for the Zoroastrian deity Ahura Mazda Aramazd is the principal deity in Armenia s pre Christianity Christian pantheon. He was considered the father of all gods and goddesses, the creator of heaven and earth. Aramazd was the source of earth s fertility, making it fruitful and bountiful. The celebration in his honor was called Amanor, or New Year, which was celebrated on March 21 in the old Armenian calendar also the Spring equinox . Aramazd was a syncretic deity, a combination of the autochthonous Armenian legendary figure Ara the Beautiful Ara and the Iranic Ahura Mazda . In Hellinistic period Aramazd in Armenia was compared with Greek Zeus . The principal temple of Aramazd was in Ani Kamakh in modern Turkey , a cultural and administrative center of ancient Armenia. The temple had been ruined at the end of the 3rd c. AD, after the adoption of Christianity in Armenia as state religion . See also Ahura Mazda Haik Anahit Vahagn Astghik External links and references http www.tacentral.com mythology.asp Armenian Mythology from the Tour Armenia site Category Fertility gods Category Creator gods Category Armenian gods Category European mythology euro myth stub eo Aramazdo fr Aramazd hy id Aramazd lt Aramazdas pt Aramazd ru sv Aramazd ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2007 Orphan date July 2009 Geobox Range Name section name Aramazd Mountains native name other name other name1 Image image Aramazmountaina.jpg image size image caption Country etc. country Armenia country1 state state1 region region1 district district1 city city1 Orography unit unit1 border border1 geology geology1 period period1 orogeny orogeny1 Geography area length length orientation width width orientation highest highest location highest country highest state highest region highest district highest elevation 3399 highest lat d highest lat m highest lat s highest lat NS highest long d highest long m highest long s highest long EW lowest lowest location lowest country lowest state lowest region lowest district lowest elevation lowest lat d lowest lat m lowest lat s lowest lat NS lowest long d lowest long m lowest long s lowest long EW Free fields free type free Map section map map size map caption map first The Aramazd mountains are located in Armenia . Mount Aramazd located in the south east to Mount Aragatz in the north west. Coord missing Armenia . DEFAULTSORT Aramazd Mountains Category Mountain ranges of Armenia Armenia geo stub ... more details
Orphan date April 2009 Notability Biographies date January 2008 Aramazd Stepanian born October 11 1951 is an Iranian Armenian actor , producer, director and playwright born in Abadan , Iran . He grew up in Tehran and finished High School in 1969. He left Tehran for Manchester, England at 18 for further education. After receiving three GCE A Levels and studying Gas Engineering for two years at Salford University near Manchester , he abandoned plans to become an engineer and moved to London to work and study. He graduated from Thames Polytechnic later to be merged into the University of Greenwich , obtaining a BA degree in Humanities, including courses in Politics, Drama and Philosophy. After living in England for twenty years, in 1990 he moved to the USA. Stepanian is married to actress and teacher Gabrielle O Sullivan and together they have one son, Argishti Stepanian born December 1 1993 . A prolific stage director producer Stepanian runs a small 45 seat theater in Glendale, California named the Luna Playhouse ref http www.lunaplayhouse.com go index.php?option com content&view article&id 44&Itemid 53 ref after his late mother s hair salon. The Luna Playhouse is the only continuously working independent theatre run by an Armenian in the entire Western World and possibly beyond. It stages American, European and all types of theatre as well as Armenian plays and playwrights. Other ... ref Aramazd Stepanian has been directing plays since 1979. He has many firsts , onlys and world ... years Aramazd Stepanian produced and presented Lightwell TV Hour a public access television cable TV ... www.ci.glendale.ca.us city clerk pdf election2009 CandidateContactInformation.pdf aramazd city council&hl ..., Calif. Baronian, Hagop , Baghdasar Akhpar Uncle Balthasar , trans. by Paul Rapley and Aramazd ... Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Stepanian, Aramazd ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1951 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Stepanian, Aramazd Category 1951 ... more details
Tsovinar or Nar was the Armenian mythology Armenian goddess of water, sea, and rain. She was a fire creature, who forced the rain and hail to fall from the heavens with her fury. br Her name Tsovinar means Nar of the sea . See also Aramazd Anahit Vahagn Astghik External links and references http www.tacentral.com mythology.asp?story no 2 Armenian Mythology from the Tour Armenia site DEFAULTSORT Tsovinar Goddess Category Armenian mythology Category Armenian goddesses Category Sea and river goddesses Category Sky and weather goddesses myth stub Armenia stub hy it Tsovinar divinit ru ... more details
, was later replaced by Aramazd . The latter, though, has appeared under the influence of Zoroastrianism ... to first centuries BC , ancient Armenian deities identified with the ancient Greek deities Aramazd ..., due to the influence of Armenian Persian relations, God the Creator was identified as Aramazd ... 4th century BC , of Anahit. The Pantheon of pagan Armenia Aramazd The father of all the gods and goddesses, Aramazd created the heavens and the earth. The first two letters in his name, AR , are the Armenian root for sun, light, and life. Worshiped as a sun god, Aramazd was considered to be the source ... calendar. Aramazd s main sanctuary was one of the principal cult centers of Ancient Armenia. Anahit The goddess of fertility and birth, and daughter or wife of Aramazd, Anahit is identified with Artemis ... s. Nane goddess Nane The daughter of Aramazd, Nane was considered the goddess of war, motherhood ..., heaven and sun. He was the son of Aramazd , the brother of Anahit and Nane goddess Nane . His ... more details
about the Armenian god other uses Vahagn disambiguation Image VahagnVishapakagh.JPG thumb right Statue of Vahagn choking a dragon in Yerevan Vahagan or Vahakan lang hy wikt was a god worshiped anciently and historically in Armenia . Some time in his existence, he formed a triad with Aramazd and Anahit . Vahagn was identified with the Greek mythology Greek Heracles . The priests of Vah vahian temple, who claimed Vahagn as their own ancestor, placed a statue of the Greek hero in their sanctuary. In the Armenian translation of the Bible, Heracles, worshipped at Tyr is renamed Vahagn . All the gods, according to the Euhemerist belief, had been living men Vahagn likewise, was introduced within the ranks of the Armenian kings, as the son of Orontid Dynasty Yervand 6th century B.C. , together with his brothers Bab and Tiran. Historian Moses of Chorene Khorenatsi s report of an ancient song gives a clue to his nature and origin Ancient Armenian origin of Vahagn s birth song In travail were heaven and earth, In travail, too, the purple sea The travail held in the sea the small red reed. Through the hollow of the stalk came forth smoke, Through the hollow of the stalk came forth flame, And out of the flame a youth ran Fiery hair had he, Ay, too, he had flaming beard, And his eyes, they were as suns Other parts of the song, now lost, said that Vahagn fought and conquered dragons, hence his title Vishabakagh, dragon reaper , where dragons in Armenian lore are identified as Vishap s . He was invoked as a god of courage, later identified with Herakles. He was also a sun god, rival of Baal shamin and Mithra Mihr . The Vahagnian song was sung to the accompaniment of the lyre by the bards of Goghten modern Akulis , long after the conversion of Armenia to Christianity. The stalk or reed, key to the situation, is an important word in Indo European mythology, in connection with fire in its three forms. The name, originally Vahram Verethragna , the hypostasis of victory in ... more details
Infobox monarch name Orontes IV title King of Armenia image caption reign 212 200 BC coronation 212 BC othertitles full name Orontes native lang1 Persian native lang1 name1 native lang2 Armenian native lang2 name1 native lang8 Greek native lang8 name1 predecessor successor Artaxias I suc type heir queen consort offspring offspring offspring royal house dynasty Orontid Dynasty royal anthem father Arsames I Arsames mother birth date birth place death date 200 BC death place Armenia date of burial place of burial Armavir, Armenia Armavir Orontes IV Armenian language Armenian , Yervand IV was the son of King Arsames I Arsames and is recorded as ruling Armenia from inscriptions found at the historic capital of the Orontid dynasty, Armavir, Armenia Armavir . In his reign the religious site of Bagaran was founded. Large bronze statues in the Hellenistic style of the gods, Zeus Aramazd , Artemis Anahit and Herakles Vahagn were brought there and set up in temples dedicated to them. He is also said to have founded a shrine at Armavir dedicated to Apollo Mithra , a golden statue of four horses pulling a chariot with Apollo as god of the Sun. This was later destroyed by the Sassanid Persian army in the 4th century AD. King Antiochus III instigated a revolt against King Orontes IV. Strabo , who wrote about this 200 years later, stated that it was general Artaxias I , who was also an Orontid Dynasty Orontid , who overthrew King Orontes IV. Aramaic inscriptions found at Armavir state that King Orontes IV died at the hands of his own army, in other words by betrayal from Artaxias I . This was most likely bribery by King Antiochus III of the Armenians Armenian army. Artaxias I took over as King of Armenia soon afterwards, according to Strabo. References J. M. Cook ref The Persian Empire, 1993 ref Richard G. Hovannisian ref The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, 2 vols. New York St. Martin s Press, 1997 ref references Reflist Reflist External links Categories Pers ... more details
. . . mother of all chastity, and issue of the great and valiant Aramazd . The historian Berossus ... Avestan Anahita Aredvi Sura Anahita , a similar divine figure. See also Anahita Aramazd Astghik Vahagn ... more details
orphan date August 2010 BLP sources date October 2009 Nora Armani was born in Giza , Egypt of Armenian people Armenian parents, educated and trained in England and as an actor has appeared on stage and screen worldwide performing in different languages. She has also directed a number of plays, a feature film and short film. She holds an M.Sc. degree from the University of London London School of Economics and a BA from the American University in Cairo . She has continued her training at UCLA Extension http www.uclaextension.edu and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art RADA in acting and directing, in addition to a number of noteworthy workshops such as Ariane Mnouchkine s worldwide acclaimed Th tre du Soleil http www.theatre du soleil.fr Paris and Simon MacBurney s equally well known physical theatre Complicity Theatre http www.complicite.org London . Her stage work includes The Lover play The Lover Harold Pinter Los Angeles with Aramazd Stepanian , Evocations of Armenia http www.Metmuseum.org Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York , Beyond the Veil Off Broadway , Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising Arcola Theatre http www.arcolatheatre.com London , The King and I Cairo , Arms and the Man Young Vic Theatre London , On the Couch with Nora Armani London, Paris, NYC, Los Angeles & on tour , The Virile Celebration Fatima Gallaire F. Gallaire Paris , No Possible Return H. Ghazanchyan National Theatre of Armenia to name a few. Films & TV include Santa Claus in Baghdad, Enchanted film Enchanted , The Doors of Denis, Le N flier, La Nouvelle Eve, Deadline in Seven Days, Last Station as co director , Labyrinth, Casualty TV series Casualty BBC TV and Friends Egyptian TV . Her own stage creations Sojourn at Ararat with Gerald Papasian http www.abrilbooks.com videos 9905.html.com , Nannto Nannto, On the Couch with Nora Armani and Snowflakes in April have garnered international accolades. Directorial work includes William Saroyan s Papa You re Crazy Yerevan, Armenia adapted and directed , S ... more details
refimprove date October 2010 This is a list of culture hero es in various mythology mythologies . Abenaki mythology Bedig wajo western Ktaden eastern Glooscap Australian Aboriginal mythology Bunjil I wai Wurrunna Abrahamic Religions Abrahamic mythology Judaism , Christianity , Islam Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses David Jesus Mohammed Armenian mythology Haik Vahagn Aramazd Anahit Ashanti mythology Anansi Aztec mythology Quetzalcoatl Banks Islands mythology Qat deity Qat Celtic mythology Irish mythology Irish , Welsh mythology Welsh King Arthur C chulainn Lugh Lug Fionn mac Cumhail Fionn mac Cumhail Finn McCool Chinese mythology Chi You Huangdi Yao ruler Yao Shun Chinese leader Shun Fu Xi Guan Yu Laozi Mazu goddess Mazu Bodhidharma Zhang Sanfeng Egyptian mythology Osiris Thoth Horus Menes Imhotep Ramesses II Various other kings English mythology Sceafa Horsa Hengest Robin Hood Weyland Etruscan mythology Tarchon Tyrrehenus Finnish mythology V in m inen Ilmarinen Lemmink inen Greek mythology Achilles Cadmus Cecrops I Cecrops Castor and Pollux Hektor Diomedes Herakles Odysseus Palamedes Greek mythology Palamedes Perseus Phoroneus Prometheus Triptolemos Hungarian mythology Hunor and Magor High Prince lmos lmos Inca mythology Viracocha Indian mythology Vikramaditya Harishchandra Shravan Shivi Karna Arjuna Bhima Yudhishtira Mamuni Mayan Ho Chunk Winnebago Mythology Red Horn legend Red Horn Inuit mythology Apanuugak Japanese mythology kuninushi Susanoo Lakota mythology Iktomi M ori mythology Tangaroa M ui Maya mythology Gukumatz Maya Hero Twins Maya maize god Mesopotamian mythology Gilgamesh Enkidu Utnapishtim Ziusudra Navaho mythology Asdz N dleeh Changing Woman The Diyin dine Norse mythology Sigurd Sigurd Fafnersbane B dvar Bjarki Starkad Ohlone mythology Kaknu Ojibwe mythology Nanabozho Persian mythology Rostam Sohrab Polynesian mythology Atonga Roman mythology Hercules Janus mythology Janus Romulus and Remus Romulus Quirinus Aeneas Serbian mythology Saint Sava ref ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 In Polytheism Polytheistic systems there is a tendency for one divinity, usually male, to achieve pre eminence as King of the Gods . This tendency is paralleled with the growth of hierarchy hierarchical systems of Power politics political power , in which a monarch eventually comes to assume ultimate authority for human affairs. Other gods come to serve in a divine council or Pantheon gods pantheon , usually linked by family ties from union of a single husband or wife, or else from an androgyny androgynous divinity who is responsible for the creation. Historically, subsequent social events, such as invasions or shifts in power structures sees the previous King of the Gods displaced by a new divinity, who assumes the previous God s attributes and functions. Examples of this displacement of Kings of the Gods include The Ancient Greece Ancient Greek Twelve Olympians Olympian Gods, in which Cronus displaces Uranus mythology Uranus , and Zeus in turn displaces Cronus In the Armenia n Ar mythology Ar , later Aramazd . The Hurrians Hurrian Hittites Hittite pantheon in which Kumarbi is displaced by Teshub or Tarhunt or Arinna . The Canaan ite panthon, in which Hadad displaces El deity El The Ancient Egypt ian Ennead and Ogdoad where Osiris assumes pre eminence, to be displaced by Set mythology Seth or Sutekh, who is in turn replaced by Horus , son to Osiris and Isis In the Historical Vedic religion , the King of the Gods was Indra , who was replaced by Brahma , Shiva and Vishnu as the Vedic religion evolved into Brahmin Practices Brahmanical Hinduism . In the Mesopotamia n Anunnaki , Enlil displaces Anu and is in turn replaced by Marduk . There is also a tendency for kings of the Gods to assume more and more importance, syncretism syncretistically assuming the attributes and functions of lesser divinities, who come to be seen as aspects of the single supreme deity. Examples of this include History of Iran Ancient Iran ian Ahura Mazda of the Z ... more details
This is a list of patera e shallow craters on the surface of Io moon Io . Ionian paterae are named after solar deity sun gods and fire god s in various mythologies. See also the list of mountains on Io and the list of geological features on Io . class wikitable Patera Named after Ababinili Patera Ababinili Chickasaw mythology Chickasaw Agni Patera Agni Hindu mythology Hindu and others Ah Peku Patera Ah Peku Mayan mythology Mayan Aidne Patera Aidne Irish mythology Irish Altjirra Patera Altjira Australian Aboriginal mythology Australian Aboriginal Amaterasu Patera Amaterasu Japanese mythology Japanese Angpetu Patera Angpetu Lakota mythology Dakota Aramazd Patera Aramazd Armenian mythology Armenian Arusha Patera Arusha Hindu mythology Hindu Asha Patera Asha Zoroastrianism Zoroastrian tar Patera Atar Zoroastrianism Zoroastrian Aten Patera Aten Egyptian mythology Egyptian Babbar Patera Babbar Patera Babbar Sumerian mythology Sumerian Citation needed date May 2009 Balder Patera Balder Norse mythology Norse Belenus Patera Belenus Celtic mythology Celtic Bochica Patera Bochica Chibchan Camaxtli Patera Camaxtli Aztec mythology Aztec Carancho Patera Carancho Bolivian folklore Bolivian Cataquil Patera Catequil god Catequil Incan mythology Inca Catha Patera Cautha Etruscan mythology Etruscan Chaac Patera Chaac Mayan mythology Mayan Chors Patera Chors Slavic mythology Slavic Creidne Patera Creidhne Celtic mythology Celtic Cuchi Patera Cuchi Australian Aboriginal mythology Australian Aboriginal Culann Patera Culann Celtic mythology Celtic Daedalus Patera Daedalus Greek mythology Greek Dazhbog Patera Dazhbog Slavic mythology Slavic Dingir Patera Dingir Sumerian mythology Sumerian Dusura Patera Dusura Nabataeans Nabataean Ekhi Patera Ekhi Basque mythology Basque Emakong Patera Emakong Sulca Disambiguation needed date June 2011 people of New Britain Estan Patera Estan Hittites Hittite Fo Patera Fo mythology Fo Chinese mythology Chinese Fuchi Patera Fuchi Ainu people Ainu Gabija Pat ... more details
, due to the influence of Armenian Persian relations, God the Creator was identified as Aramazd , and during ... of the mythologies that had an God of hospitality. Aramazd The father of all the gods and goddesses, Aramazd created the heavens and the earth. The first two letters in his name, AR , are the Armenian root for sun, light, and life. Worshiped as a sun god, Aramazd was considered to be the source of earth .... Aramazd s main sanctuary was one of the principal cult centers of Ancient Armenia. File Anahit.png ... of Aramazd, Anahit is identified with Artemis and Aphrodite . Great Lady Anahit , one of the most loved ... where people celebrate by Water fight s. Nane goddess Nane The daughter of Aramazd, Nane was considered ... of new life. Mihr The god of light, heaven and sun. He was the son of Aramazd , the brother ... more details
Turkey also has a volcano named Nemrut volcano Nemrut Infobox World Heritage Site WHS Mount Nemrut Image File Nemrut Mountain Peak .JPG 250px The man made peak of Mount Nemrut with statues of gods and the assumed tomb of King Antiochus Theos of Commagene State Party Turkey Type Cultural Criteria i, iii, iv ID 448 Region List of World Heritage Sites in Europe Europe and Asia Year 1987 Session 11th Link http whc.unesco.org en list 448 map width 250 locmapin Turkey relief 1 latitude 37.9816 longitude 38.7411 Nemrut or Nemrud lang tr Nemrut Da lang hy is a convert 2134 m ft 0 abbr on high mountain in southeastern Turkey , notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BCE. Location and description File Mount Nemrut.jpg thumb right 220px Some of the statues near the peak of Mount Nemrut File Mount Nemrut 2134m From Northeast.JPG thumb right 220px View of Mount Nemrut from the north east The mountain lies convert 40 km mi 0 abbr on north of Kahta , near Ad yaman . In 62 BC, King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene built on the mountain top a tomb sanctuary flanked by huge statues convert 8 9 m ft 0 abbr on disp high of himself, two lions, two eagles and various Greek mythology Greek , Armenian mythology Armenian , and Iranian peoples Iranian gods, such as Hercules Vahagn , Zeus Aramazd or Oromasdes associated with the Iranic god Ahura Mazda , Tyche , and Apollo Mithras . These statues were once seated, with names of each god inscribed on them. The heads of the statues have at some stage been removed from their bodies, and they are now scattered throughout the site. The pattern of damage to the heads notably to noses suggests that they were deliberately damaged because of belief in iconoclasm . The statues have not been restored to their original positions. The site also preserves stone slabs with bas relief figures that are thought to have formed a large frieze . These slabs displa ... more details
coord 21.15 S 8.79 W globe io name Angpetu Patera 13.68 km No Aramazd Patera Aramazd Armenian mythology Armenian coord 73.58 S 336.81 W globe io name Aramazd Patera 68.82 km No Arusha Patera Arusha ... more details
File 20041229 Coatlicue Museo Nacional de Antropolog a MQ 3.jpg thumb Coatlicue , Aztec goddess of fertility, life, death and rebirth A fertility deity is a god or goddess in mythology associated with fertility , pregnancy , and birth . In some cases these deities are directly associated with sexual intercourse sex , and in others they simply embody related attributes. The following is a list of fertility deities. NOTOC African mythology Ala mythology Ala , Igbo goddess of fertility Asase Ya , The Ashanti Ashanti earth goddess of fertility Denka , Dinka god of the sky, rain and fertility Mbaba Mwana Waresa , Zulu people Zulu goddess of fertility, rainbows, agriculture, rain and beer Armenian mythology Anahit , goddess of fertility, birth, beauty and water Aramazd , creator god and source of the Earth s fertility Aztec mythology Chiconahui , domestic fertility goddess Cihuacoatl , goddess of motherhood, fertility and midwives Coatlicue , goddess of fertility, life, death and rebirth Huixtocihuatl , fertility goddess who presided over salt and salt water Mayahuel , goddess of maguey plants, associated with fertility Patecatl , god of healing and fertility Tepoztecatl , god of pulque , of drunkenness and fertility Tlaloc , god of rain, fertility and water Tlazolteotl , goddess of purification, steam bath, midwives, filth, and a patroness of adulterers Toci , is the Mother of the Gods , often associated with Tlazolteotl Tonacatecuhtli , god of fertility Tzitzimitl Tzitzimimeh , a group of star deities associated with fertility Xipe Totec , god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, disease, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths and the seasons Xochipilli , god of art, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, fertility, and song Xochiquetzal , goddess of fertility, beauty, female sexual power, protection of young mothers, pregnancy, childbirth, and women s crafts Baltic mythology Laima , goddess of luck and fate, associated with childbirth, pregnancy marriage, and death Saul , s ... more details
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