Bulgarian State Tradition and its Delivery to Europe.The Deluge: Oldest Written Evidences and Migrations of Bulgarians.

Yavor Y. Shopov1, Petko Dimitrov2, Dimitar Dimitrov2 and Bono Shkodrov
1 Institute of Ancient Civilizations, Sofia 1164, Bulgaria. E-mail: YYShopov@Yahoo.com
2 Section of Sea Geology and Archeology of the Institute of Oceanology of BAS, Varna, Bulgaria.

Abstract
We studied the earliest version of the Deluge story, which was found on two clay tablets excavated
from the Older Nippur library in “Tablet Hill”, Nippur by H. Hilprecht. These two tablets with cuneiform
inscriptions were written by the tsar (emperor) of Kutians Erridu- pizir after he conquered the whole Sumer
and Akkad in 2478 B.C. (accordingly the Nippur chronology). They state that the house-boat of the Ut-
napishtim (the Babylonian Noah) landed on the mount Nisir in the land of Kuti (Guti).
We studied the history of people of Kuti and demonstrated that national name Kuti is older version of
Kutiguri (the biggest branch of ancient Bulgarians living in the Great Bulgar in VI- VII-th century AD). The
affix -guri means people in ancient Bulgarian language, i.e. Kutiguri means “people of Kuti”. This result links
the ancient Bulgarians with the land of Kuti where landed the house-boat of Ut- napishtim. Therefore we
studied the locations of the Kuti by toponims and hydronames they left in Asia. We placed them on the map
to obtain a map of their settlements. We studied the ceramic fragments left by Kutians found at these
locations and compared them with ceramics found in Bulgaria. Using the drawing patterns on these artifacts
we found that Kutians were leaving in Bulgaria in the first half of the 6-th millennium B.P. and letter
migrated south perhaps in result of the Flood. They established settlements in Zagros Mts in Iran in the
beginning of the 4-th millennium B.P. Probably Erridu- pizir considered these territories under “land of
Kuti”.
We found in Iran 210 toponims and hydronames formed on the base of Kuti. We studied the
morphology of these ancient Bulgarian ethnonims. They are compared with Bulgarian ethnonims in Bulgaria
and in the ancient states of Volga Bulgar and the Great Bulgar, and with synthetic toponims formed from the
same base with the same suffixes as these forming the toponims in Bulgaria. This way we determined the
different Bulgarian toponims in Iran, which coincide with the theoretical (synthetic) Bulgarian toponims. 68
of them still exist not only in Iran, but also in Bulgaria, the Great Bulgar or Volga Bulgar territories (now in
Ukraine and Russia).
We found also many toponims in Iran, which coincide with the names of the major cities and peaks in
Bulgaria, which were named by ancient Bulgarians (Varna, Burgas, Madara, Balkan etc.). Some of them form
the name of up to 43 different places in Iran each (they are repeated in up to 43 toponims each).
Using toponims we demonstrated that ancient Bulgarians migrated to Europe from the Kushan Empire
after its decomposition. Then they found Bulgarian state tradition in Europe.