Hunor and Magor

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Hunor and Magor were, according to a famous Hungarian legend, the ancestors of the Huns and the Magyars.

In some versions of the saga, such as the medieval Hungarian chronicle Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum, the twin princes Hunor and Magor were the sons of Menrot, son of Tana, and his wife Eneth. This Menrot is said to have seized power in Babylon some 200 years after the Deluge, and is also referred to as Nimrod son of Cush of the Bible. The twins were said to have been born in "Persia", lived by the sea of Azov for five years, where they took wives from the daughters of Dur, chief of the Alans, then to have moved on to Scythia. According to the version of this legend in the mediaeval Chronicon Pictum, this Magor is Magog, and he and Hunor are sons of Japheth by Eneth, rather than of Nimrod.

Hunters like their father, they were on a hunting trip when before them they saw an ethereal white stag (the Csodaszarvas). They chased it throughout the day, until it disappeared at night and they had to camp. It reappeared the next morning and had them pursue it all day, as before. This continued for a time, it appearing every morning and disappearing at night, leading the two princes farther and farther from their homes. One day, after they were entirely lost, it disappeared for good. The hunters and their entourage camped near a forest. That night, they heard a heavenly song and followed it into a forest clearing, where lovely maidens were dancing in the moonlight. The girls cried out and fled the men's approach, but the princes pursued them. After carrying them off to be their brides, the descendants of Hunor became the Huns, and those of Magor became the Magyars.

A very few authors (including F. Hamori, T. R. Michels) have pointed out a similarity between the names Tana and Kush with the Etana king of Kish of the Sumerian king list, and an additional possible parallel with the Kushan Scythian ancestor Kush-Tana.