Page 2 - Ancient Armenia:Sanskrit 'Harers' and the 'Vetz Hazaria' Vedas

I first heard about the Vetz Hazaria from my great aun e who we addressed
as Morkor (short for Mora kouyir) which means she was the sister of my
mother’s mother). Both Morkor and my mother were forced by the Turkish
government to walk from Mala a, Turkey to the desert town of Del el Zor.
During that forced march to the desert wilderness they witnessed unbelieva-
ble atroci es. Morkor was kidnapped by Arabs and forced to live with a man
who fathered a child with her. She eventually escaped to Aleppo where her
child died. Her abductor caught up with her and stabbed her with a knife and
le her for dead, but somehow she survived.

My mother survived a er all the women and children she walked with either
died, kidnapped or were murdered during the forced march. She was only 7
years old. Everyone sacrificed for her to survive. She was picked up off the
desert sands of Del El Zor by a Turkish family who adopted her and kept her
for four years raising her as a Muslim. Fortunately, the Turks lost the war and
many of the Armenian children were forcibly taken away from Turkish or Ara-
bic families that adopted them. She was placed into an Armenian Catholic
orphanage.
My mother was eventually found by distant rela ves who survived the massa-
cres by bribing their way to freedom from their Turk captors. She was reunit-
ed with her rela ves in the USA in 1924. She eventually helped Morkor come
to the USA.

Morkor taught me some prayers of Krikor Narekatzi, an Armenian Chris an
saint, to say before sleeping at night. She would also do the ahgh sharel or the
ritual of chasing away evil spirits by reci ng some prayers of exorcism by
Narekatzi and using salt as an anoin ng substance. I remember the day when
she told me about the Vetz Hazaria. She said that if I could ever find this book
it would reveal all knowledge for my benefit. She only men oned the Vetz
Hazaria once, but it always stayed in my mind. She did not say how I could
find the text or where or who might possess a copy. She was a devout Ortho-
dox Chris an, but she knew about the Vetz Hazaria. I do not think she ever
read it or was ini ated into its secret teachings.

She recited some of the prayers of Krikor Narekatzi everyday as well as the
morning sharagans (Armenian sacred chants) like Ahravod Louiysoh (an Arme-
nian Chris an prayer recited at sunrise). Although she only men oned the
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