MOUNT ARAGATS "HEAVEN RESTS ON FOUR PILLARS IN ARMENIA" RMN Egyptian.
"HEAVEN RESTS UPON ITS FOUR PILLARS IN ARMENIA"
Thutmose III of Egypt in the 33rd year of his reign (1446 BC) speaks of the people of Ermenen, and says in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars".
Some scholars believe that the earliest mention of the Armenians is in the Akkadian inscriptions dating to the 28th-27th centuries BC, in which the Armenians are referred to as the sons of Haya, after the regional god of the Armenian Highlands. Before I venture into the etymology of the ethnonym Haya, I would like to take a hard look at the etymology of the Exonym Armenia and to do that I need for this post to reflect on the name Ermenen, recorded by Thutmose III of Egypt, which reads that the people of Ermenen in the year 1446 BC, said that in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars".
We must start with the early Assyrian period, when the 'Armenians' as a people, who were referred to in the Akkadian records as a people of Nairi formed the kingdom of Ararat (well known in the iron age Assyrian as Urartu). One of the earliest records of Armenians is from a text which says Armani. Still a very common Armenian name today is Arman, the older variant is Armen. Armani together with Ibla, were lands conquered by Naram-Sin (2300 BC). To this day the Assyrians speak about Armenians as Armani.
Be that as it may the record I am interested in deciphering is by Thutmose III of Egypt, which says that the people of Ermenen told him that in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars". (Thutmose was the first Pharaoh to cross the Euphrates to reach the Armenian Highlands). To this day Kurds and Turks refer to Armenians by Ermeni.
In Hinduism there are many and varied concepts of heaven. Worshippers of Vishnu, the Preserver, for example, believe that they will go to a heaven in which there is no suffering, fear or death and that they will be able to live in the glory of Vishnu's eternal light.
ARAGATS translates ARA-KAH in Armenian, meaning the "Throne of Ara"
Mount Aragats (Armenian: Արագած, pronounced [aɾaˈgats]; formerly Ալագյազ, Alagyaz; is an isolated four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. Its northern summit, at 4,090 m (13,420 ft) above sea level, is the highest point of the Lesser Caucasus and Armenia. It is also one of the highest points in the Armenian Highlands.
The Aragats massif is surrounded by Kasagh River on the east, Akhurian River on the west, Ararat plain on the south and Shirak plain on the north.[2] The circumference of the massif is around 200 km (120 mi),[10][9] and covers an area of 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi)[11] or around 1⁄5 of Armenia's total area.[b] 944 km2 (364 sq mi) of the massif is located above 2,000 m (6,600 ft).
The name of the mountain is less often spelled Aragatz or Aragac. According to Armenian tradition, Aragats originates from the words Արա Ara + գահ gah, which translates to "Ara's throne". Ara refers to the legendary heroAra the Beautiful.[5][14] Aragats was mentioned by the early medieval historian Movses Khorenatsi. In his History of the Armenians Khorenatsi claims that the mountain is named after Aramaneak, the son of Hayk, the legendary father of the Armenian people. Aramaneak called his possessions "the foot of Aragats" (classical Armenian: ոտն Արագածոյ,otn Aragats'oy; modern: Aragatsotn).The modern Aragatsotn Province, dominated by the mountain, was formed in 1995.[17]
The name of the mountain is less often spelled Aragatz or Aragac. According to Armenian tradition, Aragats originates from the words Արա Ara + գահ gah, which translates to "Ara's throne". Ara refers to the legendary heroAra the Beautiful.[5][14] Aragats was mentioned by the early medieval historian Movses Khorenatsi. In his History of the Armenians Khorenatsi claims that the mountain is named after Aramaneak, the son of Hayk, the legendary father of the Armenian people. Aramaneak called his possessions "the foot of Aragats" (classical Armenian: ոտն Արագածոյ,otn Aragats'oy; modern: Aragatsotn).The modern Aragatsotn Province, dominated by the mountain, was formed in 1995.[17]
A relatively modern name for the mountain is Alagöz, which literally means "variegated eye"[18] in Turkish.[19][20] This term was widely used up until the mid-20th century in European,[21] Tsarist Russian,[22] and early Soviet[20][23]sources. A variant of the word, Alagyaz (Ալագյազ), was used in Armenian.[9][24][25][c] A village on the foot of Aragats is named Alagyaz.
The name Masis is the most ancient name of the mountain.
MINERVA.
By a process of folk etymology, the Romans could have linked her foreign name to the root men- in Latin words such as mens meaning "mind", perhaps because one of her aspects as goddess pertained to the intellectual.
The word mens is built from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- 'mind' (linked with memory as in Greek Mnemosyne/μνημοσύνη and mnestis/μνῆστις: memory, remembrance, recollection, manush in Sanskrit meaning mind).
The name Masis is the most ancient name of the mountain.
MINERVA.
By a process of folk etymology, the Romans could have linked her foreign name to the root men- in Latin words such as mens meaning "mind", perhaps because one of her aspects as goddess pertained to the intellectual.
The word mens is built from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- 'mind' (linked with memory as in Greek Mnemosyne/μνημοσύνη and mnestis/μνῆστις: memory, remembrance, recollection, manush in Sanskrit meaning mind).
The Etruscan Menrva was part of a holy triad with Tinia and Uni, equivalent to the Roman Capitoline Triad of Jupiter-Juno-Minerva.
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