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Tir (Armenian: Տիր) is the god of written language, schooling, rhetoric, wisdom, and the arts in Armenian mythology. [1] [2]He was considered to be the scribe and messenger of the chief god Aramazd, [3] as well as a fortune teller and interpreter of dreams, who recorded the good and bad deeds of men and guided souls to the underworld. [1]
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In Classical Armenian, Haykʻ is the nominative plural of hay , the Armenian word for "Armenian." [ 2 ] While Robert W. Thomson considers the etymology of Haykʻ (Հայք) from Hayk (Հայկ) to be impossible, [ 2 ] other scholars consider the connection between the two to be obvious and derive Hayk from hay / Haykʻ via the suffix -ik . [ 4 ]
[17] Besides including a great amount of Classical Armenian words, [3] [21] many word forms in the Karabakh dialect come directly from the Proto-Indo-European language. [22] The Armenian Highland had been under foreign domination (Arabic, Turkic, Persian, Russian) for centuries and the Karabakh dialect, similar to other Armenian dialects ...
Spandaramet (Armenian: Սպանդարամետ) or Sandaramet (Սանդարամետ) was the Armenian name of the Zoroastrian yazata (angelic divinity) Spenta Armaiti, [1] [2] one of the six Amesha Spentas, and the guardian of the earth. [3] The name is attested in two forms in Armenian.
The merging of the two words of Ahura Mazda first appears in the Old Persian section of the Behistun Inscription, carved by the Achaemenid King of Kings Darius the Great (r. 522 – 486 BC), who refers to the deity as Auramazdāha. [4] Avestan documents continued to spell the name with two words, a form which may have been accepted in Armenia. [5]
In his History of Armenia, the Armenian writer Movses Khorenatsi identified Azhdahak with the Median king Astyages (r. 564–550 BC ). [ 1 ] Astyages' name (which is the Greek transliteration of the Old Iranian *Aršti-vaiga ) was similar to that of Azhdahak, and the name Māda ('Mede') was pronounced in Armenian as mar , which means snake in ...
During the 1st half of the 17th century, monk Movses Syunetsi built a monastery complex with the financial support of the residents of Yerevan. The complex was made up of the Surp Astvatsatsin church, the chapel of Saint Anania, as well as of chambers for the members of the congregation and the prelacy building, all enclosed with fortified walls.