Լիլիթ Սիմոնեան2026-06-062026-06-062019Սիմոնեան, Լ., «Մհերի դուռ, քրիստոնեայ ժողովրդի նախաքրիստոնէական սրբավայրը», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2019, Պէյրութ, էջ 27-38https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/1316Mher's Door (Mheri dur), an arc-form recess covered with Urartian inscriptions, is located on the hill of Toprak-Kale, called Akrpi kar by Armenians. It served as a holy place for pilgrimage from Urartian times until the deportation of Armenians from Van. It was a pilgrimage site for girls in love, childless women and women who had difficult relations with their husbands. On the territory of the sanctuary rites of sortilege were executed as well as rites promoting birth-giving. On the night before Ascension jugs filled with water and things belonging to the sortilege ritual's participants were placed so Mher would come out of the cave and give them luck. The cult of Mher - an aznavur and monster related to sources of rivers - is a local cult and has no special traits ascribed to borrowed religious representations.