THE DISTINGUISHED CULTURE OF ARARAT
INFLUENCE ON THE ANCIENT WORLD: PART II

THE SPEARHEAD...

THE GREAT ARARATIAN TEMPLE OF MUSASIR. PROTO-TYPE OF ALL ARMENIAN
MITHRĆA [LIKE GARNI MITHRĆVM] THAT ALSO INFLUENCED ALL LATER
GRĆCO-ROMAN TEMPLES [THAT SPREAD WITH ARMENIAN MITHRAISM].
NOTE THE SPEAR OF DESTINY AT THE APEX.... [LEAF/TREE OF LIFE/AXIS MUNDI].

 

[K]HALDEAN ASTROLOGER SEER
THE HIGH PRIESTS -- THE K‛URMS OR
THE K‛[H]UR[U]MS --
FROM THE ROOT -- FIRE -- WERE
THE GUARDIANS OF   T H E    E T E R N A L   F I R E --
THE SACRED LIGHT AND   W  I  S  D  O  M  OF ARARAT

ONE OF THE ARARATIAN H U R [ETERNAL FIRE -- HURRIAN] SANCTUMS IN ALTIN-TEPE

. ARARAT .

THE VERY CIVILIZATION BEGAN IN ARMENIAN HIGHLAND THROUGH THE NEOLITHIC
REVOLUTION THAT BEGAN IN ARMENIAN HIGHLAND WITH THE FIRST TOWNS AND
CITIES ALONG WITH PLANTING OF CROPS [MOST NOTABLY WHEAT], DOMESTICATION
OF ANIMALS LIKE THE CHERISHED STEED AND PROCESSING OF METALS LIKE
COPPER, BRONZE AND IRON. FROM THE ANCIENT ARMENIAN SETTLEMENT OF
CAYONU SMOLDERING FOUNDRY ALONG WITH 9,500 YEAR OLD (!) METAL WAS
FOUND BY THE ASTOUNDED TEAM OF EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS.

Written by Gevork Nazaryan

From circa 2500 BC, different experiments with alloys of bronze and lead showed that the addition of 5-10 per cent lead to bronze alters its properties when melted down, yet it does not impair its strength as a metal for the manufacture of tools and weapons. The advantage of adding lead to copper and tin is that the alloy becomes much less viscous at low temperatures and pours more freely into moulds of fine and intricate patterns.

A WARRIOR'S ARMLET IN A FORM OF TWO VISHAP-DRAGON-SERPENTS.
ONE SPIRALING RING WITH TWO HEADS FACING RIGHT AND LEFT.

 DECORATED CEREMONIAL NECKLACE OF A HIGH PRIEST.

REMNANTS OF THE LIFELIKE STATUE OF A HIGH PRIEST SEER WEARING
THE CEREMONIAL ROBE AND DECORATIONS [INCLUDING THE
SIX RINGS WITHIN A CRESCENT SHAPED NECKLACE
AMULET CONNECTED WITH TWO OUTSIDE RINGS = TOTAL 8,
ARMLETS AND BRACELETS] HOLDING IN THE RIGHT
HAND THE NINE BRANCHED HOLY SCEPTER. THE BOTTOM
PART OF THE ROBE IS DECORATED WITH SOLAR AND
AQUATIC SYMBOLS [MALE+FEMALE UNION]. FROM
THE TEMPLE OF THE SUPREME GOD HALDI AT TOPRAKKALE.

BEAUTIFUL CRESCENT SHAPED AMULET DECORATED WITH
[3 PAIRS OF] LIONS, BULLS AND THE ALL-IMPORTANT HURI P‛ERIS --
FIRE BIRD -- PHOENIX-SPHINX. FACING EACH OTHER
IN AN ARRAY OF CONSTELLATION OF STARS.

ANOTHER FINE EXAMPLE OF THE CEREMONIAL CRESCENT SHAPED AMULETS
A SYMMETRICAL ORDER AND HARMONY WITH THE RITUAL FIGURES
FACING EACH OTHER AND OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS AROUND 3 TREES OF LIFE.

A DECORATIVE RELIEF OF A FOURTEEN [7+7] BRANCH TREE OF LIFE
AROUND WHICH THE SACRED RITUALS TOOK PLACE

ONE OF KING MENUA'S CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS COMMEMORATING
THE ERECTION OF A HOLY TEMPLE.

CEREMONIAL STATUETTE OF A GOAT [AY-TS] FROM ARTIK. 1300 BC.

ARMAN HIGH PRIEST WITH THE HOLY BANNER SURROUNDED BY STARS.

A SUPERBLY EXECUTED CEREMONIAL URN FOR HOLDING THE SACRED CONES
OF THE TREE OF LIFE. INLAID WITH GOLD.
NOTE THE URNS IN THE HANDS OF THE HIGH PRIESTS --
A QUINTESSENTIAL MOTIF IN THE DEPICTION OF ARARATIAN
RELIGIOUS RITUAL OF FORETELLING THE FUTURE.
THE HANDLE IS IN THE FORM OF DUAL VISHAP-SERPENTS AS A
CURVED SINGULAR ARCH PASSING THROUGH TWO ADJOINING RINGS.
TWO VISHAPS [FACING EACH OTHER OR IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS]
ON A VERTICAL POLE OR A  FIXED AXIS IS THE PATRIARCHAL
STAFF OF DIVINITY [WISDOM] CARRIED BY THE
SUPREME PONTIFFS OF ARMENIA'S HOLY APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

KARAS PITCHERS FOR THE PRESERVATION AND DISTILLATION OF WINE
AND OTHER BEVERAGES. XENOPHON THE RENOWNED GREEK
GENERAL WHO DURING THE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE PERSIANS
RETREATED WITH 10,000 GREEKS LATER WROTE HIS VALUABLE
WORK -- ANABASIS -- THAT INCLUDES INVALUABLE EYEWITNESS
INFORMATION ON ARMENIAN LIFE AT THE END OF THE FIFTH CENTURY BC.
AMONG OTHER THINGS HE WOULD MENTION FOR THE FIRST TIME
A "STRANGE DRINK" THAT HE WAS OFFERED BY THE
HOSPITABLE ARMENIAN FAMILY THAT HE STAYED WITH --
IT IS SURPRISING TO KNOW THAT THE GREEKS [OR AT LEAST XENOPHON
AND HIS MEN] DURING THIS PERIOD WERE NOT FAMILIAR
WITH MAKING BEER OUT OF DISTILLED GRAIN.

A DISK DEPICTING A LION WITHIN A CIRCLE OF SACRED CONES. NOTE THE
TAIL THAT IS [LIKE THE LATER STATUES OF MITHRAS, ĆON AND
ABRAXAS] IN THE FORM OF A SERPENT.

RELIEF OF A LION FROM KARIN.

A splendid copper bison of superb workmanship, depicting one of the three main species in ancient Babylonia, now extinct, was found near Lake Van, dated 2300 BC. The Sumerians (Suberians in the North, from Arme-Subria, Land of Shin-Ar) "settlers" from the Armenian highlands and Northern Mesopotamia carried the great culture of Ararat (Aratta, as they called it) to the lower Mesopotamia and there established cities such as Ur and Uruk (both carry and derive their name from the sacred Armenian Ar-Ur prefix).

LION-HEADED AND EAGLE-CLAW-FOOTED MEN. BOTH THE LION AND THE EAGLE
ARE SOLAR SYMBOLS [INCORPORATED INTO COAT-OF-ARMS OF RA].
THE LION [ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THE ZODIAC] IS KING THROUGHOUT TERRA FIRMA
AND THE EAGLE/HAWK REIGNS SUPREME IN THE SKY.

CLOSE-UP OF A LION'S HEAD.

SPEARHEADS

DRINKING GOBLET FROM EREBUNI IN A FORM OF A SHOE.

The Cretans too, were greatly affected and influenced by the rich heritage of Ararat and imported artifacts from the Kingdom of Biaina (Van). Interestingly enough, most of the artifacts of the great Araratian culture and craftsmanship are to be found primarily in foreign countries that imported Araratian artifacts and goods.

[K]HALDI THE SUPREME GOD OF THE HOLY TRIAD.
ON TOP OF THE LION [SYMBOL OF PARAMOUNT LORDSHIP].
A FRESCO FROM THE ARYN-BERD HILL -- ĒREBUNI-ĒREVAN.

ONE OF THE HUMAN FACED WINGED LION STATUES UNEARTHED FROM EREBUNI.
THE SYMBOLISM IS A DIRECT PARALLEL TO THE ENIGMA OF THE SPHINX ...
... MAN THROUGH INTELLIGENCE AND WISDOM OVERCOMES HIS
ANIMAL NATURE AND ATTAINS SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION [SYMB. WINGS] ...
THE STRIKING STATUE IS ON DISPLAY AT THE HERMITAGE.
 

GRIFFON -- PHOENIX-EAGLE-LION -- ONE OF THE IMPORTANT SYMBOLS OF ARARAT.
THIS SUPERB STATUE OF FINE WORKMANSHIP BY THE MASTER
CRAFTSMEN OF ARARAT IS ON DISPLAY AT THE STATE MUSEUM OF BERLIN.

THE HUGE RELIEF OF ARGIŠTI THE FIRST [FOUNDER OF EREBUNI]
AS THE PHYSICAL EMBODIMENT OF THE
SUPREME SKY GOD [K]HALDI WITH THE HORNS OF POWER AND
THE HURI PERI -- FIERY PHOENIX OF THE SEVEN RAYS.
THE RELIEF IS AN INTEGRAL ELEMENT OF THE
MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE GRACING THE OUTER WALLS OF THE EREBUNI MUSEUM
THAT DISPLAYS MANY OF THE GREAT ARTIFACTS FOUND THROUGHOUT
IMPORTANT CENTERS LIKE ARYN BERD [EREBUNI], KARMIR BLUR
[TEYŠEBAINI] AND ARMAVIR [ARGIŠTIHINILI].

 THE MUSEUM WAS OFFICIALLY OPENED IN 1968 -- IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 2750 YEAR
ANNIVERSARY OF THE OFFICIAL FOUNDATION OF EREBAN-EREVAN IN 782 BC
 BY KING ARGIŠTI I.

THE COSMIC ARMAN HIERARCHY PYR-AMID
[FIRE OF AMID -- U R-HAI -- ORION/ARYAN SOLAR CENTER]
SIX POINTS LEADING TO THE DIAMOND/SQUARE IN THE CENTER.

[K] H A L D E A N    N U M E R O L O G Y   1   T H R O U G H   1 0

[K] H A L D E A N  N U M E R O L O G Y  1 1 T H R O U G H  2 0 0 0

THE K‛URMS -- THE ARMAN HIGH PRIEST ASTROLOGERS CALLED THEMSELVES
[K]HALDEANS AFTER THE GOD OF THE ASTRAL LIGHT.
ALONG WITH TEIŠEBA -- THE GOD OF LIGHTNING AND THUNDER AND THE SUN GOD ŠIVINI
COMPLETED THE TRINITY OF THE EXOTERIC PANTHEON OF ARARAT.
ALL ARE MANIFESTATIONS OF EA-[H]AYA [DIVINE ESSENCE].

PAINTING BY VARDKES SURENEANC‛ OF ARA THE FAIR -- ARGIŠTI
ASSYRIAN QUEEN SEMIRAMIS LAMENTS THE DEATH OF HANDSOME ARA --
THE WARRIOR KING OF THE AR-MENS. ACCORDING TO THE EPIC STORY
ARA REMAINED FAITHFUL TO HIS WIFE THE ARMENIAN QUEEN NUARD
AND TURNED DOWN THE SUGGESTION OF THE ASSYRIAN QUEEN TO
LEAVE HIS WIFE AND BECOME THE LOVER OF SEMIRAMIS.

THE QUEEN OF ASSYRIA SENT A HUGE ARMY AFTER INSTRUCTING HER
GENERALS NOT TO HARM THE ONE SHE DESIRED. CONTRARY TO HER ORDERS
ARA FELL MORTALLY WOUNDED WHILE LEADING HIS WARRIORS IN THE BATTLE.
GRIEF-STRICKEN AND DESPERATE SEMIRAMIS INSTRUCTED THE ARA-LEZ --
THE SEMI-MYTHICAL DOGS TO LICK THE WOUNDS
OF ARA AND BRING HIM BACK TO LIFE... THE WHOLE EPIC EMBODIES THE
CENTURIES OF STRUGGLE BETWEEN ARARAT AND ASSYRIA -- NORTH AND SOUTH --
THE COSMIC EPIC ALSO ECHOES THE PRIMORDIAL ARMAN SOLAR CULT OF ARA...
THE DYING AND RESURRECTING GOD...

RECONSTRUCTION OF AN ARARATIAN TEMPLE  AT TOPRAKKALE.

At the Zenith of its power (800-743 BC), the Kingdom of Ararat occupied the Mediterranean port of Poseidon, at the mouth of the River Ervand (Orontes), whence its bronze and iron articles (among other goods), dispatched from the capital city of Tushpa-Van, and elsewhere, through Carchemish, were shipped via Rhodes or Samos, Corinth and Delphi; or Cyprus and Crete to Italian peninsula; or overland, via Phrygia and the Ionian cities on the coast, to Samos and mainland Greece.

ARARATIAN ROYAL SEAL OF THE COSMIC WHEEL 

ONE OF THE CYLINDER INSCRIPTIONS OF ARGIŠTI I FROM EREBUNI-ARYN BERD.
AS A COMMON NORM WRITTEN IN-BETWEEN PARALLEL LINES.

SACRED SYMBOLS OF THE EXOTERIC GODS OF THE PANTHEON. FROM THE TOP.
FIRST ROW: POINT WITHIN CIRCLE [SUN, SOLAR ENERGY,
MASCULINE PRINCIPLE ŠIWINI [SYUNIK PROVINCE OF GREATER ARMENIA
 AND THE POWERFUL SYUNI OR SIWNI NOBILITY DERIVE THEIR
FROM THE SUN GOD] SECOND ROW: THREE HORIZONTAL LINE/
NINE HORIZONTAL LINES ALIGNED IN THREE ROWS. NU -- MOON PHASES, LIFE.
THIRD ROW: SKY, DIVINE. MOON, FEMININE PRINCIPLE, GODDESS,
FORTH ROW: UPWARD POINTING ARROW/TRIANGLE TIP, HALDI.
FIFTH ROW: TRIDENT,  HALDI -- SUPREME GOD, CREATOR, LORD, GRAND, BEGINNING
AYB [INITIATION] FIRST LETTER OF THE ALPHABET... SACRED E IN MOTION [QUINTESSENCE]...
THREE VERTICAL LINES EMANATE FROM A HORIZONTAL BASE...
SIXTH ROW: CENTER POINT ABOVE THE CRESCENT/V -- MORNING.
SEVENTH ROW: BULL, DOWNWARD POINTING PENTAGON WITH HORNS,
TEIŠEBA -- GOD OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
EIGHTH ROW: UPWARD POINTING PENTAGON, TWO UPWARD POINTING
PENTAGONS -- ONE WITHIN ANOTHER.

The Araratian bronzes (statuettes, pottery, cauldrons, weaponry etc.) that were shipped abroad were copied extensively by the smiths of the importing countries.

ARARATIAN STYLIZED EARRINGS MADE OUT OF PURE GOLD.

ARMLET AS THE MANIFEST SYMBOL OF THE COSMIC WHEEL
[WINGED DISK] ETERNITY RITUALISTICALLY WORN ON THE WRIST.
THE LATER WRIST WATCHES [KEEPERS OF TIME] ARE IN
DIRECT CONTINUATION OF THE PERENNIAL ARMANI ARCHETYPE.

REPLICA OF A BRACELET OF AN ARARATIAN K‛URM [HIGH PRIEST] BY
A. BERBERIAN. INTERWOVEN SERPENTINE STRANDS BETWEEN THE DOTTED
VERTICAL NOTCHED LINES.

NOTE THE 'Y'-SHAPED MAGICK WAND -- FROM ONE STEM -- TWO DIFFUSING POINTS.
THE SACRED HALO OF SEVEN IN ONE ARRANGED ABOVE.

GOLD MEDALLION WITH HALDI
AS AN ARCHER [ORION] ON TOP OF THE LION [CONSTELLATION OF LEO]
AND THE A R KING-HIGH PRIEST WITH UPRAISED ARMS IN
PRAISE OF THE SUPREME LORD.
NOTE INANNA'S [ANAHIT] EIGHT-POINTED [VENUSIAN] STAR OF DESTINY
HOLY SPIRIT.

ONE OF THE BRONZE ENGRAVINGS OF THE WARRIOR KING.

 NECKLACE OF PURE GOLD DECORATED WITH PRECIOUS GEMS
UNFORTUNATELY MOST OF THE GEMS ARE MISSING.
NOTE THE THREE SACRED LEAVES OF SOSI OR SYCAMORE [PLATANUS]
TREE OF LIFE IN THE CENTER [+ TWO SOSIS ON THE FLANKS] --
WITH TRIANGULAR ZIGZAGS ABOVE AND BELOW.
17 RAYS IN FORMATION OF LILIES IN A RADIANT ARRAY AT THE LOWER PORTION.
 

A SILVER DRINKING GOBLET FROM EREBUNI IN A FORM OF BULL
ASSOCIATED WITH WATER/OCEAN [PRIMORDIAL CHAOS]
WITH SCENES OF A FESTIVE CELEBRATION AND DRINKING.
THE DRAGON GOBLET HAD WITHIN SOMA DRINK [HIGH SPIRIT].
SPIRITS WERE  USED DURING CELEBRATIONS AS WELL AS
RITUAL CEREMONIES BY THE [K]HALDEAN HIGH PRIESTS.
RATIONAL [LOGIC-MIND] WOULD GIVE IN TO IRRATIONAL [PHI-PSYCHE]
 [EMOTION-FEELING-HEART] RESULTING IN A
TRANSCENDENTAL HIGHER STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

SECTION OF A THRONE WITH WINGED [DENOTING CELESTIAL DIVINITY]
LIONS [HALDI], EAGLES [ŠIVINI] AND BULLS [TEIŠEBA] --
THE HOLY TRIAD SYMBOLICALLY SUPPORTING
AND PROTECTING THE REIGNING KING

DRINKING GOBLET IN THE FOR OF A HORNED GRIFFON

RENOWNED MASTER CRAFTSMEN OF ARARAT. QUITE OFTEN
OVERLOOKING THEMSELVES AND THEIR OWN WELLBEING...
CHANNELING THEIR CREATIVE SPIRIT INTO THEIR INITIALLY INANIMATE
WORKS...IMBUED WITH SACRED SYMBOLS... THESE BEAUTIFUL AND
PRECIOUS ARTIFACTS WOULD TAKE AN ENDURING LIFE OF THEIR OWN...
THANKS TO THE APPRECIATION OF THOSE DEVOTEES WHO TRULY
UNDERSTOOD THEIR SUBLIMINAL AND UNDYING VALUE.

ARMENIAN MASTER CRAFTSMAN WITH A FINELY MADE PITCHER
DECORATED WITH GRIFFON HANDLES FACING RIGHT AND LEFT.
RELIEF FROM ANCIENT ACHAEMENID CAPITAL OF PERSEPOLIS.
VITH CENTURY BC. ECBATANA WAS THE ANCIENT CAPITAL
OF THE MEDES OR MARS [MAR -- LIT. VISHAP-DRAGON-SERPENTS
MARE/MARY/MARIA-NU -WATER/SEA/QUANTUM OCEAN...]
ARMAN KINSMEN THAT WERE LED BY THE KURM-HIGH PRIEST
MAGI [FROM WHERE WE HAVE THE WORD MAGIC OR MAGIA...
MAGNA...LIT. GREAT...EXPANSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS]...
DEVOTEES OF THE ETERAL FLAME [ATR-U-ŠAN...LIT. FIRE
ALTAR SUPPORTED BY FOUR PILLARS THAT CONTAINED
THE DIVINE SPARK IN THE CENTER OF THE SANCTUM
OF PURITY...HENCE THE NAME OF THE ANCIENT ARMENIAN
PROVINCE OF KINFOLK MEDES-MARS ATRPATAKAN...

GOLDEN EARRINGS IN A FORM OF TRIANGULAR TRAPEZOIDS.
LORIBERD. VIIITH CENTURY BC.

Those commercial relationships even helped to mould the art of Classical Greece. It is only in recent years that archaeologists have been able to study and assess the significance of the excavations of ancient Armenia.

A TABLE OF DELICATE EXECUTION
BY THE MASTERS OF ARARAT

Most of the works are great artistic and historic pieces of superb, delicate execution. An eminent British scholar, Leonard Woolley wrote, "the most original and the most fruitful contribution to art was made by the metal-workers of Ararat (Urartu)" (Mesopotamia and the Middle East, London, 1961).

CELESTIAL BULL/HOLY COW 

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

THE HUGE CAULDRON ON A SACRED TRIPOD
 FOR THE PREPARATION OF RELIGIOUS FOOD.
THE TRADITION CONTINUED IN AN UNBROKEN FASHION
BY THE HOLY APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN PREPARATION OF
THE HOLY MURION LED BY THE CATHOLICOS --
ONCE EVERY SEVEN YEARS...


ORDER SEAL.

The flowering of Araratian art coincided with the period of Ararat's military greatness in the eighth century BC when the Araratian Empire included central and eastern Anatolia, extensive provinces in Syria, and northern Mesopotamia. During this period, Assyria had to yield the status of the superpower of the ancient world to that of ARARAT.