Tork Angegh
Armenian · deity · pantheon era · Recorded classification
A GOD WHO IS ALSO AN ARTIST, and the detail is the whole record: he tears the face off a cliff and then draws on it with his nails. The sources say he is taken to be TWO deities run together — the Anatolian Tarku and a god of the province of Angegh — and this batch ingests ONE record, because one name with one biography is what the tradition has; the compound reading is on the etymology as a reading. The onward comparison to Thor and Týr is noted in the sources as conceivable and is not carried onto this record at all.
Domains
- strength
- the crafts
Relations
- descendant of: HaykA RELATION AND NOT parentIds, because the intervening generations are not named on the evidence retrieved and this corpus computes the tier from descent. Non-symmetric toward a pre-existing record.Reference treatment: Tork was considered one of the great-grandsons of Hayk, the legendary patriarch of the Armenian people. (secondary)
Sources
- Tork Angegh is the Armenian deity of strength, courage and the crafts, described by Khorenatsi as a giant who hurls boulders and scratches pictures into rock with his fingernails.: Reference treatments of Tork Angegh and of Armenian mythology. (secondary)