Giant-Hunter Forefather of the Magyars
Hungarian · demigod · legendary / origin time · Recorded classification
Hungarian ⟨Nimród⟩, chronicle form ⟨Ménrót⟩; conflated with the biblical Nimrod 'mighty hunter before the Lord' (Gen. 10). Classed demigod as a legendary culture-hero progenitor. His sons Hunor and Magor and the csodaszarvas (wondrous/enchanted stag) are the core of the origin-myth; the stags pursued are the hinds led by the stag, with Enéh ('hind') as the totemic mother.
Children
Domains
- the hunt
- ancestral progenitor
Powers
- sires the twin hunters Hunor and Magor
- hunts as a giant beyond all other men
Relations
- spouse: Eneh
Sources
- Nimród (Ménrót), 'Nimrod the Giant', is the legendary hunter-forefather of the Hungarians; by Enéh he fathers the twins Hunor and Magor, ancestors of the Huns and Magyars, who chase the wondrous stag into the Carpathian Basin.: Simon of Kéza. Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum, c. 1283. (primary); Kálti, Márk (attrib.). Chronicon Pictum (Képes Krónika), c. 1360 (the legend of the wondrous stag). (primary)