Sisak
Armenian · mortal · haykazuni mythohistorical · Recorded classification
Haykazuni patriarch named by Movses Khorenatsi as a son of Gegham and brother of Harma. On Gegham's death he inherited the lands from Lake Sevan to the Araxes; the territory took his name as Sisakan, and his descendants formed the Syuni (Sisakean) princely house that held the province of Syunik through the historical Armenian period. He is the genealogical branch-point at which the Syunik line diverges from the main Haykazuni descent that runs through his brother Harma to Aram.
Parentage
- paternal: Gegham
Domains
- ancestry
Powers
- Found and transmit a Haykazuni princely line
Relations
- sibling: HarmaBrother of Harma (Harmar/Arma), both sons of Gegham; Harma continues the main Haykazuni line toward Aram while Sisak founds the Syuni branch.Movses Khorenatsi, Patmutyun Hayots 1.12 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Movses Khorenatsi, Patmutyun Hayots 1.12 (primary)
- eponym-of-Syunik-and-ancestor-of-the-Syuni-house: Movses Khorenatsi, Patmutyun Hayots 1.12 (primary); Cyril Toumanoff, Studies in Christian Caucasian History (1963), on the Siwni/Syuni naxarardom (secondary)