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Avraham Revello
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The
curiosities described here have to be regarded as purely speculative
since there is a complete lack of evidence to establish with certainty
any actual relationship. These weird coincidences are by no means
relevant to propose any creditable theory unless overwhelming evidences
would be discovered in the future (which is quite unlikely).
These mysterious remote connexions
have to do with some linguistic affinities and other features existing
in some Native American peoples: being the Bering Strait crossing
theory the most creditable one about their origins, and being also
their anthropological and biological features quite close to the
Eurasian peoples, we can assume that some of the Scythians and other
groups reached the Americas through the frozen Arctic and originated
new ethnic entities. Consequently, it is not excluded that among these
migrations there might have been also any Sumerian-related group, or at
least, some "ziqqurat-builder" people.
The interesting curiosity regards one of these outstanding civilizations of America, known as Maya ‒ a word that may have the same root as Magyar ‒, whose myth of origins deals with the twin heroes who were hunters ‒in the same way as Hunor and Magor‒, and whose names have significant meanings: Hun-Apu and Xbalenque. These twins were born to a virgin princess who was spitten by a skull hanging on a branch of a tree, that story recites the virgin birth stories like the Turul legend or the conception of Saint Mary. The name Hun-Apu, by chance, has an exact meaning also in Hungarian, that is "Hun-Dad", apu being the vocative of endearment for father, that is like dad in English, therefore, it would be understood by a modern Hungarian as "Hun-father". The meaning in Kiche (the Maya language) is anyway interesting: Hun-Apu may be translated as "Master Magician", exactly what in the ancient Middle East was known as the Rab-mag. His brother Xbalenque had a meaningful name as well: "Jaguar", that is the American counterpart of the leopard: is it only a coincidence that Nimrod, the mighty hunter, was the lord of the leopards?
By analogy, the Maya twin heroes appear to have a Mesopotamian origin related to Nimrod, and also by analogy, the Maya as well as Sumerian-Babylonians built ziqqurats with the same religious purposes. Another curious fact is that the term "Hun" is very frequent in the composition of Maya mythological names found in the Popol-Vuh, like Hun-Hunapu, Vukub-Hunapu, Hunbatz, Hunchouen, etc. Did they keep the secret of the ancient origin of this term, that became the designation of a people in Asia? Other elements of the Maya mythology suggest that they indeed came from Asia through the Bering Strait: their account of origins relates about a time in which the people were confused because they were unable to understand the speech of each other, and so they had to leave their dwelling place according to the language groups. Along their journey they had to overcome many difficulties, crossing high mountains and even the sea, that by miracle was divided to allow them pass through (!). The Maya legend of origins refers also to the darkness where they lived before the sun appeared, and in the beginning its light was faint, concepts which may be explained by tracing back to their passage through the cold north in their migration from Asia, remembered by their ancestors as the land without sun in winter, and with a feeble sunlight in summer.
As it was said before, we do not pretend to assert any actual connexion between the Hungarians and the Maya, which would be hazardous, but only to mention these coincidences as curiosities. Undoubtedly, the Babylonian myth of Nimrod has been transferred to the mythology of every people all over the world, to which the Maya are not an exception; what we found interesting are these particular characteristics: the ziqqurat, the twin hunters and the meaning of their names, the recurrence of the term "hun", the designation Maya and some other subtle similarities that may be found when learning about their traditions.
The interesting curiosity regards one of these outstanding civilizations of America, known as Maya ‒ a word that may have the same root as Magyar ‒, whose myth of origins deals with the twin heroes who were hunters ‒in the same way as Hunor and Magor‒, and whose names have significant meanings: Hun-Apu and Xbalenque. These twins were born to a virgin princess who was spitten by a skull hanging on a branch of a tree, that story recites the virgin birth stories like the Turul legend or the conception of Saint Mary. The name Hun-Apu, by chance, has an exact meaning also in Hungarian, that is "Hun-Dad", apu being the vocative of endearment for father, that is like dad in English, therefore, it would be understood by a modern Hungarian as "Hun-father". The meaning in Kiche (the Maya language) is anyway interesting: Hun-Apu may be translated as "Master Magician", exactly what in the ancient Middle East was known as the Rab-mag. His brother Xbalenque had a meaningful name as well: "Jaguar", that is the American counterpart of the leopard: is it only a coincidence that Nimrod, the mighty hunter, was the lord of the leopards?
By analogy, the Maya twin heroes appear to have a Mesopotamian origin related to Nimrod, and also by analogy, the Maya as well as Sumerian-Babylonians built ziqqurats with the same religious purposes. Another curious fact is that the term "Hun" is very frequent in the composition of Maya mythological names found in the Popol-Vuh, like Hun-Hunapu, Vukub-Hunapu, Hunbatz, Hunchouen, etc. Did they keep the secret of the ancient origin of this term, that became the designation of a people in Asia? Other elements of the Maya mythology suggest that they indeed came from Asia through the Bering Strait: their account of origins relates about a time in which the people were confused because they were unable to understand the speech of each other, and so they had to leave their dwelling place according to the language groups. Along their journey they had to overcome many difficulties, crossing high mountains and even the sea, that by miracle was divided to allow them pass through (!). The Maya legend of origins refers also to the darkness where they lived before the sun appeared, and in the beginning its light was faint, concepts which may be explained by tracing back to their passage through the cold north in their migration from Asia, remembered by their ancestors as the land without sun in winter, and with a feeble sunlight in summer.
As it was said before, we do not pretend to assert any actual connexion between the Hungarians and the Maya, which would be hazardous, but only to mention these coincidences as curiosities. Undoubtedly, the Babylonian myth of Nimrod has been transferred to the mythology of every people all over the world, to which the Maya are not an exception; what we found interesting are these particular characteristics: the ziqqurat, the twin hunters and the meaning of their names, the recurrence of the term "hun", the designation Maya and some other subtle similarities that may be found when learning about their traditions.
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