Vanatur
Armenian · deity · pantheon era · Recorded classification
THE GOD THE CORPUS'S ARAMAZD IS SAID TO HAVE REPLACED, AND THE CORPUS HELD THE REPLACEMENT AND NOT HIM. Amanor and Vanatur are ONE RECORD WITH TWO NAMES because the treatments consulted say 'the same god with different names' and 'possibly the same god under different names' — and the record carries that 'possibly' rather than hiding it. A second record would be the duplicate this programme forbids; a silent merge would hide a question.
Domains
- the new year
- harvest
Relations
- displaced by: AramazdNon-symmetric toward a pre-existing record, and the kind is careful: the sources say 'later replaced by', which is a statement about a pantheon's history and not about a fight.Reference treatment: the supreme god of the Armenian pantheon, Vanatur, was later replaced by Aramazd. (secondary)
Sources
- Vanatur, also called Amanor, is the Armenian god of the New Year and of the new harvest, whose feast is Navasard, and whom one account makes the supreme god before Aramazd.: Reference treatments of the Armenian pantheon and of Amanor and Vanatur. (secondary)