Armenian goddess of water, sea, and rain
Tzovinar (Ծովինար) or Nar (Նար) was the Armenian goddess of water, sea, and rain.[1] She was a fierce goddess, who forced the rain to fall from the heavens with her fury.
Her name, Tzovinar, means "daughter of the seas" and she is identified as the mother of Sanasar and Baghdasar in Armenian epic tradition.[2]
- ^ Shalian, Artin K. David of Sassoun : the Armenian folk epic in four cycles. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1964. p. xxvi.
- ^ Hrachya Sarukhan; Violet Grigorian; Khachik Manoukyan; Azniv Sahakyan; Anatoli Hovhannisyan; Hasmik Simonian (2013). Six Armenian Poets. United Kingdom: Arc Publications. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-908376-51-0.