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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).
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Help. Legendary creatures from Hungary. Pages in category "Hungarian legendary creatures" The following 7 pages are in this ...
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It is often said in Hungarian mythology that God (Isten in Hungarian) had help from Ördög when creating the world. [ 2 ] Ördög is often thought to look somewhat like a satyr or faun , a humanoid with the upper torso of a human male and lower portions of a goat; usually pitch-black, with cloven hooves , ram-like horns , a long tail ending in ...
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(As with Hungarian dragons and their heads, the number of legs may appear as other mythical numbers and the coat as other noble metals (in the usual order copper, silver and gold); a higher number/nobler metal implying greater power.) According to some experts, the táltos horse is a symbol of the drum of the táltos. They heated it over fire ...
Besides, perhaps the most well-known instance for the image of the new Hungarian dragon is Süsü, created by István Csukás, who was a prominent figure in the lives of Hungarian children. Not only is he a sensitive character, but also an exceptional dragon among his own kind as he has only one head, which leads him to his outcast status.
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".