THE DISTINGUISHED CULTURE OF ARARAT

INFLUENCE ON THE ANCIENT WORLD: PART I

Written by Gevork Nazaryan

The civilizing influence of Ararat was widespread throughout the ancient world in the first millennium BC. It reached even such distant peoples (geographically and chronologically) as the Etruscans, the Greeks and the Achaemenid Persians (who were greatly influenced by the cultural heritage of the Kingdom of Ararat or Ayr-Ar-at). The Scythians and the Cimmerians and the newly established Iranians state, no doubt regarded the Armenian officials and army officers of Ararat as the representatives of one of the most highly civilized countries; and as prisoners of war or as soldiers serving in the armies of

HURI PERI [FIRE BIRD]. BLAZING WINGED GODDESS AR-UR-U.

THE WARRIOR KINGS OF ARMANIA. IMBUED WITH SOLAR POWER AND ENERGY
OF CHALDEAN HIGH PRIESTS OF THE WISDOM TEMPLES THEY FORGED
AN UNSURPASSED HIGH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION OF
PROFOUND AUSTERITY AND AESTHETIC.

S A C R E D    H I G H L A N D    O F    A   R   M   A   N   I   -   A   R   A   R   A   T
WITH THE RELATED KINGDOMS THROUGH THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

TYPICAL ARARATIAN ARCHITECTURE. RESIDENTIAL BUILDING WITH
TWIN TOWERS MADE IN THE TRADITIONAL STYLE

THE REMARKABLE FIND OF THE BLUEPRINT MODEL FOR ERECTING THE
 MULTISTORY ARMANEN RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS. NOT THE UP-DOWN
HEAVEN + EARTH TRIANGLE ARARTIAN MOTIF WITH THE STEP PYRAMID
[SOTHIS] AT THE CROWN OF THE BUILDING...TRADITION THAT CONTINUED
WELL INTO THE MIDDLE AGES AND PLACED ON TOP OF HIGH BUILDINGS
AND TOWERS.

A  R  -  M  A  N

H A Y A S A - A R A R A T [UR-AR-TU FROM SACRED A R / U R    ROOT -- LIT. OF GOD]

ONE OF THE RECOVERED SACRED ALTARS FROM TOPRAKKALE.
THE POD IN ITS OUTER FORM -- AMONG OTHER MEANINGS -- IS ALLEGORICAL OF A RAM.

EMBLAZONED WITH THE SACRED WINGED SUN DISK [EYE -- AREGAKN --
STILL -- WITHIN -- IN MOTION -- WITHOUT]
IN THE CENTER -- WITH TWO 12 RAY STARS ABOVE.
NOTE THE CLAWS OR TALONS THAT SERVE AS HOLDERS
FOR BURNING CANDLES IMBUED WITH INCENSES.
THE INNER BEINGS OF THE WORSHIPPERS WERE OPENED UP
AS ALL OF THE SENSES WERE ACTIVATED DURING THE RITUAL.

ARMAN SOLAR MEDALLION OF PROTECTION WITH THE
SACRED EQUILATERAL CROSS WITH FOUR DIVERGENT TRIANGLE DIRECTIONS
LEADING TO THE CENTER [QUINTESSENCE]. NOTE THE TRIANGULAR RAYS
OF ILLUMINATION ENCIRCLING THE CROSS. ALL WITHIN ONE RING WITH A
SMALLER LOOP RING ABOVE [ALL -- FORMING A STYLED 8 ANCIENT
ARMAN SIGN OF DIVINE MAN AND... INFINITI.
APARAN. SECOND MILLENNIUM BC.

ARMAN SOLAR TALISMAN OF POWER AND PROTECTION.
THE COSMIC WHEEL -- THE ANCIENT ARMENIC SYMBOL OF ETERNITY --
IN MOTION. TRIANGLE RAYS EMANATING FROM THE CENTER/CORE.
NOTE THE ADJOINING WHEEL OF
SEVEN RAYS WITH THE VOID IN THE CENTER.
SECOND MILLENNIUM BC. SEVAN BASIN.

ARMAN SWORDS FROM ARTIK. 1400 BC.
DECORATED WITH SERPENT DRAGON-VISHAP AND
UP AND DOWN POINTING TRIANGLE.

WINGED [K]HALDI -- SUPREME GOD OF THE HOLY TRIAD -- ON TOP OF THE LION

STATUE OF  G O D D E S S   A R U B A N I [SEATED].
CAPITAL VAN [TUSHPA]. CA. 700 BC.

O   D   E      T   O      F   I   R   E.

BRONZE PLAQUE WITH THE DEPICTION OF ARMENIC ARCHER-HORSEMAN
ALONG WITH THREE GRIFFONS.

A R  M A N  H I G H  PRIEST ASTRONOMER WITH THE SACRED STANDARD AND THE
DIVINE EAGLE/RAVEN [CARRIER OF THE DIVINE SPARK] OF THE SKY GOD
WITHIN THE STELLAR CONSTELLATION.
THE TRADITION AND SPIRIT WAS CARRIED OVER TO THE VARDAPETS
[LIT. MASTER OF THE ROSE -- THE ETERNAL FEMININE PRINCIPLE]
OF THE HOLY APOSTOLIC CHURCH.
THE CEREMONIAL ROBE AND THE HEADGEAR IS VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL
TO THE GARB OF THE VARDAPET. FINELY POLISHED BRASS PLAQUE.

COSMIC SYMBOLS OF AR AR AT [UR]

THE SPEAR OF DESTINY/TREE OF LIFE WAS ON TOP OF THE CROWNS
AND SACRED TEMPLES OF THE WARRIOR KINGS OF ARMANIA.
 

Ararat, they witnessed the luxurious life led by the aristocracy and the relatively high standard of living of the people in the great cities and fortresses of Ararat such as Tushpa (Biaina-Van, the capital of the Kingdom), Erebuni (modern Yerevan), Argishtikhinili (Armavir), Menuakhinili, Teishebaini (Karmir Bloor, in the confined boundaries of modern Yerevan). The abundant deposits of iron, copper, tin, lead and silver in Armenia were generally employed in the service of various manufacturers.

THE TREE OF LIFE. 3 BRANCHES EACH WITH SEVEN SACRED LEAVES.
COMPARE THE MOTIF WITH THE LATER CLASSICAL TEMPLES WITH THE
TREE OF LIFE WITH THE SUNBURST/LEAVES [+ RIGHT AND LEFT VEG/RAM SPIRALS]
PLACED AT THE APEX OF TEMPLES LIKE GARNI.

SECTION OF A DECORATIVE FRESCO TWO HORN CRESCENTS [FEMALE DEITY]
FACING OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS SUPERIMPOSED ON A TREE OF LIFE
[COMPARE WITH THE LATTER LIFE RUNE] SUNBURSTS OF
THE NEW DAWN ON THE EAST AND WEST OF THE SACRED TREE.

ARARICH [GENERATOR -- CREATOR] -- ARA[H]OR --
THE  FATHER  OF  LIGHT --
T H E   E T E R N A L   F I R E

CELESTIAL BULL'S HEAD FROM TOPRAKKALE.
THE BULL WAS ASSOCIATED WITH
T E I Š E B A -- THE GOD OF THUNDER.
 

THE WARRIOR KINGS OF ARARAT WERE ALSO
THE WISE [K]HALDEAN ORACLES -- ASTROLOGERS AND SEERS [OF PAST AND FUTURE] --
THE SUPREME HIGH PRIESTS -- K[H]UR[U]MS -- OF   A   R   A   R   A   T

THE TREE OF LIFE WITH SACRED SOSI [POPLAR] LEAVES.
 

G E N E R A L    P L A N    O F    T H E    C I T A D E L   O F    E R E B U N I

ENTRY GATES TO ARGIŠTIHINILI [ARMAVIR, LIT. CITY OF ARGIŠTI] --
ERECTED DURING THE REIGN OF KING ARGIŠTI I

ARARATIAN LIGHT SPEARMAN. RECON. ALCHEMIST.

FLOOR PLAN OF THE PALACE OF KING ARGIŠTI I AT ARGIŠTIHINILI

SOLAR MAN-EAGLE

ONE OF THE ARARATIAN TEMPLES WITH THE ICONIC SPEAR/TREE OF LIFE.

YOUNG ARCHAEOLOGIST UNEARTHING PRICELESS ARTIFACTS
DURING THE 1940s EXCAVATIONS IN TEYŠEBAINI.

 The ancient Greeks regarded Armenia as the land were iron was first smelted by the tribe of Armenians named Khaldi (the name refers to the Supreme God of Ararat [K]Haldi [from which we get the Armenian high priestly caste of Chaldeans renowned throughout the Near East and ancient world in general] and is another substitution for the Armenian name Haik, the legendary forefather of the Armenian nation, who in later centuries was also worshiped as an ancestral god.) Weapons of war and certain agricultural implements, especially plowshares, were made of iron.

CEREMONIAL ARARATIAN PLATE DEPICTING AT THE CORE SIXTEEN RAYS
LEADING TO THE ONE CENTER/VOID. PERIPHERAL RIM IS IN TURN DECORATED WITH
8 NINE-RAYED SUNBURTS [WITH TWO ADJOINING 8-ESQUE INFINITI RINGS ON TOP
OF HORIZONTAL PERIMETER AS WELL AS 8 [DNA+RNA...SPIRAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS]
DOUBLE RINGS [SAME INFINITI MOTIF] 8 RINGS OF DOUBLE-CIRCLES LEADING TO THE
TWIN DOTS WITHIN A CIRCLES [EYES/SUNS...VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE].

S  E  C  T  I  O  N      O  F      T  H  E      T  E  Y  Š  E  B  A  I  N  I      C  I  T  A  D  E  L.

FLOOR PLAN OF A SECTION OF THE RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS AT TEYŠEBAINI

HUGE 2 METER TALL KARASES HERMETICALLY PLACED DEEP INTO THE GROUND
FOR LONG-TERM STORAGE OF GRAIN AND WINE. MIRACULOUSLY LEFT INTACT
AS THEY WERE PLACED THERE NEARLY THREE MILLENNIA AGO DUE TO THE FACT
THAT THEY WERE LOCATED IN THE  BASEMENTS OF TEYŠEBAINI'S STOREROOMS.

DECORATED CONTAINER LID WITH TWO MEN-EAGLES -- FEATHERED WINGED
DEITIES AROUND THE TREE OF LIFE WITH THE SACRED WINGED SUN DISK ABOVE.

CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTION FROM TOPRAKKALE.

The rock-hewn fortresses were fashioned with iron tools. Not until Sargon's reign in Assyria, (722-705 BC) that iron replaced bronze extensively in Assyria, the change most probably being due to Sargon's extent of military and economic contacts with Ararat, where he must have seen the great advantages of the use iron over bronze, both in military and as well as economic aspects. Armenia (Metsamor -- lit. GREAT MOTHER'S -- findings in the 1950s and 1960s were sensational) is considered the original center of ancient iron smelting.

HELMET OF AN ARMAN WARRIOR WITH STYLIZED HORNS.
KARMIR BLUR  -- TEYSHEBAINI
NAMED AFTER TEYSHUB [TEYSHEBA] -- GOD OF THUNDER --
PATRON OF THE WARRIOR CASTE. VIIITH CENTURY BC.

ARMAN WARRIOR HELMETS [ARCHER], SHIELDS, SPEARS, SWORDS, ARROWS,
ARMLETS, EXQUISITE GARMENTS, ARMOR, HORSES ADORNMENTS AND SO ON ALL
REPRODUCED ON THE MONUMENTAL -- VARDANANK‛ -- SEC. OF HISTORIC
TRIPTYCH BY THE GREAT G. KHANJIAN.

SECTION OF A WARRIOR'S BELT FROM KUM AYRI [GYUMRI]
WINGED GRIFFON -- THE TREE OF LIFE ON THE RIGHT
WITH THE COSMIC WHEEL IMMEDIATELY ABOVE

RECONSTRUCTION MODEL OF THE IMPOSING ORDER OF EREBUNI [ON ARYN OR ARIN
BERD HILL] CITADEL ERECTED DURING THE REIGN OF ARGIŠTI I. THE GENERAL
 POPULACE RESIDED IN THE IMMEDIATE OUTSKIRTS AND WOULD FLOCK TO THE
CITADEL TO FEND OFF FOREIGN INVADERS. NOTE THE OPEN SIX COLUMNED ATRIUM
[MUSASIR-GARNI MITHRAIC PATTERN...] FLANKED BY TWO PILLARS THAT INCLUDED
PROMINENT STATUES OF A GRIFFON AND A SPHINX... SACRED SPEAR/LEAF/TREE
OF LIFE ON THE HIGH TOWER OF THE SACRED SUSI TEMPLE OF HALDI.

CENTRAL SECTION OF ARARAT SHOWING SOME OF THE IMPORTANT CENTERS
ONE OF THE SACRED SYMBOLS OF ARARAT. THE VOID/BLACK HOLE IN THE CENTER

GOLD SHEATHED SILVER LION. VIII-VITH CENTURIES BC.

Sargon also made an inscription of a raid made on the sacred temple of Musasir-Ardini, where he and his army were amazed by the richness and abundance of finest and precious artifacts (more than 330,000 objects!) of gold, silver and precious stones; as well as ivories and bronzes, rare textiles and embroideries.

A SECTION OF THE HUGE FRESCO FROM ĒREBUNI [ĒREBAN] - ĒREVAN DEPICTING
THE SOLAR LION OF THE SUPREME GOD [K]HALDI [HAYK-ORION] PALETTE
COMPRISED OF REDISH-BLUE-GOLDEN/ORANGE TONES. NOTE THE 16 SPOKES
EMANATING FROM THE CORE WITHIN THE 4TH DIMENSION SQUARE-DIAMOND. THE
SYMBOL OF THE TRIPLE-DECKER [CONTINUOUS PATTERN OF 3 ABOVE AND 3 BELOW]
UNIVERSE/COSMIC HIERARCHY ON TOP OF HORIZONTAL PARALLEL LINES
EMBRACING THE HIGH PRIESTS AND THE TREE OF LIFE.

RECONSTRUCTION OF ONE OF THE INNER OPEN SKY ATRIUMS AT EREBUNI.

EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE BEAUTIFUL GOLD JEWELRY [INCLUDING EARRINGS,
PIN AND A BROCHE]. VERY FINE, DELICATE WORK MADE BY THE MASTER
GOLDSMITHS OF ARARAT.

CRESCENT SHAPED EARRINGS [BOTTOM PORTION INCLUDES A CIRCLE OF
EIGHT RINGS AROUND ONE CENTER -- THE BROCHE AND THE PIN ARE
DECORATED WITH DOUBLE LIONS].

GOLDEN EARRINGS. SUPERB CRAFTSMANSHIP. VIII-VIITH CENTURIES BC.
NOTE THE 'SUPERIMPOSED' [ACTUALLY TOP LAYER] CIRCLES/SPHERES
 'MOLECULE CLUSTER' PATTERN [INCLUDING TRIANGULAR ALIGNMENT]
PREVALENT MOTIF IN ARARATIAN DECORATIONS.

ARMANEN MAGICK GOLDEN G RING [NOTE THE LOOP] WITH 10-RAY STAR
[DEC/TAS UNIVERSE] EMANATING FROM THE CENTER. VIITH CENTURY BC.

ARMENIAN WARRIORS GOLDEN ARMLET WITH LION-HEADED TIPS. VIIITH CENTURY BC.

 K'URMS OUROBOROS BRACELET [TWIN HEAD/TAIL VISHAP...DUALITY IN ONE]
WITH SEVEN SPHERICAL KNOBS EQUALLY SPACED ALONG THE PERIMETER...
DECORATED WITH ENGRAVED LINES. VII-VITH CENTURY BC.

DECORATED GOLDEN BROCHE OF PROTECTION
WITH THE SYMBOL OF MACROCOSM WITH THE
SACRED ARMANI PATTERN OF CLUSTERING
SPHERES/CIRCLES/ATOMIC MOLECULES...
TEYŠEBAINI [KARMIR BLUR -- RED HILL]. VIITH CENTURY BC.

ARMANEN SACROSANCT PIN IN THE FORM OF AST-ERISK...ATOM...SYMBOL
OF LIFE MAN AND YR RUNES OF ARMENIAN RUNIC ALPHABET.

ARMANEN GOLDEN RING [SYMB. OUROBOROS...] CAPPED WITH THREE
UNITED RINGS/SPHERES/DOTS IN THE FORM OF UPWARD POINTING
DELTA [COMP. WITH THE GOLDEN BROCHE...PREVALENT SACRED PATTERN]
-- COSMIC HIERARCHY...FIRST MILLENNIUM BC.

M  U  R  A  L    O  F    T  H  E    E  R  E  B  U  N  I    C  I  T  Y     F  O  R  T  R  E  S  S.

TRIPLE DECKER UNIVERSE/SIRIUS IS A DOMINANT THEME THROUGHOUT ARARATIAN FRESCOS.
SEVEN HORIZONTAL LINES [+ ONE -- CONTAINING THE HIERARCHY]

COMPARE THE SACRED PATTERN WITH THE QUEEN'S CHAMBER
'CORNER NICHE' OF THE GREAT PYRAMID AND THE SPECTOGRAPHIC
BAR REPRESENTATION OF CANIS MAJOR [SIRIUS] ...

CATHOLICOSAL PALACE IN DUIN [DVIN] WITH THREE 10-STEP PYRAMIDS ON TOP.

ARMAN ETERNALLY DIVINE ARCHETYPE

THE COSMIC HIERARCHY AS A STEP PYRAMID/MOUNTAIN [3+1 STEPS].
THE COSMIC EMBLEM PLACED ON THE WALLS OF NUMEROUS TEMPLES
INCLUDING THE ABOVE  SACRED PATTERN FROM THE CHURCH OF SAINT
GEORGE [SEVENTH CENTURY] IN GARNAHOVIT. THE HOLY A R M A N I SIGN
WAS PLACED ON THE FLAG OF MOUNTAINOUS ARTSAKH...

A  R  M  A  N     C R O S S - S T O N E
[STONE SYMB. CONTAINING THE DIVINE SPARK].
NOTE THE SAME STEP PYRAMID LEADING
[ZIGGURATS, PYRAMIDS IN EGYPT AND MAYA]
TO THE SUNWHEEL CRUX. FOUR POINTS LEADING TO
THE FIXED CENTRAL POINT [QUINTESSENCE].
PRECESSION THROUGH THE 12 HOUSES OF THE ZODIAC.
THE EMANATING RAYS FROM THE CENTER SOURCE NUMBER
EXACTLY 64...PERFECT 10-DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE
DIVIDED INTO 4 AND 6. FOUR CARDINAL POINTS ALONG WITH
EIGHT CARDINAL DIRECTIONS MARKED OUT IN THE COSMIC WHEEL

FRAGMENT OF A RELIEF FROM THE APADANA AT ALTINTEPE SHOWING ONE OF
THE SACRED SYMBOLS OF ARARAT -- THE BLACK SUN/VOID -- SURROUNDED BY A WHITE
CIRCLE ALONG WITH AN OUTER RED CIRCLE. IN BETWEEN AN EARLY 'FLEUR DE LYS'
THAT IS VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL TO THE LATER DESIGN -- AND BELOW --
TWO CRESCENTS [MOON GODDESS] FACING DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS ON TOP OF A
RECTANGULAR FOUNDATION THAT IS ON TOP OF SINGLE AXIS FLANKED BY TWO
HEMISPHERICAL CURVED ARCHES. THE SACRED PATTERN WOULD BE DEPICTED
IN BOTH -- ASCENDING AND DESCENDING -- DIRECTIONS.

A NOBLEWOMAN OF ARARAT SEATED. THE ARMENIAN WOMEN
PLAYED A UNIQUE ROLE IN SHAPING THE DESTINY OF ARARAT.

DECORATED FIGURINE OF A TOAD PLACED INSIDE THE OJAKH [HEARTH --
THE UNDYING SACRED FLAME THAT BURNED INSIDE THE HOME].
PLACED AS A FAMILIAR [THE ARCHETYPICAL TALE OF 'PRINCE CHARMING'
INITIALLY IN THE FORM OF A FROG] SYMBOL OF WATER [FROM LCHASHEN
SITE, ON THE SHORES OF LAKE SEVAN]. PURE GOLD. XIVTH CENTURY BC.

MEDALLION WITH THE GOLDEN HEAD
OF A BULL. THE LOOP ON TOP [O]
OVER A 'T-SHAPED' HEAD IS
COMPLEMENTED WITH A
DOWNWARD POINTING TRIANGLE
[IN 3 ROWS WITH 1+2+3 DOTS]
ON THE FOREHEAD.



Ē -- LATER PLACED AS THE SEVENTH SACRED ESSENTIAL LETTER BY M. M.
SACRED SYMBOL-SOUND IN ARARATIAN CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS
ALWAYS STOOD FOR SPIRIT [DIVINE ESSENCE] AND TEMPLE
[SPIRITUAL SANCTUM]. ESOTERIC DOCTRINE KEPT BY THE K'URM
HIGH PRIESTS OF THE HIDDEN LIGHT.

THE SACRED TEMPLE OF HALDI IN EREBUNI. ARARATIAN TEMPLES
WERE CALLED SUSI FROM SOSI [POPLAR] THE SACRED CONE OF
LIFE. THE SYMBOL OF THE CHALDEAN ARAM HIGH PRIESTS OF WISDOM.
GEOMETRICAL HARMONY OF THE SACRED SOSI LEAVES
ON THE BEAUTIFUL FRESCOES AT EREBUNI.

THE WESTERN FORTRESS OF ARGIŠTIHINILI AT ARMAVIR.

ONE OF MANY HUGE ARARATIAN FORTRESS OUTPOSTS IN ARAGATS.

GENERAL PLAN OF ALTINTEPE NEAR ERZNKA.

FRESCOES OF XAVAR AREGAK [BLACK SUN] FROM THE SANCTUM
SANCTORUM IN EREBUNI. [SEE HARMONIOUS GRID PATTERN ABOVE]

THE COLUMNED HALL IN THE WESTERN FORTRESS OF ARGIŠTIHINILI AT ARMAVIR.

REMNANTS OF THE STATUE OF T E I Š E B A FROM TOPRAKKALE.
VARBEDIAN RIGHTLY POINTS OUT THE DEITY'S CONNECTION WITH RAIN
-- THUS CONNOTING ITS AQUATIC ORIGIN.

THE LIGHTNING AND THE SUN. AN EMBLEMATIC BRONZE DECORATIVE PLATE.
 NOTE THE SEVEN RINGS [SIX AROUND THE ONE IN THE CENTER] ALL UNITED INTO
ONE RING [EIGHT -- INFINITI].
THE GOD-MAN ABOVE THE CELESTIAL BULL [TAURUS] HAS HIS
RIGHT HAND RAISED IN GLORY AND IN HIS LEFT HAND
HE HOLDS THE ROD OF LIGHTNING POINTED DOWNWARD.
THE TREE OF LIFE IS IN A FORM OF AN EIGHT [REGENERATION]
-- RINGS WITHIN RINGS WITHIN RINGS --
FERTILITY LEAVES OF GENERATION PREVALENT THROUGHOUT.

WINGED SUN GOD [WITHIN THE AU-RA] STANDING ON CELESTIAL BULL --
HOLDING FERTILITY SYMBOLS -- TWO 3 BRANCHED TREES
[ANCIENT ARMAN SYMBOL OF GOD-MAN
AND THE LIFE RUNE IN THE ARMENIC FUTHARK
LEADING TO POMEGRANATES TIPS ADORNED IN
LILY FLEUR DE LYS-ESQUE MOTIF [WHICH NO DOUBT IS A MUCH LATER EVOLVED
FORM OF THIS ANCIENT SYMBOL]. THERE ARE TWO -- RIGHT AND LEFT --
SPINNING SPIRALS THAT UPHOLD THE ONE RING/CIRCLE/HALO.
THE SUN GOD IS FLANKED BY TWO ADJOINING
DIVINITIES WHO ON TOP OF THEIR CROWNS ALSO BEAR THE 'FLEUR DE LYS.'
ALL ARE WITHIN ADJOINING RINGS OF INFINITI LEADING TO THE SEVEN RAYS
OF MANIFESTATION AT THE VERY TOP OF THE SACRED RELIC.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF CONIC/PHALLIC ARARATIAN HELMETS
WITH STYLIZED HORNS OF POWER.
ONE FIXED VERTICAL STEM THAT HAS TWO OFFSHOOTS ON THE SIDES +
TWO ADDITIONAL RAYS THAT CUT ACROSS THE HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT.
NOTE THE THREE RINGS AT THE VERY BOTTOM.
 

A LARGE METALLIC ARROW CASE FROM KARMIR BLUR --
TEYŠEBAINI [CITY OF THE GOD OF THUNDER]. FROM THE REIGN
OF KING SARDUR II.
DEPICTING THE MOUNTED ARMAN CAVALIERS AND CHARIOTEERS.

ARMIN WARRIORS DEVOTED A LOT OF TIME IN TAKING CARE OF
THEIR BELOVED FIGHTING STEEDS...ARTSAKH HORSES ARE STILL RENOWNED
FOR THEIR GRACEFULNESS AND AGILITY. ELABORATE ARARATIAN EQUESTRIAN
DECORATIONS INCORPORATED BY G.K. INTO THE VARDANANK‛ MURAL.

The Assyrians, barbarously plundered looted and melted down the great statues of gold and silver, the temple, which in of itself was a marvelous architectural column structure (the proto-type of Greek-Doric temples) in Armenia, was also the first producer of bronze (Armenian highlands are dotted with hundreds, if not thousands of, bronze and later, iron smelting foundries).

ARMAN CUNEIFORM SYMBOLIZING THE NATION/COUNTRY AND THE COSMIC HIERARCHY.
THREE UPWARD POINTING UNITED MOUNTAINS [DIVINE SPARK/SPIRIT].
TWIN MOUNTAINS EMANATE/FLANK/ON TOP OF THE ONE IN THE CENTER.
THE 'ASTERISK' WITHIN LEADS TO THE CORE.

SACRED ARARATIAN TRIPODS

     S  P  I  R  I  T  U  A  L      G  U  A  R  D  I  A  N  S     O  F       A    R    A    R    A    T

SACRED TRIPOD WITH TREE LIONS FACING DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
THIS SYMBOLISM WAS CARRIED AMONG MANY OTHER LANDS TO VEDIC ARYAN INDIA
BY THE ARMAN FROM ARMENIAN HIGHLAND -- THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION --
IT WAS REINSTATED AS THE ANCIENT COAT-OF-ARMS OF BH-ARAT [ANCIENT NAME OF INDIA].

SILVER DRINKING GOBLET FROM EREBUNI [ARYN BERD] IN A FORM OF A HORSE
THE FAITHFUL COMPANIONS OF ARMAN WARRIORS -- BY FAR THE BEST
AND MOST RENOWNED CAVALIERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.

WARRIOR'S ARMLETS WITH LEFT AND RIGHT SPINNING SPIRALS
NOTE THE POINT AND THE SUNBURST [R] WITHIN THE TRIANGLE.

This abrupt Assyrian raid (and the pillaging of the Temple of Musasir) resulted in the renewal of hostilities between Ararat and Assyria and led to the retaliatory invasion of Ararat's armed forces (at its height 300,000 strong) deep into the Assyrian territory.

HIGH PRIEST WITH THE WINGS OF DIVINITY

A DECORATIVE PIN IN A FORM OF A 10-PETAL SUN FLOWER
EMANATING FROM THE CENTER.

ARMAN BRONZE BELT SHOWING MOUNTED WARRIORS AND CHARIOTEERS
ALONG WITH SACRED ARARATIAN SYMBOLS INCLUDING THE BULL,
THE LION, THE 10-SPOKE/PETAL COSMIC WHEEL AND THE NINE BRANCHED
TREE OF LIFE.

THE SACRED TREE OF LIFE

SECTION OF DECORATIVE SACRED ARMANI PATTERN.
DIAMOND-RHOMBUS [MICROCOSM + MACROCOSM UNION]
ALONG WITH THE DOT WITHIN CIRCLE.

DECORATIVE ORNAMENT DEPICTING A GRIFFON [LION-EAGLE]
THREE BRANCHES EMANATE FROM ONE CIRCLE --
DECORATED WITH TWO CIRCLES ON 'V' SHAPED STEMS WITH DOTS ALONG WITH
THE SYMBOL OF FERTILITY/LIFE.

 RITES AROUND THE TREE OF LIFE

The two metals, the alloy of which produces bronze (92 per cent copper: 8 per cent tin), were only simultaneously found in Armenia and Northern Syria (historically part of the Armenian Kingdom of Mitanni), not in the flatlands of Mesopotamia.