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Armenia's pagan traditions were influenced by many surrounding sources, from the Greek pantheon, Zoroastrianism, Mesopotamian religions, and of course local beliefs from Urartu, a proto-Armenian empire that had toppled by 585 BC. This had been the main religion of the Armenian plateau between then and 301 AD, when the King of Armenia, Trdat III, converted to Christianity, and thereafter forced the rest of his country to follow suit, in a rampage of religious persecution. Temples were ransacked and destroyed, people who did not convert were killed, legends and deities were gradually forgotten. Small pockets of paganism lingered on in remote regions such as Goghtn for centuries, but were all but gone by the Middle Ages. Interestingly, memories of the pagan tradition of Armenia were only pres

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  • Armenia's pagan traditions were influenced by many surrounding sources, from the Greek pantheon, Zoroastrianism, Mesopotamian religions, and of course local beliefs from Urartu, a proto-Armenian empire that had toppled by 585 BC. This had been the main religion of the Armenian plateau between then and 301 AD, when the King of Armenia, Trdat III, converted to Christianity, and thereafter forced the rest of his country to follow suit, in a rampage of religious persecution. Temples were ransacked and destroyed, people who did not convert were killed, legends and deities were gradually forgotten. Small pockets of paganism lingered on in remote regions such as Goghtn for centuries, but were all but gone by the Middle Ages. Interestingly, memories of the pagan tradition of Armenia were only pres
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  • Armenia's pagan traditions were influenced by many surrounding sources, from the Greek pantheon, Zoroastrianism, Mesopotamian religions, and of course local beliefs from Urartu, a proto-Armenian empire that had toppled by 585 BC. This had been the main religion of the Armenian plateau between then and 301 AD, when the King of Armenia, Trdat III, converted to Christianity, and thereafter forced the rest of his country to follow suit, in a rampage of religious persecution. Temples were ransacked and destroyed, people who did not convert were killed, legends and deities were gradually forgotten. Small pockets of paganism lingered on in remote regions such as Goghtn for centuries, but were all but gone by the Middle Ages. Interestingly, memories of the pagan tradition of Armenia were only preserved by the very people who sought to destroy them, priests of the Armenian Apostolic church. The Armenian alphabet had been invented by the church, making priests the only literate ones in Armenian society, able to record history. Historian Moses Khorenatsi wrote a history of Armenia in the 400's AD, and Agathangelos wrote a history of Armenia's conversion at around the same time. While both cast the pagan traditions in a negative light, they nonetheless preserved the memories of Armenia's gods.
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