I'm new to this history discussion.
I'm particularly interested in the origins of
Haye or Hayk.
I'm willing to see the interest in Hayk as
having a separate channel of transmission
from the actual ethnicity of the Armenians.
For example, I've read somewhere that the
Armenians could be an Indo-European people
who followed along with the Cimmerian or
Scythian movements into the region of
Armenia.
While the interest in Hai/Hayk may have
come from contact with a branch of the
Medes.
The advantage/disadvantage of these scenarios
is that we know very little about ANY of these
three groups (Cimmerians, Scythians, Medes).
But if we were to focus just on Hai/Hayk....where
does this name seem to come from?
George
