Azhdahak
Armenian · mortal · haykazuni mythohistorical · mortal
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.