ARMENIAN LEGENDS - 7 Legends from Ancient Armenia: 7 Myths and Legends from the Caucasus Mountains
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Of particular interest is the Legend of Haik or Hayk. In the account by Moses of Chorene, Hayk emigrated from Babylon to the region near Mount Ararat after Titanid Bel made himself king over all. Considering this occurred in circa 2500BC and that Hayk had an extended household of over 300, moving his hosehold a distance of 1,160km/720 miles is a significant undertaking. However, Titanid Bel did not like this snub and after refusing to return, sent an army to recapture or kill Hayk. The two armies, if Hayk’s force can be called an army, met on the shores of Lake Van. During the battle Hayk slew Bel with a nearly impossible shot using a long bow, sending the king's forces into disarray. Hayk named the site of the battle Hayots Dzor in current day Turkey. It is out of this victory that the nation of Armenia was born.
Herein you will find the legends of:
- The Legend Of Haic, or Hayk,
- The Legend Of Ara And Semiramis,
- The Legend Of Vahakn,
- Legends Of Artasches And Artavasd,
- Legends Of The Conversion To Christianity,
- Legends Of Abgar, Thaddeus, And St. Bartholomew
- Legends Of Rhipsime And Gregory
Also included is information on the localities of the legends, in particular - Ararat, Khor-Virap and Erzerum which has enable Boettiger to place each legend in the setting from which it originated.
10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities by the Publisher.
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KEYWORDS/TAGS: Armenia, folklore, legends, myths, Haic, Hayk, Ara And Semiramis, Vahakn, King, Artasches, Artavasd, Conversion To Christianity, Abgar, Thaddeus, St. Bartholomew, Rhipsime, Gregory, Titanid Bel, Lake Van, Mount Ararat, Moses of Chorene, Haykashen, Haykashen, Battle of Giants, Navasard, Julamerk, Dastakert, Gerezmank, martyr, Haykaberd, Haykashen, Taron
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ARMENIAN LEGENDS - 7 Legends from Ancient Armenia - Anon E. Mouse
Armenian Legends
An Excerpt from
Armenian Legends and Festivals
By
Louis A. Boettiger, M.A.
Originally Published by
The University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
[1920]
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Resurrected by
Abela Publishing, London
[2018]
ARMENIAN LEGENDS
Typographical arrangement of this edition
© Abela Publishing 2018
This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Abela Publishing,
London
United Kingdom
2018
ISBN-13: 978-8-827573-51-8
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Frontispiece:
Statue of Haik Nahapet in Yerevan, Armenia.
Haik/Hayk, son of Torgom/Torgarmah, son of Gomer,
son of Japheth, son of Noah – patriarch and founder of the Armenian nation.
Acknowledgements
Abela Publishing
acknowledges the work that
Louis A. Boettiger & The University of Minnesota
did in editing and publishing
Armenian Legends
in a time well before any electronic media was in use.
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10% of the net profit from the sale of this book
will be donated to Charities.
Preface
The author of the study which follows responded to the lure of his task for both theoretical and practical reasons. He seemed, because of his intimate personal relationship to Armenian life, to be peculiarly qualified to study and interpret a cross-section of that country’s life. It is particularly urgent that we as Americans have authentic studies of Armenia and Armenian social life. Heretofore there has been a striking lack of such materials readily accessible in English. Because of the not inconsiderable immigration which reaches us from Armenia, and because also there has been a call for the United States to act as mandatory for this country under the peace treaty, we should penetrate more deeply into the Armenian heart than we have been able to do so far, if we are to carry through successfully our job either as assimilator or as friendly guardian. Moreover there is incumbent upon the United States in particular the duty of understanding a country like Armenia, since we have been foremost in proclaiming the doctrine of the rights of small nationalities. Those are the practical purposes from the standpoint of social politics which have given rise to and confer full warrant upon this study.
Of no less importance, however, is the contribution which Mr. Boettiger’s study makes to theoretical sociology. He has sketched out for us the picture of a refractory culture which refuses to amalgamate with or yield to or be permeated by rival cultures. The social history of this sturdy people offers us a very clear-cut example of what really makes a society or a nation. Not mountains, not dynasties, not blood, but common interests, common traditions, common beliefs; in short, mental community.
The theoretical joins with the practical service of this study if it can strengthen our understanding that only as our own blood and that of our Armenian friends reach the place where they boil at the same temperature, or are cooled by the same application of reason, can we minister to each other or carry out the new partnership which may lie immediately ahead of us in the reëstablishment of peace and the reorganization of world comity.
Arthur J. Todd
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Chapter I The Geography of Armenia
Footnotes
Chapter II Ancient Historical Legends
1. The Legend of Haic
2. The Legend of Ara and Semiramis
3. Historical Background of the Legend of Ara
and Semiramis
4. The Legend of Vahakn
5. The Historic Background of the Legend of Vahakn
6. The Period of National Integration
7. Legends of Artasches and Artavasd
8. Conclusions
Footnotes
Chapter III Legends of the Conversion to Christianity
1. Pre-Christian Mythology and Religion
2. Legends of Abgar, Thaddeus, and St. Bartholomew
3. Legends of Rhipsime and Gregory
4. The Armenian Church as a Social Force
Footnotes
Chapter IV Locality Legends
1. Ararat
2. Khor-Virap and Erzerum
Footnotes
Chapter V Interpretation and Conclusions
Introduction
The study which follows has a very definite objective apart from the mere gathering of materials, namely, to interpret as far as the subject-matter would permit, the social life of the Armenian people. The legends and festivals described have thus been selected from a larger mass of material with this principle in mind. I have, therefore, omitted such as seemed to me to be of little or no social value. Also, in full accordance with this plan, I have chosen to include certain church ceremonies which give rise to such festivals, and are of such social importance that I considered them an organic part of my subject. Otherwise I think I have kept within the strict confines as indicated by the title of this study.
It must, therefore, be evident that neither Part One on legends, nor Part Two on festivals, is exhaustive, and this is necessarily so, not only because of my selective plan, but also because much of the work on this and kindred subjects has been done by the French, and is available only on the continent. All of the sources used are, however, original in two possible constructions of the term; that is, they are the works of Armenians who have lived for many years in their native land, or of foreigners, generally French or English, who have traveled through the country and gathered their material first hand. A large portion of this matter I have been able to check up and add to through my wife, an Armenian, who lived in Constantinople most of her life, and who is naturally versed in the folk-lore of her native land. While this has been the chief source of my interest, it is not the only one, for during my three years’ work in Beirut, Syria, I became acquainted with many Armenians.
To describe a legend, or a festival, and to tag it Armenian, is about as purposeful and enlightening as to explain Plato’s idea of social unity to a person who has no picture of Greek civilization. I have, therefore, found it necessary to fit these legends and festivals into the particular settings that seemed to me most natural. The legends that date from pagan times are meaningless apart from their historical background; the church legends and festivals are without value apart from their religious-historical setting, while such legends as those of Ararat require a description of the natural environment to which they belong. The conclusions and interpretation which this study gives rise to, as well as the manner in which I have organized and attempted to weave the material together into a unified fabric, are my own.
Most of the books used have been supplied by the Case Memorial Library of Hartford Theological Seminary, and I owe the Reverend M. H. Ananikian of that institution my thanks for his gracious coöperation in suggesting materials and providing me with them. I am also deeply indebted to Professor J. W. Beach for his