Nagy Sándor Dr.: the Forgotten Cradle of the Hungarian Culture
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THE FORr.OTTEAI CRADLE OF THE HUNGARIAN CULTURE SANDOR NAGY SANDOR NAGY The Forgotten M I e of the Hnogariao OnltDre Translated by Laszlo and Margaret Botos Patria Publishing Co. Ltd., Toronto, Canada 1973. Copyright by A. F. Nagy, 5445 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, 111. 60640 October, 1973 Printed in Canada by Patria Publishing Co. Ltd. 6 Alcina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6G 2E8 CONTENTS Translators’ Preface .................................................................... 9 Foreward: From the Author .................................................... 12 Ch. I. Study of Settlement ......................................... 14 Ch. II. The Most Ancient Remains in the Land of the Magyars ............................................................ 17 Ch. III. Population of the Carpathian Basin .............. 23 Ch. IV. That Ancient People who laid the Founda tion of our Language — Where did they come from and When? ................................................ 25 Ch. V. The Ancient Settlements of the Danube Valley ................................................................ 27 Ch. VI. Points of Interest about Ancient Settlements 31 Ch. VII. The Language of that Ancient People .......... 38 Ch. VIII. The Culture of the Ancient People.................. 69 Ch. IX. The Pannonians ................................................ 83 Ch. X. The Pannonian Population in Roman Times 88 Ch. XI. Other Peoples .................................................... 90 Ch. XII. Settlers and Conquering Peoples .................. 94 Ch. XIII. The Formation of the language of the Medie val Conquerors ................................................ 99 Ch. XIV. The Huns .......................................................... 103 Ch. XV. The Avars ............................................................ 108 Ch. XVI. The Franks ........................................................ I ll Ch. XVII. The Szeklers (Szekely) ..................................... 114 Ch. XVIII. The Conquering Magyars ................................. 130 Ch. XIX. The Ethnic origins of the Conquering Ma gyars ................................................................... 135 Ch. XX. An Interesting Example of the Vogul Theo rists' Typical Distortion ..................................... 141 Ch. XXI. What did Constantine Porphyrogenitus write of the Conquering M agyars?.............................. 148 Ch. XXII. Where does the Magyar name come from?.... 151 Ch. XXIII. Where did the Megyeri Tribe Originate from? 152 Ch. XXIV. The Eroneous Beliefs about the Magyar People’s Vogul descent ..................................... 156 Ch. XXV. The Law of Heredity ......................................... 169 Ch. XXVI. The Conquering Magyars' Race and Language 172 Ch. XXVII. The Religion of the Conquering Magyars....... 174 Ch. XXVIII. The Accomplishments of the Conquest.......... 176 Ch. XXIX. Were the Battles of the Conquering Magyars Robber\' Campaigns? ......................................... 178 Ch. XXX. The Social Elements in Magyarciszag after the Conquest ........................................................ 183 Ch. XXXI. The Class Structure of the Conquered People 190 Ch. XXXII. Documents written in the Language of the Common People ................................................ 198 Ch. XXXIII. What do the People's Names at the Time of Arpad prove? ................................................ 205 Ch. XXXIV. The Teaching of Comparative Linguistics .... 211 Ch. XXXV. The Relationship between the Magyar and Slavic Languages ................................................ 221 ( h XXXVI. Halotti besz^d (Funeral Speech) .................. 234 Ch. XXXVII. Great Hungaria ................................................ 244 Ch XXXVTII. Flic Magyar People's Fight for their Existen ce and Independence in the New Homeland 247 Ch XXXIX. A German Feudal State ..................................... 251 ( I XI. The Recovery of National Independence ....... 254 ( fi. XLL The Failure of the German Attacks .............. 258 C-inclusion .................................................................................... 262 TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. The Sumerians, who were living in Mesopotamia in the third and second millennium B.C. are generally believed to have scat tered and died out after the Akkadians and Assyrians attacked their cities and drove them from their arable lands. Their lan guage is also supposed to have gone out of use. In this book, Dr. Sandor Nagy states and convincingly proves that the Magyar (1) (Hungarian) language and people are di rectly descended from the Sumerians. He does not take his ma terial from books already written, but presents his readers with the results of fifty years of research and offers his conclusions. At the beginning of this century, when the writer was a stu dent at the University of Budapest, Ede Somogyi, a Sumerolog- ist called his attention to the Sumerian-Magyar relationships and I he similarities between the two languages. From that time on, 1)1-. Nagy made a thorough study of the Sumerian language. He • ilso studied the Codices of the Arpad dynasty, (2) sixty-three volumes written in Latin, from which he takes numerous examp- U's of settlement names (3) which can be analyzed with the help of llio Sumerian language. (4) At the same time as he was studying the Arpad Codices, li<‘lvv(‘on the two World Wars, he traveled extensively through the ol Trianon Hungary (5) so, besides the written historical I'I oofs, he was able to collect geographical, linguistic and ethno- li'i'ic.il data to prove his statements. To this end, he researched ilir IVIiisoum exhibits of Budapest and other important cities and I If himsolf made archeological excavations. 1)1 IMagy successfully proves the Sumerian origin of the Ma- I V.II (Hungarian) language and people and in so doing, disproves the currently believed theory, which is taught in schools in Europe and all over the world, that the Hungarians are descended from the primitive Vogul people who live in Siberia, and that the Hun garian language belongs to the Finn-Ugrian language family. This theory was introduced by the Hapsburgs after the Revo lution of 1848. The Hapsburgs, seeking revenge, committed spi ritual murder, in that they tried to break the spirit of the Magyar people by insisting that they learn of their lowly origins and be come ashamed of their barbaric ancestors. This theory is ling- guistically weak in that the relationship is based on two-hundred cognates in the Finnish language, whereas in recent years more than two-thousand Magyar (Hungarian) words have been traced to the Sumerian language. Dr. Sandor Nagy’s book is not a dry, linguistic study, but it offers the average Hungarian an interesting, readable account of his ancient origins. In translating this book we have kept as near to the original as was possible and we hope that this trans lation will arouse in the English-speaking Hungarian emigrants a pride in their ancient heritage and a desire to research this subject further in order to overturn the old theories and recog nize the ancient forefathers of the Magyar people, — the Sume- rians. We are greatly obliged to Elizabeth Bielski Pozo for giving the manuscript its final shape. L.B. and M.B. FOOTNOTES TO TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. All footnotes are translator’s notes unless otherwise stated. 1. In this translation, the adjective Magyar means Hungarian and is used to describe anything Hungarian. The noun Magyar means Hungarian(s). The ancient Magyars or the ancient forefathers are those descended from the Su- merians, who were living in the Carpathian Basin at the time of Arp^d’s invasion, the Magyar Conquest, which is often referred to as the Conquest of A.D. 896. The Conquer ing Magyars are Arpdd’s army, descended from the Megye- ri tribe, who gave their name to the country — Magyar- orszag (Hungary) — and to the Magyar people and their language. Modern Magyar is the Hungarian language spo ken today. Old Magyar (O.M.) is the language derived from the Sumerian, and its name is taken from the conquer ing Magyars. 2. The Arpad dynasty was the ruling house of Hungary from A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1301, named after Arpad the leader of the conquering Magyars. The Arpdd Dynasty: 1000-1038 Saint Istvdn (Stephen) 1044-1046 Peter Orseolo 1041-1044 Aba Samuel 1047-1060 Endre I (Andrew I) 1060-1063 Bela I 1063-1074 Solomon 1074-1077 Geza I 1077-1095 Saint Ldszlo 1095-1116 Kilman 1116-1131 Istvan II 1131-1141 Bela II 1141-1162 G§za II 1162-1172 Istvan III 1102-1163 Laszlo II 11(52-1163 Istvan IV 1172-1196 Bela III 1196-1204 Imre 1205 Laszlo III 1205-1235 Endre II 1235-1270 Bela IV 1270-1272 Istvan V 1272-1290 Laszlo IV 1290-1301 Endre III The Arpdd Codices were manuscripts written during the Arpdd dynasty, referred to in the text by number of Chap ter, volume and page, e.g. (Ch.I.3.65) This is from the do cument collection of Gyorgy Feher: Codex Diplomaticus Ecclesiasticus ac Civilis Regni Hungariae. Gustav Wenzel’s document files of the Arpad Era are quoted as W.Volume and page, e.g. (W.III.520). The documents from Hazai Ok- manytar of the Arpdd Era are quoted as: H.O. volume and page, e.g. (H.0.V.13). 3. All place-names (settlements, cities, counties) in the trans lation are Hungarian, unless otherwise stated. 4. In the text, Sumerian words appear in boldface type, Hun garian words in double quotation marks and English trans lations of Hungarian words in single quotation marks. Note that there is a pronunciation chart at the end of the book, 5. “Trianon