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32. Loc. cit.
33. See Ch. 10.
34. .H. Acarean, Hayeren armatakan bararan, 7 vols, Erevan, 1926-35
(repr. Erevan, 1971-79, 4 vols.); on Acarean's work, see J. R.
Russell, 'Hracceay Yakobi Accarean,' Encyclopedia Iranica, Vol. 1.
35. H. Hubschmann, Armenische Grammatik, Leipzig, 1897 (repr.
Hildesheim, 1972).
36. M. Abelyan, Erker, 7 vols., Erevan, 1966-75.
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37. See, for example, B. N. Arak elyan, 'Erku himnakan uilut yunneri
jevavorume hin haykakan msakuytci me j ,' P-bH, 1979, 2, 4-5-53.
38. See Garsoian, op. cit. n. 10, 190 et seq. for bibliographical
references to the works of Perikhanyan and others on this subject.
39* V. Tarpinian of Karin (Erzurum) has provided information on the
holiday of Ascension; Mme. M. Metakcsean of Marsovan contributed
useful recollections on the Arewordikc; and the Very Rev. Fr.
Khajag Barsamian, a native of Arapkir, described to us the celebration
in his home town of Team end Araj, the Presentation of
the Lord to the Temple. An example of an Arm. memorial-book containing
material of Zor. interest, recently translated from Arm.
into English for the new generation of American-Armenians unfamiliar
with the old mother tongue is The Village of Parchanj, by
Manuk Dzeron; see this writer's review article 'The Persistence
of Memory,' Ararat, Summer 1985.
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40. The series Hay azgagrut yun ev banahyusut yun 'Armenian ethnography
and folklore' is of particular interest; G. Halajyan's vast
archive on Dersim (1973), for example, provides interesting data
on the worship of Ana (Anahit) amongst the Kurdish neighbours of
the Armenians. The limits of this study do not permit systematic
examination of Zoroastrian survivals amongst the Kurds, especially
the Yezidis. Although the core of the Yezidi cult is a mediaeval
Islamic sect which is neither devil-worshipping nor ancient,
scholars have noted Zoroastrian features (see G. Furlani, The
Religion of the Yezidis: Religious Texts of the Yezidis, Eng.
tr. by J. M. Unvala, Bombay, 1940; John Guest's history of the
Yezidis, with a chapter on Yezidi religion, is in publication).