Hamshenian Forum

Hello, friends!..

We are tying to identify something what symbolizes Hamshen. It can be anything that is uniquely identifies Hamshen or people of Hamshen. A plant? An animal? Maybe a season? A mountain? A special ornament? This will help us to make a logo for this forum. Your suggestions are greatly valued!..

For starters, how about these things:

* Mocu (Modja) - a hen
* Oncura (Ondjura) - a plant
* Finidk, Gaghin - a hazelnut
* Khenotsi - a barrel to make butter from cow's milk

Thanks!..

(Somebody, please translate this to Turkish and Armenian as well. Thank you!).

Дорогие друзья,

Помогите, пожалуйста, выбрать предмет олицетворяющий Амшен. Это может быть предмет, растение, животное, гора, орнамент, время года... Нам бы хотелось использовать эти символы для создания особого лого для нашего ресурса.

Мне приходят на ум следующие вещи:

* Моджу -- курица
* Онджура -- растение
* Фундук -- лещинный орех
* Хноци -- бочка для взбивания масла из коровьего молока

Заранее благодарим за помощь!..

Варианты которые еще можно рассмотреть:
- лавровишня (cherry-laurel, ձվաղ)
- кямяча
- амшенская груша (hamshenian pear or qifir pear)

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Khenotsi/khenetsi (both the object and the name) would be recognizable to the Hamshen people of Hopa, Rize and Russia as well as to the rest of the Armenians.

The name dzevagh (the fruit) and dzevagheni (its tree) would be recognizable to the Hamshen people of Hopa and Russia. The object would be recognizable to all three.

Thanks, Hagop jan, I think we should make a poll and ask which one of the two to choose.

I agree with you Avetik, but we need collect all variants at first and then start a poll.

Hayk,

I believe gaghin (findik) doesn't have the importance in Rize Hamshen it enjoys elsewhere in the Black Sea areas. But the pear may be a good suggestion because the Hamshen people from Rize and Hopa have different types of pears. If you can post a picture of it, perhaps they would be kind enough to give their names of pear varieties and take part in the poll as Avetik suggested.

What does "pushi" mean?.. It is interesting, I don't think we have seen any of that in Abkhazia and South Russia, where Hamshetsi Armenians live today.

Oh, I see. Thanks. Well, what is the history of pushi? Where did it come from? Why this is a symbol of Hamshen in your opinion?.