‘Tsovinar’

Location: Hrazdan, Armenia

Completed: Year created not known

Sculptor: Not known

Alternative name: Lady Coming out the Water

Genre: Soviet monument, former USSR

Tsovinar, meaning ‘daughter of the seas’, is the goddess of water, sea and rain in Armenian mythology. According to legend, she was a fiery, wrathful deity who used her fury to force rain to fall from the skies and cavorted on her horse in the clouds to create thunderstorms.

'Tsovinar' (Lady Coming out the Water)  in Hrazdan, Armenia | Soviet monument | former USSR

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