Eponymous mortal-hero ancestor of the Armenian nation; founder of the Haykazuni dynasty; slayer of Bel of Babylon at the Battle of Hayots Dzor (traditional dating August 11, 2492 BCE — the epoch-anchor of the Armenian calendar). Per Khorenatsi's Biblical-overlay genealogy, Hayk descends from Yapheth through Gomer, Tiras, and Tobel; per the underlying older Armenian-internal tradition, he is the foundational mortal-hero with no specified pantheon parentage. The registry treats him as mortal with empty parentIds, deferring the Khorenatsi Biblical-Tobel chain to the notes rather than to formal parentage. The wide-bow-and-three-pronged-arrow iconographic attribute is the foundational Armenian heroic-emblem; the constellation Orion is identified in Armenian astronomical tradition with Hayk's figure (Hayk's Belt = Orion's Belt). Hayk's significance for Armenian cultural identity is structurally analogous to Romulus for Roman or Aeneas for the Trojan-Roman foundation-narrative — the eponymous founder whose victory over a foreign tyrant secures the cultural-political identity of the people.