YEAR OF THE ROOSTER - BUDDHIST NEW YEAR

This rooster looks Hungarian to me...  The year of the Fire Rooster in the Buddhist - Chinese - Japanese astrological calendar has begun, after a year in the Fire Monkey.  2018 Will be the year of the Earth Dog.  I don't go to the New Years Dragon Parade in China town every year.  The Last time I went it was the Year of the Horse.  Isn't it odd how Dragons are supposed to be mythological, yet in many countries including Hungary and Ireland, there are stories of great men who got rid of them?  Maybe there really were dragons at one time and they went extinct...  If you read carefully though, you will find the names of these heros who rid a country of dragons. 

YEAR OF THE HORSE PARADE - CHINESE ASTROLOGY - AND THE DNA OF HUNGARIAN HORSES!

The Year of the Horse is starting NOW!  I attended a parade that featured a few terrific looking horses as part of the festivities.  I wondered.  When did the ancient Hungarians get horses?  I believe they came into Hungary with the People, but as you know, Hungarians are a mystery...

I found this link to DIENEKES ANTHROPOLOGY BLOG which is from 2009 and answers the question using DNA evidence.

October 03, 2009  THE ARTICLE

Avar and Hungarian horses were different:

Genetica. 2009 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print]

Mitochondrial sequence variation in ancient horses from the Carpathian Basin and possible modern relatives.

Priskin K, Szabó K, Tömöry G, Bogácsi-Szabó E, Csányi B, Eördögh R, Downes CS, Raskó I.

Movements of human populations leave their traces in the genetic makeup of the areas affected; the same applies to the horses that move with their owners This study is concerned with the mitochondrial control region genotypes of 31 archaeological horse remains, excavated from pre-conquest Avar and post-conquest Hungarian burial sites in the Carpathian Basin dating from the sixth to the tenth century. To investigate relationships to other ancient and recent breeds, modern Hucul and Akhal Teke samples were also collected, and mtDNA control region (CR) sequences from 76 breeds representing 921 individual specimens were combined with our sequence data. Phylogenetic relationships among horse mtDNA CR haplotypes were estimated using both genetic distance and the non-dichotomous network method. Both methods indicated a separation between horses of the Avars and the Hungarians. Our results show that the ethnic changes induced by the Hungarian Conquest were accompanied by a corresponding change in the stables of the Carpathian Basin...."

 

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