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The most original and the most fruitful contribution to Art
was made by the Metal Workers of Ararat.
- Sir Leonard Woolley (Renowned British Archaeologist and Historian)

Written by Gevork Nazaryan

The settlement continued to expand until in 782 BC, King Argišti I built the outpost fortress of Erebuni, on the Aryn Berd hilltop, in the heart of the Ararat Valley. The King ordered a special cuneiform inscription to be made in order to preserve and verify his deed in the annals of history. The inscription tells us the time and place where the fortress was built, the fortress is called Erebuni [most probably deriving its name from the much older settlement of Aryn], the earliest phonetic form of Erevan or Yerevan, the name evolved and became the later.

THE EASTERN ENTRANCE TO THE GRAND TEMPLE OF THE EREBUNI FORTRESS

A few decades later another fortress was built in the vicinity of modern Yerevan -- Teyšebaini -- City of Teyšeba -- named after Teyšeba or Tešub [husband of Goddess Xuba] -- second in the hierarchy of the Hurrian [Hur -- Fire -- Har -- Mountain] Supreme Trinity of the Ararat's exoteric Pantheon of Gods to be worshipped by the people -- Haldi [Hayk -- Orion Hal-di, Al-di] was the

ARMANI WAR GODS UPON A PEGASUS AND A GRIFFON BETWEEN UP AND DOWN
POINTING SACRED SOSI [POPLAR] LEAVES [CHALDEAN TEMPLE ORACLES WERE
CALLED SUSIS IN THE WISDOM TEMPLES THE ASTRONOMER HIGH PRIESTS FORETOLD
THE FUTURE  BASED ON PLANETARY ALIGNMENT AND ANOINTED THE WARRIOR
KINGS]. BELT OF ARMAN WARRIOR.

BULL'S HEAD AS A HANDLE OF A HUGE CAULDRON FOR
PREPARATION OF CEREMONIAL FOOD. ALTINTEPE.

SACRED MARKINGS PLACED ON ARARATIAN JARS AND POTS.
TRIANGLE WITH FIVE-RAYED BASE. WITH A DOWNWARD POINTING
TRIDENT WITHIN AN OVAL [COSMIC EGG].

WINGED GODMAN PHOENIX WITH THE SOLAR SERPENTINE DISK.

COSMOLOGICAL MOTIFS ON ARARATIAN BRONZE PANEL FROM VIII-VIITH CEN. BC.

STATUETTE OF [K]HALDI WITH THE HORNED CROWN OF DIVINITY.

ONE OF NUMEROUS ARMLETS OF PROTECTION MADE OUT OF PRECIOUS METAL
IN THE FORM OF VISHAP-DRAGONS [OUROBOROS]. TWO SERPENTS
IN ONE RING FACING EACH OTHER [OPPOSITE YET UNITED].

TWO OF THE MANY SACRED CYLINDER SEALS DEPICTING
VISHAP-DRAGONS WITH ACCOMPANYING COSMIC SYMBOLISM.

BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED GOLDEN HANDLE OF A CEREMONIAL
CAULDRON MADE BY MASTER GOLDSMITHS OF ARARAT.
IN THE FORM OF A WINGED A Y T S [CAPRICORN...
ONE OF THE PRIMORDIAL TOTEMS OF
ANDROGYNOUS GREAT MOTHER A Y A]
ON TOP OF A HUMAN BEARDED HEAD
[EMANATING FROM THE GODHEAD MIND].
FIRST MILLENNIUM BC.

RELIEF OF NUMEROUS ARARATIAN MULTISTORY RESIDENTIAL
BUILDINGS. ARMENIANS WERE MASTER BUILDERS OF HIGH RISE
HOUSES THAT WERE MADE TO WITHSTAND FREQUENT
EARTHQUAKE TREMORS. NOTE THE HEAVEN + EARTH
[UP AND DOWN TRIANGLE] FAMILIAR  SYMBOLIC PATTERN.

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE THREE-STORY BUILDING FROM RUSAHINILI -
BARZUDIBIDUNI - LIT. MILITARY BARRACKS - PART OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING COMPLEXES OF THE VANIC KINGDOM.

ARARATIAN FINELY MADE DRINKING GOBLET WITH THE
TOTEMIC AYTS [GOAT] CONTAINED THE SACRED DRINK
OF THE HIGH SPIRIT [ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES ARE ACCORDINGLY CALLED].

THE GREAT MASTERSHIP OF ARARATIAN GOLDSMITHS. THE HORNED [CAPPED BY
RIGHT AND LEFT SPINNING RAM-SPIRALS THAT SUPPORT THE ONE RING/HALO...]
SKY GOD TEYŠEBA UPON THE CELESTIAL BULL [TAURUS] WITHIN A FOUR WINGED
CIRCLE [POSEIDON THE LEGENDARY GOD-KING OF ATLANTIS...
HIS/ATLANTEAN EMBLEM -- FOUR FOLD DIVISION OF THREE CIRCLES WITHIN CIRCLES...
TEISOP-TEYŠEBA IS THE SAME RETROGRADE NAME OF THE GOD-KING...]
HOLDING THE TRIDENT-LIKE [LIFE RUNE] SCEPTERS CROWNED WITH
3 AND 3 POMEGRANATES IN EACH HAND. TWO DEVOTEE K‛URM-HIGH PRIESTS
FLANK THE CELESTIAL DEITY AS A TERRESTRIAL AGENTS OF
TEYŠEBA-NEPTUNE-ZEUS-JUPITER...RITUALISTICALLY WEARING THE FEATHERS
OF THE FEATHERED SERPENTS...THE CROWNS ARE ADORNED WITH FLEUR-DE-LYS.
 ALL WITHIN AN 8-ESQUE [DOTTED] INTERWOVEN MATRIX RING OF INFINITY.
SEVEN RAYS EMANATE AT THE CROWN...

THE REMARKABLE ARARATIAN HELMETS OF ARMAN WARRIORS DECORATED
WITH EIGHT ARCHING VISHAPS WITH THE WINGED DEITY/KURM IN THE CENTER.
BOTTOM PORTION DEPICTS HIGH PRIESTS FLANKING THE TREE OF LIFE
AND THE WARRIOR HORSEMEN/CHARIOTEERS OF THE AYRUDZI.
FIVE LAYERS OF ZIGZAGGING AQUARIAN RHOMBI.
ON DISPLAY IN THE URARTU-ARARAT HALL OF BERLIN MUSEUM.

CLOSE UP OF THE HELMET WITH THE BOTTOM SEGMENT
DEPICTION OF THE AYRUDZI HORSEMEN.

CLOSE UP OF THE HELMET WITH THE UPPER SEGMENT DEPICTION OF THE FOUR
VISHAPS [AND FOUR ON THE OTHER] ALONG WITH THE K‛URMS NEXT TO THE COSMIC
TREE OF LIFE [EARTH POLE AXIS/GALACTIC CENTER] /KNOWLEDGE
FORETELLING THE FUTURE [STELLAR ASTRONOMY].

ONE OF THE PRESERVED ARARATIAN BUCKET URNS THAT
CONTAINED WITHIN THE SACRED CONIC POPLARS [SOSE].
MIDDLE ROW INCLUDES THE PROCESSION OF THE K‛URM HIGH
PRIESTS WITH TREE BRANCHES [COSMIC TREE OF LIFE/KNOWLEDGE].
INTERWOVEN CONIC MOTIF ON TOP AND BOTTOM ROWS IN-BETWEEN
THE MATRIX GRID. FOUR WINGED SOLAR DEITIES AND
TWO PROTOMES ON THE RIM. VIIITH CENTURY BC.

BULL-HEADED RHYTON FROM ARGIŠTIHINILI [ARMAVIR] VII-VITH
CENTURIES BC. ON DISPLAY IN THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF ARMENIA IN YEREVAN.

Supreme God of War [husband of Goddess Arubani-Bagmaštu...lit. Bag -- Divine Mast-Master-Mazda-Imast[un] Meaning/Wisdom] -- all of the military campaigns and the laying of foundations of new buildings were made in his name.

' . . . AND  WE  SHALL  NAME  THE  NEW  CITY  ON ARYN  BERD  HILL ... Ē R E B U N I ...
T      H      E         C      I      T      Y         O      F         T     H      E         S      U     N . . . '

THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTION [782 BC] ISSUED BY THE DECREE OF
KING ARGIŠTI I UPON THE FOUNDATION OF
THE FORTRESS-CITY OF EREBUNI.

PORTION OF THE ORIGINAL CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTION MADE IN 782 BC AND
PLACED AT THE INNER GATES [WHERE IT WAS UNEARTHED BY THE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM] TO THE CITADEL.

1. WITH THE GREATNESS OF THE SUPREME GOD [K]HALDI
2. KING ARGIŠTI -- SON OF KING MENUA

3. ERECTED THIS BEAUTIFUL FORTRESS
4. AND NAMED IT EREBUNI
5. FOR THE GLORY OF THE LAND OF BIAYNA
6. TO FEND OFF THE ENEMIES OF OUR LAND
7. THE KING PROCLAIMS
8. THIS LAND WAS BARREN AND WE MADE
9. WELL-BUILT FORTIFICATIONS THROUGHOUT
10. WITH THE GREATNESS OF THE SUPREME GOD [K]HALDI
11. KING ARGIŠTI -- SON OF KING MENUA
12. IS A SOVEREIGN OF A BEAUTIFUL LAND
13. THE LORD OF THE GREAT CAPITAL CITY TUŠPA

AN ENTRY FROM KING MENUA'S INCRIPTION UPON ERECTION OF A VAST
NETWORK OF IRRIGATIONAL CANALS [PORTIONS OF WHICH ARE STILL IN USE!].

A PORTION OF THE HUGE EREBUNI FRESCOS FROM THE INNER SANCTUM'S WALLS.
THE DECORATIVE MOTIFS ARE MADE USING RED, BLUE AND ORANGE DYE.
[FOR FURTHER EXPLANATION ABOUT THE MEANING AND SYMBOLISM
OF THE FRESCOS SEE CULTURE OF ARARAT CHAPTER -- CLICK HERE].

ĒREBUNI. THE ORIGINAL NAME OF THE CAPITAL.
SEVEN SACRED LETTERS BEGINNING WITH THE SEVENTH SACRED LETTER

IMPRESSION OF THE ROYAL SEAL [SEE BELOW] FROM TEYŠEBAINI
ON BRONZE CHALICES OF KING SARDURI.
DEPICTING WITHIN CUNEIFORM POINT CIRCLE  
THE LION SYMBOL OF HALDI AND THE ARARATIAN TOWER
ABOVE WITH THE TREE OF LIFE/SPEER/OBELISK IN THE CENTER.
THIS SYMBOLISM WAS INCORPORATED
INTO THE COAT OF ARMS OF THE CAPITAL.
AS WELL AS THE MONUMENT OBELISK OVERLOOKING THE CITY.

THE LION - THE TOWER - THE SACRED OBELISK/LEAF/SPEAR ABOVE IT WITH THE
WRAP AROUND CUNEIFORM. THE ROYAL SEAL OF KING SARDURI II ON THE BRONZE
CEREMONIAL BOWL FROM TEYŠEBAINI.

ALL GREAT PROJECTS AND VICTORIES, INCLUDING ERECTION OF MONUMENTAL
 ARCHITECTURE BEGAN BY LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE AND
THE SACRED INSCRIPTION MARKING THE CEREMONIAL OCCASION.

ARARATIAN NINE [8+1] BRANCHED TREE OF LIFE
FROM THE BEAUTIFUL FRESCOES OF EREBUNI.
EACH HORIZONTAL BRANCH IN ITS TURN HAS NINE RAYS
IN RED AND BLUE EMANATING FROM THE SUNBURST SUPPORTED BY
RIGHT AND LEFT TURNING UNITED CRESCENTS
[MASCULINE PRINCIPLE WITHIN THE ETERNAL FEMININE PRINCIPLE]
FOUR HORIZONTAL STEMS [WITH DOWNWARD POINTING SUPPORTING
 CRESCENTS IMMEDIATELY BELOW] LEAD TO THE FIFTH ON THE TOP.
SIX LESSER STEMMING BRANCHES [2x3 BRANCHES] WITH SIX SUNBURST
 RAYS FROM THE ONE/CORE/CENTER
AGAIN IN ITS TURN SUPPORTED BY CRESCENTS [GODDESS]

P‛ESI TSAR [GROOM'S TREE ASSOCIATED WITH FERTILITY RITES
OF NEWLYWED COUPLE] FROM ART‛IK [NEAR GYUMRI]
NORTHERN ARMENIA, XIXTH CENTURY.
THE TREE OF LIFE [PARALLEL OF THE MAYPOLE]
FROM THE SACRED VESSEL OF GOD
[FEMININE PRINCIPLE] STEMS THE POLE/AXIS MUNDE [MASCULINE
PRINCIPLE] WHICH HAS 8-BRANCHES [4+4 ON EACH SIDE] +
THE CENTER BEING THE NINTH UNITING VERTICAL
STEM TIPPED WITH THE SPHERE. THE TIPS OF BRANCHES
ARE DECORATED WITH RIBBONS [FROM WHICH WE HAVE THE SAYING
OF TYING THE KNOT...WOVEN UNION],  LIT CANDLES,
JINGLING BELLS AND WRITTEN GOOD WISHES TO THE YOUNG LOVEBIRDS
THE PRIMORDIAL ARMANI ARARATIAN TRADITION HAS BEEN PRESERVED AND
CONTINUED UNCHANGED IN ARMENIC FOLK COMMUNITIES WHO REMAINED
TRUE TO THE NATIONAL TRADITIONS OF THEIR ANCESTORS TO OUR OWN DAYS.

THE TREE OF LIFE BY RENOWNED MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATOR TOROS OF TARON.
FROM THE VESSEL OF GOD EMERGES THE TREE OF LIFE THAT HOLDS THE PLATE
WITH THE NEWLY WED COUPLE WHO WERE MARRIED AS 'KING AND QUEEN'
WITH ACCOMPANYING CROWNS PLACED ON THEIR HEADS BY THE PRIEST
DURING THE WEDDING CEREMONY. NOTE THE SACRED OAK BRANCHES OF
FERTILITY AND LIFE THAT LEADS TO THE SYNTHESIS OF THE COUPLE...
THROUGH DIVINE LOVE GIVING BIRTH TO THE OFFSPRING AS A HURI PERI
OR HAZARAN BLBUL...NOTE THE CROWNING SYMBOL ON TOP OF THE PHOENIX
OF REGENERATION AS A PRIMORDIAL LIFE RUNE TIPPED WITH PHALLIC TRIUNE
[THREE UNITED RINGS...THE CENTER AS IN THE FLEUR DE LYS IS ERECT]
FLANKED BY FOUR VARDEAKS [TOP TWO HAVE IN THEIR TURN THEIR OWN
TRIDENTS BRINGING THE TOTAL TO NINE POINTS]... [ROSE PETALS] THE EAGLE
ON THE RIGHT WITH THE EXTENDED WING IS ACTUALLY IN THE FORM OF ECH [E]
FIFTH LETTER. THE ILLUMINATORS WERE KNOWN AS TSAGHKOGH [LIT.
BLOSSOMING OR  BLOSSOMER] BECAUSE THE PREVALENT MOTIF OF ARMENIAN
ILLUMINATION IN THE MARGINALS, XORANS [CANONS] AND SUPERBLY
ILLUMINATED PORTRAITS IS THE SACREDNESS OF LIFE REPRESENTED WITH
SYMBOLS OF FERTILITY MOST NOTABLY INTERWOVEN BLOSSOMING VEGETATION
INCLUDING TREES, FLOWERS, PLANTS, BIRDS AND COUNTLESS
NATURAL AND MYTHICAL ANIMALS.

ARMANI TREE OF LIFE WITH SUBLIME SYMBOLISM. PLACED
WITHIN OJAX [LIT. HEARTH/BLAZE/HOME]. LATER
CHRISTMAS THREE [WINTER SOLSTICE/MITHRAS]
LEFT AND RIGHT SPIRALS [FOUR ON EACH SIDE = 8]
NOTE THE TWO SEVEN RAYED STARS ON THE POLE/STEM.
TWO [DUALITY] VISHAPS UNITE TO FORM THE HEART
OF DIVINE LOVE. SIWNIK‛ [ŠIWINI], SECOND MILLENNIUM BC.

BLACK SUN. DECORATIVE INLAYS IN THE TEMPLE OF HALDI IN RUSAHINILI.

THE RENOWNED ARMENIAN CAVALRY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
ENGRAVING ON WARRIOR HELMETS FROM TEYŠEBAINI.

A HUGE WINE KARAS [SEE BELOW] FROM TEYŠEBAINI [ONE OF 152!]
WITH CUNEIFORM CAPTION MARKING THE ALCOHOL VOLUME.

Haldi is depicted [in the beautiful frescos of Aryn Berd -- Fortress Erebuni] as a bearded tall warrior standing on his sacred orbit -- the Lion -- the Temple of Musasir [Ardini] being the spiritual center of the Hurrian Supreme Deity -- Teyšub [second] was the Sky God of Wind and Rain -- and Šivini [the last in the Primary Triad -- after Haldi and Teyšeba] is the Solar God of Justice and husband of Goddess Tušpuea -- Šivini's symbol was depicted as the Solar God with arms raised to the sky and above the deity the winged sun disk and two birds one facing the East and the other facing the West [Sunrise and Sunset].

WINE CELLAR AT ONE OF THE VAULTS AT TEYŠEBAINI

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Teyšeba was depicted with a battle axe in one hand and a war hammer in the other -- symbolic of the ethereal nature of the deity. The fortress-city of Teyšebaini greatly improved the link of the trade routes between Teyšebaini and Erebuni.

WEST. WALL OF THE TEMPLE   OF   HALDI WITHIN THE  EREBUNI    CITADEL.

FLOOR PLAN OF THE TEMPLE OF HALDI. 12 COLUMNS ARRANGED IN TWO ROWS
LEADING TO THE TEMPLE OF HALDI IN THE FORM OF A PERFECT SQUARE THAT
CONTAINS THE INNER SQUARE WITH THE ETERNAL FLAME BURNING IN THE HEARTH.

The Teyšebaini settlement was thoroughly excavated and investigated by teams of archaeologists in the 1940s and 1950's. Numerous artifacts of various origins and cultures were unearthed, thus showing the extent of the network of trade and commerce that must have existed between the different city-states of the ancient world. Places like Mesopotamia and Egypt since time immemorial had very close connections with the Armenian Plateau -- the cradle of human civilization.

EREBUNI-EREVANI FORTRESS ON ARIN BERD HILL.

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

IN THE FOREGROUND...RUINS OF OLD ĒREBUNI [ĒREBAN] FORTRESS ERECTED IN A
DELTA-TRIANGLE LAYOUT.. FOLLOWED BY THE SUBSEQUENT LAYER OF OLD ĒREVAN...
AND IN THE FAR BACKGROUND...BUILDINGS OF MODERN DOWNTOWN YEREVAN...

ARMENIAN WARRIOR'S SILVER DRINKING GOBLET [VESSEL
FOR SACRED WINE/SOMA DRANK DURING FESTIVITIES TO
HONOR MILITARY VICTORIES] DEPICTING THE CHERISHED STEED
OF THE AYRUDZI [HORSEMEN] CAVALIERS. FIFTH CENTURY BC.

CEREMONIAL CUP OF TEYŠEBA [1970]. TRIPOD HOLDS THE TREE OF LIFE WITH THE
LEAVES/SPEARS AND THE SKY GOD OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING ON TOP OF THE BULL.
REVIVAL OF ANCESTRAL ARARATIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS BY ARTSRUN BERBERIAN
ONE OF MANY EXCEPTIONAL ARMENIAN SILVERSMITHS OF THE LAST CENTURY.

20 DRAM STAMP ISSUED BY RA IN '93 DURING THE INTERNATIONAL
PHILATELIC EXHIBITION IN HONOR OF THE TEYŠEBA --
THE GOD OF THUNDER -- THE SKY GOD OF LIGHTNING IS
ON TOP OF TAURUS [BULL...LATER MITHRAS] 3x3 SACRED DIVINATION
POPLARS + 1 IN RIGHT HAND... THE SACRED ENCIRCLED
STAR ON TOP OF THE HORNED CORONA.

INTERNATIONAL PHILATELIC EXHIBITION IN 1993 COMMEMORATING THE
2775 ANNIVERSARY OF THE HISTORIC FOUNDATION OF EREBUNI-YEREVAN.
SACRED ARMANI HARMONIC PATTERN...GOLDEN AND BLACK SUN [ALL IN
ALL XVI...] WITH FLEUR-DE-LYS WITH TWO RIGHT AND LEFT FACING CRESCENTS
UNITED BY ARCHWAYS...TAUS OR VERT. AXIS WITH RECTANGULAR BASE...
THE SUBLIME ARCHETYPE WOULD BE PLACED ON CONSECRATED SUSI
CHALDEAN TEMPLES IN BOTH [UP AND DOWN] DIRECTIONS.

THE EREBUNI MUSEUM [DEPICTING CROWNED SEVEN RAYED HALDI WITH THE
RISING PHOENIX ON THE FOREHEAD...FLANKED BY WARRIORS AND BUILDERS
OF ARARAT. THE MUSEUM WAS ERECTED IN 1968 IN COMMEMORATION OF THE
2750 ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF YEREVAN IN 782 BC. THE MUSEUM
LEADS TO THE RUINS OF THE EREBUNI FORTRESS ON ARYN [ARIN] BERD HILL
[LIT. BLOOD HILL...BLOOD BEING SYMBOLIC AS THE CARRIER OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT CIRCULATING AS A NETWORK THROUGHOUT THE BODY...]. MANY
OF THE PRICELESS ARTIFACTS UNEARTHED FROM HISTORIC SITES LIKE
EREBUNI, TEYŠEBAINI AND ARGIŠTIHINILI AS WELL AS NUMEROUS OTHER
CENTERS ARE ON DISPLAY IN THE EREBUNI MUSEUM.

RELIEF PANEL OF ARMENIAN ARCHERS [BETWEEN TRIDENT TIPS OF TEYŠEBA/SACRED
SPEAR/TREE OF LIFE OF ARARAT] ON THE WESTERN FAÇADE OF EREBUNI MUSEUM.

CAULDRON UPON TRIPOD WITH THE HANDLES MARKED
WITH THE AQUATIC SERPENTINE-FISH [EA-A'A-HAYA]

CAULDRON HANDLES IN THE FORM OF EA-HAYA [WINGED HUMAN WITH FISH
BODY/CAPE OUROBOROS CIRCLE OF TWO SERPENTS.

The settlement of Teyšebaini is located in the vicinity of Karmir Blur area of Yerevan. Among many accomplishments of the Armenian Civilization during this period was the construction of elaborate long water canals, in order to irrigate the fields of the hard working Armenian farmer. The canals were sometimes directly carved right through cliffs. The Armenian master builders had to bring life to the Land of the Mountains - a paradise that had to be fought for and maintained -- and Armenian indeed made 'bread out of stone.'

ETERNAL ARMANI SPIRIT OF CREATION

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THE SYMBOL OF MACROCOSM-INFINITI.
IN THE CENTER OF THE DECORATIVE GIRDLE OF A HIGH PRIEST.
2x19 [38] RINGS. FROM KARS ON DISPLAY IN THE HERMITAGE IN ST. PETERSBURG.

The struggle with the elements was harsh and it made the Armenian highlander a tough and determined people. All of the harshness and difficulty only made the Armenian people stronger and more determined to fight for a better Life against Mother Nature and

A DEDICATION INSCRIPTION TO HALDI FROM TOPRAK KALE UPON
THE CONSECRATION OF THE NEW TEMPLE UNDER MENUA.

SUPREME TRIAD ON THE BELT OF  ARMAN WARRIOR.
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. HALDI [LION] -- TEYŠEBA [BULL] --
ŠIWINI [TWO EAGLES...FACING EAST AND WEST...
UPRAISED ARMS TOWARDS THE WINGED SUN DISK...
THE BODY OF THE SUN GOD ALONG WITH THE ALIGNMENT
OF HANDS AND LEGS FORMS A SWASTIKA.

STATUES OF GRIFFONS WERE PLACED THROUGHOUT ARARATIAN CITIES

SACRED ARARATIAN TALISMAN IN THE FORM OF TRIANGLE [MARKED THREE POINTS]
LEADING TO THE FOURTH ENCIRCLED ROOSTER WITHIN THE GOLDEN EGG
[MALE PRINCIPLE WITHIN ETERNAL FEMININE].

ARMANEN ARARATIAN WARRIOR BATTLE AXE HEADS.

ARCHER ARROWHEADS.

unfortunately more numerous times foreign invaders who wanted to impose their parasitic rule by the sword -- collect taxes by fear and intimidation of the Armenian farmer and live off of the sweat of the Armenian people. That is why Armenians, along with being superb builders and innovators, were outstanding warriors -- their horsemen being feared and envied by all of the powers of the

THE SYMBOL OF COSMIC HIERARCHY PLACED ON THE WHEELS OF ARARATIAN
CHARIOTS. COSMOS IN MOTION [ANIV...ANIMA/ANIMUS...SPINNING WHEEL...
ENERGY/FIRE]. TRIANGLE SURROUNDED BY THREE RINGS LEADING TO THE FOURTH
IN THE CENTER...ENCIRCLED. THE SACRED SYMBOL OF CHALDEAN ORACLE SEERS.

WINGED P H O E N I X [HURI PERI LIT. FIRE BIRD]
SOLAR WINGED DISK WITH HUMAN HEAD

BEAUTIFUL INSPIRATIONAL SACRED ART [CAULDRON HANDLE] OF ARMANI MASTERS

HUMAN WITH THE SOLAR WINGS OF DIVINITY. SPIRITUAL LIBERATION.

THE HUGE SACRED CHALDEAN [KALDUN] CAULDRON WITH THE FOUR
WINGED ANGEL HANDLES.

ancient world. A cuneiform inscription in honor of founding the Erebuni fortress was also recorded in the Xorxorian monument in Van -- the Capital of Ararat. Interestingly enough through out those long centuries of invasions and wars that were fought on the territory of Armenia, Yerevan to a certain extent -- with all of the downfalls -- continued to be inhabited to our own days.

TEYŠEBAINI FORTRESS [FORTRESS OF TEYŠEBA - SKY GOD OF THUNDER]
IN THE PRESENT KARMIR BLUR [RED HILL] DISTRICT OF YEREVAN.

GENERAL PLAN OF TEYŠEBAINI FORTRESS.