Pantheons

Armenian

Pantheons

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Divinity Atlas. "Armenian." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/pantheons/armenian-pantheon-anchor.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Armenian. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/pantheons/armenian-pantheon-anchor

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@misc{divinityatlas-armenian,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Armenian},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/pantheons/armenian-pantheon-anchor},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The pantheon of the Old Armenian Religion, headed by the sky father Aramazd and including Vahagn, Anahit and other deities largely inherited from or reshaped by Iranian Zoroastrian and Hellenistic Greek influence.

Facts

Attestation

Era of Attestation

Attested from Armenian religion before the kingdom's conversion to Christianity in 301 CE, documented chiefly through Armenian and classical Greek and Roman sources describing the pre-Christian pantheon. 1

Correspondences & Relations

Pantheon Members

AramazdVahagn

Pantheon Of

Old Armenian Religion

Sources

1. Encyclopedia of Religion

Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source

Zoroastrianism in Armenia (Russell)

James R. Russell, Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Iranian Series vol. 5, 1987Russell's survey of the Armenian pantheon figures

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