Prince Csaba

In Hungarian mythology, Csaba was the son of Attila, King of the Huns. A skilled warrior, he led the Huns to victory over every enemy army that attacked them.

But after Csaba's death, the Huns had no one to take his place. Seizing their chance, the enemies of the Huns launched an assault on the Hun kingdom. As they met on the field of battle, the enemy generals mocked the Huns, saying "and who will save you now that Csaba is gone?"But no sooner had those words been spoken than a bright pathway of stars (the Milky Way) appeared in the sky and Csaba rode down it at the head of a whole army of spirit warriors. Csaba and his army routed the invaders and saved the Huns once again, and three more times he returned down the "Skyway of the Warriors" to defend his people, and according to some versions of the legend, he was seen once more several centuries later leading Árpád and the Hungarians, brother tribe of the Huns, over the Carpathians and into the land that became Hungary.

In detail the mythology

Following Attila's untimely death resulting from an assassination plot, the German tribes of the Hun Empire turned against the Huns. Fierce battles ensued. One of the Hun tribes, the Székely people of Transylvania, stood guarding the Hun positions in the Eastern Carpathians while Attila's sons led the military campaigns against the enemies of the Hun Empire. Csaba, Attila's youngest son promised the Székely people that he would return with reinforcements from the East to protect them against the enemies of the Huns. This he did on several occasions as the neighbourhing peoples continued their aggressions against the Huns.

Even long after Csaba had joined his ancestors among the stars of the heavens, his army of invincible Hun warriors returned from the other world along the starry path of the Milky Way, which the Hungarians call "Hadak Útja", the road of the warriors, in order to defend the Székelys. This story represents the firm knowledge that the Huns will return to protect their kinsmen against foreign aggression, and their determination never to give up the Carpathians: this region was the heart of the Hun Empire and had always belonged to their kind. [http://www.hunmagyar.org/mondak/hun.html]