Mount Ararat with the historic Khor Virap monastery visible at center-left

Mythology

Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935) transcribed over 3,000 Armenian folk songs from village singers in the 1890s–1910s, preserving harvest songs tied to the agricultural cycle, lullabies with pre-Christian imagery, and wedding songs with Astghik-adjacent themes. He survived the 1915 Genocide but suffered a psychological breakdown; his archives are partly held at the Komitas Museum-Institute, Yerevan.

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Armenia

Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935) transcribed over 3,000 Armenian folk songs from village singers in the 1890s–1910s, preserving harvest songs tied to the agricultural cycle, lullabies with pre-Christian imagery, and wedding songs with Astghik-adjacent themes. He survived the 1915 Genocide but suffered a psychological breakdown; his archives are partly held at the Komitas Museum-Institute, Yerevan. 

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