Vardavar is an Armenian national festival, when people pour water on each other. It is celebrated 98 days after Easter. Actually Vardavar is a pagan festival, but Christianity has taken it and made it Christian. The ancient festival is traditionally associated with the goddess Astghik, who was the goddess of water, beauty, love and fertility. During that day people pour water even on stranger people, and no one becomes angry. In the villages people celebrate Vardavar better than in Yerevan, because in the villages they keep the traditions.
Tsaghkazard is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. In Armenia during Tsaghkazard people make willow crowns and put on their heads. In the Armenian Apostolic churches spiritual pastors bless many willow branches during Tsaghkazard liturgy and give people.
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