Едно проучване по повод съобщението на Прокопий Кесарийски за произхода на кутригурите и утигурите от „хуни-кимерийци“
On the Report of Procopius Caesariensis about the Origin of the Kutrigurians and the Utigurians from Huns, Called Cimmerians

Summary/Abstract: The Legend of the marvellous stag (Sage des Winderhirschen), delivered by some Byzantine historians of the 5th and 6th c. A.D., proves to go back to an old Cimmerian myth about the migration of Hunnic tribes to Europe, crossing the Cimmerian Bosphorus on the Azov Sea in the remote Bronze Age, following as if by prodigy a running stag, an event, repeated by Huns in the 4th c. A.D. That fabulous tradition is supported by some archeological and linguistic evidence. The Cimmerian daggers, the origin of which is traced to be from Central Asia, are comparable with the famous Mycenaean swords. The Cimmerian monumental anthropomorphous tombstones of the Bronze Age of the Black Sea coast are of Siberian origin as well. The Mycenaean Lin. B archives of the 15th – 13th c. B.C. provide proper names of the type: Kemeriji, Kune, Isewerijo etc., corresponding to the tribal names: Cimmerians, Huns, Sabir etc. Some presumable Turkic morphological and lexical elements are to be observed both in the Mycenaean pre-Greek language on the Balkans, and the languages of the Hurrians and thew Urartians in ancient Armenia and Mesopotamia. The name of the Hurrians participates as a second element in a series of Turkic tribal names: Kutriguri, Utiguri, Onoguri etc. and vice versa, the Assyrian sources call them Subari, like the Turkic tribe Sabir. A hypothesis could be put forward: about the 3rd mill. B.C. Siberian people related with the Turkic tribes moved both to Mesopotamia, and the region of the Black Sea, from where under the name of the Cimmerians they moved to the Balkans and participated in the Mycenaean civilization, leaving some relics in the languages and the proper names of the Palaeobalkan peoples.

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