MAGYAR DEITIES

 

BOLDOGASSZONY Goddess of women and children, protectress and defender of Her

charges. She has fertility connections, and is associated with childbirth in a particular way. Her cult became conflated with that of the Virgin Mary in early Christian times.

 

ISTEN Creator God, who led the Magyar people across the steppes and into their present homeland by means of his Totem creature, the eagle.

 

ORDOG Cthonic divinity associated with evil-doing and adversity.