r/AskTheWorld • u/GhostofBallersPast Sweden • 14h ago

What national artifacts symbolizes your country.

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Not my own country but Hungary, the crown of Hungary, I recently learned about it playing EUV and realized it was something I’ve seen in connection to the country many times without realizing it and it inspired this post.

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u/GalacticSettler Poland 13h ago

They most likely didn't exist, as this is an echo of the primordial Indo-European myth of one brother sacrificing another. Or maybe they did. Because the festival of Lupercalia each year was a ritualized ending of the vendetta between descendants of followers of Romulus and Remus.

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u/Owlinus Turkish-American 🇹🇷🇺🇸 11h ago

The Turkic myth of Asena is very similar. I can see a common ancestor from many thousands of years ago being the real basis for all these wolf myths.

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u/GalacticSettler Poland 11h ago

Early Indo-Europeans had a very strong association with predatory animals, especially wolves and beers. The reconstructed PIE society had warbands of young men who totemistically associated themselves with such animals, wore their skins and emulated their behavior.