Magyar creation mythology

"The seeds of the Holy Sea broke out of the shell.

The eternal sea's waves are waving, and rolling.
Their waves are rocking and their foam is hissing.
There is no earth yet anywhere, but in the immeasurable
heights, above in his golden house, sits the great
heavenly father on his golden throne.

He is the old, white haired and white bearded god of eternity.
On his black robes there are thousands of sparkling stars.
Besides him sits his wife, the Great Heavenly mother.
On her white robes there are thousands of sparkling stars.
She is the ancient material of which everything is made.
They have existed from eternity in the past and will exist
for all eternity to come.

In front of them stands their beautiful golden sunbeam haired son,
the sun god Magyar. The boy asks from his father:
"When shall we create the world of the humans my dear father?".

The Eternal Sea just waves and rolls.
It's waves are rocking and it's foam is hissing.
The old gray haired heavenly father lowers his head .
He ponders the question a while and a little longer,
then he lifts his white haired head and talks to his son.

- My dear sweet golden haired son, let us create then
for the humans their own world, so that they, who will be
your sons shall have a place to live in.

- How shall we create such a world, my dear father?

- This is the manner in which we can create it:
In the depths of the waving, blue Sea of Eternity are the
sleeping eyes (seeds), sleeping seeds [szem=eye/small seed]
the sleeping Magya's [ Mag=seed, Magyar=man].

Descend therefore to the depths of the Great Sea and
bring up the sleeping seeds and dreaming eyes, so that
we can create a world out of them.

The son follows the direction of his father, he shakes
and turns himself into his image of a golden bird,
into a golden diving duck .
Then he flies down to the expanses of the Endless Sea.

He swims for a while on top of the water, and he is
rocked by the waves of the sea for a while.
He then dives down into the depths of the blue,
searching for the bottom, but was unable to reach it.
Out of breath he was forced to resurface.

He swam on top again, rocked by the waves,
he gathered his strength, for a long time.
After taking deep breaths he submerged again
into the blue depths, diving deeper, into the darkness,
slowly releasing his air, which like vibrating pearls
rose to the top and popped on the surface of the rolling sea.

However now his beak hit the bottom of the sea, into its sand.
He took some of it into his beak and like an arrow,
he shot up to the top of the water with it
From the surface of the sea bed, he brought up the
sleeping eyes (seeds), silver white "ügyücske" [small eyes?].
The sleeping eyes awoke, the sleepy eyes opened and grew up
and became living beings."

Excerpt of the legend of creation from the Hungarian
Saga of the Legend of the Stag,
as collected by Adorján Magyar.

Legend of the Wonder Stag

Csángo Hungarian "Rege" (Legend of the Wonder Stag)

"Boy stag of wonder, with horns of a thousand branches and knobs
Thousand branches and knobs and of a thousand bright candles
Amongst its horns it carries the light of the blessed sun
On it's forehead there is a star, on it's chest the moon
And it starts along the banks of the shining heavenly Danube
That it may be the messenger of heaven and bringer of news
About our creator and caring god"

One day, Ménrót (Nimrod), the ancestor of ancestors met a beautiful girl called Enéh. She gave birth to two sons, Hunor and Magor. One became the ancestor of the Huns, whilst the other was the ancestor of the Magyars. The children turned into strong, beautiful young men who often hunted together. Once, the brothers and their followers stumbled across a region they’d never visited before. The sun was already low in the western reaches of the sky and the warriors were considering turning around to follow their trail home before darkness reached them.

However, they cried out in amazement when a wonderful creature appeared in front of their eyes – a stag of such beauty they’d never witnessed before! It had a dazzling, snow-white mane which sparkled in the sun, with a huge pair of twisted antlers over eyes that glowed like diamonds. The noble beast wasted no time and disappeared into the bushes, its noise dying away.No commands were needed, since the riders stormed after the stag at once. All of them thought of the glory of felling such a beast. Hunor and Magor let the charge.They chased the beautiful creature for many leagues; the stag always appeared ahead of them once they thought they had lost track of it. Lo and behold, they soon found themselves in an unknown, wondrous region.The grass was soft as silk, the hills curved gently around them and the streams were sweet as wine…The men were amazed by the region, The Miracle Stag was never seen again, yet it had led them to a new homeland, where they could settle down and live their lives in plenty.

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