Armen Davtyan - Sumero-armenian Connection

[hagopn]

I have been reading the latest book by Armen Davtyan, something that he humbly claims to be a sketch, and it is hardly that.

 

1. Over 600 cognates between the two languages.

2. Symbolic and rebus affinity exceeding any other possibility: i.e. the closest language to Sumerian has no other candidate than Armenian.

3. Astronomical, astrological, and mythological parallels are abundant.

4. Revisited is the connection with Aratta. Artak Movsesian had done a good job on that previous. Mr. Davtyan expands further on this.

5. Recent discoveries of rock carvings on Massis proving Sumerian symbology and its origins in Armenia.

 

After a recent lecture in Los Angeles, I asked Mr. Davtyan when he was here what his thoughts were in publishing, and his response was that he will publish nothing until he is certain all the relevant source material has been exhaustively researched.

 

Well! That seems to be a hell of an improvement on the pseudo-Armenology being paraded in the West and former USSR (which is still a slight improvement.)

 

Mr. Davtyan did comment on the amount of resistance he has faced by the mere suggestion of researching the Sumero-Armenian relations. He is aware of the westernized anti-Armenian prejudices and biases that plague the pseudo-Armenological circles.

 

There is much reverberation of that pseudo-Armenology here. For example, despite thorough research done by Hovik Nersesian, it is believed by some that "Anahita" is not a native Armenian deity. That is a problem with 1) lack of translated material and 2) lack of genuine scholarship in the west in the Armenian studies field.

 

Edited June 18, 2007 by hagopn