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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; In other projects ... Help. Legendary creatures from Hungary. Pages in category "Hungarian legendary creatures" The following 7 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Hungarian legendary creatures (7 P) T. Tengriism (3 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Hungarian mythology"
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 ...
As the 20th century came to a close, another version of dragons has transpired in postmodern Hungarian literature: the image of the violent beast transformed into a wise and emotional being. Ervin Lázár's Hétfejű Tündér introduces the readers a tale of a boy, whose sickness can only be cured by killing the seven-headed dragon.
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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.
The Hussite Bible is the only written vestige of Hussitism in Hungary. The book – or at least most of it – was translated by Tamás Pécsi and Bálint Újlaki.Both Pécsi and Újlaki had attended the University of Prague in Bohemia between 1399 and 1411, where they got to know the concepts of Jan Hus, a reformist Christian theologian.