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    Armenian youth launch active campaign to return Goddess Anahit's statue
    16:39 - 07.03.12




    Over 20,000 young people from Armenia and the Diaspora launched a
    petition earlier this year to return the bronze-gilded statue of
    Goddess Anahit to its historical homeland.

    A crowd of young people gathered on Wednesday outside the British
    Embassy in Yerevan, carrying the signatures and a written address to
    the British authorities. Minister of Education Armen Ashotyan and
    President of the Armenian Youth Foundation Karen Avagyan submitted the
    documents to the Embassy officials.

    It is noteworthy that the campaign date, which coincides with the eve
    of Women's International Day, was not selected randomly. Speaking to
    the crowd, Avagyan revealed that symbolic link between the two events.

    `We cannot renounce Anahit,' Minister Ashotyan said, admitting that he
    had numerously raised the issues at meetings with his British
    colleagues both as an official and a politician, and as a citizen of
    Armenia.

    The petition was launched in one of the social networking sites upon
    the initiative of Ashotyan. Earlier, the minister raised the issue on
    his Facebook profile. The British Ambassador responded to his appeal,
    not ruling out the possibility that the sculpture might be brought to
    Armenia for a temporary showcase.

    The fragments of the Goddess' statue were discovered in Western
    Armenia in the late 19th century. They were subsequently taken to
    England and have been ever since kept at the British Museum.

    Anahit was the pagan goddess of fertility and healing, wisdom and
    water in Armenian mythology. In early periods she was the goddess of
    war. By the 5th century BC she was the main deity in Armenia along
    with Aramazd.


    Tert.am

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