How do Armenian feel about Mount Ararat?

[Federate]

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Javakhk flag on Ararat

http://javakhk.livejournal.com/377505.html

[Federate]

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The expeditions to the peak of our ancestral mountain continue. This time it is Homenetmen scouts from Israel that take the journey to the top. Video of the journey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2S3geBPQGI

[Eddo211]

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That's right. This is exactly how we feel about MT Ararat......Hurrah!!!!

[Federate]

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This is how Armenians feel about Mount Ararat!

More and more Armenians are climbing Mount Ararat these days! This one is from a group last week.

[Haykakan]

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That is cool! Luckily they didn't get caught.

[Federate]

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This is how Armenians feel about Mount Ararat!

[hrai]

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Hmmm. Interesting.
So, back to the postcard and that scroll with the 28th May date on it, is it just a symbolic representation or was there a real document dated 28th May? Or was there nothing proclaimed in writing until the 30th?

Sorry for not replying sooner. I don't know of a proclamation document dated 28th May. However, Kachaznuni,Khatisian and Papadjanian were despatched at noon on 28th May to Batum, with unlimited powers to conclude peace on behalf of the Armenian people or in the name of independent Armenia.
In such an inauspicious manner was born the Republic of Armenia.

(taken from The Republic of Armenia,page 33, volume 1, the first year 1918-1919. Richard G. Hovannisian)...............
he himself uses three seperate sources for this.

[hrai]

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Do modern Armenian still feel it very sacred place? Ancient symbol of your nation and people? Do wish for to be returned from Turkey? I would like know what you feel about the present situation?

Regardless of where in the world they live, most Armenian households will have at least one picture/photograph of Ararat on display.

[Lernakan]

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The sad truth is that by being on the other side of the border, armenians cant make the same attachments to Ararat that their ancesters did. Since you can't go to Ararat and climb it you won't get the feelings associated with that experience.Armenians climbed ararat and they considered the journey as a sort of pilgrimage where they came closer to god and many did it just for the sake of having accomplished a challange.Climbing the mountain was one of the things on the to do list for most armenians who were ambitios or liked adventure.

The Universal Mountain (Ararat) is usually presented in three parts:
on its summit dwell the gods, beneath it dwell the forces of evil, and in the middle of it (that is on earth) lives mankind. Greater Ararat (Masis) in ancient Armenian literature is known as "the mountain on which the sun strolls", and "the highest mountain in the universe" under which dwell evil forces. This shows that in the earliest beliefs of the Armenians Greater Ararat (Masis) was presented as the holy mountain that preserved the system of the universe after creation.
It is apparent from a riddle dating to the 12th - 14th centuries preserved and recorded by Hovhannes Tsortsoretzi that Masis (Greater Ararat) was understood in the Armenian world-view as the Universal Mountain.

"As defined by the great Creator
it is a pyramid and the foundation of the world,
the place of the house built by God
on which human feet may not tread
(answer - Masis)"

In this sense, the report by the European traveler William Rubruk (13th cent.) is quite valuable. According to this report, among the Armenians it was forbidden to climb Mt. Ararat- Masis.
When he asked why, it was forbidden, the Armenians answered:
"Masis is the mother of the world"....


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This is an excerpt from the book "The Sacred Higlands: Armenia in the Spiritual Geography of the Ancient Near East" by Artak Movsisyan.

[Eddo211]

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Do modern Armenian still feel it very sacred place? Ancient symbol of your nation and people? Do wish for to be returned from Turkey? I would like know what you feel about the present situation?

Mt Ararat is an internal force that draws you as a Hye in life and death (Stamped on your tombstone).

The further away............the stronger the pull.
You cannot escape it.............you were shaped by its soil.

I have this belief that she will never grant safe passage to anybody other than her own people who are true at heart, only then she will expose her deepest mysteries.

You must understand, nobody owns Mt Ararat…………..we the Armenians belong to her. hahaha