ՀԱՅԿԱԶՈՒՆ ԱԼՎՐՑԵԱՆ / HAYKAZUN ALVRZYAN 
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Հոգեւոր տաղի խորհրդաբանութիւնը  
The symbology of “Tagh” - spiritual poems 

Bazmavep 2013 / 3 - 4, pp. 113-161

The whole medieval culture and literature of Armenian and generally Christian world was formed and developed on the scripture, spiritual, moral,
ideological and on the ecclesiastical dogmatic basis.It conditioned the literal, especially verse new lingustic mentality, vocabulary picture and symbolic unique system. The fundament for all these is the Bible thesis, which is out of interpretation, according to which all the crearures and things on the Earth and in Heaven are originated to recognize God. If the tangible material world is accepted by many people, very few are able to understand their impartial essential conceit. The quintessence of the ecclesiastical verse is anchored on the unshakeable belief, that this disputable tangible material world, which in its turn becomes the reason for the verse (and generally, art) allegory and symbol formation, insisting on Bible principle. In the article the author analyses the symbolic system of that advisory speech, where the celestial bodies (Holy Trinity: Father God, Jesus christ, the Holy Spirit, angels and Cherubs), worldly bodies (prophets, apostles, saints, devouts, the Church and etc.), Sacrament (Annunciation, Birth, Apocalypse, Baptism, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost, settling of the Kingdom of God) are expressed in set symbols. According to their semantic spheres they pictured the following scene, the celestial bodies, natural phenomena, plants, fruit, tiding birds, animals, human beings, body parts seasons, colors, precious materials, jewel and etc.
The following symbols were viable in ecclesiastical verse till the 16th century, when the Treasure House with its last editorial mainly summerizes the Armenian ecclesiastical poetry writing era.