#anahit

[artaxata]

Ok so… I have this little altar to Anahit. I’m still grappling with my feelings about posting this, but I need to get it out somewhere (it’s not like anyone will notice or read a long post like this anyway lol). It’s not much, as I’m disguising it as a Knick-knack situation. I don’t even know how to go about any of this. I’m in my 30s, should I be praying to a goddess? I need hope and she gives me that, even if I have to do it in private. Thankfully my family is used to incense bc my mother burns it a lot for her Christian prayer, so I can just say I like the smell of it.

The description of it makes it sound nicer than it is imo: Armenian doll, obsidian from Armenia, a wooden pomegranate from Armenia, and a silver arevakhatch for the benefactress of all Armenians. Gold colored brass incense burners (one shaped like a peacock, which is one of Anahita’s sacred animals, so I associate it with Anahit as well), a gold colored bowl, a gold colored diadem, and my gold chain and pendant for the voskemayr. The two gold-ish glass votives: one contains coins and the other contains pebbles from the beach and evil eye jewelry. For a representation of her, I found a little print/sticker of John William Godward’s “Head of a girl (priestess)” and have put it in the center. I also have 2 pins I got from the Louvre when I went, I’ve decided to have Winged Victory (Nike) as a representation of Nane, and Venus de Milo as a representation of Astkhig. After all, if I had an alter I’d think it would be nice to give a little space for my sister who I love too. And for the wooden shelf, I just thought it was neat so I put pretty things that I’ve collected on it.

I sorta want a community of people to share all this with. I dunno.

[valkyries-things]

ANAHIT // ARMENIAN GODDESS OF FERTILITY & HEALING

“She was the goddess of fertility and healing, wisdom and water in Armenian mythology. In early periods she was the goddess of war. By the 5th century BCE she was the main deity in Armenia along with Aramazd. The Armenian goddess Anahit is related to the similar Iranian goddess Anahita. Anahit's worship, most likely borrowed from the Iranians during the Median invasion or the early Achaemenid period, was of paramount significance in Armenia. Artaxias I erected statues of Anahit, and promulgated orders to worship them.”

[10000dreams]

Festival of Light - making wishes and new friends 🎋

[parafrazerofhistory]

Sex in Service of the Goddess

“In Cyprus it appears that before marriage all women were formerly obliged by custom to prostitute themselves to strangers at the sanctuary of the goddess... Similar customs prevailed in many parts of Western Asia. Whatever its motive, the practice was clearly regarded, not as an orgy of lust, but as a solemn religious duty performed in the service of that great Mother Goddess of Western Asia whose name varied, while her type remained constant, from place to place....

Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Paphos (now Kouklia, Cyprus).

(Source: Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

“...at Babylon every woman, whether rich or poor, had once in her life to submit to the embraces of a stranger at the temple of Mylitta, that is, of Ishtar or Astarte, and to dedicate to the goddess the wages earned by this sanctified harlotry. The sacred precinct was crowded with women waiting to observe the custom. Some of them had to wait there for years. 

An engraving of the goddess Mylitta, by Daniël met de Penningen (1690).

(Source: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

“At Heliopolis or Baalbec in Syria [i.e., Lebanon], famous for the imposing grandeur of its ruined temples, the custom of the country required that every maiden should prostitute herself to a stranger at the temple of Astarte, and matrons as well as maids testified their devotion to the goddess in the same manner. The emperor Constantine abolished the custom, destroyed the temple, and built a church in its stead.

Panoramic shot of a Baalbek temple complex in modern-day Lebanon.

(Source: © Guillaume Piolle / CC BY 3.0 / Wikimedia)

“In Phoenician temples women prostituted themselves for hire in the service of religion, believing that by this conduct they propitiated the goddess and won her favour. ‘It was a law of the Amorites, that she who was about to marry should sit in fornication seven days by the gate.’ 

An Amorite penitent.

(Source: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

“At Byblus the people shaved their heads in the annual mourning for Adonis. Women who refused to sacrifice their hair had to give themselves up to strangers on a certain day of the festival, and the money which they thus earned was devoted to the goddess….

A Roman-era Astarte statuette from Byblos.

(Source: taller romano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

“We are told that in Lydia all girls were obliged to prostitute themselves in order to earn a dowry; but we may suspect that the real motive of the custom was devotion rather than economy. The suspicion is confirmed by a Greek inscription found at Tralles in Lydia, which proves that the practice of religious prostitution survived in that country as late as the second century of our era. It records of a certain woman, Aurelia Aemilia by name, not only that she herself served the god in the capacity of a harlot at his express command, but that her mother and other female ancestors had done the same before her; and the publicity of the record, engraved on a marble column which supported a votive offering, shows that no stain attached to such a life and such a parentage. 

Greek inscription found in Tralles, Lydia (part of modern-day Republic of Türkiye), telling of Aurelia Aemilia's life as a hierodule.

(Source: W. M. Ramsay, "Unedited Inscriptions of Asia Minor," Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, vii. [1883] p. 276.)

“In Armenia the noblest families dedicated their daughters to the service of the goddess Anaitis in her temple at Acilisena, where the damsels acted as prostitutes for a long time before they were given in marriage. Nobody scrupled to take one of these girls to wife when her period of service was over. 

Modern-day depiction of the goddess Anahit (Anaitis), sculpted by Hagop Ishkanian (1964).

(Source: Hagop Ishkanian, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

“Again, the goddess Ma was served by a multitude of sacred harlots at Comana in Pontus, and crowds of men and women flocked to her sanctuary from the neighbouring cities and country to attend the biennial festivals or to pay their vows to the goddess."

A dedication to the goddess Ma, imprinted by one of the faithful, c. 1st cent. BCE.

(Source: National Museum in Warsaw, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

—J. G. Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, part 1 (The Golden Bough, vol. V, 1914, pp. 36-39)

[meryachkins]

um hello actually i redid them for the project also i drew mihr vahagn and astghik i will post them someday i swear

( and apparently because of my obsession with virgil from dmc nane is holding some short version of yamato And I realized this only when I finished drawing. disgusting /j )

this is me again and my besties nane and anahit aka armenian goddesses of motherhood ( i have other arts of anahit and nane but these ones are for my project so i want to show them )

nane while being the goddess of motherhood is also goddess of war and wisdom. yes she is versatile ... and also she kinda look like athena

and anahit is basically The Golden Mother. she was one of the most revered deity in great armenia. and also the statue of her head is in the british museum in london. but it's too similar to aphrodite so i drew anahit differently

some historians say that nane and anahit ( and astghik but i would like to tell you about her later ) are one goddess but who knows ?

tbh i prefer to think that they are very different goddesses with very different characters

[windy-trickster]

💉 Anahit Judgements 💉

Come see what this darling surgery has to say about you~

[wolveswarrior]

Felix: *“I will kill that pink b*tch” stare*

Based on this

[wolveswarrior124]

Attention

Pussdeath AU: Paradise - Fight scene

Felix Vs Death

Hey guys! I need your help for next chapter!

I know I may it to 10 chapter and thank you so much to enjoy the story! So I guess I will celebrate for it but this time there will be fight scene in next chapter! I don't want to spoil it for you guys but things will be tense between Felix and Death. HOWEVER! I need help with picking the music for the video edit. I want to make it tense or angst fight for the video. I want to pick the music such as Phonk or Metal/rock song. 😭 I don't know what to pick because these type of music is amazing 😭😭

Angel Fall by Breaking Benjamin

One step closer by Linkin Park

Live another day by Kordhell

[marianomoreno]

omg armenians in six feet under 🫵

[carp-from-space]

Picrewing Sashas mortal dad. No accuracy, just vibes.

Picrew

Picrew (sadly no middle beard option for Anahit and human Cyril)

Idk, more actual drawing later today.

[okumaodasi]

ERMENİ TANRIÇASI ANAHİT

Ermeni bereket, şifa, bilgelik ve su tanrıçası Anahit.

Yunan tarihçi, coğrafyacı ve filozof Strabon'a göre Ermeniler Perslerin ve Medlerin dinine bağıydı ve özellikle Anaitis'e saygı duyuyorlardı.

Ermenistan kralları "tarikatın kararlı destekçileriydi" ve III. Tiridates "Resmi olarak Aramazd-Anahit-Vahagn üçlüsüne dua ediyordu ama büyük hanımefendi Anahit'e özel bir bağlılık gösteriyordu.

Bütün insan ırkının, bütün bilgilerin anası, büyük Aramazd'ın kızı Anahit.

Doğurganlık, şifa, bilgelik ve su diyarlarını kutsayan Ermeni tanrıçası Anahit.

Ermeni maneviyatının dokusunda Anahit'in varlığı derindir; hem kralların hem de halkın bağlılığının dokusuna işlemişti

Çoğunlukla Ermenistan'ın Artashat bölgesindeki Anahit tapınakları, Tanrıça Anahit'in onların iyileşmesine ve iyileşmesine yardım edeceğine inanıldığı için hastaları ve hastaları karşıladığı biliniyordu.

Aramazd, Anahit ve Vahagn'ın iç içe geçtiği; bilgeliği, refahı ve yaşamın besleyici akışını arayanların kalplerine rehberlik eden ilahi bir üçlü.

Anahit adı dünya çapındaki Ermeni topluluklarında yaygındır ve yaygın olarak kullanılmaktadır.

Ermeni tarih derslerinden Afrodit'ten ilham alan erotik sanatlara kadar Anahit, Ermeni paganizminin anası olarak kabul edilir.

Bugün British Museum'da sergilenen baştan çıkarıcı kadının bronz kafası, çoğu zaman ona atıf için kullanılan tek semboldür.

[10000dreams]

Anahit Avagyan 🏂

lesbian | biology degree | will reach the top of that big rock in no time

[byrdstrolls]

anytime somebody has a troll named anahit my armenian ass is like

[windy-trickster]

Politely offers my beloved Anahit. The woman who's into medieval medical practices <3

>Lets do this song and dance again folks!

>Show me 1 of your fantrolls and I shall judge them!

>They'll be drawn so only one reblog per person, please!

[sovietpaintings]

Անահիտ | Anahit;

Grigor Khanjyan, 1956.

[windy-trickster]

All of my lesbian trolls <333 [Two don't have sprites unfortunately] Amdala || Evorta || Aressa Celest || Anahit || Morana Jeebs || Atholl