Many people know that early Hunnic tribes are among the forebears of modern day Mongols, Turks, Hungarians and other Peoples. The diverse tribes who once lived in what is now Mongolia surely had their own tale to tell regarding the ongoing struggle for land and resources along the Chinese border in the early centuries BC and AD.
Since they can't be here to tell their side of the story, and since they happen to be among my Hungarian ancestors, I am honored to do it for them.
Sometimes, genetic memories speak in dreams.
The Secret History of the Mongols, written some time in the 1100's, recounts the existence of the legendary and sacred Hsiung-nu (Hun) ancestors of the Mongols: the Blue Wolf and the White Fallow Doe. Some sources suggest that the Blue Wolf himself came from one of the Turkic-speaking tribes who inhabited the steppes in the early centuries, A.D. Most people today know these diverse tribes as the Huns. Hun is the modern Mongol word (of Turkic origin) for "human", and is probably what the people (including those who invaded Europe under Attila) called themselves, though those they raided and conquered (such as the Chinese, mentioned above) had less polite names for them.
The Blue Wolf and Fallow Doe can be thought to represent the Male and Female Principles, the Sky and Earth, the Light and the Dark. One is not whole and balanced without the other. Here begins their legend.
