Hungarian Neopaganism

Hungarian Neopaganism, the Hungarian Native Faith, or Ősmagyar Vallás (Hungarian expression meaning Ancient Hungarian Religion, or more accurately Arch-Hungarian Religion) as it is called in the local discourse, is a broad category defining the Neopagan movements which seek to rebuild an ethnic religion of the Hungarians, inspired by Hungarian mythology and folklore. These movements have roots in the ethnological studies of the early 20th century. The elaboration of a national Hungarian religion was endorsed in interwar Turanist circles (1930s-1940s), and finally blossomed alongside other Pagan religions in Hungary since the fall of the Soviet Union.

The boundaries between Hungarian Neopagan groups are often determined by their differing ideas about the ethnogenetic origins of the Hungarians, which have historically been a matter of debate. Many groups acknowledge the mainstream Uralic theory of the Hungarian origins, while other ones disallow it, endorsing Scythian, Sumerian or Turkic connections.

The development of the Hungarian Neopagan movements largely rely on a background layer constituted by the work of individual shamans or neoshamans, the táltos, who have surfaced since the 1980s. Some of the Ősmagyar Vallás organisations find support from the Fidesz and Jobbik political formations.

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