Excerpt from Hungarian Saga of the Legend of Creation

By Fred Hámori
Reproduced by permission

Links to both the Finnish Kalevala and the Sumerian "Barton Tablets" containing the Sumerian creation myth can be seen in the The Saga of the Legend of the Stag.

In the Finnish myth the diving duck lays the eggs on the lap of the daughter of the god of the sea who is sleeping on the surface. Awaking from her slumber the eggs break and from their shell is the heavens, stars and earth created.

The Sumerian myth is often misunderstood but Line 15 of the Barton Tablets says: A ENGUR-KU-GA-DUH-NUNUZ-E meaning

"Seed of the Holy Sea broke out of her egg."

Hungarian mythology also claims the origin of 7 branches of the Hungarian people, who probably were followers of 7 different "national" gods once long ago Remnants of this idea are noticed in the 7 national/tribal leaders in the 9th century, many of which appear to be also related to ancient Mesopotamian God names!? This may indicate the remnant of the tradition that their rulers are but the earthly representatives of the traditional ancient god of the group, even though this may have been forgotten by then, even if the traditional title was still used. By the 9th century most Hungarian were eastern Christians.

In this sense, the Sumir mythology talks of the "7 good seeds" This referred to the ancient 7 great gods, who were born from the great black cosmic mountain, which later is also sacrificed in the creation of the world. The legend of KUR.

The concept of KUR is so vast in Sumerian, just as in Hungarian that mountain, time, black, circular, enclosure, enmity can all be derived from the root word. Therefore the meaning can have many ramifications for this very old myth. In the matriarchal branch of these people the myth is changed to originate life instead from the eternal material of Numa, the Universal Heavenly Sea goddes, rather than from a patriarchal Cosmic Mountain.

This name is also found in the Ugrian's Numi Torem (the heavenly creator), which is male however and is in the heights of heaven rather than in the depths of the material sea goddess. Finn-Ugor mythology therefore has saved both variations of the ancient creation myths. The Altaic people seem to have memories of the heavenly father Tengri instead of the matriarchial Sea bed. This too has its Sumerian ties since the word for God in Sumerian is Dingir instead of Tengri. [Polynesian Tangaroa =Sea God]