Emese
Hungarian · mortal · mythic / origin legend · Recorded classification
Domains
- ancestral progenitor
Powers
- Receives the founding Dream of the Turul, conceiving the royal line
Relations
- lover: Totemic Bird of the ÁrpádsIn the Emese dream the totemic Turul bird descends upon the sleeping Emese and gets her with child, fathering the line of Almos and the Arpads.
Sources
- existence: Anonymus, Gesta Hungarorum, c. 1200 (Emese, mother of Almos) (primary); Kalti, Mark (attrib.), Chronicon Pictum (Kepes Kronika), c. 1360 (primary)