ARARICH THE AUTHOR/ASTRONOMER & THE LEGEND OF HAIK & ARMENI THE FIRST BORN ARMAN

Who were the first Aryan speakers, is there a surviving trace of the Arya culture'

Aryan (Indo-Iranian *arya) is a term originally used as a cultural self-designation by those who became known as Indo-Iranians from 'ancient' times. Arya was a term used by the in crowd, in contrast nearby neighbours or outsiders of their culture were known as 'non-Aryan' (*an-arya). In Ancient India, the term ā́rya was used by the Indo-Aryan speakers of the Vedic period as an endonym (self-designation) and in reference to a region known as Āryāvarta ('abode of the Aryas'), where the Indo-Aryan culture first emerged in India. In the Avesta scriptures, ancient Iranian peoples similarly used the term airya to designate themselves as a separate group. Airyanem Waēǰō ('stretch of the Aryas') is in reference to their mythical homeland which is the homeland of the early Iranians and is mentioned in the Zoroastrian Avesta as one of Ahura Mazda's "sixteen perfect lands".The Airyanem Vaejah historical location is still uncertain.

In the first chapter of the Vendidad is a listing of 16 countries that may give us a clue as to its location and some scholars who have focused on the subject believe that Airyanem Vaejah lies to the north of all of these sixteen. I will attempt to convince the reader that Darmesteter is  the closest when he notes in his translation of the Avesta, Bundahishn 29:12 or rather directly states that it was beside Azerbaijan, which brings us again to the highlands known as Armenia.

It is said but not yet understood that although the stem *arya- may be Proto-Indo-European (PIE) its use thus its origin is only recognised from the ethnocultural self-designation attested among Indo-Iranian peoples. It is not known if PIE speakers had a term to designate themselves as Aryan or 'Proto-Proto-Indo-Europeans'.  

Scholars point out that, even in ancient times, by ancient they probably mean 1500 BCE, the idea of being an Aryan was religious, cultural and linguistic, not racial. To this I add that by ancient I mean 2500 BCE and that being Aryan was first and foremost linguistic. There can be no super organization cultural or religious without  a priori language to unite it.

Ariana was a vague, very general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman authors of the late ancient period for a district of wide extent, between Central Asia and the Indus River. Basically comprising the eastern provinces of the Achaemenid Empire that covered the area from Armenia, included the whole of modern-day Afghanistan, as well as the easternmost part of Iran and up to the Indus River in Pakistan. Ariana is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek Ἀρ(ε)ιανή Ar(e)ianē (inhabitants: Ariani; Ἀρ(ε)ιανοί Ar(e)ianoi), all originating from the Old Persian word Ariyanem (Ariana) meaning 'the Land of the Aryans', similar to the use of Āryāvarta. 

In meaning Arya is recognised as a component element, which is connected with the Avestan term Airya-, the Old Persian term Ariya-, and Ancient India, meaning 'noble', 'excellent' and 'honourable'.

 The word Armenia can be broken up as Ar-meni-ya, the lost link or the secret or the mystery of the origin of the Arya or the Aryans is I believe and can show to be in the base root  Ar of the Armenian language. The word Arya and the Armani are referring to the same root phoneme or syllable Ar. culturally/linguistically speaking the Ar-ya and Ar-man mean the Ar- life, Ar-soul, or Ar-people. 

Ancient and modern independent philosophers historians and scholars from many cultures  consider the homeland and the origin of the Proto-Proto-Indo-European language are the highlands of Armenia. Today there are studies from many disciplines that prove that the Proto-India-Iranian languages originated in the Caucasus region.

In this article the legendary forefather of the Armenians, Hayk, is an epic figure who combines the traits of several divine archetypes (creator, father and patriarch. He is an Indo-European prototypes Cosmogony and Ethnogeny.   As in archaic myths the most important place is taken by stories of the “beginning” (creation, cosmogony), however in the case of Haik it is the phenomena not the origin of the universe that he is about nor the gods but simply a common old garden nature hero of a very important transitional period in the history of civilization when it took an electron jump from chaos to man made order with a leap of faith and a lot of fortitude. A period when language went abstract and syllabic. Hayk Myth or rather traditional story was not cosmogonic but it did have a beginning, it started with a given, a 'given' by the Astronomer related to the ecliptic cycle of life. Hayk represented the dawn the first light, consciousness, the awakening, a dramatic event the first light. 

The Armenian legend/myth of the patriarch Hayk, progenitor of the Armenians, and his descendants represents a new beginning not of the universe but of an epoch, a beginning of a new order, a new dawn, 

a beginning which I will show that is superimposed on the phenomenon of the sun cycle, the ecliptic, starting with the coming of the light, the new dawn of day and spring. 

A beginning with the equinox. ( from vernal equinox to vernal equinox). 

A new day, a new month and a new year of an annual seasonal cycle. Starting from the first break of light, the first breakthrough of the rising sun 

The cycle of the sun as it appears related to the moving backdrop of what we now understand better as the first day of Aries on the ecliptic. 

The author the  beginning date, a time in proceeds to name all countries, mountains, rivers, months and hours after Hayk and the most important is the naming of Hayks Son his first named Armaniak. 

While the naming of people places and objects in mythology is completely a creation from the mind of the author, equivalent to creation itself assuming creation is preconceived. We find in the legend/story of Hayk that the author is from start to finish defining a process in time and space/place, naming the months and hours of the day which we are asked to accept  were named after the sons and daughters. 

Hayk and his descendants are the figures that name the oldest Armenian lands, provinces, mountains, rivers and settlements are named after them. Armenian ethnonyms Hay and Armeni are derived from the names Hayk and his descendant Aremennak. The large family of Hayk reflects the structure of the oldest Armenian pantheon and patriarchal family. 

I would like to coin a word that I believe expresses what the Hayk traditional legend is about and that would be Phenomenological myth.