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ARMENIAN CHARIOTEERS. THE HORSE AND WHEEL/CARTS HELPED
TO SPEARHEADED THE SPREAD OF CIVILIZATION FROM THE ARMENIAN HIGHLAND
TO OTHER PARTS OF THE GLOBE.

Ervand I (570-560)
Tigran (560-535)
Vahagn (530-515)
Hydarnes I (521-499)
Hydarnes II (c. 480-430)
Hydarnes III (430-424)
Artashir (424-404)
Ervand II (404-360)
Tiribazos (386-380)
Ervand III (c. 330-300)
Ervand IV (c.212-c.200)

JULIANO ZASSO (1833-1889). PRINCESS TIGRANUHI BEFORE
WEDDING WITH KING AZHDAHAK.

JULIANO ZASSO (1833-1889). AZHDAHAK'S DREAM.

COIN OF TIRIBAZ[OS] ORONTID [386-380]. OUT OF THE SACRED
WINGED DISK EMERGES CROWNED TORSO OF ARAMAZD [GOD-MAN...SPIRITUAL
FLIGHT] HOLDING THE REEF OF GLORY [RIGHT HAND] AND THE BLOSSOMED
FLEUR-DE-LYS-ESQUE SACRED LOTUS BLOSSOM. EA/BAAL/VAHAGN/JUPITER
WITH THE SACRED EAGLE SITTING ON HIS RAND HAND AND THE SCEPTER
OF POWER IN HIS LEFT.

THE DIVINE MAN EMERGING OUT OF THE WINGED DISK
WOULD BE ADOPTED AND USED BY THE IRANIAN EMPIRE BASED ON THE
ARMANEN DOCTRINE OF ZOROASTRIANISM.

O  R  I  O  N -T  I  D    [ O  R  O  N  T  I  D - E  R  V  A  N  D  U  N  I]     AR.MENIA [ARMINA].
THE ROYAL FAMILY WAS A PROMINENT ARISTOCRATIC HOUSE DURING THE
ARAMIAN DYNASTY OF THE ARARATIAN KINGDOM KNOWN AS AR.VAN.TUNI
WHICH LITERALLY MEANS THE HOUSE OF AR [CHILDREN OF AR OR MEN OF AR -
HENCE THE NAME AR.MEN.IA OR ARMANIA...]. THE POSSESSIONS OF THE ERVANDUNI
[ORONDES] HOUSE WERE CENTERED AROUND THE SACRED LAND OF MUSASIR-ARDINI
[ARDINIS...]. IT IS HERE THAT ZOROASTER WAS BORN AND WAS SCHOOLED IN THE
CHALDEAN [HALDI-EAN] WISDOM TEMPLES. THE DOCTRINE WOULD BECOME
THE VERY BASIS OF THE ZOROASTRIAN DOCTRINE OF AHURA-MAZDA.

UNDOUBTEDLY THE PRIDE OF ARMENIA SINCE AT LEAST THE TIME
OF MITANNI AND HAYASA IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BC WAS ITS HEAVILY
ARMORED CAVALRY. VIRTUALLY ALL IMPORTANT
CLASSICAL HISTORIANS NOTE THAT NO NATION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD POSSESSED
SUCH MOUNTED FORMATIONS THAT WOULD ACT AS THE DECISIVE FORCE IN
COUNTLESS BATTLES. IRON WEAPONS AND IRON ARMOR THAT WAS INITIALLY
EXCLUSIVELY SMELTED IN THE FOUNDRIES OF ARMENIAN HIGHLAND BY
THE HALDOI [DEVOTEES OF HALDI-HAYK THE PATRON GOD OF THE WARRIOR
CASTE]. AS LATE AS THE MIDDLE AGES ARMENIAN IRONSMITHS WERE KNOWN
AS XALIBS ACHING BACK TO THE VERY ORIGINS OF METAL SMELTING THAT
LIKE TEXTILE WEAVING BEGAN IN ARMENIA SOME 11 TO 12 THOUSAND
YEARS AGO AT PLACES LIKE CAYONU [NEVALI CORI, HALLAN CEMI AND
GOBEKLI TEPE] WHERE THE VERY HUMAN CIVILIZATION AS WE
KNOW IT BEGAN TO TAKE SHAPE WITH THE VERY FIRST SETTLED COMMUNITIES
ENGAGED IN FARMING, PLANTING OF WHEAT, BARLEY AND OTHER CEREALS
ALONG WITH DOMESTICATION OF WILD ANIMALS.

COIN OF ERVAND [ORONTAS] II. OBVERSE: ARMENIAN WARRIOR
IN DEFENSIVE POSITION. REVERSE: WINGED BOAR WITH
OPO.NT.A INSCRIPTION AROUND.

MITHRAIC K‛RMAPETS [HIGH PRIESTS] RELIEF FROM ANCIENT DAROYNK.



WHITE PEGASUS. ONE OF THE SACRED SYMBOLS OF THE
ORONTIDS ON THE COIN OF ERVAND II.

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ARMENIANS WEARING TRADITIONAL MITHRAIC CLOTHES IN THE RELIEFS
OF THE APADANA [PALACE] IN PERSEPOLIS. VITH CENTURY BC.

SILVER BOWL. GEŁARK‘UNIK‘ PROVINCE. V-IVTH CENTURIES BC.

ARMENIANS DEPICTED WITH THEIR PRIZED STEEDS WEARING DISTINCTIVE
NATIONAL MITHRAIC RED CAPS AND WHITE TUNICS. FROM THE RELIEFS OF THE
APADANA [PALACE] IN PERSEPOLIS. VITH CENTURY BC.

CEREMONIAL DRINKING RITON. VITH CENTURY BC.

TIRIBAZOS WEARING TRADITIONAL ARMENIAN MITHRAIC CAP  [NOTE THE TIP
POINTING DOWNWARD=NATION AT PEACE...] RULED BETWEEN 386-380 BC
THROUGHOUT WESTERN ARMENIA [INCLUDING CILICIAN ARMENIA].

ARMENIAN WARRIOR DURING THE ORONTID DYNASTY.
ARMOR WAS ALREADY BEING APPLIED BY ARMENIAN
NOBILITY AND VARIOUS MOUNTED AND INFANTRY
FORMATIONS DURING THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BC.
NOTE THE TRADEMARK READ ARMANEN-MITHRAIC
HAT THAT WOULD BE WORN FROM EUROPE TO
FAR FLUNG STEPPES OF THE TARIM BASIN WHERE
THE RENOWNED DISCOVERED TARIM BASIN MUMMIES
IN EASTERN CHINA WERE ALSO WEARING
THE TRADEMARK CAPS. THE EARLIEST REMNANTS OF
HORSE DOMESTICATION FROM FIFTH MILLENNIUM BC
WERE FOUND IN ARMENIAN HIGHLAND AT DEMIRCI
HOYOK, YARIKKAYA AND NORSUN TEPE.

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ARMENIAN NOBLE WEARING
ARMOR PLATE WITH THE SACRED SOLAR SYMBOLS OF
PROTECTION AND PROVIDENCE. SECOND MILLENNIUM BC. ON DISPLAY
IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM AT THE SARDARAPAT MEMORIAL
AS NOTED ABOVE, THE ARMENIAN WARRIOR CASTE WAS ALREADY
WIDELY USING ARMOR DURING THIS TIME AND ARMENIAN MOUNTED NOBILITY WAS
RENOWNED FOR ITS HORSES, CHARIOTS AND IRON WEAPONRY
THAT TIME AND AGAIN WOULD ASSURE THE VICTORY OF
THE AYRUDZI-MARIANU.

ORONTID HELMET IN THE NATIONAL MITHRAIC STYLE.


ANOTHER COIN OF ERVAND II WITH THE SACRED PEGASUS AND THE GODDESS

THE KING OF BABYLON ARA.KHA[Y]. DARIUS OF PERSIA
IN THE BEHISTUN [BAGHASTANA] INSCRIPTION NOTES
THAT KING OF BABYLON ARAKA THE ARMIN [ARMENIAN]
SON OF [K]HALDI [SUPREME LORD OF ARARATIAN PANTHEON]
FROM A LONG LINE OF ARMENIAN KINGS
RULES BABYLON ATTESTING THAT THE SUPREME GOD
[K]HALD-HAYK-EA-HAYA AND HIS DIVINE RULERS WERE STILL
HOLDING THE SUMERIC-ARMENIC LINE OF DIVINE KINGSHIP IN THE
SIXTH CENTURY BC. THE GREAT EPIC OF HAYK [HALDI-EA-HAYA]
AS THE SUPREME LORD OF BABYLON AND ALL OF MESOPOTAMIA
EXTENDING FROM ARMENIAN HIGHLAND -ARATTA-DILMUN-ETEN-EDEN
- LAND OF THE GODS - WAS RECORDED BY THE FIFTH CENTURY
FATHER OF ARMENIAN HISTORY MOWSĒS OF XORĒN FROM THE
PRIMORDIAL ORAL EPICS OF THE ARMENIAN GUSANS [TROUBADOURS].