Petros Demirchyan - Collecting and ethnographic activities of Garegin Srvandztyants

9 Pages | 122-131 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.1-118 |

Revceived on: 2022-01-20 | Reviewed on: 2022-03-01 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-03-09

Published in: 2022 N 1 (219) / Articles, reports

Bishop Garegin Srvandztyants (1840–1892) is one of the most merited representatives of the Armenian people, both as a devoted national-public figure and as an incomparable philologist, folklore collector and ethnographer. The most important part of his activity is a series of collections, which are the result of a diligent collection оf over a decade (1874–1884) of folk tales and traditions and wealthy ethnographic materials. The name of G. Srvandztyants is associated, in particular, with the identification, recording and publication of the first version of the Armenian national epic “Sasna Tsrer” – “David of Sassoun or Mher’s Door”.

KeywordsGaregin Srvandztyants philologist folklore collector ethnographer “Toros Aghpar” “David of Sassoun or Mher’s Door” Arabkir city art culture Matenadaran.

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Marianna Tigranyan - Two archimandrites: Sahak Amatuni and Komitas (Memories of contemporaries)

14 Pages | 201-215 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.2-201 |

Revceived on: 2021-12-09 | Reviewed on: 2021-12-20 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-05-23

Published in: 2022 N 2 (220) / Art

Abstract / Keywords

The 70s-80s of the 19th century was the period of the formation of Armenian musical folkloristics, whose initial stage incorporated the recording and collection of folk songs. Christopher Kara-Murza, Nikoghayos Tigranyan, Makar Yekmalyan, Arshak Brutyan, Stepan Demuryan played a special role in this process. Among these great sons of the Armenian people is the name of Archimandrite Sahak Amatuni (1856-1920), who stood at the very origins of Armenian musical folkloristics.

KeywordsArch. S. Amatuni Komitas Gevorgyan Seminary of Etchmiadzin Sh. Simon M. Abeghyan A. Sedrakyan S. Vratsyan “Lake Nersisyan” Oshakan musical folklore folk song.

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Tamar Hayrapetyan - Food culture in Armenian oral tradition (daily, feast and ritual, and mythological levels)

24 Pages | 216-240 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.2-216 |

Revceived on: 2021-11-10 | Reviewed on: 2021-11-18 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-04-08

Published in: 2022 N 2 (220) / Ethnography

Abstract / Keywords

The food system is one of life essentials, where the key features of popular worldview and lifestyle of people are relatively evident. Traditional cultural manifestations of having or refusing meals are interrelated with life style of an individual, with a subsequent procedure, type of food, rules of conduct typical of festive meal. These rules are of universal nature and are represented in folklore (sometimes implicitely hidden), and often appear in mythological plots.

Keywords food food culture feast ritual holiday myth folklore.

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Verjine Svazlyan - Relics of the oral tradition of the Artsakh Armenians emigrated to Pyatigorsk (According to the materials recorded by the author)

14 Pages | 210-224 |

Revceived on: 2021-03-09 | Reviewed on: 2021-03-10 | Accepted for printing on: 2021-03-30

Published in: 2021 N 2 (217) / Articles, reports

Abstract / Keywords

In 1964, under the auspice of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, I have a scientific trip to Pyatigorsk to study the ethnic Armenians living there. When I reached my destination, I was informed that there was a district where Armenians of Karabakh (Artsakh) lived. For me, as a folklorist-ethnographer, it was interesting to know what changes they had undergone under the conditions of coexistence with the local people, whether they remained sincere to the traditions of their cradle, etc.

KeywordsPyatigorsk Karabakh Artsakh Russia narrator oral tradition epic lyric and saying folklore Armenian dialect.

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Aelita Dolukhanyan - Avetik Isahakyan’s art is addressed to humanity for ages to come

28 Pages | 95-123 | DOI: DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2025.3-95 |

Revceived on: 2025-10-14 | Reviewed on: 2025-10-27 | Accepted for printing on: 2025-11-17

Published in: 2025 N 3 (230) / Literary studies

Abstract / Keywords

From early ages, a famous Armenian poet Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957) was distinguished by his extraordinary abilities and exceptional desire for knowledge. Being almost a young man, having acquired important knowledge about the centuries-old history of the Armenian people and its literature of the past, he traveled to Europe. With an exactitude characteristic of a genius, he studied world history and literature – East and West.

KeywordsIsahakyan Varpet (Master) multi-genre “Abou-Lala Mahari” “Usta Karo ” ballads folklore the Armenian Question jubilee

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Armen Petrosyan - Indo-European “Black” youth fraternities, mythological twins, and foundation of cities

20 Pages | 200-220 | DOI: DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2025.3-200 |

Revceived on: 2025-09-07 | Reviewed on: 2025-10-31 | Accepted for printing on: 2025-11-17

Published in: 2025 N 3 (230) / Discussions

Abstract / Keywords

In Indo-European studies, the existence of fraternities of young warriors was restored; they, under the guidance of mentors, were engaged in hunting and plundering and lived in the outlying territories of the tribe for several years. Only after this, having undergone the initiation ritual, the young men could become full members of the tribe, get married, and own property. These brotherhoods played a key role in the spread of Indo-Europeans throughout Eurasia.

KeywordsIndo-European youth fraternities Indo-European mythology Indo-European onomastics Armenian epic folklore Armavir Romove Rome

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