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“Arevakhach” (Armenian: Արևախաչ, sun cross).
The Armenian Eternity sign is an ancient Armenian national symbol and a symbol of the national identity of the Armenian people. It is one of the most common symbols in Armenian architecture, carved on khachkars and on walls of churches.
In Armenian culture, the eternity sign symbolizes the concept of everlasting, celestial life. Since the 5th century, it appeared on Armenian steles, later it becomes part of khachkar symbolism. Around the 7th century the use of the Armenian symbol of eternity had become a long established national iconographical practice, and it keeps its meaning until the modern times.
Arevkhach is used on the logos of government agencies and on commemorative coins, as well as non-government organizations and institutions in Armenia and the Armenian diaspora. The symbol is also used by Armenian neo-pagan organizations and their followers. In ArmSCII – Armenian Standard Code for Information Interchange, an Armenian Eternity sign has been encoded in 7-bit and 8-bit standard and ad-hoc encodings since at least 1987. In 2013 both leftward and rightward rotating symbols were included into Unicode character set standard.
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