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ARARAT...ARATTA --The Land of the Mountains Where the Gods Live of the great Epic of Gilgamesh. The Land where the Garden of Eden -- the Tree of Life and the Tree of Wisdom is located...the Twin peaks of Mashu (Masis) - the SYMBOL of the holy Cosmic Mountain. When many of us hear this name we picture the birth and rebirth of humanity and human civilization in the sacred land in the highlands of ARMANIA. The Bible also recounts the ancient stories of Genesis, including the Paradise [Birth of Humanity] and also the Rebirth of Humanity in the sacred Mountains of the Land of Ararat, the holy land where the resurrection of the human race took place.
The word Armani - an early form of Armen-Armin [Armen or Arman denotes the national affiliation, as with many cultures standing for the particular nation thus, the God AR being the primary deity in the Indo-European (Aryan) pantheon - thus AR MAN denotes -- Men of Ar or Children of Ar, again initially AR standing for ARAREL-ARARICH [hence Ar-Ar-At the Place of ARAR] -- Create-Creator, also Sun, Light, Life and Love.
[edit] Armenian Timeline
Armenia: Cradle of Civilization (land of the 4 rivers)
- Areg dajar-Gobekli Tepe (Sun temple) in the Armenian Highlands of Ararat (Aratta) - (10,500 BC - ?BC)
- Flood and rebirth of nations on mountains of Ararat (Aratta) - (?BC - ?BC)
- Aratta (Armeni Sumerians) - (3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC)
- Haykazuni dynasty - (25th century BC - 17th century BC)
- Hurri-Mitanni and Hayasa-Azzi - (17th century BC - 12th century BC)
- Nairi - (12th century BC - 9th century BC)
- Urartu - (9th century BC - 6th century BC)
- Oriontid - (6th century BC - 2nd century BC)
[edit] Armenian Dance
The Armenian dance heritage has been one of the oldest, richest and most varied in the Near East. From the fifth to the third millennia B.C., in the higher regions of Armenia there are rock paintings of scenes of country dancing. These dances were probably accompanied by certain kinds of songs or musical instruments. In the fifth century Moses of Khoren (Movsés Khorenats'i) himself had heard of how "the old descendants of Aram (that is Armenians) make mention of these things (epic tales) in the ballads for the lyre and their songs and dances.
Music & Dance, By Robert Atayan, Hye Etch
[edit] References:
Below are references to Historians and Scholars.
[edit] Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
Indo-Europeans and Indo European Languages, two authors that wrote saying that Armenia is the cradle of Indo-Europeans. And they are both in wiki both authors that wrote that book I have the March 1990 issue article on my site of Scientific American.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Vsevolodovich_Ivanov
Ivanov is now a UCLA Professor!
Look in Hurrians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrians
Now look down there in External links it has
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/pdfs/IESV/1/VVI_Horse.pdf
Once you get there search Hurrian-Aryan and you will see it stands for Mitanni and the scholar explains it all in detail. And Aryan is the same as Indo-European. He explains all this there.
[edit] Tamaz Gamkrelidze
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamaz_Gamkrelidze
Gamkrelidze is now the President of the Georgian Academy of Sciences!
They proved that Armenia is the Cradle of Indo-Europeans=Aryan=Mitanni
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov and Tamaz Gamkrelidze, The Early History of Indo-European Languages, Scientific American, vol. 262, N3, 110116, March, 1990
[edit] Jacquetta Hawkes
Jacquetta Hawkes, "The First Great Civilizations," London, 1967
"Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the North in their Armenian homeland, they entrenched themselves and build up the kingdom of Urartu."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquetta_Hawkes
[edit] M. Chahin
M. Chahin, "The Kingdom of Armenia," London, 2001
"The new kingdom of Urartu, which proved to be the stronghold of the Hurrian race."
[edit] Encyclopedia Americana
Encyclopedia Americana, v. 2, USA 1980, pgs. 539,541
Mentions Urartu (Armenia), and ancient Armenian writing was cuneiform
[edit] Ancient Egypt's History
Queen Nefertiti of Egypt was a native of Mitanni. The Mittani Kingdom of Armenia was an off-shoot of the Hurrian kingdom. The Hurri and the Mittani in turn were the contemporaries the Hittites and the Hykos, within whom they shared many cultural and political aspects. Today, all these aforementioned nations are considered to be, in varying degrees, proto-Armenians, that is, we modern day Armenians are direct descendants of the remnants of those ancient tribes.
[edit] Oxford Dictionary
From a Georgian website:
Hurri n.
( pl. same or Hurris) a member of a people, originally from Armenia, who settled in northern Mesopotamia and Syria during the 3rd-2nd millennium bc and were later aborbed by the Hittites and Assyrians. (See also Mitanni.) Hittite & Assyrian Harri, Hurri The Oxford English Reference Dictionary, © Oxford University Press 1996
[edit] E. A. Speiser
E. A. Speiser, "Introduction to Hurrians," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.A._Speiser
"All indications point toward the general region of Armenia as a main area of Hurrian concentration."
E. A. Speiser, "Hurrians and Subarians," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.A._Speiser
"The evidence as a whole admits of only one possible interpretation in the historical records of Assyria: the term Subarians is applied specifically to Hurrians."
[edit] Artak Movsisyan
Artak Movsisyan, "Aratta: The ancient Kindgom of Armenia," Yerevan, 1992.
Artak Movsisyan, "Mithraic (Mehian) Writing in the Kingdom of Van (Biaynili, Urartu, Ararat)," Yerevan, 1998.
Artak Movsisyan, "Sacred Highland: Armenia in the spiritual conception of the Near East," Yerevan, 2000.
Artak Movsisyan, "Aratta: Land of the Sacred Law," Yerevan, 2001.
[edit] Dr. Johannes Lehman
Dr. Johannes Lehman, "The Hittites,"
"The Hurrians had a history of their own. Assyrian and Sumerian sources dating from the end of the third millenium B.C. supply our first information about this nation, people, and the land of Hurri, South of Caucasus. We also know that they come from the region of Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia, and are referred to as Horrittes by the Bible. Still, later in the ninth-seventh centuries N.C. the highland of Armenia were inhabited by a people who were related to the Hurrians and whose country bore the name Urartu, the Biblical Ararat"
[edit] Hovick Nersessian
Hovick Nersessian, "Highlands of Armenia," Los Angeles, 2000.
Mr. Nersessian is in the New York Academy of Sciences.
[edit] Rafael Ishkhanyan
Rafael Ishkhanyan, "Illustrated History of Armenia," Yerevan, 1989
Image:Hurrian-AncientArmenian.jpg
This Hurrian cuneiform inscription translates to "I dug this watercourse" in Armenian.
[edit] Martiros Kavoukjian
Martiros Kavoukjian, "Armenia, Subartu and Sumer", Montreal, 1989
Martiros Kavoukjian, "The Genesis of Armenian People", Montreal, 1982
[edit] A. Kammenhuber
A. Kammenhuber, "Aryans in the Near East," Haidelberg, 1968
[edit] Vahan Kurkjian
Vahan Kurkjian, "History of Armenia," Michigan, 1968
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Asia/Armenia/_Texts/KURARM/home.html
"The Hurri-Mitanni kingdom of Armenia kept close contact with its western neighbor, Hittite or Hatti land. Masses of population were often transplanted from one country to the other. "
[edit] Sir Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley, "History of Mankind," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leonard_Wooley
"If they did not invent at least the Hurri spread far a field and so perpetuated much of the highest Civilization that men have yet envolved"
[edit] O.R. Gurney
O.R. Gurney, "The Beginning of Civilization,"
"The influence of the Hurro-Hittite upon Greek religion is indeed remarkable."
"The weather god Teshub, standing on the bull, who became well known throughout the Roman Empire under the name of Jupiter dolic henus."
[edit] Gevork Nazaryan
Armenian historians are basing on our culture, language, tribe or ethnicity from cuneiform inscriptions to archeological finds.
Again the oldest inscription of Armenia we have is from third millennium BC Armani (almost 4,500 years ago) by Naram-Sin and his incription was found in southern Armenia as well. To this very day Arabs and Iranians call Armenians Armani.
The Akkadian king Naram-Suen/Sin [2236 - 2200 BC] launched an incursion into the Armenian Highland in order to fight the powerful kingdom of ARMANI or ARATTA. In the inscriptions that were made both in Akkad and in southern portions of Armenia, he gave the details of the military campaigns against the Kingdom of ARMANI around the area of Lake Van. It is interesting to point out here that, the inscriptions tell us that later a portion of the the warrior highlanders of Aratta would later descent onto lower Mesopotamia -- defeat Naram-Suen -- and secure their own rule over the Near East. The word Armani - an early form of Armen-Armin.
Naram-Sin recorded the Akkadian's wars against the Armani or Armeni people in Ararat. The Armeni is a reference to Armen who was the ruler of the Armenian tribe (Armen's followers, the Armenians [Uraštu in Akkadian language], were referred to as Armeni or Armens at the time). It is also unknown if Sargon, grandfather of Naram-Sin, and Manishtushu, father of Naram-Sin, also fought against the Armeni people of Ararat during their rule of the Akkadian Empire. It is highly probable however considering that Naram-Sin recorded multiple wars with the Armeni people of Ararat. The wars with the Armeni people of Ararat contributed to the collapse of the Akkadian kingdom.
