Artavazd
Armenian · mortal · arsacid historical · Recorded classification
vitalStatus IS RECORDED AS living AND THAT IS THE POINT OF HIM. The tradition does not say he died; it says he is down there, and that the smiths' hammers at New Year are what keeps the chains whole. THE DOGS ARE NOT INGESTED — animals identified by an owner, the rejection lanes 13 through 22 have applied to five horses, two hounds and Balder's foal — which in this one case costs the record its most-told detail, and the lifecycle carries it as prose instead.
Parentage
Relations
- cursed by: ArtashesIn-batch.Reference treatment: Artavazd, cursed by his own father, the kindly Artashes. (secondary)
- fought: ArgavanIn-batch.Reference treatment: Artavazd fights Argavan, who was plotting to lure Artashes using a feast. (secondary)
Sources
- Artavazd is the son of Artashes and Satenik, cursed by his father and chained in a chasm under Mount Masis, where his dogs gnaw at the chains and from which his escape would end the world.: Reference treatments of the Vipasankʻ, of Movses Khorenatsi, and of the legends of Mount Ararat. (secondary)