Ancient Armenia

[HyeFedayis]

ARATTA --The Land of the Mountains Where the Gods Live of the great Epic of Gilgamesh. The Land where the Garden of Eden -- the Tree of Life and the Tree of Wisdom is located...the Twin peaks of Mashu (Masis) - the SYMBOL of the holy Cosmic Mountain. When many of us hear this name we picture the birth and rebirth of humanity and human civilization in the sacred land in the highlands of ARMANIA. The Bible also recounts the ancient stories of Genesis, including the Paradise [birth of Humanity] and also the Rebirth of Humanity in the sacred Mountains of the Land of Ararat, the holy land where the resurrection of the human race took place.

 

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The modern Armenian name for the country was Hayk, later Hayastan. Hayasa, combined with the IE suffix '-stan' (land). Haik was one of the great Armenian leaders after whom the The Land of Haik was named. He is said to have settled at the foot of Mount Ararat, travelled to assist in building the Tower of Babel, and, after his return, defeated the Babylonian king Bel (believed by some researchers to be Nimrod) in 2492 BC near the mountains of Lake Van, in the southwestern part of historic Armenia (present-day eastern Turkey). Nairi, meaning "land of rivers", used to be an ancient name for Armenia and Armenians, used by Assyrians and Egyptians.

 

Haik (Haya in Armeni Sumerian) was a chieftain of the Armens, an Armenian tribe at the time of Aratta (The name also resembles Ararat, and the mountain is indeed located in the possible area of Aratta). Haik is also used in place of Orion, in the Armenian translation of the Bible. The traditional etiology for the ethnonym is from Armenak or Aram, the great-grandson of Haik's great-grandson, and another leader who is, according to Armenian tradition, the ancestor of all Armenians. Armani mentioned among the enemies defeated by the Akkadian king Naram-Sin (2300 BC), locating them in the southern Armenian Highland. The Assyrians (direct descendants of Akkadians) to this day refer Armenians by their inscription Armani.

 

Armenia has been populated since prehistoric times, and has been proposed as the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden. Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the Biblical mountains of Ararat, upon which Noah's Ark came to rest after the flood. (Gen. 8:4). In Armeni Sumerian records written ca. 2,700 BC, tells us the story of the Great Flood and the rebirth of Life [the Tree of Life or the Garden [Partez - Paradise - the main motif in the Armenian-Hurrian Mitanni and Araratian reliefs] of Eden located in Armenia - the Land of Four Rivers. Archeologists continue to uncover evidence that Armenia and the Armenian Highlands was the earliest site of human civilization. From 10,000 BC to 1000 BC, tools and trinkets of copper, bronze and iron were commonly produced in Armenia and traded in neighbouring lands where those metals were less abundant. Several states flourished in the area of Greater Armenia, including Aratta (Haik's time), mentioned in Armeni Sumerian records (3rd millennium BC), the Hittite Empire (at the height of its power), Mitanni (South-Western historic Armenia) and Hayasa-Azzi (15th - 12th cc BC), and in the Iron Age the Nairi people (12th - 9th cc BC) and the Kingdom of Urartu (9th - 6th cc BC), each participating in the ethnogenesis of the Armenian people. Yerevan, the modern capital of Armenia, was founded in 782 BC by the Urartian king Argishti I.

 

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Haik

 

This summer (August 11) marks the 4,500 year of Navasard (Haik's calendar). Haik (Orion) in ancient times in Armenia was the Sun of righteousness rising with healing in his wings. The 4 sides and 3 middle stars of Haik/Orion represent the 4 seasons and 3 months in each season, making the total of the 12 months. The 12 signs of the zodiac go around the same pattern 3 months, 4 seasons. Haik/Orion represents the Sun (Ar or Arev) rising with healing in his wings. Precession is shown in the lunar cycle of the 4 weeks (7's) 3 in each. The moon goes through the 12 signs, 2 half days in each sign completing the month. The 4 weeks (7's) make the ancient cross (khatch) symbol which shows the precession cycle. 3 signs of the 12 are in each of the 4 (7's)weeks. Going through the moon phases like how the swaying of precession would be from new moon, half moon, quarter moon, half again, and new again. Each 1000 years is a day so 2 half days is 2000 half years which it goes through of the 12 signs 2 half days in a month. So also the 2 meaning male and female 1000 in each. The cycle of life is like the seasons in a year. We go through darkness in winter and rise to life again at spring. The same with the Sun rising at Spring representing rebirth of life and path to eternal life.

 

Armenian Timeline:

 

Armenia: Cradle of Civilization (land of the 4 rivers)

* Areg dajar-Gobekli Tepe (Sun temple) in the Armenian Highlands of Ararat (Aratta) - (10,500 BC - ?BC)

* Flood and rebirth of nations on mountains of Ararat (Aratta) - (?BC - ?BC)

* Aratta (Armeni Sumerians) - (3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC)

* Haykazuni dynasty - (25th century BC - 17th century BC)

* Hurri-Mitanni and Hayasa-Azzi - (17th century BC - 12th century BC)

* Nairi - (12th century BC - 9th century BC)

* Urartu - (9th century BC - 6th century BC)

* Oriontid - (6th century BC - 2nd century BC)

 

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The word Armani - an early form of Armen-Armin [Armen or Arman denotes the national affiliation, as with many cultures standing for the particular nation thus, the God AR being the primary deity in the Indo-European (Aryan)pantheon - thus AR MAN denotes -- Men of Ar or Children of Ar, again initially AR standing for ARAREL-ARARICH [hence Ar-Ar-At the Place of ARAR] -- Create-Creator, also Sun, Light, Life and Love.

 

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The Armenian language is unique compared to all other languages. Hurrian and Sumerian cuneiforms indicate the unique 8 or 9 sounds that the Armenian language has in their letters. The IE(Aryan) roots are from the Armenian Highland, and the 8 or 9 unique sounds in Armenian is nothing similar to other IE peoples language. The Armenian language therefore is a independent language of IE and root of IE.

 

Jacquetta Hawkes, "The First Great Civilizations," London, 1967

 

"Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the North in their Armenian homeland, they entrenched themselves and build up the kingdom of Urartu."

 

M. Chahin, "The Kingdom of Armenia," London, 2001

 

"The new kingdom of Urartu, which proved to be the stronghold of the Hurrian race."

 

Queen Nefertiti of Egypt was a native of Mitanni. The Mittani Kingdom of Armenia was an off-shoot of the Hurrian kingdom. The Hurri and the Mittani in turn were the contemporaries the Hittites and the Hykos, within whom they shared many cultural and political aspects. Today, all these aforementioned nations are considered to be, in varying degrees, proto-Armenians, that is, we modern day Armenians are direct descendants of the remnants of those ancient tribes.

 

Whats your opinion on this type of history going way back?

[HyeFedayis]

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This Hurrian cuneiform inscription translates to "I dug this watercourse" in Armenian.

Rafael Ishkhanyan, "Illustrated History of Armenia," Yerevan, 1989

[neko]

The modern Armenian name for the country was Hayk, later Hayastan. Hayasa, combined with the IE suffix '-stan' (land). Haik was one of the great Armenian leaders after whom the The Land of Haik was named. He is said to have settled at the foot of Mount Ararat, travelled to assist in building the Tower of Babel, and, after his return, defeated the Babylonian king Bel (believed by some researchers to be Nimrod) in 2492 BC near the mountains of Lake Van, in the southwestern part of historic Armenia (present-day eastern Turkey). Nairi, meaning "land of rivers", used to be an ancient name for Armenia and Armenians, used by Assyrians and Egyptians.

 

The battle is said to have taken place in the valley of Hayotsdzor, near the castle of Haykaberd (which was built by Hayk). Maybe there was some real historical event behind it, but if so the battle would have been much later than 2492BC! Where does such a specific date come from?

Hayotsdzor is a big valley to the south-east of Van, and Haykaberd is actually an Urartian fortress (now known as Chavushtepe) from the 8th century BC or thereabouts. The legend was first written down by the 5th century AD historian Moses of Khorene. Anyone got the actual text they can post?

Edited January 10, 2007 by neko