“Hurrian” root in Indo-European languages
In Hittite inscriptions Armenian Kingdoms spread all over historic Armenia are mentioned as Armatana, Hayasa (Hittite “sa” connotes to “land/country”) and Hurri. Based on the name “Hurri” from Hittite...
View ArticleLand of our Grandparents
- Some background In the summer of 2005 I was shooting a film in Srebrenica, Bosnia, about the fall of the UN enclave 10 years earlier which led to the death of around 8000 muslim men and boys. My...
View ArticleThe death-rebirth-deity and the vegetation deity
Vegetation deity Dying and rising god The people The Ceramic Neolithic Halafian culture (6500–4500 BC) is a continuous development out of the earlier Pottery Neolithic and is located primarily in...
View ArticleOne the world’s oldest metal Foundries- 5000 BC. – Metsamor Armenia
Excavation of the ruins at a Bronze Age archaeological settlement of Metsamor in central Armenia has revealed a very large metal industry including a foundry with 2 kinds of blast furnaces. The foundry...
View ArticleMagic and the magicians
Magi (Latin plural of magus; Ancient Greek: magos; Old Persian: maguš, Persian: mogh; English singular magian, mage, magus, magusian, magusaean; Kurdish: manji) is a term, used since at least the 6th...
View ArticleYalda and the “night of (the great) forty”
Šab-e Čella(-e bozorg) (“night of (the great) forty”) or Šab-e Yaldā (“Yalda night”) is an Iranian festival celebrated on the “longest and darkest night of the year,” that is, in the night of the...
View ArticlePeter Kropotkin: Mutual Aid – A Factor of Evolution
Kropotkin circa 1900 Peter Kropotkin The Conquest of Bread Fields, Factories and Workshops Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Mutual aid is a term in organization theory used to signify a voluntary...
View ArticleThe Indo-Iranian conquest of SW Asia
According to Jeremiah 51:27, a kingdom of Ashkenaz (Scythians) was called together with Ararat (Urartu-Armenia) and Minni (Mannai) against Babylon, which reads: ”Set ye up a standard in the land, blow...
View ArticleThe Pachamama Alliance
Pacha Kamaq (Quechua, “Creator of the World”; also Pacha Camac, Pachacamac and Pacharurac) was the deity worshipped in the city of Pachacamac by the Ichma. Pachamama is the wife of Pacha Kamaq and her...
View ArticleIndustrial capitalism is incompatible with life
Capital has no subjectivity, and doesn’t recognize it in others. But it is animate, through and embodied in its representatives. It imbues them with its own sociopathy. Surplus value is generated only...
View ArticleFrench economist Thomas Piketty refuses legion of honor
French economist Thomas Piketty, author of the best-selling 700-page book on inequality and wealth, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” has turned down the Legion of Honor, saying the government...
View ArticleConnections between the languages
The Anatolian languages, like Hitti and Luwian, are Indo-European and so is the Indo-Aryan and Indo-Iranian languages as well. The same can be said about Armenian and most of the European languages....
View ArticleThe Neanderthal exhibit at the Krapina Museum of evolution
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View ArticleApril 24,1915-2015 – The recognition of the Armenian genocide
The Armenian Genocide was the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of...
View ArticleLavash included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural...
Lavash is a soft, thin flatbread of Armenian origin, popular in the Caucasus, Iran, and Turkey.In 2014 “Lavash, the preparation, meaning and appearance of traditional bread as an expression of culture...
View ArticleThe Armenian proignitors of the Ottoman theatre
Arusyak Papazian In the 1850s, the modern theatre was founded in the Ottoman Empire by an Armenian theatre company. As Muslims did not consider acting a suitable profession, the first actors in the...
View ArticleThe Armenian hero Turkey would prefer to forget
The Armenian hero Turkey would prefer to forget – The Armenian-Turkish officer Sarkis Torossian (Turkish: Sarkis Torosyan, 1891 – August 17, 1954) who was awarded medals by Enver Pasha, Turkey’s war...
View ArticleThe Gallipoli/Dardanelles Campaign and the Armenian Genocide
‘In most of the writings about Gallipoli, civilian deportations and casualties are rarely mentioned. Even more disappointing is the failure to make the important link that the Gallipoli/Dardanelles...
View ArticleWe are stronger than we think
The US do a lot of harm around the world, however I think the US are not as strong as they think, and will never be. They have not succeeded in their wars, which was planned ahead of 911, and will...
View ArticleISIS targets 2,000-year-old ancient Nineveh walls in Iraq
Nineveh ISIS targets 2,000-year-old ancient Nineveh walls in Iraq The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) set their eyes on another historical site to demolish as they continue to establish their caliphate...
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