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Anahit
Anahit ((アルメニア語:Անահիտ)) was the goddess of fertility and healing, wisdom and water in Armenian mythology.〔(The heritage of Armenian literature, Volume 1, стр. 67, Agop Jack Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian )〕 In early periods she was the goddess of war. By the 5th century BC she was the main deity in Armenia along with Aramazd. The Armenian goddess Anahit is related to the similar Old Persian goddess Anahita. Anahit's worship, most likely borrowed from the Iranians during the Median invasion or the early Achaemenid period, was of paramount significance in Armenia. Unlike Iranians, Armenians incorporated idol-worship into the cult of Anahit. Artaxias I erected statues of Anahit, and promulgated orders to worship them.〔.〕
== Armenian Anahit and Persian Anahita ==
According to Strabo, the "Armenians shared in the religion of the Perses and the Medes and particularly honored Anaitis".〔 The kings of Armenia were "steadfast supporters of the cult"〔.〕 and Tiridates III, before his conversion to Christianity, "prayed officially to the triad Aramazd-Anahit-Vahagn but is said to have shown a special devotion to 'the great lady Anahit, ... the benefactress of the whole human race, mother of all knowledge, daughter of the great Aramazd'"〔 Cit. Agathangelos 22.〕 According to Agathangelos, tradition required the Kings of Armenia to travel once a year to the temple at Eriza (Erez) in Acilisene in order to celebrate the festival of the divinity; Tiridates made this journey in the first year of his reign where he offered sacrifice and wreaths and boughs.〔Agathangelos 21.〕 The temple at Eriza appears to have been particularly famous, "the wealthiest and most venerable in Armenia",〔Cicero, ''(title )'' 9.23.〕 staffed with priests and priestesses, the latter from eminent families who would serve at the temple before marrying.〔 This practice may again reveal Semitic syncretic influences,〔 and is not otherwise attested in other areas. Pliny reports that Mark Antony's soldiers smashed an enormous statue of the divinity made of solid gold and then divided the pieces amongst themselves.〔Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia'' (XXXIII.24 ).〕 Also according to Pliny, supported by Dio Cassius, Acilisene eventually came to be known as Anaïtica.〔Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia'' (V.20 ).〕〔Cassius Dio, ''Historia Romana'' (XXXVI.48.1 )〕 Dio Cassius also mentions that another region along the Cyrus River, on the borders of Albania and Iberia, was also called "the land of Anaïtis."〔Cassius Dio, ''Historia Romana'' (XXXVI.53.5 ). Dio calls the river "Cyrnus" rather than "Cyrus".〕
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