Agra Hadig

In the ceremony, the young baby is set before several symbolic items relating to different professional vocations.

The combination is meant to represent the spiritual connection between Agra (teeth) and Hadig (wheat).

[1][2] The tradition is said to go back several hundred years but is most recently documented in the 19th century, originally as a divination to predict the gender of the child's next sibling.

Under Soviet rule and the eventual Armenian diaspora the tradition changed to predicting the profession of the child in adult life.

[1][2] Objects include: book for scholar, money for finance, jewelry for jeweler, spool of thread for tailor.