Today we went to Gevork's workshop to see khatchkar in making. We're taking one to Canada for my father's tomb. It's 70 cm. high, has the cross in the middle and decorated by pomegranates and the Armenian symbols for eternity.
Got a chair to rest my knee and G's colleague ran out to his garden and came back with green leaves loaded with fresh bursting pomegranates. I learnt that they are kept inside to guard against evil eye.
There are so many connotations of pomegranate symbol. According to an old Armenian tradition the new-weds were given a couple pomegranates from well wishers for fertility and prosperity. (You're supposed to know that the seeds total to 365.)
On a khatchkar pomegranate symbolizes Christ' blood; and the best one is related to the original sin: What Eve gave to Adam was � a pomegranate.
Got a chair to rest my knee and G's colleague ran out to his garden and came back with green leaves loaded with fresh bursting pomegranates. I learnt that they are kept inside to guard against evil eye.
There are so many connotations of pomegranate symbol. According to an old Armenian tradition the new-weds were given a couple pomegranates from well wishers for fertility and prosperity. (You're supposed to know that the seeds total to 365.)
On a khatchkar pomegranate symbolizes Christ' blood; and the best one is related to the original sin: What Eve gave to Adam was � a pomegranate.
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