(chosen excerts)
The Story about the King’s daughter is a medley of songs , one sourse of Proto-Bulgarian mythology. It is written in XV c. in Kazan , in the lands of Volgean Bulgaria by Michael Bashtu. The oryginal text is written in Tatarian , the most common language in these lands then , but later is translated in Russian too. The Russian version survuived after the Bolshevik violations , when the Bolsheviks destroyed all the Musliman literature , written in Arabian script.
The story about the King’s daughter is based on the Hunian oral tradition. It is extablished , that the pantheon there is Bulgarian , because the Hunes adopted the Bulgarian pagan religion. There are also some elementes of the Hunian history and mythology – for example the legend about the Crow , who saved the humans from world catastrophe , mentioned bellow.
Such is the destiny of this Bulgarian Edda , preserved in the distant Volgean lands.
Part I
song 1
5
In olden times
When in the Earth
Were not still humans
Created the Lord God Tangra
alps-dives.
6
First created He
The higher alpes*
The Sun and Moon
And some other as well.
7
From the higher alpes
Bore middle alpes**
The alpes became numerous
And fights broke because it.
8
The figthting alpes needen
in weapons ,
Which made for them
The Son of Sun
Alp Hursa.
9
Was he an excellent smith.
Was he going all over the
Earth
Searching for ore
For his smithy.
10
In his ways
Is going people up till now.
They consider Hursa
For their protector.
11
Nobody might
Crossinng his way.
Disapears the power
Of his weapon.
12
Round the Hursa’s smithy
Grew mountains of slag.
The people lett to call them
“Hursa-alp”
Where from the name became
Ural.***
13
Allthough immortal were the
alpes
Vulnerable were they for the
Hursa’s weapon.
After many battles feared
they to perish
And came they to terms to
use
the weapons never again.
14
For some time
Became quiet the Earth.
But jounger alpes appeared
the in the World
And the battles broke out
again.
Song 2
15
Then Lord Tangra punished
them.
Made he that from the last
alpes
Could be only mortal humans
born.
So they appeared in the
Earth.
*higher alpes (dives) – gods
**Middle alpes (dives) – god-natured men.
***The mountain of Ural
Part I
Song 7
175
The mighty Alp Baris
Who in his anger
Could kill only with glance
Was kindly dive.
183
Irascible , but good-natured
Were Jile* and Kubar.**
Kubar has brother
Alp Baran.***
184
When Kubar and Baran
Became elderly
They began a quarrel:
Who inherits the farters
thunder-sword.
185
Their father was
The fightfull Alp Barin.
Was he transformateing into
a grew wolf
In memory of his perished
brother Tun-Buri.
186
With great plesure
Was he takeing part in all
the fights of alpes.
But when Tangra forbided
these pugnacityes
He left his sword.
187
He is carying away in the
battles of men
as in game.
These , whom he sympatizes
With howl and other sighns
Showes he the outcome of
battle
And the key of victory.
188
When his chosen men
Don’t understand his sighns
They suffer defeat.
But Barin saves them.
189
When Barin
So much sympatizes the men ,
Before the war , in night
Entacts he battles in the
cloudes.
190
In the battles take part
The slain alpes.
They can’t get down the
Earth.
Amuses Barin with their
fights.
191
The fighting alpes divides
he
In two armyes:
Dark alpes
And Light dives.
192
When the dark alpes win
It means:
The chosen men of Barin
Will be defeated.
193
When the light alpes win
It forebodes
The chosen men of Barin
Will have a splendid
victory.
194
In the battles of men
Barin never takes part.
He is too carying away
And doesen’t he want to
spoil the games.
195
Barin suggested
His children
To be thunderer in order
For three thousand years per
one.
196
But to choose
Who would be
Thunderer the first
They had a lots.
197
The luck get
Alp Kubar.
Baran run away
Bursting out in anger.
*Baris – God with magicle power , arbiter among the gods. He wears the name of bars , the Snow leopard (Uncia uncia) , who lives in the mountains of Central Asia
**Jile – God of wind and cloudes
***Baran – “ram” in Russian
Comment : Baris conformes to the Teutonic God
Heimdalur , also to the Hinduist God Shiva. Barin and Kubar conform to Odin and
Thor like Wariorgod-father and Thundergod-son. The perished brother of Barin is
Tun Buri. Buri is also the drandfather
of Odin. The wolf is also the favourite beast of Odin. The slain alpes are
living in the Heaven ; they are
fighting there one-another , divided in two armyes ; their Lord is Barin. All
this corespondes to the Teotonic mythology , where the slain wariors are livind
in Valhala (Palace of Slain) and their Lord is Odin , named Valfodur (Father of
Slain). The fighting alpes are divided into Light and Dark alpes. In the Edda
is also related about the war between Light and dark alves , who are living in Alvheimur.
Part I
Song 5
127
Went he (Ji-Utshek)* in the
North
There , they say , in the
island of Tshulman
Is a bridje
To the Eight heaven.
Song 6
156
By the way Dulosu**
Was going to the place
Inhabited by Sokol***
Guard of the North.
157
There , in the North
Is the end of Earth
And begins an enormous sea
Named Tshulmanian.
158
In the middle of sea
Is the island of Tshulman.
There are living many alpes.
Song 3
44
From time to time the humans
bred a lot
And began to embarrass the
alpes.
Decided then the alpes
To destroy the human race.
47
In the island of Tshulman
the alpes built
A wall of stones
Which was shuting out
The sunlight from the
humans.
48
It came darcness and cold
everywhere.
Ice covered the Earth and
the humans stoped
children to bear.
The people began caves to
dig
But the death reached them
too.
* * *
However Alp Karga (Crow in Bulgarian), sent by
Tangra , destroyes the wall and saves the humans. Such legend also in known
from the heritage of some Siberian peoples.
*Ji-Utshek -
son of Alp Bojan Imen
**Dulosu
- the Holy river
***Sokol – “falcon” in Russian and Bulgarian.
Comments : Thule (Tshulman) is the mythical northen
homeland of Aryans. In the ancient Greek legends Thule is the Island of heroes
, where governes the blonde Radamantis. Thule is also the Sunny island. In the
language of people of Pamir mountain in Central Asia , relative to Bulgarians ,
Thule means “Gods order”.