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THE NEO-HUNS
The community of those who claim to be Huns (although this is not the only Hunnic association) has existed for ten years already, yet, only in the past one or two years – perhaps in connection with the accession to EU – have they found that the time has come for them to be officially acknowledged. According to the law concerning the rights of national and ethnic minorities, Imre Josua Novák, herald of the Hunnic Church, started a popular initiative with this purpose. In April 2005, however, the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, Minorities and Religious Issues rejected the initiative. This was done on the basis of the professional opinion provided by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The circle for the Neo-Huns thus closed up: in their opinion, it was exactly the Hungarian Academy of Sciences that for long disregarded the 6000-year Hunnic history. According to Imre Josua Novák, even the Chinese and the Etruscan peoples are descendants of the Huns, while he gives evasive answers as to whose interest it would be to annihilate our prehistory.
PROTOBULGARIANS
The Protobulgarian tribe represented one of the two ethnic groups that established the First Bulgarian Kingdom in 680. Although the ruler class was predominantly Protobulgarian, only a very few documents in their language were found and after the introduction of the Cyrillic alphabet based on Old Church Slavonic in 889, there are no other traces of Protobulgarian literacy. Thus, the Protobulgarians and their culture remained hardly studied. During the communist times in Bulgaria, the role and the number of the Slavic tribes were overemphasised and the Protobulgarians were believed to be a nomadic tribe that remained at the early stages of cultural development.

Nowadays, there are new studies that explore the origin, the history and the culture of the Protobulgarians. According to them they had a well developed material and religious culture comparable to the civilizations of the Ancient East such as Babylon, Assyria and China. These theories date the Protobulgarians back to the time of the Biblical Flood, and are supported even by respected Bulgarian scholars, such as Petăr Dobrev and Veselin Beshevliev, and by the TangraTaNakra fund and publishing house. There are various nationalistic groups and organisations which promote the superiority of the Protobulgarians and try to revive their cult. Their most attractive activity is the revival of the old Protobulgarian martial art. There are three schools: the "Protobulgarian Survival School Bagatur" is organized by Raycho Gănchev and his family in 2000, active in trainings, horse riding, and tournaments and reproducing religious ceremonies of the Thracians, the Slavs and the Protobulgarians. Another school is the one organised by Veselin Milev, the inventor of the Protobulgarian martial art Bu Vey. The third group is the Shadows of Tangra. (Tangra is the supreme God in the Protobulgarian mythology.) They organise regularly Tangra Academies with the help of the Universal Tangra Society. The senior instructor of the school is Georgi Atanasov.
HUNNIC AND ANCIENT HUNGARIAN PIECES OF CLOTHING IN PRESENT-DAY HUNGARIAN WEAR
After the change of political system, ideas about the prehistory of Hungarians, scientifically often unfounded, intensified incredibly. The theory of Scythian-Hunnic-(Avar)-Ancient Hungarian continuity, which originates from the Middle Ages, is today mixed with ideas deriving from lay, root-searching, sub-cultural groups. Such ideas about the origin of Hungarians were largely supported from the period of Romanticism onwards; however, the following of a "prehistoric" lifestyle is a completely novel phenomenon. Among many, this manifests itself only in the application of a bio-regimen, for instance, while the idea of the yurt as an ideal living space, or nomadic animal husbandry as a means of maintaining the variety of species, also appears. In the construction of these experience-centric ideas, the atmospheric drawings of the state-founding Hungarians made by Gyula László received a main role. The clothing for sale in "Szkítia" shops, and primarily the poling, was made on the basis of the ideas of the archaeology professor. These pointed headdresses made of leather or felt, and trimmed with fur are increasingly popular. This headdress was considered as authentic wear by members of the movement aiming at the registration of a Hunnic national minority. The long caftan and the shorter mantle recalling the wear of Huns and prehistoric Hungarians is mainly used by traditionalist clubs, especially by mounted or foot archers. The leather belt bags decorated with metallic plates (tarsolylemez) can easily be called fashionable. Wearing of such bags together with pieces of present-day clothing is not unusual at all: it's a fashion which is markedly present in the Hungarian society today, and is getting more and more widespread.
RUNIC SCRIPT
Although we have many records testifying the Avar-Turkic origin of the runic script, many others are willing to add new aspects to it. Nowadays the most devout cultivators of this runic script are Gábor Szakács and Klára Friedrich, who aim at the cultivation of "our propriety charter to the Carpathian Basin" by means of organizing courses for children, competitions with hundreds of participants, and camps. According to the married couple, the runic script is the proof of the Sumerian-Scythian origin of the Magyars, and since they can point to many-thousand-year-old records of runic script as well, recovered by the Danube, it is obvious to them that the Hunnic-Magyar tribes did not come to the territory of Hungary for the first time in 896 A. D. After the Üngürüsz people, who were here in some undefined prehistoric time, the people of Hunor were the first homeland re-occupying tribe which crossed the chain of the Carpathians around the 13th to 9th century before Christ. Another five re-conquerings preceded the appearance of the seven Hungarian tribe leaders.
NATIVE POLISH CHURCH
The name of the Native Polish Church (Rodzimy Kościół Polski - RKP) is based on the example of the Native American Church. It was included in the register of churches and religious organizations functioning in Poland (under nr 95) in 1995. They believe in one god – named ŚWIĘTOWIT. Their aim is to reconstruct the religion of the ancient Slavs. Among the main objects of their cult one should mention the "Świętowit z Wolina," a 9,5 cm little statuette excavated in 1974 in Wolin, and "Ręce Boga" (krzyż prasłowiański) – "Hands of God" (called also Old Slavic Cross), an engraving on a vessel found in the Biała village near Łódź. The members of the RKP uncover and bend their heads before those symbols and touching them say: "This is Yours". During the prayer they put their left hand on the heart and their right hand on the belly, according to the bass-relief on the pillar of Zbrucz. The main Old Slavic feasts observed by RKP are the days of solstice: Godowe Święto (Nuptial Feast of December 21-22 – ritual dinner for the dead - so called "tryzna", putting up a "tree of life" in the house), Święto Ognia i Wody (Feast of Fire and Water, June 21-22 – making fire, walking on embers, ritual baths on the so called Noc Kupaly) and the equinox: Jare Święto (Spring Feast, March 21 – making fire, painting eggs).

Link to Rodzimy Kosciol Polski: http://www.rkp.w.activ.pl/
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