Dzovinar

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Dzovinar (dialectal 'lightning') is a female character in the Armenian epic Sasna Cŕer who functions as the ancestress of a line of heroes. She becomes pregnant with the heroes Sanasar and Baghdasar by drinking from the spring called Kat'nov haxpür ('Milky Fountain'). In another account, she drinks a milky liquid that sprouts from a rock in the middle of Lake Van.

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Sanasar, Baghdasar

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“a female character named Dzovinar or Covinar (dialectal 'lightning', according to Armen Petrosyan) functions as ancestress of a line of heroes that appear in later portions of the epic: by drinking of the spring or Kat'nov haxpür ('Milky Fountain'), she becomes pregnant”

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