Re: [tied] Re: I, Hercules [was: A "Germanic" query]

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From: tgpedersen

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Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:06 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: I, Hercules [was: A "Germanic" query]

> 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. 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