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The Legend of the Turul Hawk

by Fred Hamori

Background

The "Turul" is a giant mythical falcon, a messenger of god in Hungarian mythology, who sits ontop of the tree of life along with the other spirits of unborn children in the form birds. She is oftenreplaced by the sun in illustrations of the tree of life. (The word "Turul" is common with theTurkic "Togrul". In the Altaic languages it is a vulture, and in Sumerian it is called the im-"Dugud" eagle, which is a lion headed giant bird.) In Asian legends the Turul brings the

priesthood first to the woman Emeshe (EMESH means priestess in Sumerian, Anton Diemel,"Sumerich-Akkadisches Glossar, pg 92) and her son by causing her to be fertile. They and theirdescendants are the first priests (KHAM), who can read the will of god from the heavens and

stars. The Turul is also the symbol of the house of Atilla as well as the Hungarian rpd dynastykings of Hungary. The following mythical story explains the origin of this dynasty and itssymbolism. (The rpd name can be found from ancient Egypt, as the name of early dynastykings "Erpat" to northern Mesopotamia, in the Mede rulers Arpaxad and cities of Arpad, fromancient times. It can also be simply from rpa meaning barley?)

According to the legend of origin of the rpd clan, it was the divine intervention of god, throughhis messenger the Turul, which founded the royal family. The following is a recounting of thelegend by the chronicler "Anonymous", the royal scribe of King Bla III (1172-1196).(Bla=Bay-la)

"In the year of our lord 819, gyek, the descendant of King Magog (The Scythian King Magog ofthe Bible lived in Northern Mesopotamia during the reign of the Assyrian king, Ashur-banipal,according to surviving Assyrian records.) and a royal leader of the land of Scythia, married thedaughter of Ened-Belia, whose name was Emeshe. From her was born their first son lmos.(Inmodern Hungarian the name lmos means sleepy/dreamer, the ancient Ugrian form of the worddream however was ADOM, ADAM. The Kiev Chronicles called him Olma.)

"The boy obtained his name because of the unusual circumstances of his birth, when his mother ina vision saw the great Turul descend from heaven on her and made her fertile. A great springwelled forth from her womb and began flowing westward. It grew and grew until it became atorrent which swept over the snow covered mountains into the beautiful lowlands on the other

side. There the waters stopped and from the water grew a wondrous tree with golden branches.She imagined famed kings were to be born from her descendants, who shall rule not here in theirpresent lands but over that distant land in her dreams, surrounded with tall mountains."

lmos, the new son, was born to Emeshe and he grew up to be a dark complexioned, handsomeblack-eyed young man, who was slender and very tall. He became a good-natured, generous andwise leader and a brave warrior. When he reached maturity he became the greatest and most

powerful and the wisest of the leaders of Scythia, and for that reason, everyone in the countrysought his advice on matters of importance. When he became an adult, he married the daughter ofa prominent family and from their union was born their son rpd, whom he brought to Pannonia[the ancient name of Hungary] and who became the military commander-in-chief of the invasion

and the elected king of the united nations of Megyer, Kari, Kasi, Jen, Krt-Gyarmat, Nyk,Tarjn.(The tribal-national names survived in various place names in Hungary) lmos was a greatdiplomat who later made alliances with the Greeks, the Kazar tribes to which the Hungarians were

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once allied, with and the Kabars tribes who also quit the Kazars and joined the Hungarians. TheKazars tried to keep the Hungarians from leaving their alliance and turned the eastern PetchegenTurks.

"Since the land of Scythia became too crowded with the many other local nations, and the landcould no longer support them all nor accept them after their death, they decided to leave." Therewere also growing pressures from the expanding Mohamedan empires toward the south, pushingrefugees from these areas, including Magyar clans, from the Caucasus Mtns. (The battles of AlLaks 739-740 AD, and their leader "Upas Ibn Madjar" are refered to by the Arab historiansBaladhuri and Bal'ami. Discussed in Victor Padnyi's book, Dent-magyaria) Religious rivalryamong the Kazars, who had large Muslim, Christian, and Jewish as well as the ancient Magian,and Shamanic faiths represented also caused the disunity of the empire, which exhibited freedomof religion unheard of anywhere else in this age.

"The seven chiefs of the seven nations who to this day are called the Hetumoger (7 Magyars)could no longer bear to live in their crowded and troubled lands and decided to leave theirancestral homeland and go where there was bountiful land. They selected the land of Pannonia,

because it was a good rich land and was once the land of Atilla the ancestor of lmos, the fatherof rpd."

"The seven rulers fully realized that the only way to succeed in the difficult venture was to uniteunder a common ruler and commander. Therefore with common will and free choice they electedlmos as their leader and guaranteed the leadership to him and his descendants. They told him,"From this day forward we select you as our leader and lord and whichever way your fortuneleads, we shall follow you." After their custom each of the rulers cut themselves on their arm andlet a small amount of their blood mix in an urn, representing the unification of their nations, andthey made a solemn oath of loyalty and devotion to their new unity. They believed that all suchoaths shall be observed until their death, saying: "As long as we shall live, as well as the lives of

our descendants, we and our descendants shall be led by Almos and his descendants." The secondpart of the oath was as follows: "All the property we shall obtain in common, we shall shareequally." The third part of the oath was: "If any of the descendants should be disloyal to the rulerand cause discord among the ruler and his relatives, then shall their blood pour out as ours doesnow as we make the bond of blood with you." The fifth part of the oath was as follows: "If anyoneof the descendants breaks this oath should he be forever cursed."

They organized and prepared for their long journey with great care and moved from the land ofScythia, which many early Hungarians called Hetumagyar, in memory of the original ancientScythia on the borderlands of Persia. (In the ancient legends of Persia, the Zend Avesta, theancient Scythian nation of "Haetumat" was located in Sakastan "scythia" east of Persia.) and

moved to the "land between the rivers", which in the old language was known as "Atil-kz". Atilor Etel meant great river or water.)

"This was their temporary homeland for several years until they thoroughly scouted thesurrounding lands and made alliances with their new neighbors." The Russian Kiev Chroniclesrecount this period well since this city was part of their country for a long time and, for a period

before the occupation of Hungary, it was the residence of lmos. The chronicle continues: "Theirnext step was to prepare for the occupation of the future homeland and the unification with theirwestern Hungarian relatives the "White Hungarians", who settled in Hungary with the Avars.Some say the late Avars were in fact Hungarians who settled in 670AD, and that is why some ofthe Hungarian Chronicles give this year as the year of settlement rather than the date of the

Magyar confederations date of arrival in 896 AD. (Lszl Gyula, Ketts Honfoglals, Budapest1978, pg 83)

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