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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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Hungarian fairy tales (16 P) L. Hungarian legends (4 P) M. Hungarian mythology (2 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Hungarian folklore"
Dragons were part of Hungarian culture prior to the 18th century. According to their oldest, universal function, dragons symbolized the unity of the material and spiritual worlds. [1] They were later associated with natural phenomena. They either made or appeased the violent forces of nature. [2] They brought rainstorms and tornados.
Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun; Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird; Cinnamon bird – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon; Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death; Gagana – a miraculous bird with an iron beak and copper claws
The first, more traditional form of the lidérc is as a miracle chicken, csodacsirke in Hungarian, which hatches from the first egg of a black hen kept warm under the arm of a human. Some versions of the legend say that an unusually tiny black hen's egg, or any egg at all, may become a lidérc, or that the egg must be hatched by placing it in a ...