Totemic Bird of the Árpáds
Hungarian · deity · mythic / origin legend · deity
Hungarian ⟨Turul⟩ (likely from a Turkic word for a bird of prey, togrïl/falcon-eagle). Classed as a deity-tier figure (totemic ancestor-spirit) per the schema, since no demigod/scion tier fits a theriomorphic divine bird; explained here in notes. The world-tree (égig érő fa) and the táltos shaman are the cosmological frame in which it sits.
Domains
- ancestral totem
- divine kingship
- war
Powers
- begets the founding dynasty through the dream-impregnation of Emese
- roosts in the crown of the world-tree linking the upper world
Epithets
- Turul
Relations
- lover: Emese
Sources
- Anonymus. Gesta Hungarorum, c. 1200.
- Simon of Kéza. Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum, c. 1283.