2021. március 29., hétfő

The origins of Hunnish Runic Writing (7) Rituals and runic script

 

Rituals and runic script

 

All these symbols decorated the devices used for rituals and have survived for thousands of years because of regular usage. They still have a role in the present form of the rituals (in religious and dominance ceremonies besides prominent events in peasant life, such as funerals, proposals of marriage, the custom of sprinkling at Easter, etc.; Figs. 4, 10).

For example traces of the belief that the cross in a circle has a god- and spirit-evoking effect survived until the recent past. When a Palots goes out to dig up treasure, he draws two crossed lines intersecting each other in the middle at the point of intersection of the crossroads. Then he draws a circle around the whole picture, and waits for mysterious beings to help him. The Palots medicine-woman cures the patient's malignant pustule by making two crossing stitches through the wound with red silk thread. The point of intersection is in the middle of the painful wound. Then, by drawing a circle around the wound with her thumb, she draws out its root, shrivels it up, soothes the pain, and cures it (Malonyai/1922/294).

 The meaning of Hungarian national symbols are also connected to ancient rituals and beliefs. The Hungarian coat of arms contains the symbols of triple hill, double cross and water ("m", "gy", and "ü"). The Holy Crown viewed from above (cross in circle) resembles the four holy rivers and is equivalent with rune "f" (Föld = the Earth). The Crown from the front is like the tree holding up the sky, rune "g"; the rune "j" appears in the winding filigrees of the cross-strap; the "jm" ligature is an element of the enameled pictures.[1]

The connections clearly show both the ancient origin and Hungarian features of Hungarian script, symbols and ideas of the state.

 Rune "f" occurs in the Hungarian Scepter viewed from above, "g" and "USTeN" in the filigrees of its handle, and rune "j", in the scroll in the body of the lion. The equivalents of the runes "gy", "us", "t", "f", "g", "s", "ly", "f", "j" are recognizable in the structure of pictures of the Coronation Mantle, and that of rune "j" in the filigrees of the Holy Crown. These symbols identify the Hungarian reign with God, the Creator, and Hungary with the center of the world, where creation took place, and from where order spread afterwards (Figs. 11, 12).[2]

Hungarian popular pictograms, just as the Cretan linear A hieroglyphs described by Evans (Fig. 13), form a transition between decoration, pictorial and linear characters (Fig. 14), and this confuses those who can evaluate them only by artificially separating them.

However, the double meaning of the Hungarian word írás (writing, drawing), and the Hungarian word betû (character, letter), equivalent of the Chuvash word petü meaning "talisman" show that our pictorial signs had once been used as hieroglyphs. Words like tojásírás (writing on eggs), képírás (drawing/ writing of pictures), íróka (a tool used by potters to draw) serve as further evidence. The prototypes of Székely runes occur on painted eggs (Fig. 4), on church-ceilings Hungarian picture-drawers painted flowers that consist of runic characters (Fig. 14), and Hungarian potters use symbols in their work that can be interpreted with the help of Székely writing (Fig. 15).

Tulips in Hungarian folk art often contain the rune "us", and even the ligature "usten" (Fig. 16), because the Hungarian word tulipán (tulip) is related to the name of the Hittite god Telepinu, who regained the possession of the Sun. The runic character "us" is similar to the Sun God rising, emerging from the gorge of the Milky Way at Christmas.

 

Fig. 11 Hieroglyphs written with gold lace: the symbol "j" (jó, folyó = good, river) in the scrolls of the cross strap on the Holy Crown and the symbol "g" (USTeN = God holding the sky) in the filigrees of the Scepter-handle

 

Water giving birth to heroes, and god-like progenitors who could change their looks often appear as mythical stags or turuls (Hungarian mythical bird) occur in the Hungarian legends of origin. That is why the equivalents of the runes "ly" (lyuk = hole, source), "j" (jó, folyó = good river), and  "us" (õs = progenitor) (Fig. 17) can be found in the representations of the mythical stag or bird. All these form a consistent system, as Székely runic script is not the result of an academic creation, but primarily a natural development. It is part of an ancient idea of the world, which motivated both the rulers and common people and turned the Hungarians into a nation.


[1] The Magyar Holy Crown is the symbol of the middle of the world identified as God and reign. In all probability it was made by Huns in the oasis of Merv around 450 AD, and the possible meaning of its inner hieroglyphs, "good king - good land" formulated the essence of the Magyar idea of crown and state.

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