SUMMARY
The
migration
paths
of
Hayk’s
descendants
on
Armenian
Upland
as
described
by
Movsēs
Khorenatsi
vividly
remind
the
routes
of
the
first
Biaynian
kings
who
conquered
the
territory
of
the
future
Biaynili
(Urartu)
kingdom
in
a
few
decades.
This
is
a
new
argument
to
support
the
hypothesis
of
H.
Karagyozyan
and
M.
Katvalyan,
according
to
whom
the
formation
of
the
Armenian
ethnos
has
happened
by
ethnoconsolidation-ethnomixation
of
all
the
various
Indo-European
and
non-Indo-European
tribes
that
inhabited
the
kingdom
of
Urartu-Biaynili
(=Armenian
Upland),
and
not
by
ethnoseparation
(immediate
separation
of
Armenian
language
carriers
from
the
Indo-European
language
community)
or
by
ethnoevolution
(which
means
gradual
absorption
of
other
inhabitants
of
the
Urartu
kingdom
by
the
small
Armenian-speaking
tribe).
The
process
of
ethnoconsolidation
of
Armenian
people
was
a
result
of
ethnointegration
of
multi-tribal
Urartu
kingdom
and
was
completed
in
mid-7th
century
B.
C.
The
later
formed
Armenian
legend
about
the
descendants
of
Hayk
shows
that
a
leading
role
in
this
process
was
played
by
Biaynians
themselves,
although
the
language
of
the
newly
formed
ethnos
(with
the
self-designation
–
endoethn
onym
of
Hay
-*
Hayo
-
–
Armenians)
was
an
Indo-European
one
namely,
the
Armenian
language
spoken
by
the
relative
majority
of
the
population
of
the
multitribal
Biaynian
kingdom.
Combined
with
other
evidences
in
historical
sources,
this
legend
also
shows
that
the
kingdom
of
Urartu
was
not
"destroyed"
by
anyone,
rather
it
continued
to
exist
as
"Eruandean
Armenia
kingdom",
which
was
conquered
only
by
Achaemenid
Iran.
