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The World Tree carved on a pot. Amongst the modern religions, Hungarian mythology is closest to the cosmology of Uralic peoples. In Hungarian myth, the world is divided into three spheres: the first is the Upper World (Felső világ), the home of the gods; the second is the Middle World (Középső világ) or world we know, and finally the underworld (Alsó világ).
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In Hungarian folk tales táltos are common, such as Göncöl and Kampó. Kampó was said to have had an "ice body" ( jégtestű ) and was short with thick legs. He lived in Temesvár (present-day Timișoara ), ate lunch in Buda at the same table as King Matthias and was always poorly dressed.
[dubious – discuss] In Hungarian mythology, he was the third son of Arany Atyácska (Golden Father) and Hajnal Anyácska (Dawn Mother), the main god and goddess. He had many siblings, including his two brothers: Napkirály (King Sun) and Szélkirály (King Wind).
The myth was also employed by later writers, most notably chief Justice and jurisconsult István Werbőczy, who used it to extol the Hungarian nobility in his highly influential collection of Hungarian customary law, the Tripartitum (completed 1514, first published 1517). According to Werbőczy, the Hungarians, as descendants of Hunor and Magor ...
Pages in category "Hungarian legendary creatures" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Sárkány (mythology) T. Turul; V. Vadleány
The Hungarian language word turul meant one kind of falcon and the origin of the word is currently thought to be most likely Turkic (Clauson 1972: 472. [1]) (Róna-Tas et al. 2011:2: 954-56) [2]), which is the language of origin of over 10% of words in modern Hungarian lexicon and the exonym "Hungarian" and the word "Hun".
égig érő fa. The égig érő fa ("sky-high tree"), also called életfa ("tree of life"), világfa ("world tree"), or tetejetlen fa ("tree without a top"), is an element of Hungarian shamanism and native faith, and a typical element of Hungarian folk art and folk tales, and also a distinct folk tale type.