„Az ördögnek ögyéb madara nincs, mind a páva.” A magyar és a középeurázsiai duális teremtésmondák (A810, A812, K483) összefüggéseiről
“The Devil Has No Other Bird than the Peacock.” On the Correspondences between Hungarian and Central Eurasian Creation Myths (A810, A812, K483)

Summary/Abstract: This paper elaborates, on the one hand, on the conceptual and historical links between a Hungarian etiological legend group representing the Devil as a demiurge and the peacock as his only bird, and the Earth-Diver dualistic creation myths (A812) represented in the Hungarian speaking area with 17 versions. On the other hand, it examines the opportunities of possible religious contacts between Manichaean and Yazidi as well as early Hungarian semi-nomadic communities in Central Eurasia, especially in Greater Khorasan and in the Caucasus region during the 8-9th centuries that could result the idea behind the association between the Devil and the peacock in the Hungarian legends under discussion. The author of the paper reviews an ideological preconception as well, which dominates the discourse of the research of the Earth-Diver myths in the discipline of folkloristics in Hungary in the last half of a century. By doing so, the author uses the methods of comparative and historical study of folklore as well as of discourse analysis.

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