Magyar Origins (Third Edition)

What if everything you thought you knew about Hungarians and the Finns was wrong?

For almost two centuries linguists have promoted the idea that a group of languages called Finno-Ugrian share a common origin in the south Urals or western Siberia. These people evolved their language in isolation of other languages and today among their descendents are the Finns and Hungarians. Linguists claim these primitive people owed all aspects of their culture, and much of their language, to the Slavs who they encountered later.

But recent scientific discoveries draw into question everything linguists have been saying on this topic. Geneticists now agree that Hungarians are not related to the other Finno-Ugrian speakers; but rather, Hungarians originated in Central Asia. And instead of living in isolation, archaeologists now argue that the Indo-Iranian homeland was within the Finno-Ugrian zone

In fact some of these archaeological sites are so similar archaeologists have trouble distinguishing if they are Indo-Iranian or Finno-Ugrian. While linguistics promotes the idea that Finno-Ugrians had a primitive religion with Shamans, archaeologists universally agree that the Finno-Ugrians were sharing religious ideas with the Indo-Aryans and were worshiping Indo-Aryan gods.

A complete re-write from previous editions, this book explores the possibility that the Finno-Ugrian languages are actually a form of adopted Indo-Aryan, commonly known as Sanskrit; adopted as the Indo-Aryans expanded mining and agriculture into the Finno-Ugrian zone.