24. Personal communication between Hakan Dalkus and the author dated February 7, 2012.
25. Ibid.
26. Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, 25.
27. Ibid.
28. The relationship between the Watchers and the Persian Peri and Jinn is a matter discussed at length in the author’s book From the Ashes of Angels. See, for example, pages 100–101, 198–201, 271–72.
29. See, for example, the account of the birth of Noah in Avigad and Yadin, A Genesis Apocryphon.
CHAPTER 35. A QUIET CORNER OF EDEN
1. “Yeghrdut,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeghrdut_monastery (accessed January 16, 2014).
2. Murad Hasratyan, Christian Armenia Encyclopedia, s.v. “Yeghrduti Monastery,” 313–14.
3. Oskian, Die Klöster von Taron-Turuberan, s.v. “Yeghrduti.”
4. Madatyan, “Srbaluys myuron,” http://araratian-tem.am/media/Myuron.doc. If you’re unable to access this link, go to “Wayback Machine” at http://archive.org/web/ and type in “http://araratian-tem.am/media/Myuron.doc” and press enter. The document will automatically download.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid. See also Armeniapedia, s.v. “Yeghrtud Monastery,” www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Yeghrtud_Monastery, cf. Dictionary of Armenian Place Names.
8. “Yeghrduti Monastery,” Hasratyan, http://archive.is/0TQs (accessed January 16, 2014).
9. I want to thank Gagik Avagyan for the interpretation of this word.
10. Ayvazyan, Armenia Christian Encyclopedia, s.v. “Yeghrdut”; “Yeghrduti Monastery,” Hasratyan, http://archive.is/0TQs (accessed January 16, 2014).
11. “Yeghrduti Monastery,” Hasratyan, http://archive.is/0TQs (accessed January 16, 2014).
12. Thanks go out to Gagik Avagyan for this information.
13. Madatyan, “Srbaluys myuron.”
14. “Books of Adam and Eve,” 40:3–5, in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, ed. by Charles. See also Johnson, “The Life of Adam and Eve,” 249–96.
15. “Holy Anointing Oil,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_anointing_oil (accessed January 16, 2014).
16. See Isenberg, trans., “Gospel of Philip,” 153, which alludes to the Chrism or anointing oil coming from the olive tree. For a full account of this subject see Margaret Barker, “The Holy Anointing Oil,” www.margaretbarker.com/Papers/TheHolyAnointingOil.pdf (accessed January 16, 2014).
17. This tradition is inferred in the Western Church by the words of Acts 1:12–17.
18. Madatyan, “Srbaluys myuron.” See also “Yeghrtud Monastery,” Armeniapedia, www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Yeghrtud_Monastery (accessed January 17, 2014).
19. For all the different variations of the story see Quinn, The Quest of Seth for the Oil of Life, and Rappoport, Mediæval Legends of Christ, 210–34.
20. Hasratyan, “Yeghrduti Monastery,” http://archive.is/0TQs (accessed January 16, 2014).
CHAPTER 36. THE RED CHURCH
1. Cuinet, Turquie d’Asie Géographie Administrative, 584.
2. Oskian, Die Klöster von Taron-Turuberan, s.v. “Yeghrduti,” 91–129.
3. See my post on VirtualAni dated April 4, 2012, and all responses, under the main heading “Yeghrdut monastery,” www.network54.com/Forum/146256/message/1333496514/Yeghrdut+monastery (accessed January 16, 2014).
4. Personal communication between Hakan Dalkus and the author dated April 8, 2012.
5. Raffi Kojian, “The Info I Have,” VirtualAni, April 10, 2012, www.network54.com/Forum/146256/message/1334065482/The+info+I+have (accessed January 16, 2014).
6. “Yeghrtud Monastery,” Armeniapedia, www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Yeghrtud_Monastery (accessed January 16, 2014).
7. Oskian, Die Klöster von Taron-Turuberan, s.v. “Yeghrduti.”
8. Ibid.
9. Murad Hasratyan, Christian Armenia Encyclopedia, s.v. “Yeghrduti Monastery,” Yerevan, http://archive.is/0TQs (accessed January 16, 2014).
10. “Yeghrtud Monastery,” Armeniapedia, www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Yeghrtud_Monastery (accessed January 16, 2014).
11. The Armenians claim descent from Togarmah, the third son of Gomer, and grandson of Japheth, one of the sons of Noah. See “Togarmah,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togarmah (accessed January 16, 2014).
12. Khorenatsi, History of the Armenians, 80.
13. Ibid. See also “Haik,” TourArmenia, www.tacentral.com/mythology.asp?story_no=6 (accessed January 17, 2014).
CHAPTER 37. THE SECRETS OF ADAM
1. Carver, A Discourse of the Terrestrial Paradise, 165.
2. Ibid., 166.
3. Ibid., 167.
4. Reinink, “East Assyrian Historiography in Response to the Rise in Islam,” 88.
5. Pererii Valentini, Commentariorvm et Disputationum in Genesim, 6.
6. MacBean and Johnson, Dictionary of Ancient Geography, s.v. “Gordene” and “Gordiaei Montes,” cf. Ptolemy, London, 1773.
7. Malan, The Book of Adam and Eve, III, 5–6, 147–51.
8. Budge, Book of the Cave of Treasures; Ri, La Caverne des Trésors; and Malan, Book of Adam and Eve, III, iv, 146–47.
9. Malan, Book of Adam and Eve, III, vii, 151–53.
10. Klijn, Seth in Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Literature, 88.
11. Logan, Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy, 90.
12. Josephus, “The Antiquities of the Jews,” I, ii, 3.
13. Whiston, The Works of Flavius Josephus.
14. See footnote accompanying Josephus, “Antiquities,” I, ii, 3.
15. Josephus, Historiarum de Bello Judaico, Liber Primus, et Pars Secondi, Quibus, Ea summatim continentur quæ Josephus susius prosequitur postremis novem Antiquitatum libris, 13.
16. Charles, ed., Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, vol. 2, “Vita Adae et Evae,” 51:1–3.
17. MacRae, trans., “Apocalypse of Adam.”
18. Turner and Wintermute, trans., “Allogenes.”
19. Böhlig and Wisse, trans., “Gospel of the Egyptians.”
20. Stroumsa, Another Seed, 115.
21. Lemprière, Bibliotheca Classica, s.v. “Charax,” 143a.
22. Stroumsa, Another Seed, 116.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., cf. Layton, trans., “The Hypostasis of the Archons,” 92.
25. Mead, Pistis Sophia, ch. 134, p. 292. For the dating of the Askew MS (BL Additional 5114) containing the Pistis Sophia text see Ibid., xxvi, and Legge, Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity, vol. 2, 134, 194.
26. Gürtler and Pearson, Criticorum Sacrorum sive Lectissimarum in Sacro-Sancta Biblia Utriusque Foederis Annotationum atrus Tractatuum Theologico-Philologicorum Supplementum, 175–76. See also Josephus, Historiarum de Bello Judaico, IV, 31.
27. Lemprière, Bibliotheca Classica, s.v. “Abas.”
28. Widengren, Die Religionen Irans, cf. Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum, Hom. bk. II, ch. 56.
29. The text for the “Revelation of the Magi,” otherwise known as the “Chronicle of Zuqnin,” is taken from “The Sages and the Star-child,” trans. by Landau.
30. “Revelation of the Magi,” 2:3.
31. Ibid., 3:3–4
32. Ibid., 2:4.
33. Ibid., 4:2–10.
34. Ibid., 5:8.
35. Ibid., 5:9–10.
36. Ibid., 6:2–3.
37. Ibid., 29:1.
38. For a good summary, see Landau, “The Sages and the Star-child,” 83.
39. Ri, trans., La Caverne des Trésors, “Book of the Cave of Treasures,” 14:1.
40. Budge, Book of the Cave of Treasures, and Ri, La Caverne des Trésors, various references.
CHAPTER 38. AS ANGELS OURSELVES
1. Mills, Mercer Dictionary of the Bible, s.v. “Gospel of the Egyptians.”
2. Ibid.
3. Mead, “An Anonymous System from Irenæus,” in Fragments of a Forgotten Faith, 189.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Clementine Recognitions, 1.45, quoted in Margaret Barker, “The Holy Anointing Oil,” www.margaretbarker.com/Papers/TheHolyAnointingOil.pdf (accessed January 16, 2014).
7. Isenberg, trans. “Gospel of Philip,” ch. 71, 73. For a fuller account of the subject see Barker, “Holy Anointing Oil.”
8. 4 Ezra 2:12.
9. 2 En. 22:8–10, in Florentina Badalanova Geller, 2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch: Text and Context, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P410.PDF (accessed January 16, 2014).
10. Gen. 5:24. See also Heb. 11:5.
11. Clementine Recognitions 1.46, quoted in Barker, “Holy Anointing Oil.”
12. Neef, “Overlooking the Steppe-Forest,” 13–15.
13. Yardin, Tree of Light, 40.
14. Klijn, Seth in Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Literature, 106.
15. Wintermute, trans., Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, “Book of Jubilees,” 8, 1.4.
16. Josephus, “The Antiquities of the Jews,” bk. 1, ch. vi, verse 4.
17. Hommel, The Ancient Hebrew Tradition, 292–97.
18. Heckford, A Succinct Account of All the Religions, 316.
19. al-Kisa’i, quoted in Green, The City of the Moon God, 13.
20. Immanuel Velikovsky, “A Hebrew Cosmogony,” Immanuel Velikovsky Archive, www.varchive.org/ce/hebcos.htm (accessed January 16, 2014).
CHAPTER 39. THE RETURN TO EDEN
1. Charles, trans., The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch, 1 En. 32:1–2.
2. Oskian, Die Klöster von Taron-Turuberan, s.v. “Yeghrduti.”
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. See “The Sage’s Guild: Historical Discussion” and the post dated March 17, 2011, from “Ancalimon,” http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=147199.340;wap2 (accessed January 16, 2014).
7. The theory was outlined in two books—Heyerdahl, Ingen grenser, and Heyerdahl and Lilliestrøm, Jakten på Odin—and criticized at the time by Norwegian academics. See “Jakten på Odin,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakten_på_Odin (accessed January 16, 2014).
8. Personal communication between the author and Raffi Kojian of AniOnline on January 29, 2012. See also Armenian Dictionary of Roots at http://nayiri.com/imagedDictionaryBrowser.jsp?dictionaryId=7&query=%D4%B5%D5%B2%D6%80%D5%A4%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BF (accessed January 16, 2014).
9. I want to thank Gagik Avagyan for the interpretation of this word.
10. Rappoport, Mediæval Legends of Christ, 230.
11. Ibid., 231.
12. Oskian, Die Klöster von Taron-Turuberan, cites various Armenian and Soviet-Armenian references to Yeghrdut. Should anyone wish to track these down, I would be happy to supply details.
13. Oskian, Die Klöster von Taron-Turuberan, s.v. “Yeghrduti.”
14. Josephus, “Antiquities,” bk 1, ch. 1, verse 2.
15. Charles, ed., Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, 40:6.
CHAPTER 40. A TRIP TO PARADISE
1. Hamzeh’ee, The Yaresan, 263.
2. Ibid., 268.
3. Hewsen and Shirakats’i, The Geography of Ananias of Širak, 59, 63.
4. Nuttall, The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations, 287–88.
5. Laurence, trans., Book of Enoch the Prophet, 1 En. 8:1.
6. “Turkey: Oldest Obsidian Bracelet Reveals Amazing Craftsmen’s Skills in the Eighth Millennium BC,” CNRS News Release, Paris, December 6, 2012, www2.cnrs.fr/en/1941.htm (accessed January 16, 2014).
7. Ibid.
8. See Başi, Gula Xizirî.
CHAPTER 42. A LOSS OF INNOCENCE
1. Charles, ed., Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, “Apocalypse of Moses,” 20: 4–5.
2. Genesis 3:17, 19, New King James Version.
3. Esin and Harmankaya, “Aşıklı,” 115–32.
4. Sale, The Koran, p. 7. n. c, cf.
5. See Conybeare, The Key of Truth, and Russell, Zoroastrianism in Armenia, 516–27.
6. See, for instance, “Ishikism” for the relationship between the Paulicians, the Bogomils, and the Alevi, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikism (accessed January 16, 2014).
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