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COIN OF TIRIBAZ[OS] ORONTID [386-380]. OUT OF THE SACRED
WINGED DISK EMERGES CROWNED TORSO OF ARAMAZD [GOD-MAN...SPIRITUAL
FLIGHT] HOLDING THE REEF OF GLORY [RIGHT HAND] AND THE BLOSSOMED
FLEUR-DE-LYS-ESQUE SACRED LOTUS BLOSSOM. EA/BAAL/VAHAGN/JUPITER
WITH THE SACRED EAGLE SITTING ON HIS RAND HAND AND THE SCEPTER
OF POWER IN HIS LEFT.

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COIN OF ERVAND [ORONTAS] II. OBVERSE: ARMENIAN WARRIOR
IN DEFENSIVE POSITION. REVERSE: WINGED BOAR WITH
OPO.NT.A INSCRIPTION AROUND.


MITHRAIC KRMAPETS [HIGH PRIESTS]
RELIEF FROM ANCIENT DAROYNK.



WHITE PEGASUS
. ONE OF THE SACRED SYMBOLS OF THE
ORONTIDS ON THE COIN OF ERVAND II.


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ARMENIANS WEARING TRADITIONAL MITHRAIC CLOTHES IN THE RELIEFS
OF THE APADANA [PALACE] IN PERSEPOLIS. VITH CENTURY BC.

ARMENIANS DEPICTED WITH THEIR PRIZED STEEDS WEARING DISTINCTIVE
NATIONAL MITHRAIC RED CAPS AND WHITE TUNICS. FROM THE RELIEFS OF THE
APADANA [PALACE] IN PERSEPOLIS. VITH CENTURY BC.



TIRIBAZOS
WEARING TRADITIONAL ARMENIAN MITHRAIC CAP  [NOTE THE TIP
POINTING DOWNWARD=NATION AT PEACE...] RULED BETWEEN 386-380 BC
THROUGHOUT WESTERN ARMENIA [INCLUDING CILICIAN ARMENIA].


ORONTID HELMET
IN THE NATIONAL MITHRAIC STYLE.


ANOTHER COIN OF ERVAND II WITH THE SACRED PEGASUS AND THE GODDESS



THE KING OF BABYLON ARA.KHA[Y]. DARIUS OF PERSIA
IN THE BEHISTUN [BAGHASTANA] INSCRIPTION NOTES
THAT KING OF BABYLON ARAKA THE ARMIN [ARMENIAN]
SON OF [K]HALDI [SUPREME LORD OF ARARATIAN PANTHEON]
FROM A LONG LINE OF ARMENIAN KINGS
RULES BABYLON ATTESTING THAT THE SUPREME GOD
[K]HALD-HAYK-EA-HAYA AND HIS DIVINE RULERS WERE STILL
HOLDING THE SUMERIC-ARMENIC LINE OF DIVINE KINGSHIP IN THE
SIXTH CENTURY BC. THE GREAT EPIC OF HAYK [HALDI-EA-HAYA]
AS THE SUPREME LORD OF BABYLON AND ALL OF MESOPOTAMIA
EXTENDING FROM ARMENIAN HIGHLAND -ARATTA-DILMUN-ETEN-EDEN
- LAND OF THE GODS - WAS RECORDED BY THE FIFTH CENTURY
FATHER OF ARMENIAN HISTORY MOWSĒS OF XORĒN FROM THE
PRIMORDIAL ORAL EPICS OF THE ARMENIAN GUSANS [TROUBADOURS].

Ervand I (570-560)
Tigran (560-535)
Hydarnes I (521-499)
Hydarnes II (c. 480-430)
Hydarnes III (430-424)
Artashir (424-404)
Ervand II (404-360)
Tiribazos (386-380)
Ervand III (c. 330-300)
Ervand IV (c.212-c.200)

THE ORONTID DYNASTY