Hungarians at first Turks and only later did they get familiar with their proper Magyar (Macar) name after they settled next to them.]

Abufeda /Arab? or Persian/ :”The Magyars are a Turkic nation, their territory is between the Bedsenak (later absorbed by Hungarians) and the Sikul (also absorbed by Hungarians). Both were eastern nations in origin.

The other neighboring nations of the Hungarians before their settlement in their current homeland also had a similar religion as the following examples show.

Menander: The Avar-Hun Khan swears to the god of fire “deus ignis, aui in coelo est.”

Desguignes (French historian) “.. The Hiung-nu king Tanjou, as his name indicates him to be the ‘son of heaven and earth’, worshipped the sun at dawn and the moon at night, and gave offerings to the sky and to the earth.” [This refers to the eastern Hun emperor.]

Herodotus /Greek/ “.. amongst the gods they (Scythians) worship the following: first of all Hestia (fire)..”

In the first contact with Hungarians, some Christian priests believed them to be Christian due to their religious manners. However at the time of their settlements there were some who were also Manichean and some were Muslim as well. Many however were simply a variation of the Magian/Parse religion as is indicated by their religious terminology. God=Isten, Heaven=Meny, Hell=Pokol, Devil=Ordog are found in eastern Manichean terminology also. Greek references to the house of Álmos the father of Árpád, and the first Hungarian dynasty (in Europe) state that their religion was Manichean.

Priestly titles:
Táltos Priest king (root-word is wisdom, knowledge “Tud, Tut”
Magoch Magus, Magian priest (root-word magia=bonfire)
Bacsa,Baksa Priest of crafts, science
Harsány Priest of song and ceremonies
Arbis Priest of medicine (modern “doctor”=Orvos)
Barus,Rasdi Priest of magic (modern Varázs)
Garabonciás Priest of storm black magic. (from Kara-pan)

The name of the “bonfire” or the sacred flame of old, remains as Magia in modern Hungarian, recalling the old Magus priests who maintained the sacred flames.

The most typical Hungarian word for a church (not used by Catholics) is even today called Egy-ház, which in a simplistic way is translated as the house of ONE. However this same word EDGY or ÜGY is also holy in meaning and the word for GOD in Hungarian IS-TEN is also related to the universal ONE god, since in Babylon and Persia also a special word described the universal ONE as ISTEN (Babylon) and YSTEN (Persia). Hungarian legends all state that they came from the borderlands of Persia. This word ISTEN is not Persian in origin as far as I know. It can be best explained with Sumerian from the word ASH-TEN (first/one creator). The TEN word means godly spirit in the other Altaic languages also, and perhaps they passed the word even to the Chinese as the word for heaven “tien”. The word is also found in early Parthian as shown by an inscription on one of their temples to the goddess Nana. (N.N. Y.S.T.N.) It was the Parthians and not the Persians who ruled during the time of Christ, and from their territory came the three wise men.

The Creator God

The chief god and creator of the world therefore was called ISTEN and is still the Hungarian word for God. Today it is still used in the neighborhood of Persia, by the Kurds according to some tourists. I don’t know the circumstances of the usage, as it may be just a special title there.

The IS-TEN word is based on the archaic variation of the word for first & ancestor. Elso =As,es while first Os,us =ancestor.. as the ancestor of everything, the creator. The word Iz/is can also mean fiery. Ten can be related to the word TENY-esz meaning to breed, genetically manipulate, …create new life forms.

Other references to the name ISTEN for god found in Manfred Lurker’s, Lexicon der Gotter und Demonen, Stutgard, 1904.

ISTEN or ISDEN in Egypt a god related to TOTH (scribe and wisdom), in the later’s aspect as cynocephalus hamadryas./?/ In Hungarian TUD also means knowledge.

ISTANU was the Hittite sun-god, the Hattic form is ESTAN (=sunday). One of his main attributes is a winged sun as part of his head-dress.

ISTEN; Supreme god of the Hungarians. Among his attributes; the arrow, the Tree, the Horse.

Other important titles of God are “creator”, TEREM-tö” based on the root word TEREM, for creation, grow and flourish. Certain Finno- Ugrian tribes also use the TAREM word for the name of their chief god of heaven. While linguists may still be arguing about the original and common Finn-Ugor meaning of the root word, it is quite obvious in Hungarian. The name can be found as far east as the name of the Tarim Basin in western China and in India as the name of the Tree of Life among the Dravidian language family. In Sumerian his name Darama, was one of the titles of the god of knowledge and creator of many plants, better known as ENKI. In the Middle Ages a variation of this “pagan” god(?) DOROMO,DRUMO was made a devil by the Christian church, all the more so since its ancient dwelling according to the Sumerians was the deep subteranean waters. His son Saba (Hungarian Csaba) or Dumuzi (Hungarian Damacsek) was also retained in the early Pagan Szekely-Hungarian chronicle, as the god to which Csaba prayed to before returning to Scythia with his Hun army..

In old stories god is often described as living in the 7th heavens, in a golden kingdom. However he does interact with this world and he sometimes hurls great stones to earth “stones of heaven=menykö, or in anger may shoot his arrows down to earth “god’s arrow =istennyila”. Fires started from such lightning bolts were the source of the sacred flames tended by priests.

The best explanation I ever saw for the Hungarian name of God came from Persia, which was quite precise and closer to the original meaning than today’s Christianized form. It describes the perfect unity, self generated, not constituted of matter but ethereal, the uncreated creator of all. This comes from the archaic Yzdan-ite holy book the Dab-Istan, a religion which is pre-Persian.

While the Hungarians of the 10th century were monotheists in the sense that there was one god to which all was subservient, they also had memories of more archaic times, and these ancient gods were over time made to be angels, nymphs, heroes and devils, due sometimes to the influence of their newer religion.

One of the most beneficial of the ancient goddesses was called by several names:

Nagy Asszony meaning Great Queen.

Boldog Asszony meaning Bountiful & Glad Queen.

Baba meaning midwife, but also meaning God in some isolated Hungarian communities in the Carpathians.(Csango dialects)

In the lowlands of the Hungarian plains, the mirage of the sun is also called Déli Báb, the noonday BAB, the feminine mate of the Sun which is typically translated as FATA MORGANA.

She was the benefactor of marriages, childbirth, agriculture. These I believe were though to be the same, however they may have been differentiated in the distant past. The term “Boldog Asszony” was a predominantly associated with marriage and childbirth, and some women in the Hungarian city of Szeged still worshipped her in recent times after their childbirth and there are many folk customs associated with her, including the birthing bed. Her day is Tuesday, when women were warned not to wash or dirty the water. Apparently she was associated with fresh water also, like the eastern Scythian Anahita the source of fresh waters.

She was also associated with agriculture as many Hungarian folk holidays of Boldog Asszony are agriculturally named, and have nothing to do with Christianity. She was included into Hungarian Catholicism to ease the way to conversion, as the grandmother of Christ and today there are many hymns to her. In the east the Manichean religion also had a pure goddess of Joy, called RAM-ratuk. (RAMA=Hungarian OROM).

Historical association of the names show that these are early Mesopotamian in origin. For example the goddess of birth and fertility in Sumerian was called BAU meaning bounty, while DUG also meant gladness. From this one can readily get BODOG, which also means gladness in Hungarian while just BÖ means bounty.

The other title “Asszony” means queen in early 10th century Hungarian. Today it means lady. This word also is most closely associated with early Elamite, the neighbors of the Sumerians where USAN (ref. DS109,L301) means goddess. The same word in Sumerian of the Emesal dialect is GASAN meaning queen, lady (ref. G182). The chief Sumerian dialect Emegir uses the term NIN for lady, which is also still used in Hungarian Neni (lady, aunt..). The Accadians also borrowed it as ASATU meaning just wife (?). Persian also uses a more distorted form of the word, derived from the aboriginals of Iran, the Elamites. Often linguists state that Hungarians obtained the word from Iranians, who only got it from their aboriginals, whose language is much closer related to Hungarian than Persian was.

In Babylonian mythology BAU was also the wife of Nimrud which was a chief god at one period, hence the important Assyrian city of Nimrud. In Hungarian mythology he is not a god but a mythical ancestor of several nations, including Hungarians, Scythians and Iranians, who according to Hungarian traditions lived 201 years after the flood. That would make him a Pre-Sumerian king, possibly Elamite. (Elamites, Medes, Parthians? rather then Persians proper.) Hungarians including their neighbors all had stories of a mythical giant ancestor (like Nimrud) to whom they gave respect. Finnish Veine_MONEN while the Sabir Huns also had a giant ancestor. So it is no wonder that when they became Christians the NIMRUD name was adopted instead of the NEMERE name, which is often the name of the wild wind in Transylvania. The original Sumerian NINURTA or NIMURTA was also the wild southern wind, and the god of war. But Hungarian Chroniclers sometimes called him by his Scythian or Greek name Heracles, which the Romans took over as Hercules. This name also is from the east.

The chief holidays of Boldogaszony, the mother-goddess, was Christmas, which in Hungarian is called Kara’chon, a word also borrowed by Russians, Rumanians, Slovaks from the early eastern horsemen for Christmas. It means the new year, turning point of the sun. However if one takes notice of pronunciation distortions then Kara-acsony/aszony is another way of saying Nagy-Aszony, the name of the Great Queen, to which the Sun God Mithra sacrifices the bull at the end of the year, to free the sun. The earliest references to “Karácson” is from Iran, where January was called “Karasanaj” in early ancient references. “Kara/Kora” is root word for big in Hungarian found in composite words only. (me- kora=how big).

In Hungarian Mythology Boldog Aszony had seven daughters, who brought good things to mankind. In Assyrian/Babylonian mythology she was called Bau or ANUTA, which was the same as the mythical wife of Nimrud in Hungarian mythology ENETH, who also had 7 daughters.. the 7 days of the week. Whereas Nimrud ruled over 365 kings.. the days of the year as the Babylonian sun god.

TÜNDÉR

The ancient angels in Hungarian mythology became nymphs and special aerial phenomenon’s under Christian influence. These are called TÜN- DÉR. The word relates to the Altaic languages TEN-GRI and Sumerian DIN-GIR.. the lesser gods of the Sumerians of Messopotamia. The queen of the “nymphs” which were often associated with heaven and wet places, mountains etc. was the beautiful “Tündér-ILONA”, who often was represented by the swan in Hungarian fairy tales. This could be a variation of the Parthian and Mesopotamian NANA or Sumerian goddess Dingir-INANA, the daughter of the Moon, who was the young goddess of the heavens and also at times was warlike, and a seductress. Sometimes she is called szép-aszony meaning beautiful queen, in Hungarian.

In Mesopotamia she was at times the wife of the god of vegetation and shepherds DAMUZIG/SAB in Sumerian and Mesopotamian mythology. The old Hungarian word for shepherd is CHABA just as in many Altaic languages still use the word CHOBAN, which is SIPAD in Sumerian. Dumuzi or SABA, was also the Sumerian god of the rebirth of spring, and shepherds and is the source of the Hungarian word for Spring TAVAS. (MU often changes to V in Hungarian) from the later form of DUMUZI which became TAMUZ, in later Mesopotamian usage.

References for information on Hungarian Mythology


Kandra Kabos, “Magyar Mythologia”, Eger, 1897

Ipolyi Arnold, “Magyar Mythologia”, Pest, 1854

Dr Zakar András, “A Szumér Hitvilág és a Biblia”, 1973 (2nd publishing)

Dr Varga Zsigmond, “Az Ösmagyar Mitologia Szumir és Ural-Altáji Öröksége”, San Francisco, 1956.

Dr Bobula Ida, ” The Great Stagg, A “Sumerian divinity”, reprint from Ancient and Medieval History,
University of Buenos Aires, 1953?

Albert Wass, “Selected Hungarian Legends”, Astor, Florida 1971.

Dömötör Tékla, “Régi és mai magyar népszokások”, Budapest 1986

Lászlö Gyula, “Régészeti Tanulmányok- Az életfa és az ösi istenasszony”, Budapest.

Jankovics Marcel, “Csillagok között fényességes csillag – A szent László legenda és a csillagos ég”, Budapest 1987.

The Great Stag

The following essay proves that the sumerian god, Enki is Satan, the True Creator of the humanity, our “Good God”.

This essay was written by Bobula Ida, Hungarian sumerologist and linguist. She was the first one who started to reveal the the truth about the Hungarians that our ancestors are the Sumerians. The enemy tried to put her to silence many times…

A Sumerian Divinity by Bobula Ida

One of the elements of human culture which migrated from Western Asia into the Western World seems to be the concept of a benevolent, divine father who created mankind out of clay and who cares for the welfare of the Earth.

The Mesopotamian divinity, who in contrast with most other male gods of the early Pantheon, was considered benevolent, was the water-god Enki. It seems that his cult was so deep-rooted that it survived the fall of Babylonia and was inherited by many younger nations, who brought it to Europe, where traditions which have come down to modern times seem to be the still-living fragments of this ancient cult.

Enki came to be known later as Ea./1 Ea’s name was written with four strokes of the stylus; it seems that his holy number was four times ten: forty./2 It may be inferred from one of the texts that he was considered -at least in one period- the fourth in rank of the “Great Gods”./3 He was supposed to be the child of Enlil/4 and the goddess Nammu, the primeval sea./5

Enki was one of the first divinities of the Sumerian Pantheon to be identified by archaeologists, more than 50 years ago/6, as the water-god, whose regular attribute was the spouting, overflowing vase and two streams with fish.

The figure of Enki appears on many cylinder seals and other monuments./7 Seldom standing -more often seated on his throne- he wears the horned, high hat of the great gods/8, and often holds the rod and the ring, symbols of divine power, which in Sumerian art distinguish gods from mortals, but which are not special attributes of any one god./9 His special attribute is a horned animal, usually the ibex or mountain goat, which is often depicted together with the fish. On a few seals a third animal appears in Enki’s presence: a bird which seems to be the eagle.

Later the fish and the horned animal are contracted into one single monster: the well-known fish-ram symbol of Ea, which has long been recognized as a sign of the Zodiac./10

Many authors have asked: why is the name of the water-god Enki, which means “Lord of the Land”? Frankfort answers: in the marshes of Southern Mesopotamia land and water are so intimately mixed that they seem to be essentially the same!”/11 We cannot agree: land and water must have been contrasted even in the primitive Mesopotamian mind. But Ki did not mean “land” only, it meant “earth”, too; and we may presume that Enki was supposed to be the Lord of Earth. The three animals which we see around Enki -the fish, the bird and the horned goat- may well symbolize the totality of the animal world – all that flies, swims or runs. Water is essential to the life of all of them.

The transparent symbolism of Sumerian creation myths makes it clear that Father Enki was regarded as creator and special father of the plants, too, who are mothered by many goddesses./12 Finally the goddesses inspired Enki to create man, which he did – fashioning men from clay, to be the servants of the gods./13

Being thus responsible for the existence of man, Enki was naturally supposed to take far more interest in his creatures than any other god. Enki organized the peoples and decreed fates for them./14 He taught man agriculture, cattle-breeding and industry. He gave to mankind “bread to eat”. He wrote all the fundamental laws of civilization on clay tablets. These were kept in Enki temple at Eridu. He was the god of wisdom, healing and every other kind of magic. In danger he was the helper. He saved humanity from the deluge by secretly instructing Ut-Napistim, the Sumerian Noah, to build an ark in which he survived.

This myth, so reminiscent of the Biblical story, has led some earlier authors to believe that the strongly delineated square in which Ea’s figure sometimes appears is the Ark/15. Lately it is believed rather that this square symbolizes Ea’s home in the watery depths./16

It is possible that the square connected with Ea- the square which surrounds him or on which he sits- is the symbol of the World, which in the Sumerian mind was something four-cornered./17 The square is sometimes marked with a cross, a sign which is related to the number 40.

The most frequent divine companion of Ea is his Janus-faced messenger, whose name has been read as Usmu or Isimud. He is the man sent by the god on various errands./18 Another form of Ea’s servant is that of the fish-man.

Often we see one or two gigantic doorkeepers19 by the throne of Ea/20 ; these are called the twins./21

Enki-Ea had many names/22, one of them was Dara-Mah “The Great Stag”/23. On this quality of Ea we may read numerous comments./24 This name of Ea was probably of astrological origin, connected with his benevolent activities as helper of the Sun, his nephew, whom he liberates daily from his mountain grave.

It seems that the Zodiac was the subject of early speculations by Sumerian -maybe pre-Sumerian- astrologers. In the early art of the Near East we find everywhere horned animals -stags, deer, goats, ibexes – who wear between their horns the sun-disc or a symbol of it, which may be a square, a cross or a sun-bird: the eagle./25 The examples are well known, beginning with the pottery of Susa I. Sometimes, instead of two horns, there are two animals flanking the Sun symbol./26 If we ask, why is this motive so widespread, we may suppose: because it was a message of joy and happiness. When the Sun appears between the horns of the heavenly stag -ie. at the winter solstice- winter is passing, the sun regains its former strength, the days are getting longer, a new cycle, a new year begins. A disc or a bird between horns must have stood for the Great Stag, bringing back the Sun between its horns./27

The rout of winter darkness and the retrieving of the Sun must have meant the greatest possible service to a more or less primitive human society. No wonder that the cult of the benefactor persisted so long.

Helping humanity is traditional in Ea’s family. His son, Dumuzig -later known as Tammuz and much later as Adonis – is the shepherd-god who dies with the dying vegetation, but comes back to life, too, like the plants. The epithet of this god is SABA (staff holder, shepherd-prince), which recalls the name Csaba of the young prince of Hungarian legends, the immortal hero who always returns to help his people. His plant has the power to heal all wounds, too, probably being related to the evergreen Tree of Life, which is the symbol of Tammuz.

[The source of the Hungarian name of Spring, Tavasz.m/v common in Hungarian.]

Two Hungarian chronicles preserved a name taken from the ancient pagan religion: that of the god DAMACSEC. This corresponds obviously to DUMUZIG. After the conversion of the Hungarians to Christianity, most of the legends which made up the Magian religion of the forefathers, were discarded. Yet, the Csaba story survived. The figure of csaba was smuggled over, from mythology to history, by medieval chronicle writers, who rationalized the concept: “son of the great Ruler” and wrote that Csaba was son of Attila, king of the Huns. We are informed by those chronicles that the real Huns rallied around Csaba, who saved a small group when most of them were killed, led them to safety and bid them to prepare for reconquering Panonnia. Arpad, the historical figure of the Hungarian conquest in the ninth century A.D., is said to be a descendant of legendary Csaba. [Who married a Chorezmian woman in Scythia] It is well possible that in contrast with his father, Dar- Mah, the Great Stag, Saba was once thought of as the Little Stag or goat which would sound as Dar-Ge. This could account for later divine names in the Near East, like Tarku, Targitaos [ancestor of the Scythians], etc; ultimately for the names TURK and TURAN, this later being the land covered by the Norther Sky, the sky of Carpricorn as opposed to IRAN, covered by the Southern Sky (UR-AN), the sky of Leo. On the seal of the Kassites – a people of speech and race which is little known but of whom Moortgart remarks that they had many graphic ideas and symbols in common with the early Sumerians – we often see a divinity who may be Ea, or rather Marduk, the son of Ea. On these seals the Kassite cross appears frequently./28 We see also in the art of the mountain peoples, neighbors of Mesopotamia, horned animals defending the Tree of Life.

Sumerian thought deeply influenced Greek thought. We may wonder -like the British editor of Lenormant- whether the cult of EA had not something to do with the idea of Thales, that the first cause of all things was water? May not EA have influenced the use of the word EU “good”? [Hungarian YO] Had father Ea something to do with the concept of a later EU-piter? [The Japhet of the Bible?]

On the peripheries, far away in space and time, a snake cult, or a tree cult seems indicative of some cult of Ea and his family./29 But the staunchest survivor seems to be the stag cult.

Indeed, the Celtic divinity Cernunnos, so ably described by Phyllis Pray Bober, may well be one of Ea’s late manifestations./30 He is a god of waters, like Ea, wearing horns and a torque (the ring, left over after disappearance of the rod) like Sumerian divinities, and accompanied by a horned serpent, which is probably a variant of Ea’s horned fish. (The water streams of Ea, if they are carelessly drawn, may easily be mistaken for snakes.)

The Celts, however, were certainly not the last carriers of Mesopotamian traditions towards the West.

At the time of Rome’s decline, among the Eastern cults which invaded the empire must have been the cult of the divine stag, and his father, the divine bull (Enlil). Early Christianity found entrenched in Rome the Babylonian custom of celebrating New Year or winter solstice, with green wreathes, food and drink, song and dance, exchange of gifts, and people enacting the heavenly drama in masks of stags and bulls. The custom remained popular all over Europe. We have a series of documents from the fourth to the ninth centuries in which Church authorities of many countries forbid the people to have anything to do with these pagan practices./31 Condemned and vehemently denounced over many centuries, the originally benevolent stag divinity became in people’s minds the devil, with horns and cloven hoofs. This is why a diabolical stag, which leads its followers to destruction, appears in later European folklore. Such is the Finnish stag of Hiisi./32 [Hungarian IZ]

In a former study/33 I tried to explain how the Hungarians of the ninth century could bring with them a wealth of Babylonian traditions and the staunchly conserved hieratic language of the Magians. [Magy-ari]

It seems that they also brought along the cult of the benevolent stag divinity. The chronicles state that the Hungarians in their westward migration were guided by a white stag. According to the sense of the somewhat cryptic national traditions, the great mother of the Hungarians conceived the conquering duke in a hieros gamos with the divine eagle – (the eagle of Ea, the eagle of Lagash?). Her name is Emese. The corresponding Sumerian word Emes, according to Diemel, is “priestess of Ea”./34 She dreams about the future: a mighty river issuing from her womb covers distant lands…/35 Such a hieros gamos seems to be illustrated on a gold vessel said to be of Bulgaro-Turkish origin. We even find traces of the name Dara-mah./36 [A similar myth is also found in the Mede myth about the coming of a new dynasty]

The divinity to whom these signs point, was, it seems, regularly celebrated at the feast of Kar csony -the Hungarian word today for Christmas – of unexplained etymology. It seems to conserve in its first syllable the Sumerian GAR “turning” or “originating”. [Karacsony from the Scythian name of January or Karasanay. It also can mean Kara-acsony/aszony= Great Queen]

About 50 years ago a special ethnographic survey revealed in Hungary 179 villages which observed the tradition of “Reg”/37 or “Reg”l‚s” – the pagan or semi-pagan celebration of the New Year. [in song format, “Rig” means talk in Sumerian.] Gy. Sebesty‚n collected and published in one volume all the variants of the “Reg” ceremonies and songs; in a second volume he wrote a study on the probable origins and the European analogues of the custom/38. The essence of this custom is that on Christmas or New Year’s night/39 a group of singers go from house to house in the village, dressed in queer costumes or animal skins, often with blackened faces. They carry special instruments, drums, sticks with chains and other noise-makers, with which to rattle at the end of every verse they sing. They ask for permission to enter, and if admitted, they proceed to sing their song, which announces that God has descended upon the house, angels bringing a table covered with food and drink amid a great light: now is the time to feast! Most of the songs speak of a miraculous young stag, which comes through the clouds, from heaven, and brings the sun between its bright horns. In the song a lake appears full of fish, in the lake a round island rises/40, the miraculous stag descends upon it and feeds on the young reeds. In some variants, the stag speaks; he asks King Saint Stephen (the energetic uprooter of pagan traditions) not to hunt him, for he is not a wild animal, not a devil he is the Lord God’s messenger! After this, the most important part of the song is a series of blessings, which are all wishes for the prosperity and fertility of the family, their crops, their animals. In many places the singers arrange marriages; they mention together a girl and a boy who should get married. The young people take this seriously, it is the voice of public opinion. Every verse is followed by rattling, dancing and various forms of the following refrain: EJ REU REJTEM! This refrain, which has no meaning in Modern Hungarians, has been repeatedly analyzed for half a century and many suggestions have been offered to explain it, none of the satisfactory./41 The refrain may perhaps be a magic formula: Ea’s incantation. At the end of song, the singers levy a toll on the house; they ask for half of the cash the master of the house has, while from the mistress they ask a bountiful gift of foodstuffs./42 In fact they are satisfied with a much smaller gift, but the song may preserve the memory of ancient priestly demands. Today the group of the “reg”s” singers is usually a gang of young boys who keep up the old tradition for the sake of the gifts which may be collected./43 But the name “regos” points to an order of professionals which must once have performed the ceremony.

The “reg”s” name of the old royal entertainers is fully documented./44 May we add that, while 179 villages have conserved the old custom under its own special name, there are many more places where variants of the ceremony exist under different names: for example, the “turkaj r s”/45 or “szzgulyafordit s”/46.

[both names refer to bulls, cattle, the symbol of the great stag] Sebestyen [incorrectly] brings up many analogies in the solstice feasts of Poland, Rumania, and the Southern Slavic countries. While he recognizes expressly that the center of the territory where the custom still lives is Hungary, Sebestyen believes that the Hungarians inherited it from Rome, in a complicated way, through hypothetical Avar- Slovene Szekely-Hungarians. This explanation is scarcely acceptable. According to what we know of the Roman and the Western ceremonies, these were but faint echoes, a masquerading carnival with the masks of the Zodiac animals. The Hungarian ceremony was a serious religious rite -organic fertility magic- called by its true Mesopotamian name, which survived in Hungary only. It was a more complete and stronger variant which arrived in Europe at a time when the Western practice was dying. It did not come through Rome, but straight from the East, as the last conscious ritual in honor of the beneficent Great Stag god. Christian clerics made constant war against the pagan tradition and called it “the feast of the devil”/47- in Hungary, as elsewhere. Thus the ancient “Lord of the Deep” (the creator of man) gradually became the Lord of Hell.

Stags and birds remained popular subjects of art. But the Sumerian DARAMAH name of Enki survived only in the queer devil-names/48 DOROMO, DURUMO, DROMO, used all over Hungary to denote the Prince of Darkness/49.

Such was the end of the great and ancient bringer of light. In the decorative arts, the symbols of Ea live on independently. The stags who guard the Tree of Life reappear, but people have forgotten their meaning. The divine face goes into hiding, behind a camouflage of flowers. Only the keen glance discerns in Hungarian ornaments the round eyes, the eyebrows, the horns of the horned divinity. If you ask the Hungarian peasant woman what she embroidered on her pillowcase, she will answer: tulips. But look and you will see the ancient message of resurrection, the horns of the Great Stag and between them the disc of the victorious Sun. _______________________________ 1. Ea according to F. Lenormant: “dwelling, house” (Chaldean Magic, London, 1878, p 155). But in the Sumerian mind “to build” was related to create, “to generate”. Ea, “Beishlaf” F. Delitzsh, Sumerisches Glossar, Leipzig, 1914 p. 30. [Ea is also the name of river in Sumerian much like FinnUgor YU,YO as in fo-lyo=chief river].

2. A. Diemel: Sumerisches Lexicon II. 3. N 925.

3. Enki was preceded by Anu, the distant sky divinity of the universe and Enlil, the “Holy Wind”, the violent storm god. Ninmah, the great mother, goddes of birth-giving, preceded Enki, too. S. N. Kramer: Sumerian Mythology, Philadelphia, 1944, p. 63. [Again Sumir LIL = Hungarian LEL,LEHEL,LELEG..etc]

4.Kramer, op. cit. p. 63.

5. Kramer, op. cit. p. 70.

6. L. Heuzey: Le Sceau de Goudea. Revue d’Assyriologie, 1902, p.30.

7.Stephen Langdon: Semitic Mythology, p. 95, and L. Heuzey: Les Origines Orientales de l’Art, Paris, 1915, p. 156.

8. E. Douglas Van Buren: Symbols of the Gods in Mesopotamian Art. Annalecta Orientalia, Roma, 1945, p. 104.

9.Ibid. p. 155.

10. L. Heuzey: Le Sceau, de Goudea, p. 133.

11.H. Frankfort: Cylinder Seals, London, 1939, p. 122-23.

12.In one of the still not clear myths of creation we are told that after a rather complicated process of impregnating a series of divine ladies, Enki became the father of a variety of plants and trees. But being curious, he ate those plants, which reminds one of the later Saturn story. The goddess of birth cursed Enki for this and he almost died of the curse, but then the great lady had pity on him and began to bear again. That much is clear, that Father Enki, the personified Water, is the father of plants, too. Kramer, op. cit. p. 57. [In a desert of Messopotamia, plants are very dependant on irrigation indeed.]

13.Kramer, op. cit. p. 63.

14. Kramer, op. cit. p. 70.

15.L. Heuzey: Le Sceau de Goudea, p. 131.

16. Frankfort: op. cit. p. 123.

17.”Four corners of the world” are often mentioned. We may have inherited this concept in the four cardinal points of our compass, which are arbitrary. In connection with Ea’s throne, mostly square and bearing the signs of the cross we may recall that four strokes of the stylus made a sign which Delitzsch reads as NIG, “something, anything, treasure, possession”, connecting it with the identical written GAR, “to be, to become” (Op. Cit. pp. 80 and 200). Fossey gives to this sign the meanings: “four; to bring; to place”. (Syllabaire Cuneiforme, Paris, 1901, no. 509). Diemel reads it as NINDA and interprets it as having the meanings “four” and “bread box” (N. 597). The same sign is explained by J. Dineley Prince as having evolved from a square, with the meaning “building”. Prince believes that the sign has two pronunciations: GAR and NGA (p. 110). The same author explains an almost identical sign as “surround, totality, collect” pronounced GAAR, but the name of the sign is NINDA. He explains also the word NIGI as dwelling. The sign list of Stephen Langdon gives a square as the early sign for “totality, universe”. (p. 294). R. Jestin translates NIG as possession, treasury, luck everything: “toute chose”. (Le verbe Sumerien, Paris, 1943, p. 395). His words for GAR: “introniser, tetablir”. We may add to these data for consideration that in Hungarian for is NEGY, totality is MINDEN and the great feast of Ea, the winter solstice -today Christmas- is called (GAR-A-SU-MU) Karacsony. These data belong to the already copious literature on the “four corners”. /common in most ancient cultures/

18. Many years ago Lenormant believed that the fish-man Oannes mentioned by Berossus or the Euahannes of Hyginus are identical with Enki-Ea. (Freacois Lenormant: Chaldean Magic and Sorcery, p. 203). This view is still held by Charles Virolleaud (Legendes de Babylone, Paris, 1949, p. 17). We must rather believe that the two-faced messenger and doorkeeper, the door incarnate (Iauna) is the famous Oannes or later Janus, the divinity of entrance and beginning. January begins the year, fight after the feast of the winter solstice janus, the messenger of the water-god may be the prototype of the later Joannes, who christened with water before the God-man. The leader of the last pagan resistance in Hungary was called Janus, also. /IA is also the Hungarian root word for river/

19.These reminded L. Heuzey of the later myth about the columns of Hercules. Le. Sceau de Goudea, p. `33.

20.E. Douglas Van Buren: Symbols of the Gods, p. 46.

21.Talim meaning “twins or companions”. Frankfort, op. cit. p. 60. These twins may well be the heavenly Gemini, or the first Cherub angeles. KUR in Sumerian means “guarding” /becoming Cher- ub/ (Diemel, S. A., p. 147: Bewachung).

22.Lenormant’s reading of the name was HEA. On the names of Enki-Ea see Deimel: Akkadisch Sumerisches Glossar, p. 91. Among them are: Dingir Magur “the god boat”, NUDIMMUD “creator”, DINGIR KAR-RA-E and MUL GULA. In Sumerian times Enki, in Accadian times Ea was the generally used name. It may be supposed that these names were somehow related with the Sumerian root A. meaning both water and father, or generation. Deimel, when treating this root, mention its resemblance to Indoeur. AHWA “water”. (Sum. Akk. Gl. p. 1) A. Falkenstein writes: ” ..vielwehr kommt der Zeichen E in der alteren Zeit der Lautwert A zu…” (Die Sprache Gudeas. Roma. 1949, p. 25). These suggest one more addition to the innumerable attempts to explain the holy name JAHVE. Did not a very early common culture of many peoples possess the concept of a god-water or god father, the Creator? 23.DARA, DAR, TAR were in Sumerian generic names of the swift cervidae, ibex, mountain goat, deer, stag, perhaps mouflon. [a generic name in many language families for horned animals.]

24.”The ibex or ture (Capra Caucasica)… was also perhaps AYALUM in Babylonian, Hebrew AYAL… The Assyrian TURAKHU is translated Steinboch by Delitzsh. It is one of the names of Ea.. and forms part of four other names of Ea”. Ward: Cylinder Seals, p. 416.

25.A pre-Sargonid god of fertility, worshipped throughout the land, under a variety of epithets was represented everywhere in his warlike aspect by the “lion headed eagle”. Cf H. Frankfort: Early Dynastic Sculptured Mace-heads. A. Orientalia 1935, p. 105.

26.Creating one of the heraldic schemes, which Edith Porada has well called Mesopotamia’s legacy to later art. Mesopotamian Art in Cylinder Seals, N. Y. 1947.

27.Much material to illustrate the connection of art and astrology has been assembled by Prof. Willy Hartner, which he showed in a lecture: Early Traces of the Zodiac in the Near East. Chicago University. 1949.

28.Bildwerk und Volkstrum Vorderasiens zur Hethiterzeit. Leipzig. 1934, p. 12.

29.Ea was a divinity of the subterranean waters. Vladimir Georgiev, the Bulgarian decipherer of Minoan inscriptions, tells us that YA was the Minoan syllable expressed with what we call the Delta letter, and which corresponds to Latin ianus, underground passage. (Inscriptions Minoennes Quasi Bilingues Annuaire de l’Universite de Sofia. 1950, p. 21). The wise animal inhabiting the wet underground passages is the snake. And we are told: the mysterious prehistoric stone buildings of Western Europe occur invariably at spots where underground water currents are meeting (Charles Diot: Les Sourciers et les Monuments Megalithiques. Boug, 1935). Lenormant stated “that the serpent was one of the principal attributes and one of the forms of Hea”. (Chaldean Magic, p. 232). The snake of Ea seems to be somehow related to Marduk’s dragon. The dragon in Hungarian folklore is often called SARKANY-KIGYO “dragon-snake”.[which by the way is also often assosciated with rain, storms, and fertility!!]

30.American Journal of Archeology, Vol. 55. N. 1.

31.Enumerated by Sebestyen, op. cit. p. 291-304.

32.Hiisi is the spirit of the underworld, the underworld itself. Hiisi rides a vicious fish, who swims in the waters of Tuonela, the underworld. The fish tries to catch the souls of the deceased; he makes himself a body of plants and appears over the earth as stag to lure the living. Kalevala, 13th Runo.

33.Sumerian Affiliations, Washington, 1950.

34.”e. Priesterin Ea’s”. Sum. Akk. Glossar, p. 92.

35.Ea’s name may be hidden in the archaic Hungarian word for river: JO (pronounced YO). The idea of “good” is expressed in Hungarian by the word JO also. A royal edict of the XI-th century forbade Hungarians to celebrate at rivers, fountains and trees. But a belief in the fertility magic of water survived until modern times (East). [the Hungarian Easter custom of dunking of maidens.]

36.Konstantinos Porphyrogenetos, Byzantine emperor and writer, relates that in the X-th century a young prince of Hungary visited Constantinople -his name was Termatzous. (M. H. K. p. 128).

37. The Hungarian word REG corresponds to Sumerian RIG, “to speak, recite”. (Deimel, S.A., p. 191 Sprechen), also to Accadian RAGAHU (Deimel A. S., p. 395 schreien, rufen, beanspruchen); maybe to Sanscrit rk*, too -see Rig Veda.

38.Reg”s nekek, A. Reg”s”k. Budapest, 1902, Athenaeum.

39.In medieval centuries the year began on December 25th -only since the end of the 15-th century have Christmas and New Year been separated.

40. The house of Ea, the “mountain of Ea” emerged from the waters, too. (Falkenstein, op. cit. p. 25).

41.The first word: EJ or HEJ -an exclamation- contains perhaps the name EA or HEA. The second means: recitation. The third word: REJTEM may be related to Sumerian RI “to protect” – UH “magic” – Accadian RUGHTU “magic”. The refrain meaning: “EAs recitation: protective magic”.

42.In some variants the foods are enumerated: a large ox to roast, hazelnuts for stuffing and Perec cakes to hand on the horns of the ox. The perec is around hard cake, which has a hole like a doughnut and recalls the torques of Cernunnos. (pretzel)

43.Some texts of songs, photographs of the groups and descriptions of the ceremony in Vol. 3 of A Magyars g N‚prajza, Budapest, 1938. Egyetemi Nyomda, p. 357.

44.In a document of King Louis of Anjou, dated 1347. After the extinction of the national royal house, bad days must have come upon the former order of royal entertainers. The document states that the former property of the “Combibatorum Regalium condicionarium vulgariter Regus dictorum” the land called “Reg- teluk” is given now to a comes Lorand. K. Szab˘: A Kir lyi Reg”s”kr”l. Sz zadok, 1881, p. 553.

45.A group of boys go round leading ofne of their number in stags mask. Many variations of the custom are described in ethnographic publications.

46.The word means “turning the virgin cattle”. A group of men go from house to house on New Year’s night and make a noise with whips, horns and bells under the windows. This custom of several Hungarian villages in county Zempl‚n is described in Ethnographia, Budapest, 1926, p. 89. We may read there about the custom of Hajduszoboszlo county Hajdu: lighting fires and sounding cowbells at New Years night.

47.G. Helta: Dialogus. Kolozsv r, 1552, Introduction.

48. The name is documented in witch processes: witches confessing that they were in the “army of Dromo”. See also Ipolyi: Magyar Mythologia. The variant Doromo occurs in a play of Csokonai: Tempef”i. Listed as Durumo in the Magyar Etymologiai Sz˘t r with the remark, “etymology unknown”. (Gombocz Melich, Budapest, 1930, p. 1451).

49. B. Homan: a Hungarian scholar of German origin, contended that the stag of the Hungarian origin-myths was a loan from German traditions. ( A Magyar Hunhagyom ny ‚s HŁn -Monda. Budapest, 1932, p. 64-65). Berze-Nagy refuses to believe Sebesty‚ns good guess too, that the Hungarian stag is connected with the Capricorn of the Zodiac – he tries to prove that the Hungarian stag was female, could not have horns, and came from Eastern folklore and is of eschatologic character; it originated in the IX -the century A. D. We believe we have shown that Berze is right about the Eastern direction, but the stag is much older than a mere 1000 years. Being miraculous, it could well be female and have horns. We have pictures of such animals (e.g. Scythian art).

 

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