Folk Nuggets
Arevamanoog
Armenians consider the Lake Van area (now in Eastern Turkey) the cradle of their poetic and musical heritage.
Throughout the nation's four thousand years of known history, many legends have been told about Lake Van and its surrounding majestic mountains.
Arevamanoog is one of them...
Water of Life
For the Armenian people, all water sources – fountains, springs, rivers – have been and are sacred.
Armenia, other than for some brief periods in its 3,000-year-old known history, has been a landlocked country. But the Armenian plateau is the head source of waters for many of the life-giving rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Armenian folk songs and poetry celebrate these bodies and sources of water.
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