Արմէն Պետրոսեան2026-01-292026-01-292014Պետրոսեան, Ա., «Դիցանունից ցեղանուն. մի հնագոյն պաշտամունքի հետքեր Հայաստանում», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2014, Պէյրութ, էջ 135-141https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/1135Armenians call themselves “Hays”, while non-Armenians call them “Armenians”. The author of the article tackles the issue of calling the Armenians “Armen”s through a new approach. He speculates that the word Armen could have a meaning rather than be considered the name of an ethnic group or its leader. While he notes that the cult of the moon in Armenia is attested to only once, in Armawir, the oldest capital of Armenia (in a triadic temple along with the royal ancestors and the god of sun), he argues that the name of Armawir can be derived from the Anatolian term for the moon: Arma-pir ‘house (temple) of moon (god)’ (in Hittite). Furthermore, he notes that the name of the Armenian patriarchal figure, Ar(a)mayis, legendary founder of Armawir, coincides with the Lycian personal name Armais (arma– ‘moon, moon god’). Moreover, he underlines the fact that four (out of the eight) names of the Armenian mythological ethnogonic patriarchs – Ar(a)maneak, Ar(a)mayis, Harma, Aram – contain the element ar(a)m-, which is to be associated with the ethnonym (exonym) Armen. Accordingly, he concludes that such an interpretation should be taken into consideration as well, while trying to answer the question of the very naming of Armenians.