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When there is no writing and written history, people record their his-tory through epic compositions. But after the emergence of writing, the Armenian mind continued developing epics presenting historical eras. It might be said that the whole history of Armenia was codified through successive epics. In this article the following epic compositions are con-sidered: 1) Ethnogonic legends; 2) 3) War of Persia 4)

5) 6) Kyoroghli; 7) Haiduk songs, and 8) Poems about the Soviet leaders.

Almost all of them were created according to the uniform scheme a genealogical line of archetypal heroes: 1) a divine image or its symbol; 2)

. The historic kings and he-roes of the epics were superposed on these mythological archetypes. The scheme is of native Indo-European origin, which later incorporated some local non-Indo-European and Iranian elements.