Վարդավառի հեթանոսական ակունքները արեւմտահայոց բանահիւսութեան մէջ
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2001
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The author discusses the pagan origins of the Feast of Vartavar (the Trans-figuration of Christ) as the occasion to worship water elements. She analyzes in detail the traditions of pouring water, flying pigeons, going on pilgrimages, offering sacrifices and making predictions in some regions of Western Armenia. She argues that this folk festival was linked to the worship of gods that under-went death and rebirth (Ara the Handsome, Adonis, Tammuz, Jesus Christ) and also of St. Karapet (John the Baptist). The latter symbolized, as the person who baptized Jesus Christ in the River Jordan, both agriculture (sown fields) and especially water for irrigation the precondition guaranteeing the fertility of nature.
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Սվազլեան, Վ., «Վարդավառի հեթանոսական ակունքները արեւմտահայոց բանահիւսութեան մէջ», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2001, Պէյրութ, էջ 9-30