War-God and Smith of the Gods
Hungarian · deity · mythic / pre Christian · Recorded classification
Hungarian ⟨Hadúr⟩, from had 'army/war' + úr 'lord' (full Hadak Ura). The name is partly a 19th-century literary reconstruction (Ipolyi, and the poets Vörösmarty/Arany); the underlying war-god and smith-of-the-gods concept and the Sword-of-God legend are older. Damasek is an alternative/regional name sometimes paired with this figure; both are flagged as reconstructions.
Domains
- war
- fire and smithcraft
- metalworking
Powers
- forges the Sword of God that grants world-rule
- receives the white-stallion sacrifice before battle
Sources
- Hadúr ('Hadak Ura', lord of armies) is the Hungarian god of fire and war and smith of the gods, whose sacred metal is copper and who forged the Sword of God (Isten kardja).: Ipolyi, Arnold. Magyar Mythologia. Pest, 1854. (secondary); Jordanes. Getica (the 'Sword of Mars' associated with Attila), with later Hungarian reception. (secondary)