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horavots!

05 Sunday May 2013

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what are you going to do on yegherrni zoheri hishataki or?

22 Monday Apr 2013

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April 24, Armenia, Genocide Remembrance Day, Սարդարապատի ճակատամարտ, Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր, Sardarabad, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, Yegherrni Zoheri Hishataki Or

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“On May 23, 1918 the Armenian troops defeated superior Turkish forces advancing toward Yerevan. This victory on the threshold of Echmiadzin saved the heart of Armenia from conquest.” — Jacques Kayaloff (1973)

April 24 is Genocide Remembrance Day (Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր) and while Turkey will once again choose to look the other way I figured I’d take the advice my mother always gave when it came to dealing with dimwitted bullies — “small-minded people hate to look foolish and stupid in front of their betters” — and so I will retell the story in which Enver Pasha’s Young Turks were defeated by the plucky Armenian Army of 1918.

This is, of course, the Battle of Sardarabad (Սարդարապատի ճակատամարտ) and it is amazing.

armenian roots of reggae?

21 Sunday Apr 2013

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Arba Lijoch, Armenian Genocide, Armenian music, Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, Rastafarian, reggae

I wrote this letter to a friend last year. She didn’t have the answer but maybe somebody else does:

I don’t know if you can answer this question but you know more about Armenian music than anyone I know so I figured it was worth a shot. I discovered that after the genocide a handful of Armenian orphans were adopted by Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia. These children would later become the first official orchestra of his nation and compose Ethiopia’s national anthem. I don’t know how well versed in Bob Marley and Reggae music you are, but the Rastafarian movement considered Haile a living god and Ethiopia spiritual home of their people.

I am curious how much influence Armenian music had on the roots of what is today considered Reggae? The Ethiopian emperor was very fond of Armenian music and Rastafarians look toward him for inspiration. It would be interesting to see if the folk and church hymns of Armenian had any influence on a music now popular the world over?

a long march

19 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Armenia, Illustration and art, story without words

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Armenian Genocide, art, Der Zor, Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր, story without words

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This April 24 will commemorate the 98th day of remembrance since the 1915 events that led to the Armenian Genocide. In the same manner that the Nazis took the Jews, gays, gypsies and other undesirables to death camps, the Young Turks took 1.5 million of their own people to the desert of Der ez Zor to be massacred and die of exposure. The image that haunts me are the long lines of women and children being forced to march into the wilderness until they died from exhaustion.

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in front of the metsamor nuclear power plant

17 Wednesday Apr 2013

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1970s postcard, Metsamor nuclear power plant, Հայկական ատոմային էլեկտրակայան, Soviet Armenia

happy couple in front of the Metsamor nuclear power plant

publicity photo: happy couple in front of the Metsamor nuclear power plant

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pok’r ararat

17 Wednesday Apr 2013

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1970s postcard, Փոքր Արարատ, Pok’r Ararat, Soviet Armenia

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1970s postcard of Pok’r Ararat (Փոքր Արարատ), the smaller of the two cones that makes up Mount Ararat. Yerevan’s opera house is in the foreground.

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dreams of fools

17 Wednesday Apr 2013

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Armenian, dreams of fools, poem, translation, Urartu princess

Urartu Princess

Ես սիրում

եմ քանդել

հիմարների

երազանքները:

.
I like

to destroy

the dreams

of fools.

note:

This isn’t really a poem, more of a phrase I found in my grammar book. And who doesn’t like thwarting the unworthy now and then? It’s the only time I get to use the word dastardly, which you have to admit really needs to be brought into circulation.

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the milkyway over mount ararat

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

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Ararat, artist unknown, Milkyway, photo

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mount ararat

14 Sunday Apr 2013

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Ararat, Armenian, Basho, poem, sonnet, translation

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Արարատ Լեռ

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«ընկերներ բաժանվում են ընդմիշտ — անզուսպ սագը մոլորված ամպերի մէջ» — Բաշօ

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Բոլոր սովորածս բառերը կարող էին տեղ տալ մի

ափի մէջ ու նրանց բոլորի իմաստն էր տուն վերադառնալ: Առավոտ

ու ես հագվում էի այս խորը արեվի երկրում

եւ խորը սարերի: Հագվում կէս չհարբած, քայլում

դէպե Փոլիթեքնիք սովորելու նոր բառեր:

Միշտ բառեր: Միշտ այդ ընդարձակ կապոյտ սարը

դիտում. կանչում իր զավակները: Այնքան աբզուրդ

որքան կէտաձկի կանչը: Բայց ավելի մեծ քան

այդ, այնքան մի մեծ ձայն որ արտասանվում էր համր

լռութեան մեջ, ոսկոռի եւ ճանկի լեզվով, այբուբենի

գաղտնի տնքալով: Կարծես ասելով «եկեք տուն, զավակներս, եկեք»

Ոչ: Ես ոչ մէկի զավակը չեմ եւ ոչ մէկը

գնում է տուն: Ոչ: Ոչ այս զավակը: Ոչ իրականում:’

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Mt. Ararat

“friends part forever — wild geese lost in cloud” — Basho

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All the words I learned could be held in one

hand and they all meant going home. Morning

and I would dress in this land of deep sun

and deep mountains. Dress half sober, walking

to the Polytechnic to learn new words.

Always words. Always that long blue mountain

watching, calling her children. As absurd

as a whale’s call. But so much bigger than

that, a call so big that it spoke in dumb

silence, tongue of bone and claw, alphabet’s

secret groan. As if to say, “come to me,

child.” As if to say,“come home, my child, come.”

No. I’m no one’s child and no one gets

to go home. No. Not this child. Not really.

eurydice’s view from a modish pavilion

13 Saturday Apr 2013

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Էւրէդըսիի հայացքը նորաձեւ փավիլեոնից

Նախ դու նրան տեսնում ես որպես
Մետաքս’ փաթթված հիւսված դարպասին:

Նրա փավիլեոնը
կագնած դաշտի մեջ, փոքր մի կղզի

ցուցաբերելով եւ ոչ մի փասիոն: Հետո
նա բարցրանում է, ծածկված գիշերանոցով ու ցեխով

— շաղատար կոշիկներ, գիշերամաշ գծեր
դեմքի վրա, իր երկար ու պայծառ լուսապսակը

լուսավորելով
իւր փավիլեոնի շլացուցիչ խնջոյքը:

Ասելով «ծծիր
արշալոյսի լոյսը իմ

ճակատի –» Ասելով
«Հետապնդիր տերողորմեաները

նվիրվածութեան –» Ասելով «այլապես’
ես քեզ կը լսամ մի այլ տեղ –»

[Translations by Tatoul Badalian]

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Eurydice’s View from a Modish Pavilion

First you will see her as
silk tied to a woven gateway.

Her pavilion
stands in the field, islet

experiencing no passion. Then
she rises, clad in nightgown and mud

-spattered boots, night-worn lines on
her face, her long bright halo

illuminating the
pavilion’s dazzling banquet.

Saying: “suck early
morning light from my

forehead—” Saying:
“Follow these atonements

of devotion—” Saying: “Otherwise
I will hear you elsewhere—”

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