Abstract
The article studies Armenian fixed expressions used in contemporary everyday speech as carriers of archaic mythological beliefs. The article examines phraseological formulas associated with concepts of death, fate, the sacred power of words, the cult of the sun, the magic of substitution, and cosmogonic images. Using everyday colloquial speech, it is demonstrated that mythological thinking does not disappear with the loss of religious forms, but rather transforms, continuing to function in language as semantically "fossilized" formulas. The study demonstrates the role of language as a carrier of cultural memory and a mechanism for preserving mythological models of worldview.
Keywords
Armenian mythology; fixed expressions; ethnolinguistics; mythological thinking; cultural memory; sacral language; folklore.