the armenian native faith, also termed armenian neopaganism or hetanism (armenian: հեթանոսութիւն "hetanosutiwn"; a cognate word of "heathenism"), is a modern pagan new religious movement that harkens back to the historical, pre-christian belief systems and ethnic religions of the armenians. the followers of the movement call themselves "hetans" (armenian: հեթանոս "hetanos", which means "heathen", thus "ethnic", both of them being loanwords from the greek "ἔθνος", "ethnos") or "arordi", meaning the "children of ari", also rendered as "arordiners" in some scholarly publications.