sources: SRC_KHORENATSI_HISTORY

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SRC_KHORENATSI_HISTORY Movses Khorenatsi, History of Armenia (Patmut'iwn Hayots'), 5th c. CE; trans. Robert W. Thomson (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1978)   primary text The fundamental historical and mythological source for pre-Christian Armenian religion. Written in the 5th century CE (though some scholars debate a later 8th-century date for the final composition, the sources used are archaic), it preserves the names and attributes of the principal Armenian deities, the mythology of the Artaxiad royal dynasty, and — crucially — the Vahagn birth hymn (I.31): the oldest surviving Armenian poem, describing Vahagn's birth from the sea, fire, and sky. Book I covers the mythological period; Book II covers the Armenian kings and their divine patrons. Khorenatsi explicitly names Aramazd as father of the gods, Anahit as his daughter, and Vahagn as dragon-slayer. Thomson's 1978 Harvard translation is the standard critical English edition.

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