The hungarian mythology tells the story of the Hungarians- the Huns and Magyars from their origins. Beginning with the ancestry legends through the foundation of the Hun Empire. There are numerous storys about the leaders of Hun warriors and their skills, about Attila ( "Sword of God"),- the great leader of Huns, and conqueror sagas also.        One of my favorite stories is the Legend of the White Stag. This mythical story is based on historical facts - and show us the relationship among Sumerian,- Scythian,- Hun,- and Magyar nations.                      Nimród was the legendary ruler of ancient Sumeria. He was a great hunter, and father of two sons- Hunor    and Magor. They were also good hunters as the father, and they went often together to chase. Once they saw a fabulous white stag which they pursued with 100 men. The stag continuously eluded them and led them to a beautiful and bountiful land, where he finally disapear.      The Huns and Magyars were like enchanted of this land with its beautiful landscapes, rivers and mountains and they decited to stay a while- the hunt lasted finally seven days...This land was Scythia, where Hunor and Magor eventually settled with their people.      In the forthcoming night they get awoken of a strange music and song. They went out of their tents, through the forest, and arrived in a glades where the two daughters of King Dul were playing, dancing and singing with girlfriends. They were fairies, so the legend.          They took the girls immediately with, and weds then. Hunor and Magor with the daughters of King Dul, the other warriors with the other fairies.      So, the descendants of Hunor´s people were the Huns, and the descendants of Magor´s people were the Magyars. As they grew in strenght and numbers, first the Huns, and then the Magyars went on to conquer new lands...        Just as in Sumerian and Scythian mythology, in Hungarian mythology, the stag is also seen as a mystical being with magical powers and whose role was to indicate the will of God and to guide the Hungarians accordingly.           The White Stag or the Magical Stag represents in the Hungarian mythology the Light of the Heaven, or the Will of God. Symbol of the Sun on the Earth. The Sun was the symbol of God - consider that the old Sumerian, Scythian and Hungarian were in belief kindda Sun Adoring people. So we may say that the White Stag lead the two heroes back to the Old Home.      There exists three versions of the White Stag Legend,-in thisone after they were grew in strenght and numbers they went out to conquer new lands. They arrived to Pannónia, which was the name of the other side of the Danube in the Roman time. In the second version of the legend they followed the White Stag ( in magical colours shining animal) to lands of wild Persia, and from there started the conquest. And they arrived to Pannónia where the people were "speaking their language". In the third version appear only Hunor, whom "shows" the White Stag the vision to conquer Pannónia. He dies in the meantime, but his successor Kattar (Kádár) accomplish the assignment.           Nimród. (Nimrud,Nimur,Nemere) The mediaeval chronicle denote Nimród as the legendary ancestor of Hungarian. First time appears Nimród in writings of Kézai Simon,- court cleric of Kún László about 1280 in the Gesta Hungarorum. 201 years after the "great flood"         Nimróds name appear also in the Bible- as the descendant of worst son of Noah- Kám. "Nimród was the first dominator on Earth, great hunter and leader in the face of God, to his empire belongs Bábel, Erek and Akkád, som the Sínar- Land as well." The modern history takes the Nimród- legend as a "nice tale", and accuse Kézai that he picked a name of the Bible to have an adoptable biblical ancestor. Anyway, he was a personal cleric in the King´s court, and as katholic churchman not able to do that, to confront the church. Old Arabic legends confirms the affirmations about Bábel and Nimród. Under the Mesopotamian and Finn- Ugor God names appear Nimrud as Wind/ Storm God: " "Nimrod the ancestor of Hungarians, Huns and various Iranian groups according to Hungarian mythology." on other pages: "...          Similar to other European nations (expl. Slav), Hungarian haven´t remained specifically writings about the mythology. The reconstructions follows through exploring and analysing the Hungarian history, legends, tales, prayers, the old belief, folklore and the demographical areas. By reason of the diverse sources are the datas and facts not equal, but whithout regarding all disposal sources would it make bare sense to follow the fountain of Hungarian nation. Lets see what Marcell Jankovics writes about:   On the origins of the Hungarians by Marcell Jankovics      According to the mediaeval chronicles, Magyar (Magor), the ancestor of the Hungarians, and his twin brother, Hunor, were born of a young deer. Eneh, the name of the legendary progenitor, means "deer" in Early Hungarian (the word is üno in Modern Hungarian). The story, which relates the birth of the nation and the establishment of a homeland, is embedded in an account of a deer hunt, an event featured in the heritage of the peoples of Europe and Asia, albeit in many different versions. In the oldest one, preserved by our Finno-Ugrian relations in the Urals, the protagonists are not even men. Instead, they are totemistic animals, one a bird of prey, and the other a wolverine. Together they pursue and catch a mythical deer racing across the sky, and then mate with her. Thus were born the two peoples that henceforth would live side by side in moieties (fraternal exogamy).      The passage presented here is taken from the so-called Képes Krónika (Illustrated Chronicle), a beautifully illustrated book made in the 1370s on the orders of King Louis I of Hungary. Drawing on the texts of earlier chroniclers (though often disputing their opinions), its author (Márk Káldi), sets the story in a civilised period, starting in the fifth century A. D. This is a time when forebears of the Hungarians moved to the grassy steps north of the Black Sea. This area now forms part of southern Russia.      Scholars think that it was from Hunor and Magor, the two brothers in the legend that the Hungarians acquired the names by which they are known. "Hunor" gave rise to the name of the Onogur-Bulgarian people and hence to "Hungarus", "hongrois" and "Hungarian". "Magor", on the other hand, produced "magyar", the name used by Hungarians to describe themselves.                        But together with this legend, rooted not only in mythology but also in historical fact, there is an analogous story, one written in the stars. Even today several versions of it survive among the Lapps and the peoples of Siberia, distant relatives of the Hungarians. A reference to this is the disputed name of the legendary forefather mentioned at the beginning of the text, namely that he was called Magog, not Nimrod. In the older Hungarian chronicles he appears as Ménrót, a corruption of the Biblical Nimrod, a name ultimately stemming from Ninurta, the Assyrian-Babylonian equivalent to the constellation of Orion. Orion also features as an ancestral father in Lapp myth, in which the Celestial twins - in another context the Sun and the Moon - chase their antlered mother across the Milky Way. The mother was seen in Cassiopeia, Perseus and Auriga, which taken together indeed conjure up the image of a stag or deer. It is worth mentioning that in the Hungarian folk tradition the nation's guiding star was Cassiopeia, the stag. And, for the sake of comparison, in the Christian stag legends the hunters always see an image of Christ between the antlers of the stag they are pursuing. ........      Hunor and Magor, the ancestors of the Hungarians, were not the sons of Nimrod. Nimrod was the son of Cush, who was the son of Ham, who was cursed by Noah. Therefore, the Hungarians could not have sprung from the sons of Japheth, as is said by St Jerome; the less so since Nimrod never dwelt in the region of the River Tanais, which is in the east but by the ocean sea. As the Sacred Scriptures and the fathers of the Church say, the Hungarians descend from Magog, the son of Japheth. Japheth, according to the chronicle on the eastern nations written by St Sigilbert, bishop of Antioch, entered the land of Evilat fifty-eight years after the Flood with his wife Eneh who bore Magor and Hunor, after whom the Magyars and Huns were named.      Then it happened one day that they went out hunting, and a deer appeared before them in the wilderness. It fled from them into the marshes of Maeotis, with the hunters in pursuit. When she disappeared without trace, they sought her for a long time, but were quite unable to find her. As they roamed through the marshlands they found them suitable for grazing flocks and herds.        They returned to their father, and, having received his permission, they entered the Maeotis marshlands with their animals, and there they stayed. The region of Maeotis borders upon Persia, and with the exception of a narrow ford, is surrounded by sea. It is abundant in rivers, vegetation, forests, game and birds. It is difficult to get into and difficult to get out. Having thus arrived in the marshes of Maeotis, they settled there at ease for five years.      In the sixth year, however, they ventured out. In the wilderness they chanced upon the wives and children of Bereka's sons in their tents who were without their menfolk and were celebrating the feast of the horn. At that moment, as it happened, they were dancing to music. They abducted these women and children swiftly along with their animals, and carried them to the marshes of Maeotis. This was the first pillage after the Flood.      Thus it happened that in the raid they carried off among the girls two daughters of Dul, prince of the Alans. These two they took as wives. Hunor one and Magor the other. From these women sprang all the Huns and Magyars. While they dwelt in their home among the marshes, they multiplied and began to grow into a mighty nation, so that the land could neither hold them nor sustain them.        They therefore sent scouts from there into Scythia to spy on that region with great cunning. Then they travelled to that land, with all their children and property, in order to settle there. Upon entering that land, they found it inhabited by Alplozures, who are today called Ruthenes. This population they killed or drove out and, as we know, despite their neighbour's disposition, possess this realm to this day.      Scythia is a region situated in Europe and stretches eastwards. On one side it is bounded by the Northern Sea and on the other by the Riphaeus Mountains; to the east is Asia and to the west is the River Etel, namely the Don. Its native peoples live a life of ease, and are given to vanities. Their sexual behaviour dishonours nature, and they favour plundering. By complexion, they are generally dark rather than white.      Although Scythia is a country with one name, it is divided into three principalities: Baskiria, Dentia and Magoria. It has 108 provinces, distributed among clans sprung from the loins of the 108 sons of Hunor and Magor who went from the marshes of Maeotis to Scythia. In the east Scythia is bordered by the land of the Juranians, beyond is Tartary, and finally is Mongolia, where Europe ends. Beyond the southern horizon dwell the Chorasmians, and there Ethiopia is to be found, which is called India Minor. Further on, between the south and River Don stretches the impassable desert. The air of this region is intemperate. Different kinds of snake breed there, along with frogs as large as pigs, basilisks, many venomous animals, tigers and unicorns.        The River Don is a great river and rises in the land of Scythia. It is called the Etel by the Hungarians. It flows through the snow-capped mountains bordering the land of the Scythians, then changes its name to the Don. Around it to the south live the clans of the Kytans and Alans. The river finally flows in three branches to the Round Sea.      Another very great river, the Thogata, rises in the land of the Scythians. It flows through desolate woods, marshes and snow-topped mountains where the sun never shines before reaching Hircania and here it turns towards the Northern Sea. Scythia is said to be 360 miles in length and 190 in width.       Nimrud the old Sumerian storm god (ninurta) in Assyria was later associated with the sun ,- heat and in Hungarian mythology the father of various nations. The other meanings were more because of other Mesopotamian influence."In the Bible Nimrod is the son of Kush, who supposedly is the ancestor of the north Africans, but actually he wasn't, since he is never known to set foot in Africa, but instead lived in North Mesopotamia and then later in south-central Asia.(Evilath) Unlike the Hebrew Bible, the Sumerian creation myths don't talk of 3 patriarchs who are the founders of the 3 language types of Mesopotamia, (Shem, Cush, Japhet) since there were originally probably one, as they claimed. So who is this KUSH, in the Bible? I doubt Nimrod's father Kush has anything to do with the North African Cush, who lived south of Egypt and spoke a totally alien language to those of early Mesopotamia and Egypt..." ,starts Nimród with all his nations to build a tower (tower of Bábel)in intention to see the God of Ábrahám. After the "language-bafflement" he moved out to the land of Evilát. His wife- Enéh bear him two sons, twins- Hunor and Magor. From this sons of Nimród comes the Huns and the Magyars.       Hungarian Mythology