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Resources to teach our children
Click here for resources on the Ascension for children.
Ascension Folk Tradition
In the Armenian folk tradition, the feast of the Ascension was a festive day particularly cherished by young girls. Little amounts of water were fetched from seven springs and pebbles from seven hills and these were placed in a large container. Each girl in the village would place a small personal item in the container, which would be covered with a large cloth. As an elderly woman sitting by the container pulled an item at random, she would make a wish for the owner of the item. Young girls believed that that wish would come true during the course of the year. The process was called VIJAG. In various parts of Armenia the wish came ready made in the form of folk songs and folk poems, of which hundreds have survived and put to print. This was the Armenian version of Chinese fortune cookies.
Read about these traditions in Armenian.
A Traditional Hampartsoom Song
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PDF files available Download the description of Ascension traditions
in Armenian: Download the sheet music for the Hampartsoom
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