RIMMON RAMMON RAMMANU RMN/ARMENI KINGDOM 1500 BCE.
RIMMON v HADDAD OR ARE THEY SIMPLY COGNATE.
ROBERT GRAVES in THE WHITE GODDESS page 246 says that Rimmon is Saturn and Saturn represented lead. Not sure how he gets there but for what its worth I will leave it be.According to The Urantia Book, published in 1955, where Rimmon is given as a small city in the region of Galilee which "had once been dedicated to the worship of a Babylonian god of the air, Ramman". Notice it is Ramman and not Hadad.
Ain-Rimmon = "the spring of the pomegranate"
Rimmon was a Syrian cult image and temple, mentioned only in 2 Kings 5:18 & Zechariah 14:10; in the Hebrew Bible.
In Syria this deity was also known as “Baal” or Lord, (“the Lord” par excellence), in Assyria he was known as “Ramanu” (“the Thunderer”).
In Syria this deity was also known as “Baal” or Lord, (“the Lord” par excellence), in Assyria he was known as “Ramanu” (“the Thunderer”).
The Babylonian god of the air, was Ramman which they equated with Hadad (Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎄 Haddu), Adad, Haddad also (Akkadian) or Iškur (Sumerian) was their storm and rain god in the Northwest Semitic and ancient Mesopotamian religions.
Enlil, later known as Elil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms. He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon, but he was later worshiped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians.
In Sanchuniathon's account Hadad was once called Adodos, but is mostly named Demarûs. This is a puzzling form, probably from Ugaritic dmrn, which appears in parallelism with Hadad. Sanchuniathon's Hadad is son of Sky by a concubine who is then given to the god Dagon while she is pregnant by Sky. This appears to be an attempt to combine two accounts of Hadad's parentage, one of which is the Ugaritic tradition that Hadad was son of Dagon. The cognate Akkadian god Adad is also often called the son of Anu ("Sky"). The corresponding Hittite god Teshub is likewise son of Anu (after a fashion).
In Sanchuniathon's account, it is Sky who first fights against Pontus ("Sea"). Then Sky allies himself with Hadad. Hadad takes over the conflict but is defeated, at which point unfortunately no more is said of this matter. Sanchuniathion agrees with Ugaritic tradition in making Muth, the Ugaritic Mot, whom he also calls "Death", the son of El.
Haddad was around in the early age, during the time of the supremacy of the 'Bull of Heaven' He was also attested in Ebla as "Hadda" in c. 2500 BCE.
In Sanchuniathon's account Hadad was once called Adodos, but is mostly named Demarûs. This is a puzzling form, probably from Ugaritic dmrn, which appears in parallelism with Hadad. Sanchuniathon's Hadad is son of Sky by a concubine who is then given to the god Dagon while she is pregnant by Sky. This appears to be an attempt to combine two accounts of Hadad's parentage, one of which is the Ugaritic tradition that Hadad was son of Dagon. The cognate Akkadian god Adad is also often called the son of Anu ("Sky"). The corresponding Hittite god Teshub is likewise son of Anu (after a fashion).
In Sanchuniathon's account, it is Sky who first fights against Pontus ("Sea"). Then Sky allies himself with Hadad. Hadad takes over the conflict but is defeated, at which point unfortunately no more is said of this matter. Sanchuniathion agrees with Ugaritic tradition in making Muth, the Ugaritic Mot, whom he also calls "Death", the son of El.
Haddad was around in the early age, during the time of the supremacy of the 'Bull of Heaven' He was also attested in Ebla as "Hadda" in c. 2500 BCE.
From the Levant, Hadad was introduced to Mesopotamia by the Amorites, where he became known as the Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) god Adad. Adad and Iškur are usually written with the logogram 𒀭𒅎 dIM—the same symbol used for the Hurrian god Teshub. Hadad was also called "Pidar", "Rapiu", "Baal-Zephon", or often simply Baʿal (Lord), but this title was also used for other gods.
The bull was the symbolic animal of Hadad. He appeared bearded, often holding a club and thunderbolt while wearing a bull-horned headdress. Hadad was equated with the Greek god Zeus; the Roman god Jupiter, as Jupiter Dolichenus; the Indo-European Nasite Hittite storm-god Teshub; the Egyptian god Amun. The question that I need to find the answer to is whether Rammanu was a bull head or a Ram head as a whether god.
The Rock of Rimmon, where the Benjamites fled (Judges 20:45, 47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the battle at Gibeah is the present village still known as Rammun, "on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward the Jordan valley", it is supposed to be the site of Ai. Ai, ancient Canaanite town destroyed by the Israelites under their leader Joshua (Joshua 7–8). Biblical references agree in locating Ai
The Rock of Rimmon, where the Benjamites fled (Judges 20:45, 47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the battle at Gibeah is the present village still known as Rammun, "on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward the Jordan valley", it is supposed to be the site of Ai. Ai, ancient Canaanite town destroyed by the Israelites under their leader Joshua (Joshua 7–8). Biblical references agree in locating Ai
(Hebrew: ha-ʿAy, “The Ruin”) just east of Bethel (modern Baytīn in the West Bank). This would make it identical with the large early Bronze Age site now called At-Tall.
I believe I can show beyond a shadow of doubt that Rammon abreviated to RMN is an Armenian tri-literal concept formed to represents the first and last united. It is written in Armenian as Ar+Mani which eventually became the exonym of the Ha=Ai, today spelt variously as Hay or Hai.
The concept of a Garden of the gods or a divine paradise might be the best place to start to demonstrate that the Highlands of Armenia have more evidence to support its location than does the Sumerian origin.
The concept of this Garden, this home of the immortals was 'handed down' to the Babylonians, who conquered Sumeria, and brought together the Sumerian/Akkadian city states around 2333 B.C. That is 160 years after the exodus of Hayk the Armenian from Sumeria.
Dilmun, is the place name of the home of these 'immortals'. Dilmun is first mentioned in association with Kur (mountain) and this is particularly problematic for those who put forward the theory that Dilmun as Bahrain. Bahrain is very flat, no elevation.
Also, problematic to the Bahrain theorists is the fact that in the early epic is Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, where the construction of the ziggurats in Uruk and Eridu are described as taking place in a world, this "before Dilmun had yet been settled". Bahrain possess no archaeological evidence of a settlement dating 3300-2300 BC.
A great clue that points to another location supporting an actual place, is in tablet nine of the standard version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh travels to the garden of the gods through a Cedar Forest and in the depths of Mashu.
A great clue that points to another location supporting an actual place, is in tablet nine of the standard version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh travels to the garden of the gods through a Cedar Forest and in the depths of Mashu.
Mashu is the name of the mountain. When Gilgamesh arrives at the mountains plural, of Mashu, which "every day keeps watch over the rising and setting of the sun, whose peaks reach as high as the banks of heaven and whose breasts reach down to the netherworld, where the scorpion-people keep watch at its gate.
Here I wish to point out the fact the word Mashu Bohl has highlighted in Sumerian means "twins". As does the name of the mountain in Armenia today still called Massis. The name Masis/Mashu, is the most ancient name of the twin mountains which are the 'twins' if you please of Mt.Ararat and Mt Masis.
A Hymn to Enlil praises the leader of the Sumerian pantheon in the following terms: You founded it in the Dur-an-ki, in the middle of the four quarters of the earth. Its soil is the life of the Land, and the life of all the foreign countries. Its brickwork is red and gold, its foundation is lapis lazuli. You made it glisten on high. How can anybody dout the Hymn is praising the Highlands of Armenia/Harmonia.
The myth of Enki and Ninhursag also describes the Sumerian paradise as a garden, which Enki obtains water from Utu to irrigate. Utu the personification of the Sun and I posit Enki obtains water from the seasonal cycle of the Sun, relief rainfall agriculture.
The song of the hoe features Enlil creating mankind with a hoe and the Anunnaki spreading outward from the original garden of the gods. It also mentions the Abzu being built in Eridu.
I posit that Mashu translates comfortably into Mt. Massis of the Armenian highlands, known today as the 'twin peaks' of Ararat and Massis it still stands proud. Also relevant is the fact that the concept, the word for garden in Armenian is Bardez, this is an Armenian word, not Persian if one is looking for the origin of the word Paradise.
A Hymn to Enlil praises the leader of the Sumerian pantheon in the following terms: You founded it in the Dur-an-ki, in the middle of the four quarters of the earth. Its soil is the life of the Land, and the life of all the foreign countries. Its brickwork is red and gold, its foundation is lapis lazuli. You made it glisten on high. How can anybody dout the Hymn is praising the Highlands of Armenia/Harmonia.
The myth of Enki and Ninhursag also describes the Sumerian paradise as a garden, which Enki obtains water from Utu to irrigate. Utu the personification of the Sun and I posit Enki obtains water from the seasonal cycle of the Sun, relief rainfall agriculture.
The song of the hoe features Enlil creating mankind with a hoe and the Anunnaki spreading outward from the original garden of the gods. It also mentions the Abzu being built in Eridu.
I posit that Mashu translates comfortably into Mt. Massis of the Armenian highlands, known today as the 'twin peaks' of Ararat and Massis it still stands proud. Also relevant is the fact that the concept, the word for garden in Armenian is Bardez, this is an Armenian word, not Persian if one is looking for the origin of the word Paradise.
In the Kesh temple hymn, the first recorded description (c. 2600 BC) of a domain of the gods is described as being the color of a garden: "The four corners of heaven became green for Enlil like a garden."
Another Sumerian creation myth, is the Debate between sheep and grain which confirms my thinking, for when it opens the first scene is at "the hill of heaven and earth", and describes various agricultural developments in a pastoral setting. This is discussed by Edward Chiera as "not a poetical name for the earth, but the dwelling place of the 'gods,' situated at the point where the heavens rest upon the earth but that It is there that mankind had their first habitat, and there that the Babylonian Garden of Eden is to be placed."
Another Sumerian creation myth, is the Debate between sheep and grain which confirms my thinking, for when it opens the first scene is at "the hill of heaven and earth", and describes various agricultural developments in a pastoral setting. This is discussed by Edward Chiera as "not a poetical name for the earth, but the dwelling place of the 'gods,' situated at the point where the heavens rest upon the earth but that It is there that mankind had their first habitat, and there that the Babylonian Garden of Eden is to be placed."
The Sumerian word Edin, means a "plateau" a "steppe" or "plain", thus modern scholarship has abandoned the use of the phrase Edin/Eden "Babylonian Garden of Eden" for there is now a consensus that the idea of a "Garden of Eden" was a later developed concept.
This concept when we go wider afield in myths of the Greater Iranian culture and tradition, Jamshid is described as saving the world by building a magical garden on top of a mountain. This garden also features a tree of eternal life and is the source of a river that brings fertility to the land. Jamshid is warned by Ahura Mazda about a freezing winter approaching and so creates this enclosure to protect the seeds of life when a climatic catastrophe/the flood strikes.
A word for Paradise or garden or orchard in much later Persian literature is apiri-Daeza, meaning a "walled enclosure" or "orchard". The Arabic word for paradise or garden in the Qur'an is Jannah which literally means "concealed place". Two watercourses are said to flow underneath the jannah, where large trees are described, where there are mountains made of musk, between which the rivers flow through valleys of pearls and rubys. Features of this garden or paradise are told in a parable in the Quran. Islamic gardens can further divide the watercourses into four, starting at a spring where there is a sanctuary for shade and rest.
ARMENIA THE PROTO-INDO EUROPEAN LOCATION
To this day Kurds and Turks refer to Armenians by Ermeni. From 10,000 BC to 1000 BC, Indo-European tools and trinkets of copper, bronze and iron were commonly produced in Armenia and traded in neighboring lands where those metals were less abundant. Several Armenian states speaking the Indo-European language flourished in the area of Greater Armenia, including Aratta, of Haik Nahabed's time, mentioned in Armenic Sumerian records (3rd millennium BC),
Armenia has been populated since prehistoric times, and has been proposed as the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden. Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the Biblical mountains of Ararat Massis, upon which Noah's Ark came to rest after the flood. (Gen. 8:4).
ARMENIA THE PROTO-INDO EUROPEAN LOCATION
To this day Kurds and Turks refer to Armenians by Ermeni. From 10,000 BC to 1000 BC, Indo-European tools and trinkets of copper, bronze and iron were commonly produced in Armenia and traded in neighboring lands where those metals were less abundant. Several Armenian states speaking the Indo-European language flourished in the area of Greater Armenia, including Aratta, of Haik Nahabed's time, mentioned in Armenic Sumerian records (3rd millennium BC),
Armenia has been populated since prehistoric times, and has been proposed as the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden. Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the Biblical mountains of Ararat Massis, upon which Noah's Ark came to rest after the flood. (Gen. 8:4).
Armenic Sumerian records written ca. 2,700 BC, tell us the story of the Great Flood and the rebirth of Life [the Tree of eternal Life or the Garden [Partez - Paradise - the main motif in the Armenian-Hurrian Mitanni and Araratian reliefs of Eden are located in Armenia - the Land of Four Rivers. The land where 'Heaven rests on four pillars' recorded the Egyptian Pharaoh, Thutmose III in the 33rd year of his reign (1446 BC). He spoke of the RMN as a people, a comunity, Ermenen, the final n makes it plural.
"HEAVEN RESTS UPON ITS FOUR PILLARS IN ARMENIA"
Thutmose III of Egypt in the 33rd year of his reign (1446 BC) recorded of a people he referred to as the RMN, plural rendered Ermenen, and he goes on to say, that in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars".
Above is the picture of the four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia called today ARAGATS, originally 4300 years ago it was named by Ara, the son of Hayk the progenitor of the Armenians as Otn' Aragatsoy which got transliterated to ARA-KAH for some confused reason, Arakah translates in modern Armenian, to "Ara's Throne".
Above is the picture of the four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia called today ARAGATS, originally 4300 years ago it was named by Ara, the son of Hayk the progenitor of the Armenians as Otn' Aragatsoy which got transliterated to ARA-KAH for some confused reason, Arakah translates in modern Armenian, to "Ara's Throne".
Wikipedia says that Mount Aragats (Armenian: Արագած, pronounced [aɾaˈgats] 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. The circumference of the massif is around 200 km (120 mi) and covers an area of 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi) or around 1⁄5 of Armenia's total area. 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.
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. The circumference of the massif is around 200 km (120 mi) and covers an area of 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi) or around 1⁄5 of Armenia's total area. 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 they are referring to is the legendary hero Ara the Beautiful equvalent to Adonis Attis, Tamuzi of neighbouring cultures early Bronze age.
Aragats was first mentioned in writing by the early medieval Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi. In his History of the Armenians Khorenatsi claims that the mountain is named after Aramaneak, the son of Hayk, nor Ara the beautiful, Armeneak was the first born 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).
My research leads me to assume that in the R*MN for ARMENIANS, the MN suggests MIND possibly 'mindful ' 'or an enlightened minds'. An AR+MIND, 'THE MIND BORN'? AR the first and Manu for mind could suggest FOR THOUGHT say as in PROMETHEUS. I wonder.
AR or ARA gives us examples like ARAREL, ARARICH, ARARAT, ARATTA, the Place of ARA.
Ar the giver of infinite light, Ar the Creative light, AREV the Sun, Warmth and Fire.
My research leads me to assume that in the R*MN for ARMENIANS, the MN suggests MIND possibly 'mindful ' 'or an enlightened minds'. An AR+MIND, 'THE MIND BORN'? AR the first and Manu for mind could suggest FOR THOUGHT say as in PROMETHEUS. I wonder.
AR or ARA gives us examples like ARAREL, ARARICH, ARARAT, ARATTA, the Place of ARA.
Ar the giver of infinite light, Ar the Creative light, AREV the Sun, Warmth and Fire.
All the words above start with Ar and give the scenes the first point of phenomena, Ararich the Author/creator, Arev the giver of light heat fire.
The religion of the ancestors of today's Armenians, their shrines, and natural solar universal or worldview, are reflected in the Armenian language today. In the explanatory dictionary compiled by Aghayan, we counted 371 words with the root “sun” (312 from “arev” and “areg” and 59 from “arpy” (which mean “sun” in Armenian)). This is without considering the many derivatives in the internal cells of these words.
Archeologists continue to uncover evidence that Armenia and the Armenian Highlands was the earliest site of human civilization. The earliest record identified with Armenians is from Armenic Sumerian inscriptions around 2700 BC, in which the Armenians are referred to as the sons of Haya, after the regional god of the Armenian Highlands. Another early record identified with Armenians, is from an inscription which mentions Armanitogether with Ibla, as territories conquered by Naram-Sin (2300 BC) identified with an Akkadian colony in the Diarbekr region.
Hayk (Haya in Armenic Sumerian) was a chieftain of the Armens, an Armenian tribe at the time of Aratta (The name also resembles Ararat, and the mountains are indeed located in the possible site, platau, or area of Aratta).
More to the point, the land of Ararat of the Armenian Highland is as close as can be to the home of the "Aryan"(Indo-Europeans) people. Armenians refer to themselves as "Aryaee" (Aryan) in their language. The root word "Ar" which is used in a lot of Armenian words such as Ararat, Aratta, Armenia, Armeni, Armen, Arev, etc. The Semitic root word "Ur" meaning Sun, is also said to be the same as the word "Hur of the Hurri"
Hayk is for some reason paired with Orion in Armenian tradition, Haig predates UR/AR/ORion in the Armenian translation of the Bible.
Armenak or Aram, is the great-grandson of Hayk's great-grandson, a leader of the Armenians, about 200 years after Haig killed Bel in battle.
According to tradition and documentation, the ancestor of all Armenians, the Armani are mentioned among the enemies defeated by the Akkadian king Naram-Sin (2300 BC), locating them in the southern Armenian Highland. Revenge is sweet.
Hayk was the greatest of all Armenian leader after whom the the land of Hayk, Hayastan was established and his progeny were named Hay. He is said to have settled at the base/foot of Mount Ararat. Originally having traveled south east to assist in building of the Tower of Babel, and, after, repulsed by the goings on, comes his exodus, his return, to the lake Van area, where he and 300 men defeated the Babylonian king Bel and his army. Bel is (believed by some researchers to be Nimrod). This took place in 2492 B.C. at Lake Van, in the southwestern part of historic Armenia near the mountains, the land of Nairi, meaning "land of rivers". Nairi used to be an ancient name for the territory said to be Armenia in the bronze age, that was used by Assyrians and Egyptians.
There are signs which indicate that the ancient Armenians were initially nature worshipers and that this faith over time was transformed to the worship of national gods, many of which originated in neighboring more powerful and influential expanding cultures. The supreme god of the Armenian pantheon, Vanatur, was replaced by Aramazd. Aramazd was the Parthian form of Ahura Mazda.
Zoroastrianism, very close in their focus to the sun and fire, who lived next door had a major influence on the Armenian culture and their original nature worshiping foundation. Until the late Parthian period, the Armenian lands doubtless adhered predominantly to Zoroastrianism. Vanatur translates to Gate of Van. Similarly, the most important traditional Armenian goddess of fertility, Nar, was replaced by Anahit. In the Hellenistic age ancient Armenian 'deities' also identified with the ancient Greek deities: Aramazd with Zeus, Anahit with Artemis, Vahagn with Hercules, Astghik with Aphrodite, Nane with Athena, Mihr with Hephaestus, Tir with Apollo.
The pantheon of Armenian gods (ditsov) formed during the nucleation of the Proto-Armenian tribes that, at the initial stage of their existence, inherited the essential elements of paganism from the Proto-Indo-European tribes that cohabited the Armenian Plateau.
Early stages
Ḫaldi or Khaldi/Baal - Chief of the pantheon in its earliest stages. Due to his name becoming a title akin to Baal (i.e. "the Khaldi/Baal of the city", "the Khaldi/Baal of storms"), the chief deity was eventually syncretized or replaced with Ahura Mazda, becoming Aramazd (see below). Formed a triad with his sons Ardinis and Teisheba.
Teispas or Teisheba - Storm god, a son of Ḫaldi, with whom he formed the lead triad of the gods.
Shivini or Artinis - Sun god, a son of Ḫaldi, with whom he formed the lead triad of the gods.[1]
Selardi - Consort of the Moon god.[1]
Saris - Probably a corruption of Ishtar.[1]
Historians distinguish a significant body of Indo-European language used by Armenian pagans as sacred. Their original cult worship seems to be a higher power or intelligence called Ara, also called the physical embodiment of the sun (Arev). The Sun was central as the Light ans Fire for the ancient Armenians, who called themselves "the children of the sun". Since ancient times, the cult of sun occupied a special place in Armenian mythology. Also tantalizing traces exist with the most ancient Proto-Indo-European roots. We have the cults of eagles and lions, that still persist today and the worship of heaven which is standing on four land based pillars. Ditsov, Ara, Children of the Sun, Arev, Eagle, Lion, Bull Heaven sitting on four pillars. The number six. This opens up ten lifetimes of research and still no end to the brilliant light that has preserved the culture now intact for the last 5000 years.
RMN (pl. rimmonim), is an ornament of the Torah scroll from רימון, meaning pomegranate.
According to The Urantia Book, published in 1955, Rimmon was a small city in the region of Galilee which "had once been dedicated to the worship of a Babylonian god of the air, Ramman".
A text dating from the reign of Ur-Ninurta characterizes Adad/Iškur as both threatening in his stormy rage and generally life-giving and benevolent. In Akkadian, Adad is also known as Rammanu ("Thunderer"). He was attested in Ebla as "Hadda" in c. 2500 BCE. before the discovery of the Ugaritic texts some suspected that Hadad-rimmon might be a dying-and-rising god like Adonis or Tammuz, perhaps even the same as Tammuz, and the allusion could then be to mournings for Hadad such as those which usually accompanied the Adonis festivals. Ninurta, also known as Ninĝirsu, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war who was first worshipped in early Sumer. In the earliest records, he is a god of agriculture and healing, who releases humans from sickness and the power of demons. In later times, as Mesopotamia grew more militarized, he became a warrior deity, though he retained many of his earlier agricultural attributes. He was regarded as the son of the chief god Enlil and his main cult center in Sumer was the Eshumesha temple in Nippur.
The ADAD connection. The symbol of Adad was the JUNIPER/CYPRESS/CEDAR, KI in Armenian and six is the earthly also sacred number. The bull and the lion were sacred to Adad.
Sanchuniathon's Hadad is son of Sky by a concubine who is then given to the god Dagon while she is pregnant by Sky. This appears to be an attempt to combine two accounts of Hadad's parentage, one of which is the Ugaritic tradition that Hadad was son of Dagon. The cognate Akkadian god Adad is also often called the son of Anu ("Sky"). The corresponding Hittite god Teshub is likewise son of Anu (after a fashion).
In Sanchuniathon's account, it is Sky who first fights against Pontus ("Sea"). Then Sky allies himself with Hadad. Enlil, Mesopotamian god of the atmosphere and a member of the triad of gods completed by Anu (Sumerian: An) and Ea (Enki).
Enlil meant Lord Wind: both the hurricane and the gentle winds of spring were thought of as the breath issuing from his mouth and eventually as his word or command. He was sometimes called Lord of the Air.
Adad’s father was the heaven god Anu, but he is also designated as the son of Bel, Lord of All Lands and god of the atmosphere. His consort was Shalash, which may be a Hurrian name. The symbol of Adad was the cypress, and six was his sacred number. The bull and the lion were sacred to him. In Babylonia, Assyria, and Aleppo in Syria, he was also the god of oracles and divination. Unlike the greater gods, Adad quite possibly had no cult centre peculiar to himself, although he was worshiped in many of the important cities and towns of Mesopotamia, including Babylon and Ashur, the capital of Assyria. Sin, Shamash, Adad, and Ishtar. Sin (the Moon) contains omens involving such lunar phenomena as first crescents, eclipses, halos, and conjunctions with various fixed stars; Shamash (the Sun) deals with omens involving such solar phenomena as eclipses, simultaneous observations of two suns, and perihelia (additional suns); Adad (the weather god) is concerned with omens involving meteorological phenomena, such as thunder, lightning, and cloud formations, as well as earthquakes; and Ishtar (Venus) contains omens involving planetary phenomena such as first and last visibilities, stations (the points at which the planets appear to stand still), acronychal risings (rising of the planet in the east when the Sun sets in the west), and conjunctions with the fixed stars.
Myth relates Enlil’s rape of his consort Ninlil(Akkadian: Belit), a grain goddess, and his subsequent banishment to the underworld. This myth reflects the agricultural cycle of fertilization, ripening, and winter inactivity.
Enlil was eventually replaced by Marduk as the executive of the Babylonian pantheon.
Hayg/Orion/RIMMON/Ramman/Haddad fought MARDUK the BULL. Once Orion was recognized as a constellation, astronomy in turn probably affected the myth. The story of Side may well be a piece of astronomical mythology. The Greek word side means pomegranate, which bears fruit while Orion, the constellation, can be seen in the night sky. Rose suggests she is connected with Sidae in Boeotia, and that the pomegranate, as a sign of the Underworld, is connected with her descent there.
Enlil. Enlil, Mesopotamian god of the atmosphere and a member of the triad of gods completed by Anu (Sumerian: An) and Ea (Enki). ... Enlil's cult centre was Nippur. Enlil was also the god of agriculture.Enlil, Mesopotamian god of the atmosphere and a member of the triad of gods completed by Anu (Sumerian: An) and Ea (Enki).
Enlil meant Lord Wind: both the hurricane and the gentle winds of spring were thought of as the breath issuing from his mouth and eventually as his word or command. He was sometimes called Lord of the Air.
In Babylonian mythology, the cosmogony called Enûma Eliš, a text written between the 18th and 16th centuries BC, involves four gods that we might see as personified cosmic elements: sea, earth, sky, wind. In other Babylonian texts these phenomena are considered independent of their association with deities, probably treated as the component elements of the universe, as later in Empedocles.
The Armenians like the Chinese model appear to have had a somewhat different series of elements, namely Fire, Earth, Gold, Water and Wood. These were understood as different types of energy in a state of constant cyclical flow, interaction and flux with one another. The Chinese word xing literally means a "changing states of being", "permutations" or "metamorphoses of being". Nobody seems to agree on one single translation. The Armenian concept of 'natural life forces', like the Chinese elements can be said to have been seen as eternally ever changing and moving.
In Taoism, qi functions similarly to pneuma in a prime matter (a basic principle of energetic transformation) that accounts for both biological and inanimate phenomena. ma*gi?
In Chinese philosophy the universe consists of heaven and earth. The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood (木), Mars 火星 is Fire (火), Saturn 土星 is Earth (土), Venus 金星 is Metal (金), and Mercury 水星 is Water (水). Also, the Moonrepresents Yin (陰), and the Sun 太陽 represents Yang (陽). Yin, Yang, and the five elements are associated with themes in the I Ching, the oldest of Chinese classical texts which describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy. The five elements also play an important part in Chinese astrology and the Chinese form of geomancy known as Feng shui.
The doctrine of five phases describes two cycles of balance, a generating or creation (生, shēng) cycle and an overcoming or destruction (克/剋, kè) cycle of interactions between the phases.
Generating
Wood feeds fire;
Fire creates earth (ash);
Earth bears metal;
Metal collects water;
Water nourishes wood.
Overcoming
Wood parts earth;
Earth absorbs water;
Water quenches fire;
Fire melts metal;
Metal chops wood.
There are also two cycles of imbalance, an overacting cycle (cheng) and an insulting cycle (wu).
Ahura Mazda's Spenta Mainyu is the instrument or "active principle" of the act of creation. It is also through this "Bounteous Force", "Creative Emanation", or "Holy Spirit" that Ahura Mazda is immanent in humankind (Yasna 33.6), and how the Creator interacts with the world (Yasna 43.6).
This doctrine close to Armenian, also has a natural physical dimension, in that each of the heptad is linked to one of the seven creations, which in ancient philosophy were the foundation of the universe. These physical associations are only alluded to in the Gathas, and then so subtly that they are usually lost in translation.
The six "divine sparks" that appear in the Gathic Yasna 47.1 are:
[Vohu] Manah, approximately meaning "[Good] Purpose"
Aša [Vahišta], "[Best] Truth/Righteousness"
Xšaθra [Vairya], "[Desirable] Dominion"
[Spənta] Armaiti, "[Holy] Devotion"
Haurvatāt, "Wholeness"
Amərətāt, "Immortality"
A systematic association is only present in later middle Persian texts, where each of the seven is listed with its "special domain", .
Ahura Mazda → Middle Persian Ohrmazd (NP Hōrmuzd) is the highest spirit.
Vohu Manah → MP: Wahman (NP Bahman) of cattle (and all animal creation)
Aša Vahišta → MP: Ardwahišt (NP Urdībihišt) of fire (and all other luminaries)
Xšaθra Vairya → MP: Šahrewar, of metals (and minerals)
Spənta Ārmaiti → MP: Spandarmad, of earth
Haurvatāt → MP: Hordād (NP Xurdād) of water
Amərətāt → MP: Amurdād (NP Murdād) of plants/wood
The best place/school of thought I can go for greater clarification on the structured Armenian language, is where the scribe, Hayg the father of Tir/Dzir, 2494 B.C. graduated from. First I go to the Sumerian farmer god Ninurta who was said to defend Sumer with a bow and arrow, and we know that he wore a crown described as a rainbow. Incidentally it is a legendary fact that Hayg killed Bel with a longbow. A Longbow and a very true to mark arrow, a long-distance arrow. Hayg was wearing a beautiful helmet with a mohawk bristle on top,was it emblematic of the Sun or its rising from the DZA rainbow. Hmmm..
There are signs which indicate that the ancient Armenians were initially nature worshipers and that this faith over time was transformed to the worship of national gods, many of which originated in neighboring more powerful and influence seeking cultures.The pantheon of Armenian gods (ditsov) formed during the nucleation of the Proto-Armenian tribes that, at the initial stage of their existence, inherited the essential elements of paganism from the Proto-Indo-European tribes that cohabited the Armenian Plateau. Historians distinguish a significant body of Indo-European language used by Armenian pagans as sacred. Original cult worship is a higher power or intelligence called Ara, called the physical embodiment of the sun (Arev) worshiped by the ancient Armenians, who called themselves "the children of the sun". Since ancient times, the cult of sun worship occupied a special place in Armenian mythology. Also tantalizing traces exist with the most ancient Indo-European roots, the cults of eagles and lions, and the worship of heaven. Ditsov, Ara, Children of the Sun, Arev, Eagle, Lion, Bull Heaven sitting on four pillars. The number six.
In Armenian mythology rainbow - is a belt of Tir, which was originally a god Sun, and then - god of knowledge.
Tir or Tiur (Armenian: Տիր) was the god of written language, schooling, rhetoric, wisdom, and the arts worshiped in ancient Armenia.
He was the son of Hayk and considered to be the chief god Aramazd's messenger, future teller and the one who explained/interpreted dreams, he was an auditor of life, he recorded the good and bad deeds of men and women and he was the one who like Hermes guided souls to the under-world. He spent one month of the year documenting the birthdays and deaths of people in his journal, the other 11 months were spent on gifting power to writers, poets, musicians, sculptors, and architects.
Tir's temple was located near Artashat. The 4th month of the ancient Armenian Calendar was named after Tir; "Tre" or "Tri". Also named after him was the mountain Tirinkatar, the city Tirakatar, the villages Tre and Tirarich, and some Armenian names such as Tiran, Tirots, Tiridates. In the Hellenistic period Armenians considered Tir as the combination of Greek gods Apollo and Hermes.
Origin[edit]
Tir's role as a psychopomp may have been absorbed from the Luwian thunder god Tarhunda, whose name had been used to translate that of the Mesopotamian underworld god Nergal. Alternately the Scribe Tir could be the original for he was the son of Hayg who was also a scribe, this in 2494 B.C. The best place/school of thought I can go for greater clarification on the structured Armenian language, is where the scribe, Hayg the father of Tir/Dzir, 2494 B.C. graduated from. First I go to the Sumerian farmer god Ninurta who was said to defend Sumer with a bow and arrow, and we know that he wore a crown described as a rainbow. Incidentally it is a legendary fact that Hayg killed Bel with a longbow. A Longbow and a very true to mark arrow, a long-distance arrow. Hayg was wearing a beautiful helmet with a mohawk bristle on top,was it emblematic of the Sun or its rising from the DZA rainbow. Hmmm..
There are signs which indicate that the ancient Armenians were initially nature worshipers and that this faith over time was transformed to the worship of national gods, many of which originated in neighboring more powerful and influence seeking cultures.The pantheon of Armenian gods (ditsov) formed during the nucleation of the Proto-Armenian tribes that, at the initial stage of their existence, inherited the essential elements of paganism from the Proto-Indo-European tribes that cohabited the Armenian Plateau. Historians distinguish a significant body of Indo-European language used by Armenian pagans as sacred. Original cult worship is a higher power or intelligence called Ara, called the physical embodiment of the sun (Arev) worshiped by the ancient Armenians, who called themselves "the children of the sun". Since ancient times, the cult of sun worship occupied a special place in Armenian mythology. Also tantalizing traces exist with the most ancient Indo-European roots, the cults of eagles and lions, and the worship of heaven. Ditsov, Ara, Children of the Sun, Arev, Eagle, Lion, Bull Heaven sitting on four pillars. The number six.
In Armenian mythology rainbow - is a belt of Tir, which was originally a god Sun, and then - god of knowledge.
Tir or Tiur (Armenian: Տիր) was the god of written language, schooling, rhetoric, wisdom, and the arts worshiped in ancient Armenia.
He was the son of Hayk and considered to be the chief god Aramazd's messenger, future teller and the one who explained/interpreted dreams, he was an auditor of life, he recorded the good and bad deeds of men and women and he was the one who like Hermes guided souls to the under-world. He spent one month of the year documenting the birthdays and deaths of people in his journal, the other 11 months were spent on gifting power to writers, poets, musicians, sculptors, and architects.
Tir's temple was located near Artashat. The 4th month of the ancient Armenian Calendar was named after Tir; "Tre" or "Tri". Also named after him was the mountain Tirinkatar, the city Tirakatar, the villages Tre and Tirarich, and some Armenian names such as Tiran, Tirots, Tiridates. In the Hellenistic period Armenians considered Tir as the combination of Greek gods Apollo and Hermes.
Origin[edit]
Tir's role as a psychopomp may have been absorbed from the Luwian thunder god Tarhunda, whose name had been used to translate that of the Mesopotamian underworld god Nergal. Alternately the Scribe Tir could be the original for he was the son of Hayg who was also a scribe, this in 2494 B.C.
Rainbow strictly translated is apricot's belt, belt as in cord, or better still the girdle of Aphrodite, oras in the belt of Our Lady or the Arch of God and his covenant with Noah.
DZIA*DZAN IS ALSO RAINBOW IN ARMENIAN, MEANING DZIA BORN.
DziaDzun is like Iris (color), in English it is an ambiguous color term, usually referring to shades ranging from blue-violet to violet. It represents the colors of the rainbow expressed by their golden mean. Between the deep blue and deep red.
Dzir or Tir or Tiur - Cognate to either the Iranian Tir (or Tishtrya) or (via Armenian dpir "scribe") the Babylonian Nabu. In either case, the mercurial god of wisdom, written language, culture, and science; messenger of the gods[1][2][8] and psychopomp.[2][9] Identified with the Greek Apollo.[1] Tir's role as psychopomp may have been absorbed from the Luwian thunder god Tarhunda, whose name had been used to translate that of the Mesopotamian underworld god Nergal.[2] Tir's temple was located near Artashat.
Armenian mythology began with ancient Indo-European and Urartian origins, gradually incorporating Mesopotamian, Iranian, and Greek[citation needed] ideas and deities.[1][2] There are signs which indicate that the ancient Armenians were initially nature worshipers[citation needed] and that this faith in time was transformed to the worship of national gods, many of which originated in neighboring cultures.
The color of the common Armenian apricot is golden, it is neither yellow nor orange. It is the unique color with the special name – “tsiruni,” which means 'of apricot', or “apricot’s color”. This color, it could be said is a mix of yellow, orange, reddening pink and light burgundy all together. Starting with a sharp green apricot. This timely transformation to a ripe golden apricot with a tender and smooth skin like a newborn baby’s cheek is said to have the taste and smell of the sun.
This sign, which appears after each rain to announce the return of the sun, is a magnificent natural phenomenon: the rainbow. Biblically speaking, the rainbow is the sign of a covenant that God made with the whole earth: He will never destroy the earth again with a flood. The rainbow is literally correlated to rainfall.
God made this covenant, with the rainbow as the token, after the waters of the flood receded and Noah and his family exited the ark. God said, “I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth. . . . This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth” (Genesis 9:11–15).
God made this promise, signified by the rainbow, not only to mankind but to “every living creature . . . the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark . . . every living creature on earth” (Genesis 9:9–10). The covenant is perpetual, enduring to all generations. Never again will there be a worldwide flood.
The national flag of Armenia, the Armenian Tricolour, consists of three horizontal bands of equal width, red on the top, blue in the middle, and orange (also described as "colour of apricot") on the bottom. ... The meanings of the colors are interpreted in many different ways.
Some historians consider a horizontal gold, black, and red tricolor, similar to that of the German flag but arranged differently, to have been the flag of Transcaucasia.
The official definition of the colors, as stated in the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia:
The red emblematizes the Armenian Highland, the Armenian people's continued struggle for survival, maintenance of the Christian faith, Armenia's independence and freedom. The blue emblematizes the will of the people of Armenia to live beneath peaceful skies. The orange emblematizes the creative talent and hard-working nature of the people of Armenia. An earlier vertical tricolor similar to the French flag this one red, green, and blue, from left to right, was said to represent the rainbow that Noah saw after landing on Mount Ararat where the apricot orchards are located. An earlier prototype, which was eventually rejected, was the rainbow flag. This prototype can be seen at the Martiros Saryan House Museum in Yerevan, Armenia. They chose to replace the yellow with orange "because it merged better with the other two colors, presenting a more pleasing composition"
The first, and most important fruit that blossoms in Spring is the apricot, whose flowering in late March marks the beginning, the rising of the SUN, of warm weather. For months, the quality of the apricot harvest is a topic of discussion at every dinner table. Did you see the RAINBOW, was there too much rain? Too little? When spring, has a wave of hail it will devastated the crop, causing a depression almost as acute as if a relative had died. The loss is not just culinary, it's economic. For a farming family, a strong apricot crop means enough money for heat, food and clothes in the winter. During the middle weeks of April, when the trees are covered in white blossoms, the season/life seems full of possibilities. The golden apricots come in towards middle of June, right bang on the the birthday of the celebration of the summer solstice and quickly progress from green and hard to yellow-apricot/gold/orange. The seeds are cracked with a heavy rock to reveal a brown nut that tastes almost, but not quite, like a moist almond. By the middle of July, the apricots have become overripe and are boiled down for jams and juices. By August they are all but gone.
An archaeological excavation at ancient Garni in Armenia found apricot seeds in an Eneolithic-era site. An apricot is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus Prunus (stone fruits).
Usually, an apricot tree is from the species P. armeniaca,The apricot is the national fruit of Armenia, mostly growing in the Ararat plain.[25][26] It is often depicted on souvenirs.[27]
The Chinese associate the apricot with education and medicine. For instance, the classical word 杏 壇 (literally: "apricot altar") (xìng tán 杏坛) which means "educational circle", is still widely used in written language. Chuang Tzu, a Chinese philosopher in the fourth century BCE, told a story that Confucius taught his students in a forum surrounded by the wood of apricot trees.[28] The association with medicine in turn comes from the common use of apricot kernels as a component in traditional Chinese medicine, and from the story of Dong Feng (董奉), a physician during the Three Kingdoms period, who required no payment from his patients except that they plant apricot trees in his orchard upon recovering from their illnesses, resulting in a large grove of apricot trees and a steady supply of medicinal ingredients.[29] The term "expert of the apricot grove" (杏林高手) is still used as a poetic reference to physicians.
Vohu Manah is the Avestan language term for an ancient Armenian, Vedic, later Zoroastrian concept, generally translated as "Good Purpose", "Good Mind", or "Good Thought". The word/concept referring to the good moral state of mind that enables an individual through life to accomplish his ultimate purpose. Manah is cognate with the Sanskrit word Manas suggesting some commonality between the ideas of the Gathas and those of the Rigveda. The opposite of Vohu Manah is Aka Manah, "evil purpose" or "evil mind". The term is a compound of the words vohu "good" and manah "mind, thought, purpose", cognate with the Vedic words vásu and mánas, both with the same meaning. Both of these derive from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwásuš and *mánas,
In Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus and *ménos. Vohu Manah is an Amesha Spenta, which is one of six "divine sparks" of Ahura Mazda that each represent one facet of creation. In the case of Vohu Manah, this is all animal creation, with a particular stress on cattle. Vohu Manah is of neutral gender in Avestan grammar but in Zoroastrian tradition is considered masculine.Ahura Mazda's Spenta Mainyu is the instrument or "active principle" of the act of creation. It is also through this "Bounteous Force", "Creative Emanation", or "Holy Spirit" that Ahura Mazda is immanent in humankind (Yasna 33.6), and how the Creator interacts with the world (Yasna 43.6).
The doctrine also has a physical dimension, in that each of the heptad is linked to one of the seven creations, which in ancient philosophy were the foundation of the universe. These physical associations are only alluded to in the Gathas[citation needed]>, and then so subtly that they are usually lost in translation.
A systematic association is only present in later middle Persian texts, where each of the seven is listed with its "special domain":
Ahura Mazda → Middle Persian Ohrmazd (NP Hōrmuzd) is the highest spirit.
Vohu Manah → MP: Wahman (NP Bahman) of cattle (and all animal creation)
Aša Vahišta → MP: Ardwahišt (NP Urdībihišt) of fire (and all other luminaries)
Xšaθra Vairya → MP: Šahrewar, of metals (and minerals)
Spənta Ārmaiti → MP: Spandarmad, of earth
Haurvatāt → MP: Hordād (NP Xurdād) of water
Amərətāt → MP: Amurdād (NP Murdād) of plants
Theispas (also known as Teisheba or Teišeba) of Kumenu was the Araratian (Urartian) weather-god, notably the god of storms and thunder. He was also sometimes the god of war. He is the son of Habli. He formed part of a triad along with Khaldi and Shivini. The ancient Araratian cities of Teyseba and Teishebaini were named after Theispas. He is a counterpart to the Assyrian god Adad, the Vedic God Indra, and the Hurrian god, Teshub. He was often depicted as a man standing on a bull, holding a handful of thunderbolts. His wife was the goddess Huba, who was the counterpart of the Hurrian goddess Hebat.
Mani or Manney in Persian is a common proper name in the Middle East and South Asia. In Persian, Mani (مانی) means "eternity", "thinker", and "thoughtful". It is most common in Iran, Pakistan and India.
The root *ar- also arə-, is elaborated on in Proto-Indo-European (root meaning "to fit together.)
It forms all or part of: adorn; alarm; aristarchy; aristo-; aristocracy; arm (n.1) "upper limb of thebody;" "weapon;" armada; armadillo; armament; armature; armilla; armistice; armoire; armor; armory; army; art (n.) "skill as a result of learning or practice;" arthralgia; arthritis; arthro-; arthropod; arthroscopy; article; articulate; artifact; artifice; artisan; artist; coordination; disarm; gendarme; harmony; inert; inertia; inordinate; ordain; order; ordinal; ordinance; ordinary; ordinate; ordnance; ornament; ornate; primordial; subordinate; suborn.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit irmah "arm," rtih "manner, mode;" Armenian gives us arnam "make," armukn "elbow;" Greek arti "just," artios "complete, suitable," artizein "to prepare," arthron "a joint;" Latin ars (stem art-) "art, skill, craft," armus "shoulder," artus "joint," arma "weapons;" Old Prussian irmo "arm;" German art "manner, mode."
The religion of the ancestors of today's Armenians, their shrines, and natural solar universal or worldview, are reflected in the Armenian language today. In the explanatory dictionary compiled by Aghayan, we counted 371 words with the root “sun” (312 from “arev” and “areg” and 59 from “arpy” (which mean “sun” in Armenian)). This is without considering the many derivatives in the internal cells of these words.
Archeologists continue to uncover evidence that Armenia and the Armenian Highlands was the earliest site of human civilization. The earliest record identified with Armenians is from Armenic Sumerian inscriptions around 2700 BC, in which the Armenians are referred to as the sons of Haya, after the regional god of the Armenian Highlands. Another early record identified with Armenians, is from an inscription which mentions Armanitogether with Ibla, as territories conquered by Naram-Sin (2300 BC) identified with an Akkadian colony in the Diarbekr region.
Hayk (Haya in Armenic Sumerian) was a chieftain of the Armens, an Armenian tribe at the time of Aratta (The name also resembles Ararat, and the mountains are indeed located in the possible site, platau, or area of Aratta).
More to the point, the land of Ararat of the Armenian Highland is as close as can be to the home of the "Aryan"(Indo-Europeans) people. Armenians refer to themselves as "Aryaee" (Aryan) in their language. The root word "Ar" which is used in a lot of Armenian words such as Ararat, Aratta, Armenia, Armeni, Armen, Arev, etc. The Semitic root word "Ur" meaning Sun, is also said to be the same as the word "Hur of the Hurri"
Hayk is for some reason paired with Orion in Armenian tradition, Haig predates UR/AR/ORion in the Armenian translation of the Bible.
Armenak or Aram, is the great-grandson of Hayk's great-grandson, a leader of the Armenians, about 200 years after Haig killed Bel in battle.
According to tradition and documentation, the ancestor of all Armenians, the Armani are mentioned among the enemies defeated by the Akkadian king Naram-Sin (2300 BC), locating them in the southern Armenian Highland. Revenge is sweet.
Hayk was the greatest of all Armenian leader after whom the the land of Hayk, Hayastan was established and his progeny were named Hay. He is said to have settled at the base/foot of Mount Ararat. Originally having traveled south east to assist in building of the Tower of Babel, and, after, repulsed by the goings on, comes his exodus, his return, to the lake Van area, where he and 300 men defeated the Babylonian king Bel and his army. Bel is (believed by some researchers to be Nimrod). This took place in 2492 B.C. at Lake Van, in the southwestern part of historic Armenia near the mountains, the land of Nairi, meaning "land of rivers". Nairi used to be an ancient name for the territory said to be Armenia in the bronze age, that was used by Assyrians and Egyptians.
There are signs which indicate that the ancient Armenians were initially nature worshipers and that this faith over time was transformed to the worship of national gods, many of which originated in neighboring more powerful and influential expanding cultures. The supreme god of the Armenian pantheon, Vanatur, was replaced by Aramazd. Aramazd was the Parthian form of Ahura Mazda.
Zoroastrianism, very close in their focus to the sun and fire, who lived next door had a major influence on the Armenian culture and their original nature worshiping foundation. Until the late Parthian period, the Armenian lands doubtless adhered predominantly to Zoroastrianism. Vanatur translates to Gate of Van. Similarly, the most important traditional Armenian goddess of fertility, Nar, was replaced by Anahit. In the Hellenistic age ancient Armenian 'deities' also identified with the ancient Greek deities: Aramazd with Zeus, Anahit with Artemis, Vahagn with Hercules, Astghik with Aphrodite, Nane with Athena, Mihr with Hephaestus, Tir with Apollo.
The pantheon of Armenian gods (ditsov) formed during the nucleation of the Proto-Armenian tribes that, at the initial stage of their existence, inherited the essential elements of paganism from the Proto-Indo-European tribes that cohabited the Armenian Plateau.
Early stages
Ḫaldi or Khaldi/Baal - Chief of the pantheon in its earliest stages. Due to his name becoming a title akin to Baal (i.e. "the Khaldi/Baal of the city", "the Khaldi/Baal of storms"), the chief deity was eventually syncretized or replaced with Ahura Mazda, becoming Aramazd (see below). Formed a triad with his sons Ardinis and Teisheba.
Teispas or Teisheba - Storm god, a son of Ḫaldi, with whom he formed the lead triad of the gods.
Shivini or Artinis - Sun god, a son of Ḫaldi, with whom he formed the lead triad of the gods.[1]
Selardi - Consort of the Moon god.[1]
Saris - Probably a corruption of Ishtar.[1]
Historians distinguish a significant body of Indo-European language used by Armenian pagans as sacred. Their original cult worship seems to be a higher power or intelligence called Ara, also called the physical embodiment of the sun (Arev). The Sun was central as the Light ans Fire for the ancient Armenians, who called themselves "the children of the sun". Since ancient times, the cult of sun occupied a special place in Armenian mythology. Also tantalizing traces exist with the most ancient Proto-Indo-European roots. We have the cults of eagles and lions, that still persist today and the worship of heaven which is standing on four land based pillars. Ditsov, Ara, Children of the Sun, Arev, Eagle, Lion, Bull Heaven sitting on four pillars. The number six. This opens up ten lifetimes of research and still no end to the brilliant light that has preserved the culture now intact for the last 5000 years.
RMN (pl. rimmonim), is an ornament of the Torah scroll from רימון, meaning pomegranate.
According to The Urantia Book, published in 1955, Rimmon was a small city in the region of Galilee which "had once been dedicated to the worship of a Babylonian god of the air, Ramman".
A text dating from the reign of Ur-Ninurta characterizes Adad/Iškur as both threatening in his stormy rage and generally life-giving and benevolent. In Akkadian, Adad is also known as Rammanu ("Thunderer"). He was attested in Ebla as "Hadda" in c. 2500 BCE. before the discovery of the Ugaritic texts some suspected that Hadad-rimmon might be a dying-and-rising god like Adonis or Tammuz, perhaps even the same as Tammuz, and the allusion could then be to mournings for Hadad such as those which usually accompanied the Adonis festivals. Ninurta, also known as Ninĝirsu, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war who was first worshipped in early Sumer. In the earliest records, he is a god of agriculture and healing, who releases humans from sickness and the power of demons. In later times, as Mesopotamia grew more militarized, he became a warrior deity, though he retained many of his earlier agricultural attributes. He was regarded as the son of the chief god Enlil and his main cult center in Sumer was the Eshumesha temple in Nippur.
The ADAD connection. The symbol of Adad was the JUNIPER/CYPRESS/CEDAR, KI in Armenian and six is the earthly also sacred number. The bull and the lion were sacred to Adad.
Sanchuniathon's Hadad is son of Sky by a concubine who is then given to the god Dagon while she is pregnant by Sky. This appears to be an attempt to combine two accounts of Hadad's parentage, one of which is the Ugaritic tradition that Hadad was son of Dagon. The cognate Akkadian god Adad is also often called the son of Anu ("Sky"). The corresponding Hittite god Teshub is likewise son of Anu (after a fashion).
In Sanchuniathon's account, it is Sky who first fights against Pontus ("Sea"). Then Sky allies himself with Hadad. Enlil, Mesopotamian god of the atmosphere and a member of the triad of gods completed by Anu (Sumerian: An) and Ea (Enki).
Enlil meant Lord Wind: both the hurricane and the gentle winds of spring were thought of as the breath issuing from his mouth and eventually as his word or command. He was sometimes called Lord of the Air.
Adad’s father was the heaven god Anu, but he is also designated as the son of Bel, Lord of All Lands and god of the atmosphere. His consort was Shalash, which may be a Hurrian name. The symbol of Adad was the cypress, and six was his sacred number. The bull and the lion were sacred to him. In Babylonia, Assyria, and Aleppo in Syria, he was also the god of oracles and divination. Unlike the greater gods, Adad quite possibly had no cult centre peculiar to himself, although he was worshiped in many of the important cities and towns of Mesopotamia, including Babylon and Ashur, the capital of Assyria. Sin, Shamash, Adad, and Ishtar. Sin (the Moon) contains omens involving such lunar phenomena as first crescents, eclipses, halos, and conjunctions with various fixed stars; Shamash (the Sun) deals with omens involving such solar phenomena as eclipses, simultaneous observations of two suns, and perihelia (additional suns); Adad (the weather god) is concerned with omens involving meteorological phenomena, such as thunder, lightning, and cloud formations, as well as earthquakes; and Ishtar (Venus) contains omens involving planetary phenomena such as first and last visibilities, stations (the points at which the planets appear to stand still), acronychal risings (rising of the planet in the east when the Sun sets in the west), and conjunctions with the fixed stars.
Myth relates Enlil’s rape of his consort Ninlil(Akkadian: Belit), a grain goddess, and his subsequent banishment to the underworld. This myth reflects the agricultural cycle of fertilization, ripening, and winter inactivity.
Enlil was eventually replaced by Marduk as the executive of the Babylonian pantheon.
Hayg/Orion/RIMMON/Ramman/Haddad fought MARDUK the BULL. Once Orion was recognized as a constellation, astronomy in turn probably affected the myth. The story of Side may well be a piece of astronomical mythology. The Greek word side means pomegranate, which bears fruit while Orion, the constellation, can be seen in the night sky. Rose suggests she is connected with Sidae in Boeotia, and that the pomegranate, as a sign of the Underworld, is connected with her descent there.
Enlil. Enlil, Mesopotamian god of the atmosphere and a member of the triad of gods completed by Anu (Sumerian: An) and Ea (Enki). ... Enlil's cult centre was Nippur. Enlil was also the god of agriculture.Enlil, Mesopotamian god of the atmosphere and a member of the triad of gods completed by Anu (Sumerian: An) and Ea (Enki).
Enlil meant Lord Wind: both the hurricane and the gentle winds of spring were thought of as the breath issuing from his mouth and eventually as his word or command. He was sometimes called Lord of the Air.
In Babylonian mythology, the cosmogony called Enûma Eliš, a text written between the 18th and 16th centuries BC, involves four gods that we might see as personified cosmic elements: sea, earth, sky, wind. In other Babylonian texts these phenomena are considered independent of their association with deities, probably treated as the component elements of the universe, as later in Empedocles.
The Armenians like the Chinese model appear to have had a somewhat different series of elements, namely Fire, Earth, Gold, Water and Wood. These were understood as different types of energy in a state of constant cyclical flow, interaction and flux with one another. The Chinese word xing literally means a "changing states of being", "permutations" or "metamorphoses of being". Nobody seems to agree on one single translation. The Armenian concept of 'natural life forces', like the Chinese elements can be said to have been seen as eternally ever changing and moving.
In Taoism, qi functions similarly to pneuma in a prime matter (a basic principle of energetic transformation) that accounts for both biological and inanimate phenomena. ma*gi?
In Chinese philosophy the universe consists of heaven and earth. The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood (木), Mars 火星 is Fire (火), Saturn 土星 is Earth (土), Venus 金星 is Metal (金), and Mercury 水星 is Water (水). Also, the Moonrepresents Yin (陰), and the Sun 太陽 represents Yang (陽). Yin, Yang, and the five elements are associated with themes in the I Ching, the oldest of Chinese classical texts which describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy. The five elements also play an important part in Chinese astrology and the Chinese form of geomancy known as Feng shui.
The doctrine of five phases describes two cycles of balance, a generating or creation (生, shēng) cycle and an overcoming or destruction (克/剋, kè) cycle of interactions between the phases.
Generating
Wood feeds fire;
Fire creates earth (ash);
Earth bears metal;
Metal collects water;
Water nourishes wood.
Overcoming
Wood parts earth;
Earth absorbs water;
Water quenches fire;
Fire melts metal;
Metal chops wood.
There are also two cycles of imbalance, an overacting cycle (cheng) and an insulting cycle (wu).
Ahura Mazda's Spenta Mainyu is the instrument or "active principle" of the act of creation. It is also through this "Bounteous Force", "Creative Emanation", or "Holy Spirit" that Ahura Mazda is immanent in humankind (Yasna 33.6), and how the Creator interacts with the world (Yasna 43.6).
This doctrine close to Armenian, also has a natural physical dimension, in that each of the heptad is linked to one of the seven creations, which in ancient philosophy were the foundation of the universe. These physical associations are only alluded to in the Gathas, and then so subtly that they are usually lost in translation.
The six "divine sparks" that appear in the Gathic Yasna 47.1 are:
[Vohu] Manah, approximately meaning "[Good] Purpose"
Aša [Vahišta], "[Best] Truth/Righteousness"
Xšaθra [Vairya], "[Desirable] Dominion"
[Spənta] Armaiti, "[Holy] Devotion"
Haurvatāt, "Wholeness"
Amərətāt, "Immortality"
A systematic association is only present in later middle Persian texts, where each of the seven is listed with its "special domain", .
Ahura Mazda → Middle Persian Ohrmazd (NP Hōrmuzd) is the highest spirit.
Vohu Manah → MP: Wahman (NP Bahman) of cattle (and all animal creation)
Aša Vahišta → MP: Ardwahišt (NP Urdībihišt) of fire (and all other luminaries)
Xšaθra Vairya → MP: Šahrewar, of metals (and minerals)
Spənta Ārmaiti → MP: Spandarmad, of earth
Haurvatāt → MP: Hordād (NP Xurdād) of water
Amərətāt → MP: Amurdād (NP Murdād) of plants/wood
The best place/school of thought I can go for greater clarification on the structured Armenian language, is where the scribe, Hayg the father of Tir/Dzir, 2494 B.C. graduated from. First I go to the Sumerian farmer god Ninurta who was said to defend Sumer with a bow and arrow, and we know that he wore a crown described as a rainbow. Incidentally it is a legendary fact that Hayg killed Bel with a longbow. A Longbow and a very true to mark arrow, a long-distance arrow. Hayg was wearing a beautiful helmet with a mohawk bristle on top,was it emblematic of the Sun or its rising from the DZA rainbow. Hmmm..
There are signs which indicate that the ancient Armenians were initially nature worshipers and that this faith over time was transformed to the worship of national gods, many of which originated in neighboring more powerful and influence seeking cultures.The pantheon of Armenian gods (ditsov) formed during the nucleation of the Proto-Armenian tribes that, at the initial stage of their existence, inherited the essential elements of paganism from the Proto-Indo-European tribes that cohabited the Armenian Plateau. Historians distinguish a significant body of Indo-European language used by Armenian pagans as sacred. Original cult worship is a higher power or intelligence called Ara, called the physical embodiment of the sun (Arev) worshiped by the ancient Armenians, who called themselves "the children of the sun". Since ancient times, the cult of sun worship occupied a special place in Armenian mythology. Also tantalizing traces exist with the most ancient Indo-European roots, the cults of eagles and lions, and the worship of heaven. Ditsov, Ara, Children of the Sun, Arev, Eagle, Lion, Bull Heaven sitting on four pillars. The number six.
In Armenian mythology rainbow - is a belt of Tir, which was originally a god Sun, and then - god of knowledge.
Tir or Tiur (Armenian: Տիր) was the god of written language, schooling, rhetoric, wisdom, and the arts worshiped in ancient Armenia.
He was the son of Hayk and considered to be the chief god Aramazd's messenger, future teller and the one who explained/interpreted dreams, he was an auditor of life, he recorded the good and bad deeds of men and women and he was the one who like Hermes guided souls to the under-world. He spent one month of the year documenting the birthdays and deaths of people in his journal, the other 11 months were spent on gifting power to writers, poets, musicians, sculptors, and architects.
Tir's temple was located near Artashat. The 4th month of the ancient Armenian Calendar was named after Tir; "Tre" or "Tri". Also named after him was the mountain Tirinkatar, the city Tirakatar, the villages Tre and Tirarich, and some Armenian names such as Tiran, Tirots, Tiridates. In the Hellenistic period Armenians considered Tir as the combination of Greek gods Apollo and Hermes.
Origin[edit]
Tir's role as a psychopomp may have been absorbed from the Luwian thunder god Tarhunda, whose name had been used to translate that of the Mesopotamian underworld god Nergal. Alternately the Scribe Tir could be the original for he was the son of Hayg who was also a scribe, this in 2494 B.C. The best place/school of thought I can go for greater clarification on the structured Armenian language, is where the scribe, Hayg the father of Tir/Dzir, 2494 B.C. graduated from. First I go to the Sumerian farmer god Ninurta who was said to defend Sumer with a bow and arrow, and we know that he wore a crown described as a rainbow. Incidentally it is a legendary fact that Hayg killed Bel with a longbow. A Longbow and a very true to mark arrow, a long-distance arrow. Hayg was wearing a beautiful helmet with a mohawk bristle on top,was it emblematic of the Sun or its rising from the DZA rainbow. Hmmm..
There are signs which indicate that the ancient Armenians were initially nature worshipers and that this faith over time was transformed to the worship of national gods, many of which originated in neighboring more powerful and influence seeking cultures.The pantheon of Armenian gods (ditsov) formed during the nucleation of the Proto-Armenian tribes that, at the initial stage of their existence, inherited the essential elements of paganism from the Proto-Indo-European tribes that cohabited the Armenian Plateau. Historians distinguish a significant body of Indo-European language used by Armenian pagans as sacred. Original cult worship is a higher power or intelligence called Ara, called the physical embodiment of the sun (Arev) worshiped by the ancient Armenians, who called themselves "the children of the sun". Since ancient times, the cult of sun worship occupied a special place in Armenian mythology. Also tantalizing traces exist with the most ancient Indo-European roots, the cults of eagles and lions, and the worship of heaven. Ditsov, Ara, Children of the Sun, Arev, Eagle, Lion, Bull Heaven sitting on four pillars. The number six.
In Armenian mythology rainbow - is a belt of Tir, which was originally a god Sun, and then - god of knowledge.
Tir or Tiur (Armenian: Տիր) was the god of written language, schooling, rhetoric, wisdom, and the arts worshiped in ancient Armenia.
He was the son of Hayk and considered to be the chief god Aramazd's messenger, future teller and the one who explained/interpreted dreams, he was an auditor of life, he recorded the good and bad deeds of men and women and he was the one who like Hermes guided souls to the under-world. He spent one month of the year documenting the birthdays and deaths of people in his journal, the other 11 months were spent on gifting power to writers, poets, musicians, sculptors, and architects.
Tir's temple was located near Artashat. The 4th month of the ancient Armenian Calendar was named after Tir; "Tre" or "Tri". Also named after him was the mountain Tirinkatar, the city Tirakatar, the villages Tre and Tirarich, and some Armenian names such as Tiran, Tirots, Tiridates. In the Hellenistic period Armenians considered Tir as the combination of Greek gods Apollo and Hermes.
Origin[edit]
Tir's role as a psychopomp may have been absorbed from the Luwian thunder god Tarhunda, whose name had been used to translate that of the Mesopotamian underworld god Nergal. Alternately the Scribe Tir could be the original for he was the son of Hayg who was also a scribe, this in 2494 B.C.
Rainbow strictly translated is apricot's belt, belt as in cord, or better still the girdle of Aphrodite, oras in the belt of Our Lady or the Arch of God and his covenant with Noah.
DZIA*DZAN IS ALSO RAINBOW IN ARMENIAN, MEANING DZIA BORN.
DziaDzun is like Iris (color), in English it is an ambiguous color term, usually referring to shades ranging from blue-violet to violet. It represents the colors of the rainbow expressed by their golden mean. Between the deep blue and deep red.
Dzir or Tir or Tiur - Cognate to either the Iranian Tir (or Tishtrya) or (via Armenian dpir "scribe") the Babylonian Nabu. In either case, the mercurial god of wisdom, written language, culture, and science; messenger of the gods[1][2][8] and psychopomp.[2][9] Identified with the Greek Apollo.[1] Tir's role as psychopomp may have been absorbed from the Luwian thunder god Tarhunda, whose name had been used to translate that of the Mesopotamian underworld god Nergal.[2] Tir's temple was located near Artashat.
Armenian mythology began with ancient Indo-European and Urartian origins, gradually incorporating Mesopotamian, Iranian, and Greek[citation needed] ideas and deities.[1][2] There are signs which indicate that the ancient Armenians were initially nature worshipers[citation needed] and that this faith in time was transformed to the worship of national gods, many of which originated in neighboring cultures.
The color of the common Armenian apricot is golden, it is neither yellow nor orange. It is the unique color with the special name – “tsiruni,” which means 'of apricot', or “apricot’s color”. This color, it could be said is a mix of yellow, orange, reddening pink and light burgundy all together. Starting with a sharp green apricot. This timely transformation to a ripe golden apricot with a tender and smooth skin like a newborn baby’s cheek is said to have the taste and smell of the sun.
This sign, which appears after each rain to announce the return of the sun, is a magnificent natural phenomenon: the rainbow. Biblically speaking, the rainbow is the sign of a covenant that God made with the whole earth: He will never destroy the earth again with a flood. The rainbow is literally correlated to rainfall.
God made this covenant, with the rainbow as the token, after the waters of the flood receded and Noah and his family exited the ark. God said, “I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth. . . . This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth” (Genesis 9:11–15).
God made this promise, signified by the rainbow, not only to mankind but to “every living creature . . . the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark . . . every living creature on earth” (Genesis 9:9–10). The covenant is perpetual, enduring to all generations. Never again will there be a worldwide flood.
The national flag of Armenia, the Armenian Tricolour, consists of three horizontal bands of equal width, red on the top, blue in the middle, and orange (also described as "colour of apricot") on the bottom. ... The meanings of the colors are interpreted in many different ways.
Some historians consider a horizontal gold, black, and red tricolor, similar to that of the German flag but arranged differently, to have been the flag of Transcaucasia.
The official definition of the colors, as stated in the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia:
The red emblematizes the Armenian Highland, the Armenian people's continued struggle for survival, maintenance of the Christian faith, Armenia's independence and freedom. The blue emblematizes the will of the people of Armenia to live beneath peaceful skies. The orange emblematizes the creative talent and hard-working nature of the people of Armenia. An earlier vertical tricolor similar to the French flag this one red, green, and blue, from left to right, was said to represent the rainbow that Noah saw after landing on Mount Ararat where the apricot orchards are located. An earlier prototype, which was eventually rejected, was the rainbow flag. This prototype can be seen at the Martiros Saryan House Museum in Yerevan, Armenia. They chose to replace the yellow with orange "because it merged better with the other two colors, presenting a more pleasing composition"
The first, and most important fruit that blossoms in Spring is the apricot, whose flowering in late March marks the beginning, the rising of the SUN, of warm weather. For months, the quality of the apricot harvest is a topic of discussion at every dinner table. Did you see the RAINBOW, was there too much rain? Too little? When spring, has a wave of hail it will devastated the crop, causing a depression almost as acute as if a relative had died. The loss is not just culinary, it's economic. For a farming family, a strong apricot crop means enough money for heat, food and clothes in the winter. During the middle weeks of April, when the trees are covered in white blossoms, the season/life seems full of possibilities. The golden apricots come in towards middle of June, right bang on the the birthday of the celebration of the summer solstice and quickly progress from green and hard to yellow-apricot/gold/orange. The seeds are cracked with a heavy rock to reveal a brown nut that tastes almost, but not quite, like a moist almond. By the middle of July, the apricots have become overripe and are boiled down for jams and juices. By August they are all but gone.
An archaeological excavation at ancient Garni in Armenia found apricot seeds in an Eneolithic-era site. An apricot is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus Prunus (stone fruits).
Usually, an apricot tree is from the species P. armeniaca,The apricot is the national fruit of Armenia, mostly growing in the Ararat plain.[25][26] It is often depicted on souvenirs.[27]
The Chinese associate the apricot with education and medicine. For instance, the classical word 杏 壇 (literally: "apricot altar") (xìng tán 杏坛) which means "educational circle", is still widely used in written language. Chuang Tzu, a Chinese philosopher in the fourth century BCE, told a story that Confucius taught his students in a forum surrounded by the wood of apricot trees.[28] The association with medicine in turn comes from the common use of apricot kernels as a component in traditional Chinese medicine, and from the story of Dong Feng (董奉), a physician during the Three Kingdoms period, who required no payment from his patients except that they plant apricot trees in his orchard upon recovering from their illnesses, resulting in a large grove of apricot trees and a steady supply of medicinal ingredients.[29] The term "expert of the apricot grove" (杏林高手) is still used as a poetic reference to physicians.
Vohu Manah is the Avestan language term for an ancient Armenian, Vedic, later Zoroastrian concept, generally translated as "Good Purpose", "Good Mind", or "Good Thought". The word/concept referring to the good moral state of mind that enables an individual through life to accomplish his ultimate purpose. Manah is cognate with the Sanskrit word Manas suggesting some commonality between the ideas of the Gathas and those of the Rigveda. The opposite of Vohu Manah is Aka Manah, "evil purpose" or "evil mind". The term is a compound of the words vohu "good" and manah "mind, thought, purpose", cognate with the Vedic words vásu and mánas, both with the same meaning. Both of these derive from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwásuš and *mánas,
In Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus and *ménos. Vohu Manah is an Amesha Spenta, which is one of six "divine sparks" of Ahura Mazda that each represent one facet of creation. In the case of Vohu Manah, this is all animal creation, with a particular stress on cattle. Vohu Manah is of neutral gender in Avestan grammar but in Zoroastrian tradition is considered masculine.Ahura Mazda's Spenta Mainyu is the instrument or "active principle" of the act of creation. It is also through this "Bounteous Force", "Creative Emanation", or "Holy Spirit" that Ahura Mazda is immanent in humankind (Yasna 33.6), and how the Creator interacts with the world (Yasna 43.6).
The doctrine also has a physical dimension, in that each of the heptad is linked to one of the seven creations, which in ancient philosophy were the foundation of the universe. These physical associations are only alluded to in the Gathas[citation needed]>, and then so subtly that they are usually lost in translation.
A systematic association is only present in later middle Persian texts, where each of the seven is listed with its "special domain":
Ahura Mazda → Middle Persian Ohrmazd (NP Hōrmuzd) is the highest spirit.
Vohu Manah → MP: Wahman (NP Bahman) of cattle (and all animal creation)
Aša Vahišta → MP: Ardwahišt (NP Urdībihišt) of fire (and all other luminaries)
Xšaθra Vairya → MP: Šahrewar, of metals (and minerals)
Spənta Ārmaiti → MP: Spandarmad, of earth
Haurvatāt → MP: Hordād (NP Xurdād) of water
Amərətāt → MP: Amurdād (NP Murdād) of plants
Theispas (also known as Teisheba or Teišeba) of Kumenu was the Araratian (Urartian) weather-god, notably the god of storms and thunder. He was also sometimes the god of war. He is the son of Habli. He formed part of a triad along with Khaldi and Shivini. The ancient Araratian cities of Teyseba and Teishebaini were named after Theispas. He is a counterpart to the Assyrian god Adad, the Vedic God Indra, and the Hurrian god, Teshub. He was often depicted as a man standing on a bull, holding a handful of thunderbolts. His wife was the goddess Huba, who was the counterpart of the Hurrian goddess Hebat.
Mani or Manney in Persian is a common proper name in the Middle East and South Asia. In Persian, Mani (مانی) means "eternity", "thinker", and "thoughtful". It is most common in Iran, Pakistan and India.
The root *ar- also arə-, is elaborated on in Proto-Indo-European (root meaning "to fit together.)
It forms all or part of: adorn; alarm; aristarchy; aristo-; aristocracy; arm (n.1) "upper limb of thebody;" "weapon;" armada; armadillo; armament; armature; armilla; armistice; armoire; armor; armory; army; art (n.) "skill as a result of learning or practice;" arthralgia; arthritis; arthro-; arthropod; arthroscopy; article; articulate; artifact; artifice; artisan; artist; coordination; disarm; gendarme; harmony; inert; inertia; inordinate; ordain; order; ordinal; ordinance; ordinary; ordinate; ordnance; ornament; ornate; primordial; subordinate; suborn.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit irmah "arm," rtih "manner, mode;" Armenian gives us arnam "make," armukn "elbow;" Greek arti "just," artios "complete, suitable," artizein "to prepare," arthron "a joint;" Latin ars (stem art-) "art, skill, craft," armus "shoulder," artus "joint," arma "weapons;" Old Prussian irmo "arm;" German art "manner, mode."
The name Masis/Mashu, is the most ancient name of the twin mountains.
MINERVA lends her name to RMN.The Etruscan Menrva was part of a holy triad with Tinia and Uni, equivalent to the Roman Capitoline Triad of Jupiter-Juno-Minerva. By a process of folk etymology, the Romans probably linked her foreign name to the root men- in Latin words such as mens meaning "mind", most likely because one of her aspects as goddess pertained to her intellectual capacity.
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.
Manush in Sanskrit means mind.
MINERVA lends her name to RMN.The Etruscan Menrva was part of a holy triad with Tinia and Uni, equivalent to the Roman Capitoline Triad of Jupiter-Juno-Minerva. By a process of folk etymology, the Romans probably linked her foreign name to the root men- in Latin words such as mens meaning "mind", most likely because one of her aspects as goddess pertained to her intellectual capacity.
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.
Manush in Sanskrit means mind.
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