Ararat
Plain Flood Traditions
Ark
Petrified Wood Piece – Echmiadzin, Armenia
Philostorgius
– A.D. 425 Historian who placed Noah’s Ark at Mount Ararat
Echmiadzin
– Monastery with ark wood meaning “location where Christ descended”
Noah’s
wife’s tomb – Marand, Iran
Marunda of
Ptolemy (meaning “the mother is there”)
Arnoiodn
– Eastern district meaning “at Noah’s foot”
Kargakonmaz
– Town meaning “the raven won’t land”
Temanin
– Town meaning “the eight” in Iran
Masis
– Mount Ararat in Armenian meaning “mother”
Noah
planted first vineyard – Ahora (Arghuri) “he planted the willow or vine”
Vineyard
still there in 1966
Nakhchivan
– Araxes River Valley 35 miles southeast
In
Armenian can mean "the place of descent", a biblical reference to
the descent of Noah’s Ark
on the adjacent Mount Ararat and tradition that Noah founded
Ptolemy’s
Geography written in A.D. 150 referred to it potentially showing Ararat / Araxes Valley tradition at that time03/10/2009
ArcImaging - The Search For Noah's Ark