Whinnying of a horse, what does it tell you?
“Armenia is a cradle of horse civilization.” Two contradictory thoughts cross my mind simultaneously: Yeah right, here we go again, and, We’re one of the oldest civilizations (if not, The cradle).
Three weeks ago Nigol took his friends to a hunting trip in Artzakh and they encountered wild horses. They could not get too close but took pictures. See a couple on our website.
Last weekend, we’re surfing on TV channels and I hear the last part of the news - remains of a prehistoric horse have been discovered in Shengavit.
If you’ve already visited Armenia, you might have been to Erepouni. The names Menua and Argishti might sound familiar. Argishti conquered these parts of the world, and built cities and fortresses (he came from the Western Armenia). In the year 782 BC, he built Erepouni and he carved the birth-certificate in cuneiform inscription on more than one rock “With the permission of god Khaldi, I, Argishti son of Menua, built this city for the prosperity of Biainily country and for bringing peace to our enemy country.’ On another rock the last phrase is ‘for the terror of the enemies’.
On September 25th of 1950 the stone birth certificate was discovered. A sprint to Moscow asking permission to celebrate the birthday of city, the green light, and Armenians celebrated 2750th birthday of Erepouni. “Yerevan tartzar im Yerepouni…” Erepouni transliterated into Yerevan. Since then we count the age of the city by the inscription date, 2785 the last count.
“The land was waste and I undertook great deeds.’ Argishti continues. The land was barren, there were no buildings on it.
The land was called Aza, and it included Medzamor civilization, a city burnt down by Urartians.
Excavations in Shengavit (close to Lake Yerevan) in 1930’s by Kurtyan, between 1960 and 70 by Sartaryan, and in 2000 and 2003 by Simonyan show that settlement phases dating mid fourth to the second millennium BC existed. They had a high level of civilization, stone fortifications, buildings, and spiritual religious beliefs...
Why didn’t the Armenian Soviet leaders admit their mistake?
We’re they scared of becoming the laughing stock of Moscow?
Yerevan is at least five-thousand years old and the
Whinnying of a ghost horse in Shengavit answers it all.
“Armenia is a cradle of horse civilization.” Two contradictory thoughts cross my mind simultaneously: Yeah right, here we go again, and, We’re one of the oldest civilizations (if not, The cradle).
Three weeks ago Nigol took his friends to a hunting trip in Artzakh and they encountered wild horses. They could not get too close but took pictures. See a couple on our website.
Last weekend, we’re surfing on TV channels and I hear the last part of the news - remains of a prehistoric horse have been discovered in Shengavit.
If you’ve already visited Armenia, you might have been to Erepouni. The names Menua and Argishti might sound familiar. Argishti conquered these parts of the world, and built cities and fortresses (he came from the Western Armenia). In the year 782 BC, he built Erepouni and he carved the birth-certificate in cuneiform inscription on more than one rock “With the permission of god Khaldi, I, Argishti son of Menua, built this city for the prosperity of Biainily country and for bringing peace to our enemy country.’ On another rock the last phrase is ‘for the terror of the enemies’.
On September 25th of 1950 the stone birth certificate was discovered. A sprint to Moscow asking permission to celebrate the birthday of city, the green light, and Armenians celebrated 2750th birthday of Erepouni. “Yerevan tartzar im Yerepouni…” Erepouni transliterated into Yerevan. Since then we count the age of the city by the inscription date, 2785 the last count.
“The land was waste and I undertook great deeds.’ Argishti continues. The land was barren, there were no buildings on it.
The land was called Aza, and it included Medzamor civilization, a city burnt down by Urartians.
Excavations in Shengavit (close to Lake Yerevan) in 1930’s by Kurtyan, between 1960 and 70 by Sartaryan, and in 2000 and 2003 by Simonyan show that settlement phases dating mid fourth to the second millennium BC existed. They had a high level of civilization, stone fortifications, buildings, and spiritual religious beliefs...
Why didn’t the Armenian Soviet leaders admit their mistake?
We’re they scared of becoming the laughing stock of Moscow?
Yerevan is at least five-thousand years old and the
Whinnying of a ghost horse in Shengavit answers it all.
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