Huns
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Huns is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between November 11, 2021 and August 01, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “The idea they’re the Huns that invaded Rome is just plain false”; “400 AD, you get the Huns”; “Blame the Huns and the Goths”. It most often appears alongside Google, Constantinople, English.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: November 11, 2021
- Last seen: August 01, 2025
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- Google (3 shared issues)
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- Constantinople (2 shared issues)
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- English (2 shared issues)
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- facebook (2 shared issues)
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- Italy (2 shared issues)
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- Magyars (2 shared issues)
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- Napoleon (2 shared issues)
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- North America (2 shared issues)
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- Rome (2 shared issues)
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- Spain (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- 1000 (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The Hungarians are descended from steppe nomads to at least the extent that Americans are descendants of the English. You can equally say most Americans have very little English blood and have it be true but a weird take. Now, Magyarism as a nationalist ideology is full of weird false facts. The idea they're the Huns that invaded Rome is just plain false. But there's significant linguistic and cultural continuity between Hungarians and their ancestors in addition to a distinct ethnic gene cluster. The article you cited itself even says this. Now, do they have large amounts of Germanic (and even more Slavic) blood? Yes, absolutely.
“Oh yeah. You look at history, and once every two hundred, three hundred years they get their act together, form a big confederation, and invade either China, the West, or both. It’s like clockwork. 400 AD, you get the Huns. 700, the Magyars. 1000, the first Turks start moving west. 1200, Genghis Khan, killed 10% of the world population. 1400, Tamerlane, killed another 5%. 1650, the Ming-Qing transition in China, also killed 5%. We’re more than 50 years overdue at this point.”
Second, that in a maze of backstabbing politics, ineptitude, brutal criminality and betrayal within and without the government, of authorities who act like bandits and bandits who act like Huns, a saint can suddenly appear with the strength to rewrite history. When everything looks hopeless… you’re probably screwed! But you might not be. A saint might appear. It’s happened before. It can happen again.
We have no histories from contemporaries of Alexander the Great, just inscriptions, fragments quoted in later histories, et cetera. There were histories written, to be clear! We know they were written! We even know his general Ptolemy wrote one claiming to be his half-brother! We just don't have them any more because all existing copies have been lost or destroyed. Blame the Huns and the Goths, I suppose.