--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:06 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: I, Hercules [was: A "Germanic" query]
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> > I was hoping someone would prove the man wrong based on their
understanding of Armenian folklore, but that was not to be.
>
> Is there anything to prove or disprove there? "The man" (Edward
Sargsyan) is a self-styled ethnographer who claims to
have "reconstructed", on the basis of folk tales, old petroglyphs and
some ancient manuscripts he has allegedly discovered in Armenian
caves, a 3000 pages long epos telling the story of the Flood.
These are the two qoutes I get searching the page for "cave"
"
In the cave of the wild people
"
"
He is forty - seven years old, the doctor of chemical science.
He is the founder of speleology ( the science, which investigates
caves ) in Armenia. He is the author of numerous scientific
discoveries, books and articles in different sciences. He was given
the title of laureate of the Youth prize of Armenia He is one of the
famous mountaineers of Armenia. He climbed the Ararat mountain.
"
Would you tell me where he claims to have found manuscripts in caves?
And I can't find "petroglyph" or "inscription" on the page either.
That leaves "old tales". Which brings me back to the question:
Loennroth or McPherson?
He seems to have received little recognition from the academic world
so far, but he does enjoy the support of the local popular press:
> The preservation of the epos about the Flood for future
descendants, which exists in oral folk work more than five thousand
years already Is the reality today. The scientist from Yerevan,
Edward Sargsyan, who devoted many years to that difficult work, has
finished the preparation of the manuscript, which has 3 thousand
pages, for the publication. It is told about Noah and his sons in
details in that manuscript. For example, in Bible there is only one
page about the Food [sic]. ("Republic of Armenia")
>
> There are some other web pages of his authorship, "demonstrating"
the exceptional depth of "Armenian astronomical essence". With
characteristic modesty, he quotes some more laudatory (if barely
comprehensible) reviews:
>
> ... This material about constellations in the Caucasian mountains
will appear by individual head in all the school text-books by
astronomy, go in the encyclopedia "The myths of the world peoples".
The comparatively row similar pictures can be basis for formation an
new direction for ecological education and for planetary mentality.
>
> ... In Edward Sargsyan's book as well as in the rocky pictures is
paraphrased that idea, that Armenia was really the center of ancient
astronomical idea. The rocky pictures used widely in the book, where
celestial bodies and space conceptions are presented. Their unique
comments are given, due to that book become advantageous. To our
mind, the author who is famous in our republic by his invaluable
discovery, did good and significant job.
>
> As far as I am concerned, he's just as reliable, as a source or
information, as the Book of Mormon or Erich von Daeniken. I'm not
interested in the private mythologies of patent kooks.
>
> Piotr
Tsk, tsk. Yes, and Herodotus was the father of lies. But it is true
that his English is very bad.
Torsten