Azhdahak
Armenian · mortal · haykazuni mythohistorical · Recorded classification
TYPE mortal AND NOT numen, DELIBERATELY. The older layer makes him a dragon and Khorenatsi makes him a king, and what the corpus can record on the evidence retrieved is the king with the dragon-name; the record states the dragon layer in its lifecycle and its etymology rather than in its type. NO CROSS-TRADITION EDGE to the Zoroastrian Aži Dahāka, which the corpus holds: the name travelled and the figure changed shape and species along the way, and that is a fact about the languages, on the rule since lane 13.
Relations
- killed by: TigranIn-batch.Reference treatment: Azhdahak is defeated and killed by Tigran. (secondary)
- spouse: TigranuhiReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Azhdahak married Tigranuhi, the prominent sister of Tigranes. (secondary)
Sources
- Azhdahak is the dragon of the older Armenian tales and the Median king of Khorenatsi's history, who marries Tigranuhi as part of a plot against her brother and is killed by him.: Reference treatments of Azhdahak, of Tigranes the legendary and of Movses Khorenatsi. (secondary)