What
the historical sources say
Sources from the earliest times have recorded, that
the Steppe peoples used writing. For example, around 270 BC Berossos, the
Chaldean historian wrote that the contemporary Scythians “liked writing history very much and wrote whole books about their
rulers and brave warriors.” According to Plutocrat, Philostratos,
Herodianus, Pliny and others, the Parthians also kept annals (Haussig
identifies them with Avars, Bonfini calls them the relatives of Hungarians).
The scripts of Priskos, Procopios and others confirm that the Huns,
and contemporary Chinese sources confirm that the Turks possessed writing, too.
Archaeological finds support all these sources. That means that steppe empires
identified as Hungarian or related to the Hungarians were literate from the
earliest times.
The literacy of the Hungarian conquerors and Székelys
is mentioned in unquestionably reliable sources.
One of these sources is Saint Constantine's (Cyrill)
legend. Constantine, who created the first Slavic script called Glagolitic in
861, while he was in
Kézai Simon's Chronicle from 1282 says, “Székelys and Blachs were given a part of the
country in the border mountains, they mixed and Székelys are said to use Blach
script.” The same is written in the 1358 Képes Krónika (Illustrated
Chronicle), but here Vlachs (Vlachis) are mentioned instead of Blachs
(Blachis). Blach can be identified with the Vlach
(Olah) and Olasz (Italian) and denote
a Latinized people. The Olahs, however, did not have runic script, and the
Italians had never lived in
An old map shows the homeland of Blachs in the area of
Fig. 25 Hunnish bronze fibula with the inscription
“éSZAK” (North) from
Data in other chronicles also help clarify the origin
of Székely script.
One such datum is the traditional name that Hungarian
history writers used for runic script. Thúróczy, Bonfini and Szamosi called the
runes Scythian letters. Benczédi Székely István's chronicle published in 1559
says that the Székelys “being a true
people of Hunnia, have been using Székely letters to date.” Székely runic
script is called Hunnish by Verancsics Antal (died in 1573), Thelegdi János (in
his Rudimenta, 1598), Otrokócsi Fóris Ferenc (in 1693), and Hunnish-Scythian by
Bél Mátyás (in 1718), and Dezsericzky József Ince (in 1749).
These names were neither baseless fabrications, nor
just clichés referring to eastern origin. On the contrary, they are authentic
data based on runic steppe chronicles, and the memory of a dynasty and a people
of Hunnish origin, which several recently recognized or found sources support.
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