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“Armenian Zodiac Signs” Fountain Sculpture Group
“Armenian Zodiac Signs” Fountain Sculpture Group Have you ever went close to examine the sculptures of a fountain group in front of Moscow Cinema in Yerevan? Well.. those sculptures depict each and...
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Hausos One of the most important goddesses of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion is the personification of dawn as a beautiful young woman. Her name is reconstructed as Hausōs (PIE *hewsṓs- or...
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Dyeus or Dīs Pater – Tyr / Taurus – Aldebaran – Eye of Revelation – the...
Ensi Ensí (spelled pa.te.si in cuneiform script hence occasionally transliterated “patesi”; possibly derived from en si-k, “lord of the plowland”; borrowed into Akkadian as iššakkum) is a Sumerian...
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Technology Through Time: Ancient Astronomical Alignments
“The sun casts a shadow.” No one knows when this revelation occurred to ancient humans, but it is clear from carvings on animal bones from 30,000 ago that some awareness of the sun and moon were...
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Garegin Nzhdeh – An Armenian hero
Garegin Nzhdeh is a vivid example of serving the motherland for the sake of many generations of Armenian people. “The motherland must be loved regardless of her political regime and our political...
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Names for the cardinal directions
The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the directions of north, east, south, and west, commonly denoted by their initials: N, E, S, W. East and west are at right angles to north and south,...
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The love / war goddess
Hausōs One of the most important goddesses of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion is the personification of dawn as a beautiful young woman. Her name is reconstructed as Hausōs (PIE *hewsṓs- or...
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The mixed reception of Cybele in Greece
Cybele (“Kubeleyan Mother”, perhaps “Mountain Mother”) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she has a possible precursor in the earliest neolithic at Çatalhöyük, where the statue of a pregnant, seated...
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Ninhursag – Enki (Mercury) and Hathor – Ra (Mars)
The Mother Mercury and Venus are visible only in twilight hours because their orbits are interior to that of Earth. Venus is the third-brightest object in the sky and the most prominent planet. Mercury...
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Hittite Mythology: The Top Deities
The Hittite Empire spread throughout Anatolia, covering a large part of what is now Turkey and Syria as well as some parts far eastward and southward of there (accounts vary). The scarce remains of the...
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Let us reflect and radiate the warming, nurturing energy of the sun in all...
In archaic times, people perceived the sun, in its shining prime and glory, the giver of heat and light and life, to be the effulgent force of the female. A passionate aspect of the great mother, the...
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Utu – the sun god
Utu Utu (Akkadian rendition of Sumerian dUD “Sun”, Assyro-Babylonian Shamash “Sun”) is the Sun god in Sumerian mythology, the son of the moon god Nanna and the goddess Ningal. His brother and sisters...
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The city of Troy
Troy (Ancient Greek: Troia and Ilion, or Ilios; Latin: Trōia and Īlium; Hittite: Wilusa or Truwisa; Turkish: Truva) was a city situated in what is known from Classical sources as Asia Minor, now...
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Anahit, the goddess
Anahit (Armenian: Անահիտ) was the goddess of fertility and healing, wisdom and water in Armenian mythology. In early periods she was the goddess of war. She emerged in the 5th century BC as one of...
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The Queen of Heaven
Virgo is the sixth astrological sign in the Zodiac. Its name is Latin for virgin. Lying between Leo to the west and Libra to the east, it is the second largest constellation in the sky (after Hydra)....
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The two opposites
The cosmogenic myth common in Sumer was that of the hieros gamos, a sacred marriage where divine principles in the form of dualistic opposites came together as male and female to give birth to the...
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The population of SW Asia
The Sumerians spoke a language isolate; a number of linguists believe they could detect a substrate language beneath Sumerian because names of some of Sumer’s major cities are not Sumerian, revealing...
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Lilith
Lilith appears in Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Canaanite, Persian, Hebrew, Arabic and Teutonic mythology. She is also known as Adam’s “first wife” who refused to “lie beneath.” In the oldest...
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Pre-Islamic Arabic civilization
Pre-Islamic Arabia refers to Arabic civilization in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam in the 630s. The study of Pre-Islamic Arabia is important to Islamic studies as it provides the...
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