Juan Móricz

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'''Juan Móricz''' (Hungarian: '''Móricz János'''; 1923-1991) was a [[Hungarian]]-[[Argentina|Argentine]] explorer.

==Magyar madness==
Móricz wrote a pamphlet entitled ''El Origen Americano de Pueblos Europeos'' ("The American origin of European peoples"), which consists of a series of pseudohistorical claims regarding Eurasia, the Americas, and [[Pre-Columbian contact hypotheses|pre-Columbian contact]]. These include: that the [[Sumerians]], Hungarians, and Iberians originally came from the Americas; that the sparsely attested {{wpl|Puruhá language}} was Hungarian; that the Basques belong to the same "[[Racialism|racial]] [[Pseudolinguistics|and linguistic]] branch as the Huns"; and that [[Nationalist pseudohistory|various indigenous peoples of the Americans are Huns.]]<ref>[https://www.scribd.com/doc/148783924/Juan-Moricz-El-Origen-Americano-de-Pueblos-Europeos El Origen Americano de Pueblos Europeos] by Juan Móricz (1968) Asociación de Estudios Históricos.</ref>

In the pamphlet, Móricz also claims that the {{wpl|Tsafiki language}} of the indigenous Tsáchila of Santo Domingo de los Colorados and the {{wpl|Cha'palaa language}} of the Cayapas (or {{wpl|Chachi people}}) are actually "old Hungarian." Now, if true, this would be not just earth-shattering, but also very easy to prove. All Móricz would have to do would be to provide texts that are substantially the same in the languages in question. For instance, one might juxtapose Hungarian and Tsafiki versions of a Tsáchila folk tale, or perhaps Hungarian and Cha'palaa versions of the {{wpl|Lord's Prayer}}. Such evidence, if it were genuine, would be enough to silence any potential critics and cow them into submission. Instead, what does Móricz do? He immediately moves on to ramble about his other crank ideas while having failed to provide any multilingual texts or even lists of supposed cognates to support his wild assertions about these languages.

==Bibliography==
*''História Documentada del Descubrimiento de las Cuevas de los Tayos'' by Gerardo Peña Matheus & Juan Móricz Opos (2011). ISBN 9942032991. "Collection of documents on the author's witnessing of the discovery of the Tayos caves by Juan Móricz Opos in 1969 with reference to [[Erich von Däniken]]'s interest in the caves."<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/historia-documentada-del-descubrimiento-de-las-cuevas-de-los-tayos/oclc/812658481&referer=brief_results Historia documentada del descubrimiento de las Cuevas de los Tayos] WorldCat</ref>
*''Üzenet az Istenektől? Móricz János Legendáriumának Nyomában'' by Zele Richárd (2012) Magánkiad. ISBN 963084110X.

==See also==
*[[1421 theory]]
*''[[The Viking and the Red Man]]''
*[[Welsh Indians]]

==External links==
*[https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/21935/were-there-hungarian-speaking-indians-in-south-america Were there Hungarian speaking Indians in South America?]

==References==
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