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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ cheerful, showing calmness (!), helpful…). Oh, and let us not forget that the Warrior is not a “lone-wolf”, as the media insist nowadays, but a social individual, who serves the community, who places the interests of the community above his own interests because he knows that what is good for the community is also good for him, but what is good only for himself is actually bad. It can also be seen from this that these peoples (in their days of glory) had another characteristic: they possessed the knowledge of their heavenly origins. Otherwise, why would tradition hold that the magori (Magyar) people are also the People of Knowledge? We had many heroes, among whom many were real Warriors: they demonstrated the characteristics of Warriors. We hope that, with the help of these pictures, we can represent these characteristics adequately. Of course we know that here the idealization is “exaggerated” – not everybody was a brave hero, a wise shaman or a faithful subject and the graphics of this album do not show the everyday people. We would like the Reader – with the help of this album – to “get a feeling for” the organic culture that characterizes us Hungarians and our related nations, to look into our heads a little and understand how we, Hungarians, see our ancient history, our ancestors and our roots from “the inside”. Scythian–Hun–Magyar This allegorical picture refers to the common origin and common roots. Hungarian history creates the bridge, which – starting from the past and arching over the present – leads to the future. _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2010 166
January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Targitaos, the first king of the Scythians We continue our historical overview with the Scythian people. According to Herodotus, the borders of Scythia – in Hungarian “Szittyaföld” (The Land of Scythia [“Sittja”]) – were Pontos Euxeinos (Black Sea) in the South, the Tyras (Dniester) in the West, the Syrgis (Donec) in the North and the Tanais (Don) in the East. Scythians occupied these vast steppes, arriving from the East in the 8 th century BC. They called themselves – also according to Herodotus – “scolotos”, that is, archers. This self-identification has two meanings: on the one hand, it means that they belong under the astrological sign, Sagittarius (as Hungarians do); on the other hand, it refers to their equestrian way of life, their military culture of archery. According to Scythian tradition, Targitaos, of heavenly origins, was a legendary king, who passed on the ancient knowledge to the Royal Scythians through his youngest son, Kolaxais. “His quiver is like an open grave, and they are all heroes.”(Jer. 5:15–17.) _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2010 167
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