2. Demeter, the Mycenaean goddess who brings prosperity and growth to all things under the sun.  This ancient engraving depicts her in a scene where she is bringing back to earth Persphone known also as Kore. She is seated under the Tree of Life. The double headed axes or Labrys you see in the engraving represent the power and status of Demeter as goddess of fertility and sexual energy. Circa, 1,600 B.C. The Tree of Life sometimes was referred to as the Tree of Wisdom or Tree of Knowledge. This symbolic engraving appeared in many ancient Armenian tablets and engravings. Later, it was adapted and adopted by the early Christian Armenian church. Pagan gods and goddesses were replaced by biblical figures, Apostles, disciples and saints, as well as by the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ the Savior.

 It was a common theme in the ancient world and was regularly depicted in Assyrian, Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptians engravings and tablets. A keen observer would notice the similarity in the style of personages, monarchs and deities dresses and costumes of various civilizations including the Armenian civilization. Almost all outfits in a Tree of Life engraving were long dresses falling simply and gracefully to the ankle. Sometimes, the women or goddesses dresses were ornamented with straight horizontal and parallel lines starting from the bottom of the dress, all the way to the hips. This style of outfits was almost shared by all the civilizations of the known ancient world. It is difficult to ascertain which civilization dress fashion influenced which. Nevertheless, it is a direct link of the ancient Armenians to the early civilizations of the Near and the Middle East.