Vahagn
c. 300 BCE – 400 CEattested
Taron, Armenia
- Armenian
Armenian dragon-slayer and god of fire and war, born in a surviving fragment of song from a reed in the sea, with hair of flame and eyes like suns. The fragment is among the oldest Armenian poetry there is.
Known for
- born from a burning reed
- slayer of dragons
- known from four surviving lines
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.