'Aratta Armenian City - State'

[hagopn]

The lack of vowels is directly related to the fact that we have learned of Sumerian lexicon through Akkadian bilingual inscriptions, dicitonaries and other instructional tablets. the phonetical study the Akkadian priesthood carried out is our only source of Sumerian phonetics.

 

People simply do not know the primary evidence and they swallow whole seconary biased trash.

 

I wish I had the time to dig back into the books as I did in my twenties, but right now I don't feel like debating zombies. Sorry.

 

To all of you, including you TB, who understands the actual issue at hand, more power to you. To the rest who insist on taking politicized history as if it ws faxed from Heaven University, good luck in life for now. I am tired and weary.

 

You know I like you Domino, but you are simply wrong about Armenian ancient history. In fact, you are often wrong about history when it comes to make sense of things. I know you'll be hurt to hear this, but it's true. Western narrative of Armenian history has so often been so wrong or wrongheaded that it would be more efficient to dismiss it altogether and start all over again. I won't make up Germans' or Hungarians' history for them, and will be grateful if they don't try to fit their prejudices into my history. I am advocating no more than critical thinking, respecting hard evidence, respecting lack of hard evidence, reason, and common sense. If one follows a reason-dictated path, there is no way one would arrive at the Western-dictated narrative. At the end of one of Samuel Noah Cramer's books on Sumer, you'll find a glossary, where Sumerian "ururu" (an obvious cognate of Armenian "Oror", and for all we know "ururu" might have been pronounced "oror", given the limitations in deciphering vowels) is given as "lullaby". It's hard to believe that he was unaware of the connection. He probably used Armenian to decipher that and some other words. It's useful to know that he spent a lot of time in the archaelogical museum of Istanbul, and no doubt made good friends there. You see, it would be rude of him to connect Aratta to the Sumerians . He said it was a city in "western persia", oh darn, just short of Armenian highland, yet gives no reason for such placement, even though the known location Ararat-Urartu is screaming at both him and the reader. You don't have to take such "coincidence" at face value either. Sumerians had no reason whatsoever to have special dealings with some obscure place "in western persia". They had ample reason to travel upstream the two rivers that brought life, quite literally, to their country. And they in fact revered the northern highlands as the place that brought them life.

 

As far as when to date the start of a coherent beginning of an Armenian nation, you must know that there was a very scientific study (Gray & Atkinson) that, among other things, assigned the "split" of Armenian from the Indo-European tree at about 5000 years ago. If a coherent Armenian "nation" (group, tribe, whatever) was forged from a soup of diverse peoples at 600 BC, it would have left a profound linguistic signal that would have been screaming the date at us. Guess what? There isn't such a signal. The only "signal" we have is the split 5000 years ago. On the other hand, to me, the oldest "written" record of Armenian presence is Hayasa-Azzi (circa 1400 BC, and it's not surprising that they would take many centuries to become a distinct and serious contender to the Hittites, the more dominant fellow Indo-Europeans living on adjacent lands, and Hagop would say they were one and the same, and I am open to the possibility). Any serious doubt about the full Armenianness of Hayasa-Azzi is indicative of extreme bias, innocent or otherwise.

 

As far as I know, Phrygian is a poorly attested language. There is simply not enough of it on record to make any specific inferences. That was also why it wasn't included in the Gray & Atkinson study. There simply isn't enough of it there to support an unbiased, scientific analysis. Whatever the case may be, a similarity, borrowed or otherwise, between two indo-european languages spoken by two nations living in the same vicinity for a while is not particularly shocking and does not necessiate cooking up stories of Armenians being Phrygian colonists and an Armenian nation beamed into existence and utter dominance in eastern Asia Minor, completely displacing the "urartu" with no record of their "arrival" from the west at anywhere near the time in question. And complete eradication of an earlier culture so completely in a few decades is a feat that few if any of the "aggressive" nations have ever accomplished, and is completely out of character for Armenians as attested by their entire history whether you start it from 3000 BC, 1400 BC, or 550 BC. It's laughable if it weren't regarded as the "orthodox" view by lousy academics that live in industrialized and powerful countries.

 

All of this were discussed in this forum before for the benefit of those readers with ability to reason. To no avail it seems.

 

Revise your thinking.

 

[hagopn]

The Phrygians invaded the Hittite empire and played a rôle in its destruction. Isen't this recorded? The dates correspond with the years which the migration is believed to have happened then infiltrated Urartu at about that period (1200-1100 BC) to then the mountainous province of Shupria probably. The Hayasa themselves joined the forces against the Hittites.

 

certainly. These were states from a larger theater of ethnically related groupings.

 

In recent european history you have the Prussian invade and conquer the Germanic Elector states, whereas the Electors were strongly pro-Polish in their political leanings.

 

There are hundreds of other examples, but, to prove the obvious is something I am weary of.

 

Good bye.

[Twilight Bark]

The Phrygians invaded the Hittite empire and played a rôle in its destruction. Isen't this recorded?

The Phrygians. Not Hyes.

 

The dates correspond with the years which the migration is believed to have happened then infiltrated Urartu at about that period (1200-1100 BC) to then the mountainous province of Shupria probably.

And those extremely warlike tribes stayed dormant and unrecorded under Urartu while Urartu arose, got recorded in the Assyrian archives, and when the Urartu state collapsed, they all of a sudden became the dominant group? And not before?

 

We know little about Hayasa language, they may have mixed with the Phrygians as like with other natives.

Hayasa means "Of Hyes" or in the context "Hyeland" in Hittite. Azzi is screaming at us as the word "Az(k)" in Armenian, which means "nation", or "clan" (as in azkagan). They were neighbors and rivals with indo-european speaking Hittites. That's all I need to know.

 

The word Hay may have been coincidencial or they may have taken the name from the location.

Well, the word Turk in Gok-Turk may be a "coincidence" too, but nobody, least of all the Turks, take that kind of silly "probability" seriously. Nor should they.

 

King Arame (858-844 BC) may have been ''Armenian'' or from the founding ethnic groups of the future defined identity, he might have been an Armeni (the tribe refered from the insciption of Sargon I).

King Aram fits right into Khorenatsi's recording of the oral history. If the carriers of Armenian oral history reflect the fact that Armenians regarded Aram as one of them, that's much more important than which anthropological tribe Aram may have descended from 20000 years ago. And this kind of demand for unnecessary proving the obvious should be left to those with hostile agendas.

 

In your narrative, there is no explanation for the sudden appearance of Yervantuni dynasty, with a fully dominant Armenian population in the Urartu domain. If Armenians were a nonentity before then, how come they replaced the supposedly different "Urartu people" so thoroughly after the collpase of the Urartu state? They would have to stay dormant since the time of Phrygian invasions, and then must have risen up and completely exterminated the "Urartu people" so as to completely erase any memory of an Urartu nation. Such a cataclysmic event might have gone unrecorded in subsaharan Africa, but not at the center of civilization of the time. On the other hand, the non-Persian part of the Behistun inscription refers to Armenia as Urartu or some variation of it. Clearly, the two were synonymous at the time. The "change" from "Urartu" to "Armenia" was nothing more than a change of dynasty, and not a major event.

 

Anyway, I have really real things to attend to right now. It's your choice whether you think independently or not.

Edited March 17, 2008 by Twilight Bark

[Twilight Bark]

To all of you, including you TB, who understands the actual issue at hand, more power to you. To the rest who insist on taking politicized history as if it ws faxed from Heaven University, good luck in life for now. I am tired and weary.

Oh, I just got sucked into posting here because of the propagandistic posts on shenanigans in Armenia. I really should stop too.

[hagopn]

Azeris have nothing to do with Caucasian Albanians. Azeris claim they are decendants of Caucasian Albanians when in fact they are a Turkic people, who speak a Turkic language and have Turkic origin (invaders from Central Asia into Caucasus in the Middle Ages). The Azeris NEVER had an alphabet of their own and used Arabic, Cyrillic and Latin script for their TURKIC words. Please do not repeat the same false 'arguments' used by the 'Azeris' themselves. I remind you what these 'Azeris' were known as as late as 1930s.

 

The study that I noted by those two renowned scholars (which included Phrygian amongst the nearly 90 languages) is once again fundamental in this regard. Armenia IS the Cradle of Indo-Europeans.

 

check this thread http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=81...art=#entry78917

 

Check the argument that went on between an Azeri posing as "Gino" and myself.

[hagopn]

Oh, I just got sucked into posting here because of the propagandistic posts on shenanigans in Armenia. I really should stop too.

 

Ah, come on, you could have fooled me. You seem to know the topic well and the enrgy to express your opinion on it. I am not in the position to argue this topic as I was in the past, though, honestly.

[Twilight Bark]

Ah, come on, you could have fooled me. You seem to know the topic well and the enrgy to express your opinion on it. I am not in the position to argue this topic as I was in the past, though, honestly.

But that's the truth. I am sure you know the phrase "running on vapor".

 

[MosJan]

Oh, I just got sucked into posting here because of the propagandistic posts on shenanigans in Armenia. I really should stop too.

 

 

 

 

 

TB jan this place is like hotel California for me - You can checkout any time you like,

But you can never leave!

[Ashot]

Rough update has been made to www.arattakingdom.com

For more information regarding the topic please refer to the website!

[Aratta-Kingdom]

Aratta: The Land of Gods And The Cosmic Mountain

 

 

 

 

 

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 – 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 Armenia. The Bible also recounts the ancient storied 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. The twin Peaks of Mount Ararat are in the heart of Armenia, and from a bipolar geographical objective one can argue that of the world. They are symbolic of the Holy Mountains of the Land of Aratta/Ararat [ Kuti-Buti-mountain range in the Sumerian inscription and the Al-Judi of the later Islamic writings] --- the location of Ararat/Ararad in the Korduk Procince in the southern section of the Armenian Plateau [ The Twin Peak Masis in the Ayrarat Province being the SYMBOL of Armenia-Ararat ---Land of the Holy Mountains ] . Since times immemorial Ararat [also Ayrarat in Armenian sources, Aratta in Sumerian inscription, Urartu in Assyrian inscriptions and Ararat in Hebrew sources [ the reference in the Book of Jubilees states: ‘Ur built his city after his won name Ar.A’ in fact the Sumerian city of Ur was alternatively known as ARA which stood for the Solar Deity in the Armenian Pantheon and in Sumerian means Shining and also City implying the fact that the very Civilization is associated with Light/Knowledge/Sun ] has been a Holy Mountain and a Holy land ofr the peoples of the ancient world. The Sumerians that were of Armenid extraction had established one of the first centers of civilization in the lower part of Mesopotamia. They were the descendants of the shamanic high priests of ARMAN – ARAM of Subartu-Aratta of Metsamor (Medzamor), Ur-Hai [ Urfa, later Edessa the ORION center], Harran, Gobekli Tepe [Navel Mountain – translation of ancient Arman name associated with Female + Male union], Nevali Cori, Cayonu and Catal Huyuk. The Sumerians inhabited Armenian Highland and gradually descended to first Northern Mesopotamia and eventually spread further south, establishing the cities of Ur [ excavated by Sir Leonard Wooley in the 1920s] , Uruk and Eridu [ note the sacred AR-MAN variations --- AR-UR-ER-OR prefix]. Fortunately a number of Sumerian inscriptions dating from somewhere between 2750 and 2500 BC have been preserved. They give us fascinating glimpse into the Sumerian origins and culture. In the great EPIC OF GILGAMESH , the Sumerians recount THE LAND OF THEIR ANCESTORS, THE ARATTANS IN THE HIGHLANDS OF ARMENIA. The Epic of Gilgamesh written ca. 2700 BC, tells us the story of the GREAT FLOOD and the rebirth of Life [ the Tree of Life or the Garden [ PARTEZ – PARADIZE – the main motif in the Armenian – Hurrian – Mitanni – Araratian reliefs ] of Eden located in Armenia – the Land of Four Rivers. Aratta [ Subari- Sumerians also known as Suberians and called themselves Shinar[ar]s was in fact the first Indo-European state that existed in the first half of the third millennium BC. Land of Nairi (Armenia) literary means the Land of Waters and Fire – that is symbolic of the Armenian Highland of many rivers and lakes and the fiery volcanic mountains- with Tigris and Euphrates originating in the sacred highlands and flowing downward to south thus nourishing and giving Life to the land between the two rivers and the Fertile Crescent that is otherwise surrounded by scorching deserts. The Sumerians note that the their ancestors the Arattans – from AR-AR-AR. AR-AR [Ararich – the Creator] being a plural form or the Supreme God. According to the Sumerian inscriptions, the Arratan ancestors established a divine Kingdom and civilization, and ultimately carried it to the four corners of the world –including among others the Sumerian cities of Ur [in Sumerian Ur or ARA literally means Shining/Bright/Light the Solar Deity in the Armenian Pantheon carries that name] and Uruk. The inscriptions also tell us that the Arattans were outstanding horsemen – the tradition of the Armenian warrior horsemen [the Ayrudzi] would continue down the many millennia, distinguishing itself in the battlefields.

 

 

 

The Armenid Sumerians’ primary deity was the amphibious God EA-HAYA. The God of Wisdom with the appearance of half-man half-fish.

 

Son of Haya, was Dumuzi symbolic of the sacred – ORION – in the Armenian priestly astrology representative of Hay[a]k -- Child of God HAYA-EA [Eut’iwn]. The Armenian Temple City of Urha – Orrheone [later Urfa ] being one of the most important ancient centers of the solar cult of Orion [ Hayk ] renowned throughout the ancient world. The Armenic Sumerians used the ancient name Uru-anna [lit. the Light of Heaven]. In Armenia, the same place as described in the Bible as being where Nimrod [ Nemrut ] built his major cities we find the origin of the celestial cult of Orion.

 

Aldebaran is one of the easier stars to find in the night sky, partly due to its brightness and partly due to its spatial relation to one of the more noticeable asterisms in the sky. If one follows the three stars of Orion’s belt from left to right [in the Northern Hemisphere ] or right to left [in the Southern], the first bright star found by continuing that line is Aldebaran.

 

Astrologically, Aldebaran was a fortunate star, portending riches and honor. This star is one of the four “royal stars” of the Armenic ancestors. As the star of illumination, Aldebaran irradiates the Way using the applied power of transformation. In seeking illumination, we can cultivate the ability to use the mind as a reflector of soul light. The other three Royal Stars are Antares in the constellation Scorpio the Scorpion, the Western Royal Star, Regulus in the constellation Leo the Lion, the Northern Royal Star, and Fomalhaut in the constellation Pisces Austrinus, the Southern Fish - close to the constellation Aquarius - the Southern Royal Star. This brilliant star, has been used for centuries in navigation, and is known by many civilizations to be connected with the spirits of rain and the fertility of the Earth. Approximately 5000 years ago, the rising of Aldebaran marked the vernal equinox and was the beginning of the astronomical New Year.

 

 

 

The Age of Gemini brought about the worship of the twin-gods symbolized by the Twin Mountain [ -Mount Masis being but a prominent symbol – of the Land of Ararad/Ararat]. The later off-shoot Phoenician, Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Verdic cultures are testimony to the cult of the Twins [ Sanasar and Baghdasar according to the archetypical arcane Cosmic Epic – The Daredevils of Sasum, born from Tsovinar - Creatrix Mother Goddess Quantum Ocean of Life] –born of the mating of the universal male principle symbolized by the Sun and universal female principle symbolized by Earth and the Moon. Since Gemini is the sigh of writing and communication, we find that new languages were discovered and spread in this time. The Armenic Arattans and Shinar-[ar]-s [sumerians] were the first to have the divine art of writing- spreading it to all parts of the globe.

 

 

 

 

[Takoush]

You guys Ashot and Aratta are sure using your good brains, time and energy into good use. I think it's a fine thing you are both doing.

[Nané]

I am currently researching our history of the 3rd millenium BC (mainly reading Artak Movsisyan's books) and must say that I'm greatly impressed by (and appreciative of) the work being done by some of you. Thank you and please do keep at it.

 

BTW, I think posts #62 to #72 should be deleted. They are off topic and out of character.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: Thanks Nane, for pointing it out it's done. Yervant

Edited January 23, 2009 by Nané

[Aratta-Kingdom]

apres Nane jan.

 

 

 

 

Aratta Part I :

 

 

 

Aratta Part II:

[Lion1700]

"Պետականության, բարձր զարգացած մշակույթի և դեպի օտար երկրներ քաղաքակրթական արժեքների տարածման փառահեղ մի դարաշրջան, որը մեզանում դեռևս չի արժանացել պատշաճ գնահատման",- այսպես է բնորոշում այս ժամանակաշրջանը Արտակ Մովսիսյանը... Edited February 28, 2009 by Lion1700

[varvaravan]

First of all, I would like to thank HyeForum and A. Movsisyan, G.Nazaryan and M. Gavoukjian and all others for helping to make an ArattaKingdom site. This is incredible and we need more and more that kind of sites to lighten up the somehow wiped off ancient Armenia's history.

Besides that, a few days ago I was searching on Wikipedia regarding Aratta and read how the user and one of administrators disputing regarding Aratta and A.Movsisyan. There was about A. Movsisyan being as a nationalist historian and Armenian pseudohistory an dthat his books and M. Gavoukjian's also are out of sale and not accessible to verify the information in their books. (You can check it on that site the line says break1,break2). I was astonished by the tone and this very subjective approach. I am not very proficient in ancient history of Armenia, can't make any comments. But it must be. Can any of Minor Asia specialists see what is going on at that site of Wikipedia. Just open up Aratta.

And again thanks to all of organizers.

Varvaravan.

[Lion1700]

varvaravan

 

What a site?? Tell it's adress, please:)

[Zartonk]

First of all, I would like to thank HyeForum and A. Movsisyan, G.Nazaryan and M. Gavoukjian and all others for helping to make an ArattaKingdom site. This is incredible and we need more and more that kind of sites to lighten up the somehow wiped off ancient Armenia's history.

Besides that, a few days ago I was searching on Wikipedia regarding Aratta and read how the user and one of administrators disputing regarding Aratta and A.Movsisyan. There was about A. Movsisyan being as a nationalist historian and Armenian pseudohistory an dthat his books and M. Gavoukjian's also are out of sale and not accessible to verify the information in their books. (You can check it on that site the line says break1,break2). I was astonished by the tone and this very subjective approach. I am not very proficient in ancient history of Armenia, can't make any comments. But it must be. Can any of Minor Asia specialists see what is going on at that site of Wikipedia. Just open up Aratta.

And again thanks to all of organizers.

Varvaravan.

 

Hello varvaravan and welcome to HF. I like your username

 

Whenever the history of a region deals with one national group and a varying ethnic presence in that region, there is bound to be subjective bias supporting and opposing a given perspective. Fortunately, the valuable efforts of Mr. Movsisyan are, as far as my limited knowledge allows me to percieve, well-grounded in empirical historic evidence.

 

 

[varvaravan]

varvaravan

 

What a site?? Tell it's adress, please:)

 

 

 

this is the site I am talking about.

varvaravan.

 

 

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[Louise]

this is the site I am talking about.

varvaravan.

 

 

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from Louise . I looked at your arevordi blogspot. I found it very interesting as I am interested

 

in prehistoric archeology. But I cannot discuss well as my language of culture is French. But I read well English.

[man]

I have that book in English of Aratta, the first one the original Sumerian text or whatever survived of it, published in 1950 or close to that date. It is a small book and I can post it here if anyone is interested to complete this study or cap it.

 

And Louise! I think it would be fine if you post in French, for me at least that's ok. For those who do not know French..there are many translation engines.

[Vanetsi]

Do you have a digital version?

[man]

No, the paper book only, and I have to type in this forum by hand if interest is shown by others. But I am aware than an Armenian historian of New Jersey, USA, had a website dedicated to Arrata, and in his website (if my memory is not failing me) he had posted that book or sections of it. I have to go back to google search for him when I have time, I do not know if his website is still active. I initially become interested in Arrata when I read an article in National Geography magazine where it was saying about ruins of an ancient city in southern Iran as could, not really because they were not sure, possible Arrata. As I did some study and I was convinced that Arrata Kingdom was in Ancient Armenia.

[man]

The Sumerians, an ancient peoples and one of the first civilizations in the world called Ararat, Arrata. In their great epic poems of Gilgamesh and Arrata, they tell of the land of their ancestors, the Arratans in the Highlands of Armenia. The Sumerians also in the epic poems describe the Great Flood and the rebirth of life after the terrible deluge that fell from the Highlands of Armenia unto the lands of Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent. The Sumerians had a very close connection with the ancestral Land of Ararat and considered it as their ancestral homeland (many historians and archaeologists are convinced that the Sumerians initially lived in Northern Mesopotamia and Armenian Highland).The Greeks believed that the people who first worked with bronze and iron came from the same area, they called them Khaldi.

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Sumerian and Akkadian written monuments of Mesopotamia give priceless information on the history of Armenia in III-II millennia B.C. Sumerians, who were the creators of one of the first civilizations, before assimilating in Southern Mesopotamia lived in northern Mesopotamia and in the Southern regions of the Armenian highland. Leaving it they kept the connection with the highland for a long time. Therefore the earliest mentioning of the highland we find in the Sumerian written monuments. Sumerians created the first cuneiform, which was adopted by the Akkadians of the Semitic origin in the second half of the III millennium BC, later it was widely spread in the countries of Southwestern Asia, including Van kingdom.

In the Sumerian manuscripts land of Aratta was mentioned. Aratta was the first State formation of the Armenian highland known so far. Information about it refers to the XXVIII–XXVII centuries BC. What do Sumerian sources tell about Aratta land, its location, its State structure, economy, culture and other questions? In the epic poem Arrata was mentioned as a high mountainous country. They had to pass Uruki river to go from Aratta to Sumer. The only river passing through city Uruk is Euphrates, the only mountainous region in the basin of which is the Armenian Highland. Therefore, Aratta was certainly found in the Armenian Highland. It is also evidenced by the toponyms mentioned in the way from Aratta to Sumer. Among them, is for example land of Zamua. The latter is in the south of Lake Urmia (In the Assyrian sources Lake Urmia is called “Sea of Zamua land”), therefore continuing Sumer-Zamua line we’ll reach the Armenian Highland. It’s known that with the Armenian Highland the worship of the god of wisdom and cosmic water – Hay(a) was connected, whose son Hayk was the patron god of Aratta. Arrata was a theocratic state. Thit means that Aratta had such a government, in which the clergy reigned either secular or spiritual power.The king of Aratta was also the highest priest of the country. For the solution of the important issues concerning the country the priest-king convened Senior’s meeting. The main economic official of the state is mentioned, who was called <<Administrator>>. Many economic officials are also mentioned in Aratta such as tax collectors, superintendents, which show that the country had a developed state system. Certain information has reached about economic relations of Aratta and Sumer. People of Aratta imported wheat and other tiller products and instead exported metals and precious stones. Besides, construction materials – <<mountainous stones>> were sent to south. In Sumer as a force and vehicle jackasses were used, but in Aratta- horses. The use of horses in the economy and military-art brought unprecedented progress. In the Sumerian manuscripts information was preserved about the army of Aratta and its fortified capital. According to one of them, Sumerian army occupied the capital of Aratta of the same name, but after a year of occupation it couldn’t occupy it. <<They were throwing arrows from the walls of Aratta all the year and like rain stones were thrown from slings the whole year. So the days and months passed and it became a year>>. One of the most important information about Aratta is the use of its own writing, which is also proved by the hieroglyphic monuments discovered in the Armenian Highland in the III millennium BC, which haven’t transcribed yet. In XXVIII – XXVII centuries architects from Aratta went to Sumer to build great buildings there. In XXVI –XXV centuries’ BC manuscripts the Subarians, settled in Mesopotamia, are mentioned as clerks, bakers, blacksmiths, gardeners, etc. The fact, that in the period of Aratta, the Armenian Highland was united into one cultural zone, which is accepted in the archaeological literature to call Early Bronze Age culture, is of great interest.

via http://www.armin.am/en/Armenian_history_Ancient_period_Aratta

[man]

Why should we study the book 'Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta' (translated by S.N. Kramer)?

 

Because it can be an endevour of self-discovery for modern Armenians.

 

While I was in vacation in the center of Yerevan at summer I noticed how happy the people were at evening times when they filled the streets and plazas of the Center till late time past.

 

This happiness is one of the traits of the Armenian race, it survived despite brutal and bloody persecution from the Muslims surrounding Armenia and occupying Armenia. This book, of some 5000 years ago, acknowledges and affirms this Armenian characteristic of happiness when it mention and refers to Mt Ararat as "The Happy Mountain."

 

That mountain was "happy" to the ancient Sumerians because the people living around it were happy people. What we can conclude from this fact?

 

That Armenians then were healthy people because without health they would not be happy. They had enough food to feed themselves. They were rich monetarily and were doing commerce and exchange with each others and with outsiders; they were able to buy what they wanted and what they needed. They had houses to live in, nice clothes to wear, and had prime enjoyable time in family, with friends and with neighbors. They had festivities which they celebrated. They were safe and secure in their homes and in their country.

 

They were happy because their rulers were not oppressing them and they were free to act, to speak, to sing, to dance according to their own wishes and desires.

 

They were hard working people having opportunities for education, for doing business, for entrepreneurship and for renovation. They were artistic and happy to create things and works of art, decoration and building with stones and bricks.

[man]

Another thing I noticed is that this king of Erech or Uruk by the name of Enmerkar is an Armenian leader of some Armenian tribes, tribes who left the highland of Armenia and emigrated to Sumeria taking their goddess Inanna (the goddess of Kingdom of Aratta) to the south with them.

 

From the correspondence between Enmerkar and the king of Aratta it is clear that Enmerkar is familiar with Armenia and her people, her king, and her economy and religion. Too familiar indeed that most likely he lived there before moving to Sumer.

 

Come to think of the word Enmerkar, En-mer-kar in Armenian means: He (en), our (mer), stone/rock (kar). That is "he-is-our-rock," a nice name for a leader; an Armenian leader? Most likely.