A new study by Yerevan State University (YSU) and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography is the first large-scale statistical and spatial analysis of 115 known dragon stones – or “vishaps” – and suggests that these monuments were not territorial or mythical markers, but deliberately erected totems of an early “water cult” whose rituals were linked to melting snow streams, springs, and seasonal movements of herds of animals across the mount…
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A new study by Yerevan State University (YSU) and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography is the first large-scale statistical and spatial analysis of 115 known dragon stones – or “vishaps” – and suggests that these monuments were not territorial or mythical markers, but deliberately erected totems of an early “water cult” whose rituals were linked to melting snow streams, springs, and seasonal movements of herds of animals across the mount…