Mihr
Armenian · deity · pantheon era · Recorded classification
HIS NAME IS WHY THE SASNA TSRER HAS TWO MHERS. The corpus already held Mher the Elder and Mher the Younger, a thousand years downstream of this god, and did not hold the god. NO CROSS-TRADITION EDGE to zoroastrian_mithra: an Iranian name in Armenian dress is a fact about the languages, which is the rule since lane 13.
Domains
- light
- the sun
Relations
- child of: AramazdNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Aramazd record — AND DELIBERATELY NOT parentIds, because in this corpus the tier is computed from descent and the sources give the filiation as a position in a pantheon rather than as a genealogy.Reference treatment of the Armenian pantheon: Mihr is reckoned among the children of Aramazd, the father of the gods. (secondary)
Sources
- Mihr is the Armenian god of light, heaven and the sun, worshipped at Bagaharich and at the Garni temple.: Reference treatments of the Armenian pantheon and of its pre-Christian gods. (secondary)