Aragats not Aragast by Gregory the illuminator.
Alternate to the suffix Ara-kah or Ara-gats is առա-գաստ: գաստ is a noun in Armenian which translates into English to mean a veil, a cover of a nuptial chamber. A veil can be understood and used as in a "cold mist that veiled the mountain peaks". *gast is due to generalization of the oblique stem.
The semantic development taken place in this word is remarkable. It seems to
comprise the following parts: a cover, (nuptial) canopy of a`bridal
chamber a curtain, a sail.
THUS MOUNT ARAGAST IS NATURAL CHAMBER WHERE THE CREATION/PROCESS BETWEEN THE ABOVE AND BELOW TAKES PLACE, WHERE HEAVEN LIKE A VEIL RESTS ON FOUR PILLARS, WHERE THE HEAVENLY LIGHT UNITES WITH EARTH. THE AXIS MUNDI OF ARMENIA. The line or stem through the earth's center connecting its surface to the underworld and the heavens, around which the universe revolves . 'THE HEAVENLY LIGHT RESTS ON THE FOUR PILLARS OF ARAGASD.
Ara is the heavenly light that rests on the nuptial chamber of Aragast in Armenia is what the annals of Tuthmose III were referring to 1500c BCE.
Ar is the light force, the life force of the Armenian language. Ar is a reference to the phenomenon of the first light that radiates from the sun and illuminates our minds, Ar is the warmth that radiates from the first break of the sun that warms our hearts.
When an Armenian mother sees her 'first born son' she exclaims 'Աչքս լոյս,' ' the light of my eye' what is it we are to understand she is saying. When a child is born or when we fall in love, it is not as if there is an aura a halo or a light around our beloved or is there. Are we not perceiving the third dimension of transcendence, without going into exaggeration, is it not that we are seeing but not recognising that it is the divine in them. For what is a halo, an aura but a human being lit up with the light of great love.
When an Armenian mother sees her 'first born son' she exclaims 'Աչքս լոյս,' ' the light of my eye' what is it we are to understand she is saying. When a child is born or when we fall in love, it is not as if there is an aura a halo or a light around our beloved or is there. Are we not perceiving the third dimension of transcendence, without going into exaggeration, is it not that we are seeing but not recognising that it is the divine in them. For what is a halo, an aura but a human being lit up with the light of great love.
HOKIS, means my heart, my life, my breath all three are expressed by one word in Armenian. All three being made apparent by the light, the sacred light, the light that comes through our eyes and lights us up. A lover or one in love does not first love the physical body of his beloved, but the ideal image of him/her, one can say, the angel to whom she corresponds. Of course he loves her body also, with all its faults but all for the sake of her person: because it belongs to her and manifests her reality. That physical body can be old as a grandmother, sick, diseased, (barely recognizable as a human being), punctured by tubes and plugged into monitors, but still loved and adored for the person within and without it.
The divine light, the sacred fire, the so-called fire-temples, the aureoles, the Mountain of the Dawns, the Peak of Judgment, the Auroral fires,So many traditions bear witness to the experience of the uncreated light that it is impossible to indicate even a tiny representative sample here. It is the fire of the Burning Bush seen by Moses; the pillar of fire before the Israelites in the desert. It is the Kibriya. It is the tongues of fire revealed to the apostles of Christ at Pentecost; and the light of the Transfiguration glimpsed by them on Mount Tabor (Lord, Lord, this is a good place to be). The Manichaeans, blinded by its beauty, looked in disgust at the material world that had become dark and dead for them in contrast. Rumi wrote eloquently in praise of it, but at first he was terrified of its illumination:The universe is an infinite sea of lights, nothing existed that is not light. Plato s Archetypes (his latitudinal order of lights), Vohuman (Bahman) he considered the primary archangel of the longitudinal order: I posit that Ar is the first light emanating from the Godhead, the nearest to the supreme Godhead.
All truly great symbols overflow the boundaries of meaning. Light (perhaps is the greatest symbol of them all) . Many of the early Christian saints such as Gregory Nazianzen, Cyril of Alexandria, Maximus, Macarius of Egypt, Andrew of Crete, John Damascene, Symeon the New Theologian, Euthymius Zigabenus, etc., all spoke of the Divine Light as if they had seen it with their bodily eyes. For if the intensity of the light is in some way a measure of wholeness, some argued, then surely it should be experienced by the whole man and be perceptible to the physical senses as well as to the intelligence. I had often [bodily] seen the light, the light that emanates from the godhead is seen by the eyes of the body,Is the divine light then purely intellectual; is it spiritual, physical; or perhaps all three? Is it a property of the very nature of god, or merely his energy? In the end, the real nature of this light defies all attempts to grasp its full significance, because you cannot demonstrate that which is itself the cause of all demonstration.
Thomas/Jesus " He urged them to save themselves chaste for the time when they could enter the incorruptible and true marriage, and "you shall be therein groomsmen entering into that bride-chamber which is full of immortality and light."All truly great symbols overflow the boundaries of meaning. Light (perhaps is the greatest symbol of them all) . Many of the early Christian saints such as Gregory Nazianzen, Cyril of Alexandria, Maximus, Macarius of Egypt, Andrew of Crete, John Damascene, Symeon the New Theologian, Euthymius Zigabenus, etc., all spoke of the Divine Light as if they had seen it with their bodily eyes. For if the intensity of the light is in some way a measure of wholeness, some argued, then surely it should be experienced by the whole man and be perceptible to the physical senses as well as to the intelligence. I had often [bodily] seen the light, the light that emanates from the godhead is seen by the eyes of the body,Is the divine light then purely intellectual; is it spiritual, physical; or perhaps all three? Is it a property of the very nature of god, or merely his energy? In the end, the real nature of this light defies all attempts to grasp its full significance, because you cannot demonstrate that which is itself the cause of all demonstration.
I posit that the mountan in Armenia named ARAGATS, could have sounded 'ARAGASD.' In other words the ending that can find meaning in Armenian today would be the consonant cluster 'ST' not as we have it spelt with the 'TS'. For Armenian word I am referring to is առագաստ which is a noun and refers alternately to a sail, a bed curtain, or more relevant to my thesis a nuptial chamber.
One can be sure that the word Aragasd, meaning 'Nuptial Chamber' was altered to suggest throne Ara-kah, was to avoid misunderstanding. We know that the idea of the 'heavenly transcendent' in the act of creation was architecturally contained in a four poster representing the fixed/earth and that the circular cyclical heaven was represented by a circular canopy or a dome, our heaven, numerically represented by the number three, that in union, Greek Hairos Gamos, Sumerian, 'Kibiri' or Gk Kyberion, Roman Cybarion. I see it as an intentional switch, a transliteration by our Christian Fathers, who now understandably insist that the GATS ending should read 'KAH' which translates to throne. However though Ara was a man/King, strictly speaking the phoneme 'Ar' before it became the name of the first born son, Ara and before it became a king, represents the 'sacred light' of the godhead the 'risen sun' 'Arev'.
The natural throne of ARA, ARA-KAH, is good Christian transition from 'Nuptial Chamber' but given the information, the 'light' at our disposal today, I have to declare what rings more true to me, which is that the ending GAST, ARAKAST meaning THE NUPTIAL CHAMBER OF THE SACRED LIGHT is the original.
THIS I POSIT WAS THE LOCATION AND THE MEANING RELATED TO TUTHMOSIS III WHO WAS TOLD THE PLACE WHERE THE RMN CALL HOME IS WHERE HEAVEN RESTS ON FOUR OF ITS PILLARS. SO WE CAN SAY THAT MOUNT ARAGAST REPRESENTS THE LOCATION WHERE THE ARMENIANS PAYING TRIBUTE TO EGYPT CLAIMED WAS WHERE THEY CALLED H. WHERE THE HEAVENLY TRANSENDENT LIGHT OD HEAVEN TOUCHED DOWN AND RESTED ON THEIR EARTH. A NATURAL NUPTUAL CHAMBER A FOUR PILLARD MOUNTAIN RANGE ARAKAST.
THIS I POSIT WAS THE LOCATION AND THE MEANING RELATED TO TUTHMOSIS III WHO WAS TOLD THE PLACE WHERE THE RMN CALL HOME IS WHERE HEAVEN RESTS ON FOUR OF ITS PILLARS. SO WE CAN SAY THAT MOUNT ARAGAST REPRESENTS THE LOCATION WHERE THE ARMENIANS PAYING TRIBUTE TO EGYPT CLAIMED WAS WHERE THEY CALLED H. WHERE THE HEAVENLY TRANSENDENT LIGHT OD HEAVEN TOUCHED DOWN AND RESTED ON THEIR EARTH. A NATURAL NUPTUAL CHAMBER A FOUR PILLARD MOUNTAIN RANGE ARAKAST.
The glory of ARA the 'infinite heavenly light' the 'heavenly 'Bridegroom of mother earth' who is all radiant like the risen sun enters the four poster nuptial chamber on virgin earth of Armenia. 2492 B.C.
NUPTIAL BOND The Roman Canon adds: “of the new and everlasting covenant”, in order to express the indissolubility of God’s nuptial bond with humanity.
The altar was sometimes depicted upside down as above, but again sometimes it was shown right side up, erect, with the smoke drifting away from the Milky Way.
Ara was one of the 88 constellations listed by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
NUPTIAL BOND The Roman Canon adds: “of the new and everlasting covenant”, in order to express the indissolubility of God’s nuptial bond with humanity.
| The phoneme/syllable/root Ki in ancient Sumerian is in meaning any EARTH PIVOT, a point defined on earth, The Key the 'Tree of Life' of very early Armenia was the Juniper Tree, named Ki in Armenian, the tree that represented the 'Guiding Star Venus' Ast-ghi-Ki. (Star-Guide-Earth.) The modern Armenian name for the country Armenia to those from the outside is sounded Hayastan for those looking from the inside out. Haya, for Armenian combined with the suffix '-stan' (land). Hayk was one of the great Armenian leaders after whom the The Land of Hayk was named. He is said to have eventually settled at the foot of Mount Ararat, after having traveled to Sumer to assist in building the Tower of Babel. Also relevant is the fact that, after his return, back to Ararat, he defeated the Babylonian king Bel (believed by some researchers to be Nimrod) in 2492 BC near the mountains of Lake Van, in the southwestern part of historic Armenia (present-day eastern Turkey). Original name and location Vana-Tur. Nairi, meaning "land of rivers", in Sumerian used to be an ancient name for the territory in and around Armenia and Armenians, also used by Assyrians and Egyptians. Hayk (Haya without the Ki in Armenic Sumerian) was also said to be a chieftain of the Armens, an Armenian tribe at the time of Aratta (This name resembles Ararat, and Ararat mountain is the home of the Armenian and it is indeed located in the 'possible' area of Aratta). Hayk has been used in place of Orion, in the Armenian translation of the Bible. Orion is most probably associated with the traditional etiology for the ethnonym Ar/Or, Arya/Orya, Aryan/Orion, all from Ar, Ara, Armenak or Aram, the son, the grandsons and great-grandson of Hayk. Now we know that Armani is mentioned among the enemies defeated by the Akkadian king Naram-Sin (2300 BC), that is 142 years after Haig is said to have defeated Bel. The Armani were located in the southern, or southeastern Armenian Highland. The Assyrians (direct descendants of Akkadians) to this day refer to Armenians by their inscription Armani. The Old Persian name 'Armin', translates "dweller of the garden of Eden". To this day Turks refer to Armenians by this form 'Ermeni'. Artatama's (is an Armenian name with the 'Arta' prefix) meaning I posit (the sacred light of truth) the title belonged to the "King of the Hurri", which reveals that in the least there were linguistic Hurrian-Aryan Armenian links. A Babylonian inventory of the Akkadian Empire locates the land Armanî next to Lullubi/ Elba. Another mention by pharoah Thutmose III in the 33rd year of his reign (1446 BC) as the people of Ermenen ("Region of the Minni"), and says in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars". The Kurdish and Turkish form referring to Armenians is Ermenin. V.V.Ivanov and Tamaz Gamreklide place the Indo-European (Aryan) homeland in Armenian Highland, postulating the Armenian language as an in situ development of a 3rd millennium BC Proto-Indo-European language Thutmose_III of Egypt (1500 BC in his 23rd year records) mentions the people of 'Ermenen' as paying tribute when he held his court at Nineveh, and says that in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars." CIBORIUM/KIBORION: Sanctum Santorum, the veritable Temple Of The Living God. "The Holy of Holies, or inner sanctuary. We read in every dictionary that in Architecture, a Ciborium refers to a freestanding circular 'canopy' fixed by four columns or supported by four pillars of a perfect square, over an altar. In architecture generally and in some churches, a ciborium describes the four sided shrine with a dome or canopy over it. It is like the covering over the sanctuary in a basilica, supported by four columns. Ciborium is said of a sacred altar supported on columns, especially when freestanding and disconnected from any enclosing wall out in the open in the middle of say an open sacred space even a sacred grove. The early religions in Armenia are not that well known. According to De Morgan there are signs which indicate that the Armenians, as their other Aryan relatives, were initially nature worshipers and that this faith in time was transformed to the worship of national gods, of which many were the equivalents of the gods in the Roman, Greek and Persian cultures. Georg Brandes described the Armenian gods in his book: “When Armenia accepted Christianity, it was not only the temples which were destroyed, but also the songs and poems about the old gods and heroes that the people sang. We have only rare segments of these songs and poems, segments which bear witness of a great spiritual wealth and the power of creation of this people and these alone are sufficient reason enough for recreating the temples of the old Armenian gods. These gods were neither the Asian heavenly demons nor the precious and the delicate Greek gods, but something that reflected the characteristics of the Armenian people which they have been polishing through the ages, namely ambitious, wise and good-hearted." Armenia's early inhabitants were as resourceful as her turf. Pioneers in metallurgy, they are credited by some researchers as the first producers of bronze, an alloy harder and stronger than copper. Center to a sophisticated civilization in the third millennium B.C., with an influence that spread as far south as Palestine and north to the Caucasian plain, the Early Bronze Age culture was equal in stature to her contemporaries in Iran and Mesopotamia. As the Sumerians were well aware, it was from the lands of Ararat that the Tigris and Euphrates made their Civilizing descent. As suggested by megaliths scattered throughout the country, water culture was prized before the people ethnically related to the present day Armenians arrived. "The Hurri-Mitanni kingdom of Armenia kept close contact with its western neighbor, Hittite or Hatti land. Masses of population were often transplanted from one country to the other. " "Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the North in their Armenian homeland, they entrenched themselves and build up the kingdom of Urartu." "The Hurrians had a history of their own. Assyrian and Sumerian sources dating from the end of the third millenium B.C. supply our first information about this nation, people, and the land of Hurri, South of Caucasus. We also know that they come from the region of Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia, and are referred to as Horrittes by the Bible. Still, later in the ninth-seventh centuries N.C. the highland of Armenia were inhabited by a people who were related to the Hurrians and whose country bore the name Urartu, the Biblical Ararat" "All indications point toward the general region of Armenia as a main area of Hurrian concentration." "The Armenians according to Diakonoff, are then an amalgam of the Hurrian (and Urartians), Luvians and the Proto-Armenian Mushki who carried their IE language eastwards across Anatolia. After arriving in its historical territory, Proto-Armenian would appear to have undergone massive influence on part the languages it eventually replaced. Armenian phonology, for instance, appears to have been greatly affected by Urartian, which may suggest a long period of bilingualism." "The Hurri-Mitanni kingdom of Armenia kept close contact with its western neighbor, Hittite or Hatti land. Masses of population were often transplanted from one country to the other. " "Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the North in their Armenian homeland, they entrenched themselves and build up the kingdom of Urartu." "The Hurrians had a history of their own. Assyrian and Sumerian sources dating from the end of the third millenium B.C. supply our first information about this nation, people, and the land of Hurri, South of Caucasus. We also know that they come from the region of Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia, and are referred to as Horrittes by the Bible. Still, later in the ninth-seventh centuries N.C. the highland of Armenia were inhabited by a people who were related to the Hurrians and whose country bore the name Urartu, the Biblical Ararat" "All indications point toward the general region of Armenia as a main area of Hurrian concentration." "The Armenians according to Diakonoff, are then an amalgam of the Hurrian (and Urartians), Luvians and the Proto-Armenian Mushki who carried their IE language eastwards across Anatolia. After arriving in its historical territory, Proto-Armenian would appear to have undergone massive influence on part the languages it eventually replaced. Armenian phonology, for instance, appears to have been greatly affected by Urartian, which may suggest a long period of bilingualism." Mythology of the constellation Ara From ancient times ARA, The Altar, has symbolised either a traditional altar or a pyre placed high on a tower to act as a House of Light. To the Romans, it specifically represented the altar which was used by the Centaurus to sacrifice Lupus, the Wolf. Earlier in Greek legend, ARA symbolised the altar built on Mount Olympus by the gods following their defeat of the Titans, and upon ARA the altar the Greek initiates had to swear allegiance to Zeus. Among the many myths surrounding the Milky Way, the Armenian one amongst others of old it was suggests that the Milky way was formed by the smoke which poured out from ARA altar. Greek mythology, Ara represented the altar used by Zeus and other Greek gods to swear a vow of allegiance before they went to war against Cronus and the Titans. According to legends, it is believed the Cyclopes originally built the altar as a place to sacrifice to the Olympian gods. It was also upon this altar that Centaurus the centaur sacrificed Lupus the wolf. 
Johann Elert Bode’s illustration of Ara, from his Uranographia (1801), Credit: WIkipedia Commons
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The altar was sometimes depicted upside down as above, but again sometimes it was shown right side up, erect, with the smoke drifting away from the Milky Way.
Ara is a small constellation located in the southern sky. Its name has come to mean “the altar” in Latin, but could have referred to the Light emited from the Alter. The constellation also represented an altar that as mentioned above was used by the Greeks to swear a vow of allegiance to their Gods especially Zeus, before they went to war against Cronus and the Titans who ruled the universe. The prophecy said that Cronus would be defeated by one of his own children, to prevent it from happening, he swallowed all his children – Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon – all of them he regergitated who later became future gods and goddesses under the new authority/God Zeus. Zeus the youngest child was born first, his mother Rhea hid him in Crete and gave Cronus a replacement stone to swallow, telling him the stone was Zeus. When Zeus grew up, he made Cronus vomit his brothers and sisters. Once freed, they swore on the Ara Alter to overthrow Cronus and the Titans his followers. The war between the gods and the Titans lasted a decade and the new gods with the leadership of Zeus won in the end. Zeus became known as the male god of the sky, Hera his wife became the goddess of the earth, Poseidon became the god of the sea, and Hades the ruler of the underworld. Zeus placed the ARA altar among the stars to commemorate his and the new gods’ victory. Cronus was one of the 12 Titans who had deposed his father Uranus with the help of his mother, Uranus was the ruler of the previous eon. In another Greek myth, ones that come from the Pelopnnese, the same Ara represents the altar of King Lycaon of Arcadia. Lycaon [the mythical first king of Arkadia], son of Pelasgus, built a temple [the first] before Zeus, to Mercurius [Hermes] of Cyllene in Arcadia." The Pleiades were born on Mount Kyllini. Gaius Julius Hyginus records that it was on Cyllene that the seer Tiresias changed sex when he struck two copulating snakes.Cyllene (or Kyllene) herself was a mountain nymph (an oread) who had taken for her consort Pelasges in the most ancient times that Greek mythographers could recall.
In a later version of the end of the sovereignty of Lycaon and the asendancy of Zeus, the story of the altar of Ara represents the altar of Lycaon who was then the king of Arcadia and decided to test Zeus by serving him a meal of a dismembered child, he later went furtherand tried to kill the god Zeus while he slept. Zeus, who was not asleep was understandingly enraged, so he transformed Lycaon into a wolf and killed his 50 sons with lightning bolts. In one version of the tale, one of the sacrificed children was Arcas, who the son of Zeus and Lycaon’s daughter Callisto.
In a later version of the end of the sovereignty of Lycaon and the asendancy of Zeus, the story of the altar of Ara represents the altar of Lycaon who was then the king of Arcadia and decided to test Zeus by serving him a meal of a dismembered child, he later went furtherand tried to kill the god Zeus while he slept. Zeus, who was not asleep was understandingly enraged, so he transformed Lycaon into a wolf and killed his 50 sons with lightning bolts. In one version of the tale, one of the sacrificed children was Arcas, who the son of Zeus and Lycaon’s daughter Callisto.
Ara was one of the 88 constellations listed by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
Armenia is one of the oldest centers of civilization. The centuries‐old traces of material culture, myths and legends, geographical and personal names like ARA, reveal that Armenians predate the Greek Zeus of Myth and are the natives of the Armenian Highland. ARA was the indigenious One who lived in the same location Armenia, since the dawn of civilization and prehistoric humanity.
Greek historians Herodotus (5th century B.C.), Xenophones (5 th century B.C.), Strabo (63 B.C.‐20) and many others speak extensively about the Armenians, their history and geography. The Greek historiography had also looked for and claimed to have found its own version on the origin of ARA and the Armenians. One version is about the Thraco‐Phrygian origin of Armenians which is based on common features shared by both of them, common traditions, clothing, the used armours of both and also the myth of Aramenos of Thesalia.
According to Armenian Midieval Historiography (V‐XV c, M. Khorenatsy, Agatangelos, P. Bouzand, Sebeos, etc.) Armenian people were ancient inhabitants of Armenian Highland and they have lived there since Babelon Mess.
Starting from the middle of the 20th century, researchers, especially the linguists (V. Illich‐ Svitich, O. Shirokov, G. Klichkov, A. Dolgopolski, V. Ivanov) brought have forward the idea that the ancestors of the Indo‐European language speaking peoples, the Arian tribes, had lived in the Armenian Highland and surrounding areas. This opinion has many followers and has entered the scientific world.
From the point of view of linguistics, less so from mythology, history, my work explores the question related to the power within the names given to things which are sacred to an Armenian, like the name given to their Creator ARARICH in Armenian, also their so called progenitor HAYK and his first born son ARAMANIAK.
It has become very clear of late, from all the written sources, that the land located at the source of both the Euphrates and Tigris rivers is in the Armenian Highland or Armenia of today was also the ancient and original home of the Armenians, referred to as Hayastan by Armenians today.
The sources of ancient peoples like the Summerians ‐ “Myth of Enki and Ninmah”, the Akkadians ‐ “Enuma Elish” and the Hurri “About the Heaven’s Kingdom” all show that Man was created in a land called Abzu (Apsu, Apsuv) during the reign of the ‘Lord of the Earth’ Haya (Aya, Ea, Gea). This land was referred to by many names, like Kur, Eden, Irigal, Arali. Also from ‘Gilgamesh’, ‘Atrakhasis’ the geographical location (the Land of Mountains, the region of rivers’ springs) again the name Arali/Abzu.
It has become very clear of late, from all the written sources, that the land located at the source of both the Euphrates and Tigris rivers is in the Armenian Highland or Armenia of today was also the ancient and original home of the Armenians, referred to as Hayastan by Armenians today.
The sources of ancient peoples like the Summerians ‐ “Myth of Enki and Ninmah”, the Akkadians ‐ “Enuma Elish” and the Hurri “About the Heaven’s Kingdom” all show that Man was created in a land called Abzu (Apsu, Apsuv) during the reign of the ‘Lord of the Earth’ Haya (Aya, Ea, Gea). This land was referred to by many names, like Kur, Eden, Irigal, Arali. Also from ‘Gilgamesh’, ‘Atrakhasis’ the geographical location (the Land of Mountains, the region of rivers’ springs) again the name Arali/Abzu.
The Bible, in its turn witnesses that man was created in the Armenian Highland, in the regions of the Tigris, Euphrates, Gehon and Pison rivers’ sources. In the country under the rule of the deity Haya the created man considered himself the indigene of Haya’s land, the ‘Lord of the Earth’; hay/hai.
According to the Hurri‐Armenian mythology, which originated in the Armenian Highland (“About the Heaven’s Kingdom” , “The birth of Vahagn”), man was created in the land of Haya’s deity from the union of the Haya‐’ Lord/PatriArche of the Mother Earth’, and of the Cosmic Creator God ARA, from ( Arev, the Sun God). The hay, an inhabitant created in the Armenian Highland, the worship of the deity Haya ‘Lord of the Earth’ made parallel to the Creator Father. Through the worship of the God AR he considered himself God’s Son Arma (Arman), Aram (Ar‐am, am=ma), Arme(n) and the area where the Hay‐Armens were created was called Ararat (Arar‐at), Hark (Har‐k) and Hayk (Hay‐k).
The Hay‐Armens had very earley on worshiped the Son, as fire warmth, preserver and creator of life, however more significant is the point that they assigned to the pride of place to conciousness the illuminator, the light of the Sun the ultimate creative power which they named AR (ARA); so it follows that the light of the father Hayg, the first born in the concept of what defines an Armenian was named ARA- MANIAK.
So we can say, That Hayk, the man who created the Armenian language and Logos and Historic Armenia, the Hay peoples the Armeni had a unique connection, he was a bridge between the Universe the heavens, the Sun, the Creator, the God, and I posit not YHVH but RHVH and ARA was of course the first born of the new creation. The name HAI suggests the humid element AIR (HolySpirit) and WATER, (the Soul) which was the Grounding of all life, Mother Earth ( the Body) Gi/Ki; so HAIK breaks down as (Ha-Ya-Ki). For the Sumerians originally the feminine was AN the Heaven and KI the masculin EARTH. I believe HAIK turned this concept on its head by appointing the Masculin the above and the feminine the below.
At the beginning of the 3rd millennium B.C. the Semitic tribes, the Akkadians (much later the Babylonians and the Assyrians called the people of the High lands, the Sons of God AR, Arma, of the land Armani or Aramani. Much later, in the 2nd and 1st millennia B.C. the Greeks and Persians called this people Armens being the oldest country of Light and Sun Worship. My study may help understand some names referring to the area of the Armenian Highland like Aratta, Armani, Arme‐Urme, Ararat‐Urartu. Also the names of other Gods like Ra, Aramazd, Ahuramazda, Ares, Aras, Ram‐/A/Ram, Mars etc.
the ancestors of the Indo‐Europeans, the Arian tribes appeared in Iran, India, Greece, Europe and other areas (3rd ‐ 1st millennia B.C.), keeping the spiritual connection and the memories of the land of the ancestors and sacred mt. Ararat. They also took with them their forefather’s names hay (Armenian) and ari (Armen, Arman), in those names including their tribe’s character and sort: proud, high (hay=high) and brave, powerful (ari).
It is most interesting that the Armenian language, in contrast to other Indo‐European languages, has all phonetic sounds common to all Indo‐European language
De Morgan has said there are signs which show that the Armenians, as their other Aryan relatives, were nature worshipers and that this faith in time was later changed to the worship of national gods, of which many were the equivalents of the gods in the Roman, Greek and Persian cultures. The main proto-Armenian (Aryan) god was Ar, the god of Sun, Fire and Revival.
The Armenian hypothesis of Indo-European origins connects the name with the Ar- Armenian root meaning light, sun, fire found in Arev (Sun), Arpi (Light of heaven), Ararich (God or Creator), Ararat (place of Arar), Aryan, Arta etc.[5] According to the researchers, the name of Ardini religious center of ancient Urartu also related to the god Ar-Arda.[6] The cult of Ar appear in Armenian Highland during 5-3th millennium BC and had common Indo-European recognition: Ares (Greek), Ahuramazd (Persian) Ertag (German), Ram (Indian), Yar-Yarilo (Slavonic) etc.[7] After adoption of Christianity the cult of Ar was also evident in Armenia, remembered in the national myth, poetry, art and architecture.
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