It should be noted that I have received considerable criticism for publishing this article, from the so called Hungarian experts, who avoid this subject like its the plague.  They cite various reasons for the impossibility for the similarity between FinnUgor and Sumerian, which are to me all groundless.  Coincidental similarities of course exist and they need not be just a few words if we look at statistical probability theory. However I have gone through a lot of time and effort to develop the sound rules of Sumerian vis a vis proto Finnugor and can assure the reader that there is no randomness or coincidence involved, and the sheer number of shared terms prooves the likelihood that Sumerians originated from the north before settling in Mesopotamia. The identity of such a large number of titles and names for elementary gods cannot be just coincidence. Then are also the common motifs and similar behaviour of the same gods and goddesses which is also not random.  The idea proposed early by some amateurs that somehow the Sumerians influenced the northern FinnUgor people however now seems almost impossible and is certainly an unlikely explanation of these links, especially since the earliest ties were from before the appearance of the Sumerians in southern Messopotamia. Such ties as the Sumerian writing found at Tatarlak, in what is now Rumania, was Carbon-14 dated from 1000 years before the apearance of the identical writing style from Djemdet Nasr in Messopotamia.  There is  a comon thread and a common terms that are found not just in FinnUgor but often also in Altaic and Dravidian languages which in their early stages of development apear to be neighboring agglutinative language types of western Asia, along with the Sumerian, whose stories were the prototypes of the early stories of the Bible. This article is a very condensed listing of the many common terms, with only a short description of concepts.

Tripartate division of the cosmos

The cosmos was divided into three regions, the upper heavenly world of the gods, the middle world of humans, and the underworld. This tripartate structure is one of the oldest north Eurasian folk beliefs. /17 The three cosmic planes were joined together by the cosmic tree, and cosmic mountain or column located in the center of the world. The top of the mountain /column /tree was likened to the North Star to a hinge and a spoke of the "heavenly hinge", likewise the "north pin", the "celestial keeper", the "pole star" and the "heavenly pole"./17 This view was shared by most Finn-Ugor people and also by most Altaic languages /3 as well as the Sumerians. Probably even others.

Hungarians also called the celestial mountain the "glass mountain" because of its invisible nature representing as it were the atmosphere surrounding earth through which one can see the starry heavens. In Altaic mythology the cosmic mountain is at the center of the world, that makes connection
between earth and sky possible. The Tatars of Altai imagine Bai Ülgan in the middle of the sky, seated on a golden mountain./Radlov, Aus Sibirien, II, p6. The Mongols, the Buryat, the Kalmyk know it under the names of Sumbur, Sumur, or Sumer, which shows Indian influence ( = Mt Meru). It's summit is in the Pole Star, in the "Navel of the Sky". The Buryat say that the Pole Star is fastened to its summit. /Holmberg, Der Baum des Lebens, pp41,57; Finno-Ugrian and Siberian Mythology p341.

The Sumerians called the celestial mountain, the mountain of en-Lil, the air god and chief god on earth. The name of the great mountain was also known as KUR which connected heaven and earth together. /10 KUR by the way also means mountain in several Finn-Ugor languages./3 pg263.

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Sumerian kur =mountain, highland, foreign land. /2, pg167
Sumerian ur = mountain pass, roof, beam /28
Sumerian kur₄ =great > uru₁₆=huge, giant. /28
Sumerian é-kur =mountain house, pyramid, temple./10
Sumerian zi-kur-at, zi-gur-at =temple, "spirit-mountain-?"

1)FinnUgor *wore=point, peak, mountain./1,v3,pg503
-Finn korkea = height/3 pg263, vuori=mountain, peak.
-Zürjen kur =mountain/3 pg263,
-Zürjen ver=forrest (forrested mountain)/1,v3,pg503
-Cheremis kur-ok=mountain/3pg263
-Votjak gures, gurec=mountain/
-Ostjak karis, keres=mountain, height./3 pg263
-Hungarian -kora =big,high (me-kora?) /19
-Hungarian orm=peak [k>h>ø], mountain peak; or=pointed, peaked.

2)Altaic *k`uri=hill, embankment /18
-Mongolic *kür, /18
-Tungusic *xuré /18
-Korean *ko`ra'ŋ /18
-Japaneic *ku`ru`a /18

3)Dravidian horu=hil, mountain/21

These examples show that the term kur was an ancient term common amongst the 3 major neighboring agglutinative language families that were close to Proto Sumerian which later moved to early Mesopotamia, Uralic (north-west), Altaic (north-east), Dravidian (central-southern) and Sumerian which originally was their neighbors before the split up.

The Sumerians and FinnUgor languages appear to share a lot of mythological as well as basic terms. However the Sumerians couldn't
have given these terms to the to the Finn-Ugor people or Altaics from  Mesopotamia as some amateurs claim. Instead they themselves must
have broken out of the company or neighboring Ural-Altaic peoples before they moved to Mesopotamia before 3,500 BC. Some claim this occured after the great flood, told by the Sumerians. They already had the basic language links before they ever settled in
Mesopotamia into an area where Sumerian was isolated over time amongst totally different foreign language types like Semitic.

Originally both Sumerians and Finno-Ugrians imagined the world to have been created from the celestial/primeval sea. It is from this sea that heaven and earth are created as a united body, which then becomes separated by the birth and expansion of the air god. /10 There are some variations of the story of creation from the celestial sea, in Finnish, Hungarian, Ob-Ugrian but there are also many common features. The creation of the world from an egg is also common, or from land & seed brought up from the bed of the cosmic sea, whose Sumerian name is "nammu".

0)Sumerian nammu =goddess of the celestial sea, mother of the first gods./10 pg viii,
Sumerian nim =to be high, above, highland, prince, east, flying insect./13pg52
Sumerian an =sky god, chief god originally but later faded in importance.
Elamite num=high

1)FinnUgor
-Samoyed num (num=sky)/8pg68
-Vogul numi-tarem =the highest god >> sky god, father of the gods/8
-Vogul num=high, numi=highest.
-Ostjak no_, nu_, num [m>ø]=upper part, the top, heaven, sky;
-Lapp jubm-al [m>mb, #n>j] =the high god; /8 pg66
-Finn jum-ala [#n>j] =chief god>god; (ala=place/abode) /8 pg66
-Estonian jumm-al=god [#n>j]; tiavas=sky /8 pg66
-Cheremis jumo=god; juma=sky, chief god [n>j]/8 pg 68
-Zürjen jen =god, jen-es=sky [n>j]/8 pg68
-Samoyed njum /8 pg68 [#n>nj]
-Hungarian nem-es=high born, noble, pure; (meny=heaven.)/19
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-Mordvin men-il / Cham-páz (men-il=heaven) /8

--- another variation which is more common in Altaic languages

0)Sumerian tin =live, life, health [ŋ=ng > n] /28
Sumerian ding-ir =god (generic), symbolized by the star (i.e. heavens)/10
Sumerian dungu =cloud bank (<< atmosphere/weather?<< sky?) /28
Sumerian always seems to change medial d to a t, but in this case the
leading vowel may have been lost.
-Hattic (ancient Anatolia) is-tenu =sun god, Sunday (also Hittite) /30

1)FinnUgor
-Hungarian tünd-ér = spirit being, nymph [ng>nd] < godlike being. /19
-Hungarian is-ten-ri? > is-ten =ancient/one god or "iz-ten"=fire or spirit god;
-Hungarian tün = to appear, become visible; tünd-ök= to shimmer,shine.
-Finnish tun-ilma = atmosphere /Finnish-English dictionary

2) Altaic
Altaic teng-ri=god, sky; tin =spirits (including god spirits)
-Turkic tin =spirit, including godlike spirits;

3)Dravidian (India) tan-ri = god, sky father.
(tonru=be bright, visible, vision)/21

In both Sumerian and FinnUgor the original sky god often delegates to the air god various tasks of creation and in many examples we see that the
air/weather god replaces the old sky god in importance over time, substituting his original name for the generic word for god at times.

0)Sumerian _an =[ s>ø] up, sky, sky god, father of the gods./10; 3pg49
Sumerian dingir, dimir =god, symbolized by a star in the sky.
Sumerian imi =wind.

1)Finn-Ugor *saŋe =sky, sky god, chief god (ŋ~nk ) /1,v1,pg138
-Hungarian _ég =sky [*s- >h/ø] [*ŋ>g] /1,v1,pg138
-Lapp šan'n'e=weather; jubm-el=god /1,v1,pg138
-Ostjak yen-es=heaven; [s- > y] /1,v1,pg138
-Ostjak yen=chief god, sky god > god [s>y] /1,v1,pg138
-Zürjen syŋ-öd=sky > air /1,v1,pg138
-Votjak _in, inm-in=sky; [s- > ø] /1,v1,pg138
-Votjak _inm-ar=chief god, sky god; [s>ø] /1,v1,pg138
-Finn sää_ =sky>weather; [-N>ø] /1,v1,pg138

2)Altaic [*s>t] teng+ere > teng-ri=sky, chief god

3)Dravidian _an=upper part, an-ar=ascend, vin=sky [s- > ø] /21

-------------similarly--------------

-Turkic kök, gök =sky,blue;
-Ancient Elamite kak =sky The Elamites were the eastern neighbors of the Sumerians.
-Hungarian kék, kökény=blue < Turkic loan
-Hungarian _ég=sky < Uralic *saNe /1, v1,pg138

0)Sumerian LIL= breath, wind, to infect, spirit, /10
-Sumerian en-LIL=god of air, spirit, soul, chief god on earth./10
-Sumerian nin-LIL =wife of the air god is also well known as/10
an important creator goddess, her other names nin-ti=goddess of
life/ribb; and nin-hur-sag=goddess of the mountain of heaven/highland.
(of en-Lil) She helps create mankind with the help of Enki, god
of wisdom. /10

1)FinnUgor *lewle =damp air, breath, spirit, soul /1, v2, pg397
-Hungarian lég =atmosphere, levegö= air, lelk=soul, heart./19
-Estonian leili =damp, mist /1,v2,pg397
-Finnish löyly
-Lapp liew'lâ =steam
-Vogul lil = breath; lili=breath, soul./1,v2,pg397
-Zürjen low, lō, lul =air,life,soul,person
-Votjak lul=breath, steam, soul,spirit,heart,life /1,v2,pg 397

0)Sumerian al-ad =male protective spirit, life force. /28
-Sumerian al-aŋ (ŋ=ng) =the image, statue (of an idol) /
-Hurrian hal-di=chief god of Urartu /
-Hurrian halul-i/e=ceremony /23

1)Ugrian *ale(tte) =to bless, to stick to. /1 pg81
-Cheremis ult-ém=to pray /1 pg81
-Hungarian ál-d=to bless, üld-öz=to persecute, pursue./1pg81
-Hungarian ál-d-oz-at =a sacrifice (originally to an idol or god)
-Hungarian él-et=life. /19
-Hungarian al-ak =a form, an image, a likeness. /19
-Hungarian al-k-ot=create/1pg82

2)Altaic
-Chuvash to_ra=god, sky-heaven [?ng>ø]<< from *tengri or from FU or Scythian /8 pg67

3)Other
Hattic tar=sky & weather god
Scythian TAR as in Tar-gi-tar- =sky god who is father to man.

Wind/storm god (NIMUR/NIMRUD/NEMERE)

0)Sumerian imi, im = storm, weather, wind, direction. [*ilm> im]
Sumerian ni-im-ur-ta >>[m>n] ninurta="frightful storm + hero-giant ", the storm god 
which became Nimrud of the Bible. [ilm>im]

1) FinnUgor
-Hungarian nem-ere (north wind in Transylvania)>Nimrod the
ancestor of Hungarians, Huns and various Iranian groups according
to Hungarian mythology.
-Finn ilma-ri-nen, ilmar =wind, storm, weather> smith god/3pg227
-Lapp alm-ba, abme/3pg228
-Votjak inm-ar =air-sky god, in(m)=air-sky, [ -l>n]/3pg228
-Zürjen jen=air-sky/3pg227
-Vogul ilem =air-sky /3pg228
-Ostjak item=air-sky [l > t] /2pg228

Nimrud the old Sumerian strom god (Ninurta) in Assyria was later associated with the sun < heat and in Hungarian mythology
the father of various nations. The other meanings were more because of other Mesopotamian influence.

Sumerian nam =type, kind, sex. /19
Chaldee nim-ra= nation, clan (of common blood)
Hungarian nem-z-et=nation, clan (of common blood) /19
Hungarian nem =type, kind, sex; nem-z-=procreate./19

1)FinnUgor/Uralic *kac'a=young male (unattached) /1, v2,pg306
Ugrian *kuš =young man, twenty. /1, v2,pg311
Samoyed kodš, kotje, keec'=worker./1, v2,pg306
Hungarian hös' =hero; /1,v2,pg306;
Hungarian husz-ár = soldier>horse-soldier.(Europeans borrowed this from Hungarian)/19
Hungarian husz=20;/1, v2, pg311
Hungarian kusz =crawl on all fours (all twenty fingers and toes)/19
Hungarian kend = a title a traditional Hungarian wife used to call her man.
Hungarian katona =soldier, warrior. [c'>t] /19
Hungarian had = unit of soldiers,army; had-boru > háboru=war;

2) Altaic
Turkic gazi =hero, ( a loanword from Semitic?, which got it from Sumerian.)

3)Dravidian gandu =man, male, husband, manliness, strength, bravery etc./21
Dravidian kantan =warrior, husband /21

0)Sumerian gúl-a =creator/mother goddess (once 3rd in rank of gods) -Sumerian ba-ú = mother goddess, great mother, giver of life, food,
pastureage etc.
-Sumerian baba =another title of Baú the giver of life.
-Sumerian Ba-ú + dug =BAU the glad/sweet>> Hungarian bodog=glad/happy?
-Sumerian Gal-ama=great mother; (Gal=big, ama=mother)
-Sumerian Gúla=life giver; BA-ú =giver of food etc, all same.

1) FinnUgor
-Vogul Kal-tës ankw, mother of 7 gods, wife of the sky god, recorder of fate./8 pg84
-Votjak Kil-d-isin ="birth giving great mother", creator; (isin?aszony)
-Cheremis Kugu-sothson
-Mordvin Ange patáy =great mother goddess/8pg109,107
They painted eggs to her honor in Spring.
-Mordvin Pakse patáy = 3rd daughter of the mother goddess, gardens & plants.
-Ostjak (northern) Puges =mother goddess.
-Hungarian Nagy Boldog-asszony, also called Baba, Báb
-Hungarian Bódog =happiness, plenty, pregnant, name of the great mothergoddes..

3)Dravidian >>Hindu Kali =the black goddess of birth and death.

The early Indo-Europeans, (Greeks, Romans, Romance, Germanic people) the ancestors of most European languages except Hungarian, Finnish,
Estonian, Basque and many dead languages, had no goddesses except the goddess of dawn. They adopted local goddesses later after settling
amongst other cultures. Thus their goddesses are unrelated to one another between different branches of the Indo European language tree.

0) Sumerian dingir In-ana =goddess of love and war, fertilizing  
young goddess, Venus. A heavenly goddess, younger daughter of the moon god.

1) Hungarian szép asszony ="beautiful", youngest of the daughters of
Nagy Asszony. Under Christianity she became demonized as a troublemaker.
-Hungarian tündér Ilona =queen of the fairies (?) [ dingir/dimir > tündér]
Ilona is the Europanization (Helen) of the old name Ilma =air?

2) Altaic ??(only in Japanese?)
-Old Japanese nop.u =day >> no (nipon >> nihon) [*p>h]

3)Dravidian anapu =fire, heat; nipp=to kindle; nep=burning coal./21

Others
-Egyptian nab= sun,golden < light/fiery color; /22.

------- other names for the sun/time god. -------

-Sumerian utu =sun god, time god; sun of the moon god;/L379; 2pg475 < ?hud=bright
-Sumerian id₄=month; / t>s izi=fire;

2)Altaic
-Turk-Uigur ödü,udu =time, sun; /3 pg 319
-Turk-Chagatai  öt =sun /3 pg319

-Hungarian idö =time, (+járás)=weather /19 << ?Turkic or Scythian loan
-Scythian oeto -syr(us) =sun god /Herodotus, "Scythians",5^th cent BC

Sometimes Magor is also called a "sun god" in today's Hungarian literature, this is doubtful since it is based more on the Greek "Makar" than it
is on Hungarian! Magor meant seed, semen originally not the Sun. The following links are much closer in meaning. The progenitor/ancestor
god Magor also brings up the seed of life from the bottom of the celestial sea in old Hungarian legends./Magyar Adorjan.
In FinnUgor *muŋke =seed, semen, self, which has its Dravidian equivalents also. In ObUgrian Meŋke is the god of hunting,forrest and
protector of man. As a progenitor of man Nimrod also seems to be closely linked to the ObUgrian Meŋk in meaning and function. "Nimrod, great hunter before the lord" is stated in the Bible. Yet in Chaldean and other early Mesopotamian Nim means progenitor as it also does in Hungarian and even in Sumerian it can mean "seeder", "to sow seeds and plant".

0)Mesopotamian ? *ku-na
-Akkadian ku =moon/6
-Sumerian _id _4,8, =moon, month, moonlight [k>h>ø]
-Sumerian had =to shine brightly [k>h]
-Sumerian na-na =moon god< related to Ugrian naj< /STRONG > =sun/fire /10
yet it strangely resembles the reduplication of the Ugrian term for sun/fire-light, which is "nay" > naynay> na-na.
-Sumerian zu-en >> enzu =wise lord, title of the moon god./10