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Bus stop along the highway Yerevan-Dilijan

verbs that this works for / that i've seen:

գալ. եկայ (I came) -> I'm coming / about to come [eg. for when your parents are calling you]

իջնել. իջայ (I left, came down, descended) -> I'm leaving [eg. have you hit the road yet? yeah icha] [usually for leaving the house to go someplace]

երթալ. գացի (I went) -> I'm going [similar use as above]

ելլել. ելայ (I exited, I went) -> (I'm going OR coming) [can replace both գացի and եկայ]

it's like "hey i got you consider it done already."

Stone silence, an endless green, and mountains that remember everything. Time flows differently here. 🌿⛰️

Women and children gathered in the church yard / Pilgrims. Women and children are gathered in front of a one-story building / Women going on pilgrimage / Pilgrims are sitting under trees. Pots are placed on the fire / Pilgrim men sitting on the ground / People going on pilgrimage to the saint Yegishe church.

Vartashen, Utik, early XX cent. History Museum of Armenia.

According to traditional Armenian belief, Grox (the writer) is a spirit who records a person's deeds during their lifetime, determining the purity of their soul. This concept may be linked to Tir, the god of writing and literature in Armenian mythology. In some interpretations, it was believed that anyone whose name Tir wrote in his notebook would die. This is where the curse "may the writer take you" originates.

During the Christian era, Grox was mistakenly represented as a Christian spirit who no longer recorded human deeds but instead determined each person's fate, inscribing it on their foreheads. Over time, Grox came to be depicted as an evil spirit, sometimes identified with Satan. Thus, the curse "get lost in Grox’s embrace," which originally signified death, took on a more negative connotation. However, this was not originally characteristic of Grox in Armenian traditional beliefs.

An Antique hand knotted woolen wedding runner, woven in Artsakh, Armenia. CA 1880-1890.

"The stylization of the figures is indicative of Armenian provenance, even when compared to other antique carpets where the Armenian origin is clear due to Christian symbolism or Armenian inscriptions.