Genetics

Of Hungarians' Genetics in Brief

A nation (ethnic) is determined by the corporeal marks, spiritual and material culture and the language. The biological, physiological marks are the most permanent and the language is the most variable, that can eventually also be "changed".

In searching for the ethnic origins of Hungarians, one must look for some other people -- whether past or present -- with the same, or similar psychology, music, dance, faith, folklore, poetry, writing system, cuisine, flora, fauna, and language. These comparisons, aside from relying strictly on classical written sources, may be performed using the disciplines of anthropology, music, dance, theology, poetry, typology, ethnology, gastronomy, botany, zoology, and linguistics. There is no need for guesswork outside of these precise sciences. If these methods fail in the attempt to clearly identify the group or groups with the strongest affinities to Hungarians, then the most scientific statement one could hope for would be the somewhat resigned phrase: "We don't know", "We don't know yet".

Hungary has one of the most prominent non Indo-European populations of Europe. Its origins cannot be sought in Europe, as its physical, cultural and linguistic roots are distinctly non-European in nature. Our chronicles and traditions trace the beginnings of their national identity to a series of tribes from Central Asia who settled the Carpathian basin in several 'waves'; these include the Huns who were first invited by the Romans in 361 AD, and opposed them a century later and from whom the modern Székelys claim descent -- then two waves of Avars in 586 AD and Magyars (the nation of Árpád) settling in 895-96 AD, then Iazyges settling in 1235 AD and Cumanians in 1243 and 1246 AD.

The Hungarians arrived here from afar, multiplying up to around 15 million, and preserving their own language, culture and physical traits.

Anthropology can point to the Hungarian homeland through physiological research. The old country of Hungarians must be sought where people lived, or still live who are physically like Hungarians. The Uyghur cemetery at Astana near the Jungar Gate provides the answer to this, revealed by Aurel Stein between 1913 and 1915, with 1200 more graves discovered by the Uyghurs and Chinese in 1986. The people buried there were physically the same as the Hungarians who settled in the Carpathian Basin. Also demonstrative is the fact that typically Turanian, Pamirian and Taurid genetic elements, that entered the Carpathian Basin with the Hungarians, are common only among the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, but occur nowhere else in Europe.

Aside from physiology, recent genetic research has provided clues about national origins and kinships. Within the blood group system attributed to Landsteiner, the rate of the typically Hungarian "0" and "B" blood types (31.05% and 17.90%) is off from that of Indo-European and Finno-Ugric nations, but is within the range found among Central Asian Turkic nations. Besides this, there is another blood type among Hungarians, the Diego [A+], present in no other people of Europe. The "Mongolian spot", almost unknown in Europe, has 22.6% occurrence, and Lactose intolerance (missing lactose digestive enzyme), rare elsewhere, is at 37% among Hungarians, as in Central Asia. The skin splinter system of Hungarians has Central Asian characteristic (low bend rates, but high vortices). The Gm-marker research pointed out that the Gm abst and Gm afb3 gene markers occurring among Hungarians are missing among other European populations. International Mitochondrial DNA research has also recently identified additional Central Asian characteristics among Hungarians.


István Kiszely
points out in his work "Of Hungarian Man", that anthropology verifies that Hungarians can't be considered as a typical European, genetically homogeneous nation. As he writes, Hungarians are Eurasian. The language and the spiritual and material culture of our settlement is second in importance compared to the results of anthropology and genetics.
The basic concept of anthropology is that there are specific characteristics of people common in specific groups.
This means not a well definable group in the case of Hungarians, but five major groups at least, as István Kiszely mentions:
  1. Turanid type. The old country of these people is the Heart of Asia, East Turkestan; this type is common among the graves in Astana from the 3rd century CE. The most Western (Northern and Southern) appearance of this type is in the Carpathian Basin in Europe, having 30-35% of occurrence in the population of Hungary. Anthropologist Lajos Bartucz writes: «The type of the Hungarian Plain can be considered as the "Hungarian type" most likely, being the most numerous and goes back to the settling Hungarians.»  
  2. The old country of the Pamiro-Ferganian, Central Asian, Mesopotamian, or Anatolian Type is the area of Pamir, Tien-Shan, Altai, Central Asia and the Iranian Highland. This type of people were buried in Central Asian Astana and Ordos. The type reached the Carpathian Basin with the Huns first, then with Avars and Hungarians. This is a characteristic type of the ploughmen of the Hungarian Plain having 10-15% of occurrence in the Carpathian Basin.
  3. Taurid (Caucasian) Type characterizes Turkish, Scythian, Sarmatian and Yazig nations partially, occurring among Hungarians in 5-8% from the Hunnish times through Avars and settlement even today, however in the Kiskunság, this rate can easily go up to 14%. The old Country of this type is Asia Minor, the Caucasus, old Mesopotamia, Persia and the Iranian Highland.
  4. North Baltic, or Eastern European type characterizes the people of the Eastern European Plains, where the fathers of Hungarians, Pechenegs, Kuns, Yazigs went through. Being not common in the old quarters of the Hungarians could come from the Levedian and Etelköz quarters by mixture and join in. This type occurs in 8-10% rate, but in Palócland can reach 35% because of mixing with Slavic population. A specific variant of this type is the Pontus type.
  5. Uralic, or Ugric Type characterizes Finnougrian nations, coming from the area between Urals and river Sayan. It?s first occurrence among Hungarians can be proven from the 10th century CE in rate 0.6% also today, that means that Hungarians really went through over Finnougrian lands, but this population played no important role in shaping the ethnic picture of Hungarians, to look for the Hungarian old country among Finnougrian nations is unscientific. The Mongoloid elements of the Hungarians come from this group mainly.
The Mongoloid marker genes found in Hungarians by Hideo Matsumoto can also be find among Southern and Central Italians (in Sicilians and Sardinians more exactly), but also presented in Catalonians and in the tribal societies of Madyha Pradesh and Orissan states of India. The rate of the mongoloid markers however still not really prove the Mongoloid origin of the Hungarians, rather speaking of a closer daily relationship and that part of the Hungarians are really Mongoloid in origin.

This fact also seems to be proven by archeaological evidences. Between 2500 and 1600 B.C. a new ethnic formation bringing higher form of culture appearing on steppes from south-western direction introducing agriculture and the animal-domestication, as well as the knowledge of metal-procession (Randa, A.: “Handbuch der Weltgeschichte”, 1954, cited by 31.,). As the final result of establishment of “Lapis Lazuri Road” we may find in Central Asia - in nothern and western borders of that huge territory, which became China later on - the formation of a Scythian Empire. It was the confederation of smaller feudal kingdoms and smaller town-states - just as the former Sumerian Empire of the ancient Mesopotamia was the confederation of the smaller town-states. This empire was composed by Europid Scythians, to which the Mongoloid type added, and became the examplary of the Nordic-Scythic-Mongoloid symbiosis.

It was the Hunnish Empire.

Chinese anthropologists digged out more than 100 mummified Europid corpses in East Turan (Xinjiang), significant part of them are blonde, each of them as old as the mummies of ancient Egypt are. Prof. Mair informed us, that these “Indo-Europeans” came from Scandinavia and Germany to teach the usage of wheel for Chinese around 1200 B.C., although the truth is written down by a Hungarian-born American anthropologist Izabella Horvath (70., 9) based on the research of Han Kangxin. Accordingly, the mummies belong not to West-European types, rather are the caracteristicals of the Scythians of Asia and they are similar to the Siberian population between 3000-1000 B.C. Mair forgot also, that the wheel was known in the Yangshao-culture of China 5000 years ago, so it not came from Europe. The mummies belong to the proto-Hunnish culture, as it is established by Prof. Wu En and became written in a new article (71., 95-108), then it became conluded (72., 46-49) basing mostly on the research of Prof. Han Kangxin. According to it, the area has no human remains from the Paleolithic Age, so the earliest inhabitants are incomers. As the result of examinations of the 3800 years old mummies digged out in East Turan (Xinjiang), we can be sure, that the proto-European racial type reached the area in this period, or maybe earlier. The bones digged out belong to the Andronovo-culture, which gave the inhabitants of Central Asia, South Siberia and Kazahstan between 2000-1000 B.C., and to that Afanastyevo-culture, which gave the inhabitants of between the upper region of Yenisei and Altai, hence these Turanian remains are the eastward elongation of the most ancient European racial type. In the B.C. period a Caucasoid people close to the East-Mediterranean race (also called Indo-Afghan type) reached Eastern Turan immigrating from West to East reaching Lop Nor and Tien Shan. An other racial type caracterised by the short skull-form close to the Pamir-Ferghana type appeared at the upper part of the Ili River 3000 years ago, showing the mix of the Mongoloid and East-Mediterranian races. Finally the question can be rised: where we can find the descendants of the inhabitants of ancient East Turan (Xinjiang)? If we take a glance to the Uygurs, Kazakhs, Uzbegs and Tartars, who are living there today, many of them has obvious Caucasoid facial features, but there is a people in Middle-Europe, which is close racially to the ancient inhabitants of East Turan (Xinjiang). They are the Hungarians. To the territory of Hungary the Huns arrived at 374 from East Turan (Xinjiang), where they established the center of their huge empire. The Avars, the once strong North-Chinese Rourans also arrived here at 567, then an other Oriental people, the Hungarians also came here at 896. Pál Lipták Hungarian anthropologist digging out bones of 9th century established, that the local inhabitants of Hungary of that period had 24% Turanian racial type, 20% Pamirian type and other 2-3% belonged to the early Asian types. According to anthropologists, the Turanian type is the mixture of Andronovo and Mongoloid races. The Pamirian type was an important ancient race of East Turan, while the earlier Asian types means an other European type came into existence in Asia. This is the clear evidence, that the 9th century Hungarians had blood-relations with the best archaic inhabitants of Northwestern China. According to Henkey (61.,), the present Hungarian racial type is basically the same as it was in the 9th century, because the bulk of settlers from South-Germany c. 300 years ago belonged to Hun and Avar types and most of them are also the result of Scythoid-Nordic-Mongoloid intermixture.

Hungarians had to come from Central Asia or had to be in contact with the Central Asian nations to the genetic results, also supporting the concepts based on historical reports, that the main groups of the people forming the Hungarian nations had to be somewhere in the land of the Fertile Crescent and Central Asia, among Sumerians, Sabir, As-Alans, Yazigs, and their descendants.

The results also prove the possible role of Hungarians in the Mediterranean expansions from the Eastern banks to West, explaining the Tzekel-Sicul-Székely similarities and the possible Etruscan connection.

To the Mongoloid genes our fathers reached also the Western part of the Iberian Peninsula, founding Catalonia (the land of Kat-Alans) where also a location can be find: Sabadell, meaning "place of Sabbath", that is exactly the same with the Hungarian city Szombathely ("place of Sabbath"), called Sabaria (City of Sabirs) in the Roman times. The name of the Catalan city also can mean "free place" ("Szabadhely") in Hungarian
 
Genetic researches also brought a not well documented result.

A gene was found by researchers defined as characterizing Jews, the descendants of Aaron and Moses more exactly. This gene was called "Cohen Modal Haplotype", or the
"Levite Gene" .

The results of the researches didn't prove the expectations completely. The result was that this CMH is most common among Southern and Central Italians, Hungarians and Iraqi Kurds, also found among many Armenians and South African Lembas, but it's existence among Jews was also  pointed out.

Now, this list also contains the Southern and Central Italians. The similarities of the two genes (Mongoloid and CMH) can harder explained by coincidence than if only one, the relation is inevitable, especially considering also the ethnographical, cultural and folkloristic elements. But this also means that these nations have to be connected to the Jews.

If this is fact, as it was published in many international magazines, would this mean that the old Romanian dictator Ceausescu was right calling Hungarians as the "Jews of the Carpathians"? Would we have more to do with Jews as we think?


The Questions to be Explained:

If CMH characterize Jews (Semites in wider sense)
, than Hungarians, Sicilians, Sards and Kurds have to be kept as Jews, including Armenians (being also blessed with kind neighborhood, calling Armenians simply as "Jews of the Caucasus") and the Lembas.
Many works published in the topic of Lembas pointing out many similarities, between their traditions and laws and of the Torah.

The idea of Kurds being an old Hungarian tribe forgetting their language in the mids of Arabs could be proven this way. The name of the Caucasian location Qud-Makar of the historical report could refer to this relation, however this is just an idea only.
But, also the Jewish traditions of origin should be doubted this way, having Hungarians not as foreigners but as brothers, even considering Hungarians as fathers of the Levitic priesthood, based on the original concept!
 
Historical fact, that Egyptians were really in fear of some Habiru attacking them often. Their clothing was similar to the settling Hungarians. The Avar identity of these Habiru was already proven, and their name appears in the form of Avar-Abir/Apir-Habir these times. These Avars built Avaris and Tana is (the Town of Tana) in the Nile Delta, going onward to West most likely. However Egyptians also had some success in counterattacks.
If this skillful architecture nation, building cities in Syria and Kanaan down to the Nile Delta, was so strong, would it be impossible, that their children were murdered by the order of the Pharaoh? As their multiplication in the most fruitful part of the country is actually a red alert politically, than the sons of some shepherd nations settling in the same area that time. Also possible that the foremather is the same in both cases, the biblical Ever (Genesis 10:24,25.), whose name is written the same as the name of Ivris, or Avirs, namely "alef", "vav", "resh", but this can be also a coincidence only.

History already proved the Biblical account (Exodus 12:38.), that the nation led by Moses was more mixed than to be Hebrew (Ivri, better to say) only. There were Ivri staying, and also not Ivris following Moses. This is all to the Bible.

The concept deriving the 12 Israeli (not only Hebrew-Ivri!) tribes, and handling them as a homogenous nation as it is so common among European nations for the sake of ennoblement is false also according to the Bible.
When the Israeli nation became reality to the history by settling in Canaan in about 1200 BCE means the easy-tight covenant of 12, partially Southern ("Egyptian"), partially Eastern ("Mesopotamian") and partially native ("Canaanite") tribes to an external observer having the sanctuary of Jahweh in Shiloh as centre. Watching over the sanctuary was the task and privilege of the branch Cohen of the tribe Levi specialized to priestly role, deriving themselves from Aaron (the brother of Moses and famous first priest). Some of them settled around the sanctuary, while the rest wandered around the land as mass-priest, playing important role in keeping the nomadic traditions of the Yahweh cult and in joining and spreading of tribal traditions.

When Assyrian came to power creating the first empire comprising the whole Fertile Crescent, they deported about 30000 people from the land of Israel (the Northern 10 Tribes) to the Sefardians and vice-versa and the sons of both nations South, Southwest to the Caspian Sea going ahead of a possible alliance and rebellion. These people and their descendants then moved toward East and North East following the old route of lapis lazuli meeting with the former Sumerian colonies, those became Turks, Hungarians. They were welcome finding friends, relatives among them, where the Jewish culture could begin to flourish, as the concept of the nations of the area was, that I can learn from others being more even myself. Cities Samarkand and Bukhara are the best examples becoming famous centers of the Jewish culture in Central Asia.

The analysis of the nations mentioned in the CMH report
shows that they once lived together in the past in the same region called Urartu.
Following the collapse of the Hittite Empire, the kingdom of Urartu have emerged around the Lake Van in eastern Turkey. Urartians have formed a state by absorbing Hurrians who were their relatives and living in the Lake Van region. Urartian kingdom based in their capital Tushpa on the shore of Lake Van, has covered a large territory extending from Caspian Sea and southern Caucasus to eastern and southeastern Anatolia and also northeastern Mesopotamia. In the 13th C. BCE., Urartians have formed two separate small kingdoms, Uriatri and Nairi. The name Uriatri, in Assyrian language means " Mountainous Area ", a description that fits perfectly the geographical features of this area. In the Assyrian annals, this area and Lake Van are referred to as "Nairi Lands" and "The Lake Nairi". Sefardians lived on the Western part of the country according to the Bible. The name reminds me to the names Saparda or Sabir especially considering the fact that in the time of Biblical report no vowels were used in the texts (this is still not too common today as their identification by dots and commas is also not "too old"), the only sure thing of the sounding of the name is that their name is signed by the string "SPRD" or "SPhRD", that considering grammatical and auditorical distortions can also be "SBRD" or "SVRD". These last variants concur coincidally with the tongues "SVRD" of the self-identificatory name "Savard" of Hungarians reported by Constantinus Porphyrogenus.
The Eastern border of this empire was Media, where Kurds lived, while Armenians on the North in the Caucasus
.

If this would be valid, than CMH had to be called as Urartu Gene
rather, or considering the rates as Nemere or Nimrod Gene with a bit exagerration as a typical Hungaricum, as the forefather of Alans, Huns and Hungarians is the same person, Tana or Etana, who is Nimrod.


Now, the sound logic tells that this new gene should be a considered as a common characteristic of all Sumerian originated nations, based on the facts that CMH - Nemere gene is the only genetically most characterizing thing of Hungarians, while all other antropological signs are shared, and our Asian origin is inevitable. This could underline the toughts of the colonization, wandering and moving of Sumerians by Zoltán Lépő, also underlining the explanation of the fresces of Tree of Life with Lion in the Chapell - Throneroom of the castle Esztergom.

Sabirs (ancestors of Hungarians) and Hebrews lived together on their old and new lands this way, they had to live together bringing along intermarriages and the interaction of cultures.

After all, based also on genetic evidences, the statement can be made that Hungarians have really less to do with the Finnougrian nations, but many thing to do with
Near East and Central Asia than what today's official theory claims.

There also can be truth behind the idea of looking Hungarians among the first settlers of the
Mediterranean Basin .
And over all, have countless binds to Kurds, Southern and Central Italians, Catalans, Armenians, and what this article is all about to Jews... based also by the Mongoloid and "Cohenim" genes.

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