ARA THE HEAVENLY ALTAR OF LIGHT
Ara is a southern polar constellation, depicted in early illustrations as an altar with burning incense, rising smoke, or sacrificial offerings. "house of fire"- However Ara a small constellation located in the southern sky which has come to mean “the altar” in Latin, could at origin have referred to the Light emitted from a man made Alter.
Ara today the "house of fire" is considered to be an agent of purity and a symbol of righteousness and truth. My question is, could there is a connection between of the Armenian name Ara or Armenian root phoneme Ar meaning 'light' and the Ara constellation. If the symbol represents purity, of righteousness, could it be a symbol from the time of the land of Aratta/Rta and could Ara be the prefix of the name Ararat and Armenia, which is known as the Mountain of light.
There is nothing, rather I am not able to find anything to confirm my I find nothing making a connection between Ara the "house of fire" I am very surprised I cant find anything, that goes beyond the Ptolemean naming of Ara. Why when so many scholars have pondered on the meaning of the root Ar, Ara or Ararat and Aratta.
ARATTA
Artatama's (Armenian name with 'Arta' prefix) title was "King of the Hurri", which reveals the Hurrian-Aryan Armenian links.Armenia's early inhabitants were as resourceful as her turf. Pioneers in metallurgy, they are credited by some researchers as the first producers of bronze, an alloy harder and stronger than copper. Center to a sophisticated civilization in the third millennium B.C., with an influence that spread as far south as Palestine and north to the Caucasian plain, the Early Bronze Age culture was equal in stature to her contemporaries in Iran and Mesopotamia. As the Sumerians were well aware, it was from the lands of Ararat that the Tigris and Euphrates made their Civilizing descent.
As suggested by megaliths scattered throughout the country, water culture was prized before the people ethnically related to the present day Armenians arrived. "The Hurri-Mitanni kingdom of Armenia kept close contact with its western neighbor, Hittite or Hatti land. Masses of population were often transplanted from one country to the other. "
"Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the North in their Armenian homeland, they entrenched themselves and build up the kingdom of Urartu."
After the establishment of the Akkadians "The Hurrians had a history of their own. Assyrian and Sumerian sources dating them from the end of the third millenium B.C. supply our first information about this nation, people, and the land of Hurri, South of Caucasus. We also know that they also come from the region of Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia where Hayg fought with the despot Bel. They are referred to as Horrittes by the Bible. Still, later a thousand years later in the ninth-seventh centuries N.C. the highland of Armenia were inhabited by a people who were related to the Hurrians and whose country bore the name Urartu, the Biblical Ararat"
"The Armenians according to Diakonoff, are an amalgam of the Hurrian (and Urartians), Luvians and the Proto-Armenian Mushki who carried their IE language eastwards across Anatolia.
As suggested by megaliths scattered throughout the country, water culture was prized before the people ethnically related to the present day Armenians arrived. "The Hurri-Mitanni kingdom of Armenia kept close contact with its western neighbor, Hittite or Hatti land. Masses of population were often transplanted from one country to the other. "
"Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the North in their Armenian homeland, they entrenched themselves and build up the kingdom of Urartu."
After the establishment of the Akkadians "The Hurrians had a history of their own. Assyrian and Sumerian sources dating them from the end of the third millenium B.C. supply our first information about this nation, people, and the land of Hurri, South of Caucasus. We also know that they also come from the region of Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia where Hayg fought with the despot Bel. They are referred to as Horrittes by the Bible. Still, later a thousand years later in the ninth-seventh centuries N.C. the highland of Armenia were inhabited by a people who were related to the Hurrians and whose country bore the name Urartu, the Biblical Ararat"
"The Armenians according to Diakonoff, are an amalgam of the Hurrian (and Urartians), Luvians and the Proto-Armenian Mushki who carried their IE language eastwards across Anatolia.
Armenian phonology, appears to be affected by Urartian, or it may have the same roots, which may suggest the knack of bilingualism by Armenians. "All indications point toward the general region of Armenia as the main area of Hurrian concentration."
The Armenian name for the Armenia is Hayastan. Haya, combined with the suffix '-stan' (land). Hayk was the great legendary Armenian leader after whom the The Land of the Hay, Hayastan was named. Hayk was the eponymous ancestor of the Hay (Armenians). Hayk is said to have settled at the foot of Mount Ararat near lake Van. Originally Hayk is said to have traveled down river to assist in building the Tower of Babel, and, after his exodus, was chased by the armies of Bel and defeated them the Babylonians by killing king Bel (believed by some researchers to be Nimrod). This is said to have taken place in 2492 BC near the mountains of Lake Van, in the southwestern part of Armenia (present-day eastern Turkey).
Nairi, meaning "land of rivers" was the original name used by Assyrians and Egyptians to refer to the territory that became known as Armenia of the Armenians or Hayastan of the Hay.
Hayk was a chieftain of the Armens, in Sumeria, an Armenian group at the time of the writings on Aratta. Aratta closely resembles the Armenian name Ararat, and this mountain is indeed located in the area referred to in the Sumerian writings as the mountainous land of Aratta.
The traditional etiology for the ethnonym Armen is from Armenak or Aram, the great-grandson of Hayk. Armen Armenak or Aram, the great-grandson of Hayk, is, according to Armenian tradition, also the ancestor of all Armenians. Armani is mentioned among the enemies defeated by the Akkadian king Naram-Sin (2300 BC), who came 192 years after the departure of Hayg and the fall of Ancient Sumeria. It is after the fall of Sumeria and the subsequent rise of the Akkadians we read or here of the Armani locating them in the southern Armenian Highland. The Assyrians (direct descendants of Akkadians) to this day refer to Armenians by the same inscription Armani.
The Old Persian name 'Armin', means "dweller of the garden of Eden".
Thutmose III of Egypt (1500 BC in his 23rd year records) mentions the people of 'Ermenen' as paying tribute when he held his court at Nineveh, and says that in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars."
To this day Turks refer to Armenians by this form 'Ermeni'). The Kurdish is like the Turkish form referring to Armenians is Ermenin.
A Babylonian inventory of the Akkadian Empire locates the land Armanî next to Lullubi.
Another mention by pharoah Thutmose III in the 33rd year of his reign (1446 BC) as the people of Ermenen ("Region of the Minni"), and agai repeats that in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars".
HAYG AND HIS WIFE HAD KNOWLEDGE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY
THE ARMENIAN LANGUAGE
V.V.Ivanov and Tamaz Gamreklide place the Indo-European (Aryan) homeland in Armenian Highland, postulating the Armenian language as an in situ development of a 3rd millennium BC Proto-Indo-European language.
THE ARMENIAN FAITH
The early religions in Armenia are not that well known. According to De Morgan there are signs which indicate that the Armenians, as their other Aryan relatives, were initially nature worshipers and that this faith in time was transformed to the worship of national gods, of which many were the equivalents of the gods in the Roman, Greek and Persian cultures.
Georg Brandes described the Armenian gods in his book: “When Armenia accepted Christianity, it was not only the temples which were destroyed, but also the songs and poems about the old gods and heroes that the people sang. We have only rare segments of these songs and poems, segments which bear witness of a great spiritual wealth and the power of creation of this people and these alone are sufficient reason enough for recreating the temples of the old Armenian gods. These gods were neither the Asian heavenly demons nor the precious and the delicate Greek gods, but something that reflected the characteristics of the Armenian people which they have been polishing through the ages, namely ambitious, wise and good-hearted.”
ARAGATS THE ALTAR OF ARA
ARAGATS THE ALTAR OF ARA IN ARMENIA
ARAGATS THE ALTAR OF ARA IN ARMENIA
As above so below.The Kingdom of Heaven is obviously a reference to or complimentary to the Kingdom on Earth.
Isaiah 66:1 This is what the LORD says when he speaks: ‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that?’ asks the LORD. ‘Could you build me such a resting place?
Isaiah 66:1 This is what the LORD says when he speaks: ‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that?’ asks the LORD. ‘Could you build me such a resting place?
It seems the RMN gave Thutmose lll their idea of a temple that the Lord was speaking of.
A CIBORIUM/KIBORION: The Sanctum Santorum, is said to be the veritable Temple Of The Living God. "The Holy of Holies, or inner sanctuary. A Heaven on Earth.
The oldest Babylonian star catalogues of stars, asterisms and constellations date back to the beginning in the Middle Bronze Age, most notably the Three Stars Each texts and the MUL.APIN, an expanded and revised version based on more accurate observation from around 1000 BC. However, the numerous Sumerian names in these catalogues obviously suggest that they were built on much older, but otherwise unattested, Sumerian traditions of the very Early Bronze Age.
Forty-eight of the constellations are known as ancient or original, meaning they were talked about by the Greeks and probably by the Babylonians and still earlier cultures.
We read in every dictionary that in Architecture, a Ciborium refers to a freestanding circular 'canopy' fixed by four columns or supported by four pillars of a perfect square, over an altar. In architecture generally and in some churches, a ciborium describes the four sided shrine with a dome or canopy over it. It is like the covering over the sanctuary in a basilica, supported by four columns.
A CIBORIUM/KIBORION: The Sanctum Santorum, is said to be the veritable Temple Of The Living God. "The Holy of Holies, or inner sanctuary. A Heaven on Earth.
The oldest Babylonian star catalogues of stars, asterisms and constellations date back to the beginning in the Middle Bronze Age, most notably the Three Stars Each texts and the MUL.APIN, an expanded and revised version based on more accurate observation from around 1000 BC. However, the numerous Sumerian names in these catalogues obviously suggest that they were built on much older, but otherwise unattested, Sumerian traditions of the very Early Bronze Age.
Forty-eight of the constellations are known as ancient or original, meaning they were talked about by the Greeks and probably by the Babylonians and still earlier cultures.
Mythology of the constellation Ara
From ancient times ARA, The Altar, has symbolised either a traditional altar or a pyre placed high on a tower to act as a House of Light. To the Romans, it specifically represented the altar which was used by the Centaurus to sacrifice Lupus, the Wolf. Earlier in Greek legend, ARA symbolised the altar built on Mount Olympus by the gods following their defeat of the Titans, and upon ARA the altar the Greek initiates had to swear allegiance to Zeus. Among the many myths surrounding the Milky Way, the Armenian one amongst others of old it was suggests that the Milky way was formed by the smoke (I suggest Sparks/light) which poured out from ARA altar. The altar was sometimes depicted upside down as above, with the smoke drifting away from the Milky Way. Greek mythology, Ara represented the altar used by Zeus and other Greek gods for oaths, to swear a vow of allegiance before they went to war against Cronus and the Titans.
According to legends, it is believed the Cyclopes originally built the altar as a place to sacrifice to the Olympian gods. It was also upon this altar that Centaurus the centaur sacrificed Lupus the wolf.
Johann Elert Bode’s illustration of Ara, from his Uranographia (1801), Credit: Wikipedia Commons
Ara is a small constellation located in the southern sky. Its name has come to mean “the altar” in Latin, but could have referred to the Light emitted from the Alter. The constellation also represented an altar that as mentioned above was used by the Greeks to swear a vow of allegiance to their Gods especially Zeus, before they went to war against Cronus and the Titans who ruled the universe. The prophecy said that Cronus would be defeated by one of his own children, to prevent it from happening, he swallowed all his children – Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon – all of them he regergitated who later became future gods and goddesses under the new authority/God Zeus. Zeus the youngest child was born first, his mother Rhea hid him in Crete and gave Cronus a replacement stone to swallow, telling him the stone was Zeus. When Zeus grew up, he made Cronus vomit his brothers and sisters. Once freed, they swore on the Ara Alter to overthrow Cronus and the Titans his followers. The war between the gods and the Titans lasted a decade and the new gods with the leadership of Zeus won in the end. Zeus became known as the male god of the sky, Hera his wife became the goddess of the earth, Poseidon became the god of the sea, and Hades the ruler of the underworld. Zeus placed the ARA altar among the stars to commemorate his and the new gods’ victory. Cronus was one of the 12 Titans who had deposed his father Uranus with the help of his mother, Uranus was the ruler of the previous eon. In another Greek myth, ones that come from the Pelopnnese, the same Ara represents the altar of King Lycaon of Arcadia. Lycaon [the mythical first king of Arkadia], son of Pelasgus, built a temple [the first] before Zeus, to Mercurius [Hermes] of Cyllene in Arcadia." The Pleiades were born on Mount Kyllini. Gaius Julius Hyginus records that it was on Cyllene that the seer Tiresias changed sex when he struck two copulating snakes.Cyllene (or Kyllene) herself was a mountain nymph (an oread) who had taken for her consort Pelasges in the most ancient times that Greek mythographers could recall.
In a later version of the end of the sovereignty of Lycaon and the asendancy of Zeus, the story of the altar of Ara represents the altar of Lycaon who was then the king of Arcadia and decided to test Zeus by serving him a meal of a dismembered child, he later went furtherand tried to kill the god Zeus while he slept. Zeus, who was not asleep was understandingly enraged, so he transformed Lycaon into a wolf and killed his 50 sons with lightning bolts. In one version of the tale, one of the sacrificed children was Arcas, who the son of Zeus and Lycaon’s daughter Callisto.
Ara was one of the 88 constellations listed by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
The Milky Way crosses the northwestern part of Ara. Within the constellation is Westerlund 1, a super star cluster that contains the red hypergiant Westerlund 1-26, possibly the largest star known.
An alter is an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc.
Ecclesiastical. communion table.
(initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Ara.
We read in every dictionary that in Architecture, a Ciborium refers to a freestanding circular 'canopy' fixed by four columns or supported by four pillars of a perfect square, over an altar. In architecture generally and in some churches, a ciborium describes the four sided shrine with a dome or canopy over it. It is like the covering over the sanctuary in a basilica, supported by four columns.
Ciborium is said of a sacred altar supported on columns, especially when freestanding and disconnected from any enclosing wall, out in the open in the middle of say an open sacred space even a sacred grove.
A canopy is a covering, usually of fabric, supported on poles or suspended above a bed, throne, exalted personage, or sacred object.
Mount Aragats, mountain in Armenia, northwest of Yerevan and north of the Ararat Plain. The highest point in both Armenia and the Lesser Caucasus range (13,418 feet [4,090 m]), Aragats is a circular, shieldlike mountain composed of both lavas and tufas. A volcanic cone of recent geologic age lies atop far older rocks. The crater of the volcano has become the steep-walled basin, or cirque, of a glacier, and there are several other minor glaciers. Near the jagged summit are high mountain meadows and rockfalls. On the slopes can be found steppe vegetation and xerophytes (dry and arid climate vegetation). On the southern slope are the ruins of the medieval Armenian fortress of Anberd.
Etymology of this name is interesting, though scientists still cannot find a mutual consensus of what was its origin. Some say that Aragats in some way reminds us about one of Hayk’s (considered to be a father of the Armenians) sons. Another version is that the mountain was named this way being connected with god Ara, who was one of the worshiped Armenian gods during the country’s pre-Christian epoch.
Mount Aragats is a national symbol for Armenians. The mountain is featured on the country’s coat-of-arms and represented in the names and logos of countless Armenian companies, groups and collectives. The expansive slopes have seen historic Armenian capitals, fierce battles for their control with many historical fortress and settlements surviving multiple regime and religious conquests over the millenia.
An ancient Armenian legend tells that Gregory the Illuminator, who converted Armenia into Christianity in the early 4th century, "used to pray on the peak of the mountain. At nighttime an icon-lamp shone to give light for him, the lamp was hanging from heaven using no rope. Some say that the icon-lamp is still there, but only the worthy ones can see it.
Aragats mountain is more than just a physical presence, it is a divine symbol of Armenia. An ancient Armenian legend tells that Gregory the Illuminator, who converted Armenia into Christianity in the early 4th century, "used to pray on the peak of the mountain. At nighttime an icon-lamp shone to give light for him, the lamp hanging from heaven using no rope. Some say that the icon-lamp is still there, but only the worthy ones can see it."legend tells that Gregory the Illuminator, who converted Armenia into Christianity in the early 4th century, "used to pray on the peak of the mountain. At nighttime an icon-lamp shone to give light for him, the lamp hanging from heaven using no rope. Some say that the icon-lamp is still there, but only the worthy ones can see it."Gregory the Illuminator, the patron saint of Armenia who converted the country from paganism to Christianity in the 4th century, is believed to have been bathed in light from a holy lantern while praying there, a sign of eternal purity and vision. It appears that Gregory was aware of the pagen power of the four peaked mountain that Tutmosis referred to as the "four pillars where the heavenly light Ara rested upon.
Etymology of this name is interesting, though scientists still cannot find a mutual consensus of what was its origin. Some say that Aragats in some way reminds us about one of Hayk’s (considered to be a father of the Armenians) sons. Another version is that the mountain was named this way being connected with god Ara, who was one of the worshiped Armenian gods during the country’s pre-Christian epoch.
Mount Aragats is a national symbol for Armenians. The mountain is featured on the country’s coat-of-arms and represented in the names and logos of countless Armenian companies, groups and collectives. The expansive slopes have seen historic Armenian capitals, fierce battles for their control with many historical fortress and settlements surviving multiple regime and religious conquests over the millenia.
An ancient Armenian legend tells that Gregory the Illuminator, who converted Armenia into Christianity in the early 4th century, "used to pray on the peak of the mountain. At nighttime an icon-lamp shone to give light for him, the lamp was hanging from heaven using no rope. Some say that the icon-lamp is still there, but only the worthy ones can see it.
Aragats mountain is more than just a physical presence, it is a divine symbol of Armenia. An ancient Armenian legend tells that Gregory the Illuminator, who converted Armenia into Christianity in the early 4th century, "used to pray on the peak of the mountain. At nighttime an icon-lamp shone to give light for him, the lamp hanging from heaven using no rope. Some say that the icon-lamp is still there, but only the worthy ones can see it."legend tells that Gregory the Illuminator, who converted Armenia into Christianity in the early 4th century, "used to pray on the peak of the mountain. At nighttime an icon-lamp shone to give light for him, the lamp hanging from heaven using no rope. Some say that the icon-lamp is still there, but only the worthy ones can see it."Gregory the Illuminator, the patron saint of Armenia who converted the country from paganism to Christianity in the 4th century, is believed to have been bathed in light from a holy lantern while praying there, a sign of eternal purity and vision. It appears that Gregory was aware of the pagen power of the four peaked mountain that Tutmosis referred to as the "four pillars where the heavenly light Ara rested upon.
The ancient and modern Armenian name for the country was/is Hayk, or Hayastan. Haya, combined with the suffix '-stan' for (land). I posit that the Hayk is the same, Haya with the suffix K for (land), was/is the original Armenian name for the territory of the ARAMANUYA extended FAMILY.
Hayk was the first great Armenian leader after whom the The Land of Hayk was named. He is said to have settled at the foot of Mount Ararat, after building a palace for his grandson Kadmus at the foot of lake Van. He originally traveled to assist in building of a Tower in Babel, and, after his return to the Ararat region and persued for not wanting to finnish theroject he defeated the Babylonian king Bel (believed by some researchers to be Nimrod) in 2492 BC near the mountains of Lake Van, in the southwestern part of historic Armenia (present-day eastern Turkey). Recently a British Museum curator Irving Finkel has thrown light on the period. He tells a real-life detective story that I go into greater detail below. He begins with the arrival in 2008 of a single, palm-sized Babylonian cuneiform tablet into his posetion. Dating from about 1850 B.C., this clay document proved to be a copy of the Babylonian Story of the Flood, a myth from ancient Mesopotamia containing instructions for building a large boat to survive a flood. Finkel shares his research and additional discoveries that provide unanticipated revelations about the ark before Noah. His recent publications include The Ark Before Noah: He claims after decoding the Story of the Flood, that the ark described in the tablet was circular, essentially a very large coracle or kuphar and that it was made of rope on a wooden frame. Interestingly — Herodotus recorded that the boats known as Kuphars which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames, which are of willow, are cut in the country of the Armenians above Assyria.
The collapsed volcanic cone at the summit of Aragats is, according to some interpretations of the Christian Bible’s Old Testament, the landing point of Noah’s Ark. Recently
According to Movses Khorenatsi, Aramaniak -the son of the patriarch and founder of the Armenian nation Hayk- along with his clan, settled in the area of modern-day Aragatsotn. The cemeteries of Verin Naver archaeological site -located 3 km west of Ashtarak- are dating back to the period between the 24th and 14th centuries BC.
Being situated at the heart of the Ayrarat province at the centre of the Armenian Highland, Aragatsotn was among the most strategic regions in the history of Armenia, since its establishment.
Hayk (Haya in Armenic Sumerian) was a chieftain of the Armens, an Armenian tribe at the time of Aratta (The name also resembles Ararat, and the mountain is indeed located in the possible area of Aratta). Hayk is also used in place of Orion, in the Armenian translation of the Bible. The traditional etiology for the ethnonym is from Armenak or Aram, the great-grandson of Hayk's great-grandson, and another leader who is, according to Armenian tradition, the ancestor of all Armenians. Armani is mentioned among the enemies defeated by the Akkadian king Naram-Sin (2300 BC), locating them in the southern Armenian Highland. The Assyrians (direct descendants of Akkadians) to this day refer Armenians by their inscription Armani. Old Persian name 'Armin', means "dweller of the garden of Eden". Thutmose_III of Egypt (1500 BC in his 23rd year records) mentions the people of 'Ermenen' as paying tribute when he held his court at Nineveh, and says that in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars." (To this day Turks refer to Armenians by this form 'Ermeni') Artatama's (Armenian name with 'Arta' prefix) title was "King of the Hurri", which reveals the Hurrian-Aryan Armenian links.
A Babylonian inventory of the Akkadian Empire locates the land Armanî next to Lullubi[1] Another mention by pharoah Thutmose III in the 33rd year of his reign (1446 BC) as the people of Ermenen ("Region of the Minni"), and says in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars".[2] The Kurdish and Turkish form referring to Armenians is Ermenin.
V.V.Ivanov and Tamaz Gamreklide place the Indo-European (Aryan) homeland in Armenian Highland, postulating the Armenian language as an in situ development of a 3rd millennium BC Proto-Indo-European language
So in the 33rd year of his reign, while he was in the Armenian Highlands in 1446 BC, Thutmose III of Egypt, referred to the people of the highlands as Ermenen (Armenians), and said that in their land “heaven rests upon its four pillars”
King, Ara the Beautiful. However during the great battle, one of her lovers shot his arrow at Ara, piercing the King’s chest with the poisoned tip. Ara collapsed to the ground.
By the time the devastating news reached the compound of the Armenian fortress, it was evening, which meant the soldiers had only one night to evacuate the women and children to the mountains, and rescue whatever property they could before the brutal foreigners attacked.
The subjects of the Armenian King decided that under no circumstances should the enemy take hold of the Imperial Throne—it was a symbol of strength and continuity of Armenian kings. The colossal throne was made of plain tree wood and decorated with rubies, sapphires, and diamonds.
As the dawn neared, they still were not able to find a secure place to hide the throne. As the enemy’s horsemen got closer and closer to the city wall, the thunder of their hooves grew louder and louder.
Just in time, the subjects decided on a hiding spot—somewhere higher and farther away. This perfect hiding place was on the snowy peaks across from Mt Ararat. They quickly and carefully transported the throne to its temporary home.
By the time the Assyrian soldiers breached the city walls and began looting the castle and its cellars, the city was empty; not one person remained in the houses. However, somehow they found out about the throne being hidden and they searched long and hard, desperate to find it. They searched the hills, valleys and dark gorges; climbed to the peak next to Mt Ararat, but all to no avail. Their search went for days, weeks, months, but all in vain—the throne was gone.
Even though kingdoms have changed and centuries have passed, Armenians remember that starless night. They have not forgotten the death of the King, nor the Imperial Throne. The highest mountain peak in Armenia owes its name to that throne—Aragats.
Before going any further I posit that the referrence "heaven rests upom its four pillars" is alluding to the Aragats massif in todays Armenia which is surrounded by Kasagh River on the east, Akhurian River on the west, Ararat plain on the south and Shirak plain on the north. The circumference of the massif is around 200 km (120 mi), and covers an area of 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi) or around 1⁄5 of Armenia's total area. 944 km2 (364 sq mi) of the massif is located above 2,000 m (6,600 ft).
ARAGATS translates ARA-KAH in Armenian, meaning the "Throne of Ara" Mount Aragats (Armenian: Արագած, pronounced [aɾaˈgats]; formerly Ալագյազ, Alagyaz; is an isolated four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. Its northern summit, at 4,090 m (13,420 ft) above sea level, is the highest point of the Lesser Caucasus and Armenia. It is also one of the highest points in the Armenian Highlands. The ancient Armenians had a number of holy sites, the most important of which was Mount Ararat, which was thought to be the home of the gods as well as the center of the Universe. Ararat is the location where Noah landed, touched down, ground zero of the Abrahamic relegeon.
In 20th-century comparative mythology, the term axis mundi (variously also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, center of the world, world tree) was greatly extended to refer to any mythological concept representing "the connection between Heaven and Earth" or the "higher and lower realms"
Located in the four cardinal directions, as seen above Mount Aragats has four summits, they are a group of four mountains or pillars which obviously hold up the sky or Heaven in Armenia. They are symbolically important as a type of axis mundi and cosmology. Their functions in Armenian mythology could have ranged from pillars which functioned to hold the beautiful and heavenly ARA seated on an Earth Throne its four legs planted solid on the Earth and its peaks holding up the circular canopy of the Sky (or Heaven), allowing travel between the two, defining the location as paradise or the wonderland which associated with magical people like Ara, Atarghatis and Noah, the plants, and the animals in pairs, everything two by two.
The name of the mountain is less often spelled Aragatz or Aragac. According to Armenian tradition, Aragats originates from the words Արա Ara + գահ gah, which translates to "Ara's throne". Ara refers to the legendary Armenian hero Ara the Beautiful. Aragats was mentioned by the early medieval historian Movses Khorenatsi. In his History of the Armenians Khorenatsi claims that the mountain is named after Aramaneak, the son of Hayk, the legendary father of the Armenian people. The Orion-Aryan Armenian sun cult — a winged sun disk — was flanked on both the Right and Left by a pair of eagles and lions — symbolic of the solar power/energy. The lion and Eagle survive as symbols today.
NARA is the Arabic word for fire and the HOLY LIGHT.
Aramaneak called his possessions "the foot of Aragats" (classical Armenian: ոտն Արագածոյ, otn Aragats'oy; modern: Aragatsotn).The modern Aragatsotn Province, dominated by the mountain, was formed in 1995.
A relatively modern name for the mountain is Alagöz, which literally means "variegated eye" in Turkish. This term was widely used up until the mid-20th century in European, Tsarist Russian, and early Soviet sources. A variant of the word, Alagyaz (Ալագյազ), was used in Armenian. A village on the foot of Aragats is named Alagyaz.
British Museum curator Irving Finkel tells a real-life detective story that began with the arrival in 2008 of a single, palm-sized Babylonian cuneiform tablet. Dating from about 1850 B.C., this clay document proved to be a copy of the Babylonian Story of the Flood, a myth from ancient Mesopotamia containing instructions for building a large boat to survive a flood. Finkel shares his research and additional discoveries that provide unanticipated revelations about the ark before Noah. His recent publications include The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood (2014). The ark described in the tablet was circular, essentially a very large coracle or kuphar and made of rope on a wooden frame. Interestingly — Herodotus recorded that the boats known as Kuphars which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames, which are of willow, are cut in the country of the Armenians above Assyria.The boats are of various sizes, some larger, some smaller; the biggest reach as high as five thousand talents' burthen. Each vessel has a live ass on board; those of larger size have more than one. When they reach Babylon, the cargo is landed and offered for sale; after which the men break up their boats, sell the straw and the frames, and loading their asses with the skins, set off on their way back to Armenia. The current is too strong to allow a boat to return upstream, for which reason they make their boats of skins rather than wood. On their return to Armenia they build fresh boats for the next voyage. It seem to me that all societies retell stories of catastrophe and Atrahasis’s story is one of the best told which warns of disasterous concequences that will destroy humanity. It differs from the Bible’s account in not having an angry God eager to chastise; Atrahasis gets news of the impending bitter waters because he listens to a voice outside his wall of reeds telling him to expect the worst. Those who lived in Mesopotamia were in many respects like us, thoughtless. They could see how fragile all life was and they wanted to know whether it was possible to stay above the waters, away from the heard, in the event of the obvious impending disaster, obvious to a wise seer like Atrahasis, as the name in translated suggests. Atarhasis alone heard the message, for it was not written on the wall. And he got the message to build an Ark. As did Noah, Atarhasis listen to your voices, he survived and became the progenitor of upright god fearing civilised humanity. A message of this terrific book is that we too, modern man, as we may consider ourselves, should do the same. The story of the Babylonian flood drew attention because of its similari to the flood in the Book of Genesis, which was well-known, but this tablet provided even more startling information that people did not anticipate, according to Ancient Code. The tablet told of the Babylonian tale, and according to it, the god Enki told the Babylonian Noah, Atrahasis, to build an ark, and according to the old text, the ark used “quantities of palm-fiber rope, wooden ribs and bathfuls of hot bitumen to waterproof the finished vessel.”
Acording to Finkels decoding of the cuniform tablet, given the amount of rope described in the text, when stretched out in a line, would reach from London to Edinburgh. This lends itselfd to the idea that the Ark is a metaphor as is the fish/boat that saved the Hindu Manu again the first Man/Mind that brought forward Civilized Man as we know him today in pairs, by defining the creative or created spirit as the one that needs both a father and a mother and the definition of a Father being the relevent factor in the success of the experiment.The Ark would have an area of about 2.2 square miles.The oldest extant map of the world is depicted on a clay tile. The map was found in Iraq, in 19 century. Now it is stored in the British Museum.
This Babylonian map of the World dates back to 6 century BC. According to cartographer Ruben Galchyan, the map shows the world in the form of a circle, surrounded by “bitter” waters, in which there are 7 islands. In the center of the map is Babylon, next to it Armenia and Assyria are depicted. Another 7 cities are depicted in a form of small circles. The part called Bit Jakinu is probably the modern Iraqi Marshes. From the mountains of Armenia, the Euphrates River flows through Babylon and Marshes, and reaches the Persian Gulf.
On the back of the tile there is a text that describes seven islands in the sea and unusual creatures living there. The islands are depicted in a form of triangles, most of which are damaged and illegible.
Below is a drawing of the ancient map is the Babylonian stellate map drawn on a brick (6th c. B.C.). The Babylonian stellate map with geographical names on it is the fi rst well-known map in the world. The world is represented as a fl eating disc in the sea. The map is surrounded by salt water and there are seven islands on it. On that map Armenia is indicated in the northern territory from Mesopotamia, and it borders with Babylon and Assyria in the southern part. On the upper right side of the map the word Armenia is written. The Euphrates River is originated from the mountains. Assyria, Babylon and seven cities including Habban, Derri, Bitlakina and other cities are also indicated on the map. The islands are in a triangle shape and the Sun, the Moon as well as the fl ora and fauna are indicated on them. Today only Armenia exists from the above mentioned countries and cities
Babylonian Map of the World – The oldest map of the world
This map, for me, leaving out the idea behind the "Cosmic Ocean" encircling the World, which at the time was known to include Egypt, Canaan, Phoenicia, Syria, the Greeks of Asia Minor, Elam, Media and Persia, all nations that do not appear, suggest to me that this map is concerned, or simply plots out the Tigris' and Euphrates' beginning in the mountains of Armenia, encircling an acientof Assyria and Babylonia, ending in the marshes extending from Nedjef to Qurna, which it does.
The Babylonian "World Map" map is highly schematized:The double circle surroundsing Babylon appears on a rectangle in the center. This circle is labeled in cuneiform the Nar Marratum, translated to mean nar= "river," (Arabic: nahr= "river") marratum= "bitter" (Arabic: marah, myrrh, merra, murr, murrat also mean "bitter").
The usual scholarly explanation is that this River is being called "bitter" because it represents the idea of the Cosmic Ocean surrounding the earth separating the waters above from the waters below.
Surrounding the Circle-River ("Bitter River/Bitter waters," or "Cosmic-Ocean") are eight triangles, sometimes interpreted as being "islands" beyond the "Bitter Ocean" which encircles the land/world of Babylonia.
To the SE of Babylon appears Deri, to the NE of Babylon is Asshur and Armenia, to the NW of Babylon is Habban and to the SW of Babylon is Bit-Ya'kin ( bit= "house" or "tribe" of Ya'kin" or Ja'kin)
All agree that Armenia is the mountainolus area of Eastern Turkey that the map is referring to.
I have alwaysa thought about the ark as a metaphor or symbolic in our lives.
The Fifth Element, the wood gopher of the Arc of Noah with instructions for the Ark as specified “Make yourself an ark of gopher wood (atzei gopher)” could mean: do not get angry. Bitumen (gaphrit) signifies anger. In making an Ark of gopher wood you are to enclose anger, and not manifest it? “Make it an ark with compartments (kinim)” could mean: do not get inebriated, rather maintain inner balance. “Compartments (kinim)” are chambers, like one who has many chambers in their house has to be settled in their mind to know the location of each chamber and its use... “Cover it (vekhapharta) inside and out with pitch” could mean: be forbearing. “Cover it (vekhapharta)” signifies forgiving (tekhaper) from the depths of your heart, so that nothing remains of any anger against your fellow. (Mei Hashiloah)
From a Magical Treatise on the Properties and Inherent Nature of Elemental Wood so as to understand its use as a metaphor or alegory as related to the ARK.
Whereas each of the Four Elements, complete unto itself, maintains a Proper Balance between itself and the Pillars of Creation, and the Cardinal Directions, and the True and Proper Wandering Planets, and Many and Wondrous Other Things that manifest themselves in the Splendour of Being, the scholar is well-advised to consider them to be Complete and Whole unto Themselves, unblemished by exclusion of Any Principle by which they cannot so Effect.
Yet beyond this Wholeness there exists a Deeper Integration, the Blending and Manifestation of Kether in Malkuth, and within this Primal Form exists the Wondrous and Resplendant Form of True Wood.
TobySmith’s project, was interestingly titled “Heaven and Earth on Aragats,” however it ended up being less about showcasing a retreating glacier than it was about the disappearing livelihood of those who depend on Aragats.
Mani or Maney (Persian: مانی) is a common proper name in the Middle East and South Asia. In Persian, Mani (مانی) means "eternity", "thinker", and "thoughtful". It is most common in Iran, Pakistan and India.
Lapis Lazuri, again takes us to ancient Armenia, named the Armenian stone it was attributed with great healing, purifying and curative properties, the 'Armenian Stone' allegedly points the way to enlightenment, and aids in the opening of the Third Eye. Popular with ancient alchemists (who knew it as sapphirus), it was used in medicine, cosmetics and paintings. It was also believed to confer ability, success, divine favor, ancient wisdom and cure sore throats. No wonder it was as valuable as gold!.
Hayk is referred to as Orion, in the Armenian translation of the Bible. This needs to be researched further before I can have an opinion on the association for there is nothing out there I have found to suggest when and why the connection was made.
Hayk was the first great Armenian leader after whom the The Land of Hayk was named. He is said to have settled at the foot of Mount Ararat, after building a palace for his grandson Kadmus at the foot of lake Van. He originally traveled to assist in building of a Tower in Babel, and, after his return to the Ararat region and persued for not wanting to finnish theroject he defeated the Babylonian king Bel (believed by some researchers to be Nimrod) in 2492 BC near the mountains of Lake Van, in the southwestern part of historic Armenia (present-day eastern Turkey). Recently a British Museum curator Irving Finkel has thrown light on the period. He tells a real-life detective story that I go into greater detail below. He begins with the arrival in 2008 of a single, palm-sized Babylonian cuneiform tablet into his posetion. Dating from about 1850 B.C., this clay document proved to be a copy of the Babylonian Story of the Flood, a myth from ancient Mesopotamia containing instructions for building a large boat to survive a flood. Finkel shares his research and additional discoveries that provide unanticipated revelations about the ark before Noah. His recent publications include The Ark Before Noah: He claims after decoding the Story of the Flood, that the ark described in the tablet was circular, essentially a very large coracle or kuphar and that it was made of rope on a wooden frame. Interestingly — Herodotus recorded that the boats known as Kuphars which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames, which are of willow, are cut in the country of the Armenians above Assyria.
The collapsed volcanic cone at the summit of Aragats is, according to some interpretations of the Christian Bible’s Old Testament, the landing point of Noah’s Ark. Recently
According to Movses Khorenatsi, Aramaniak -the son of the patriarch and founder of the Armenian nation Hayk- along with his clan, settled in the area of modern-day Aragatsotn. The cemeteries of Verin Naver archaeological site -located 3 km west of Ashtarak- are dating back to the period between the 24th and 14th centuries BC.
Being situated at the heart of the Ayrarat province at the centre of the Armenian Highland, Aragatsotn was among the most strategic regions in the history of Armenia, since its establishment.
Hayk (Haya in Armenic Sumerian) was a chieftain of the Armens, an Armenian tribe at the time of Aratta (The name also resembles Ararat, and the mountain is indeed located in the possible area of Aratta). Hayk is also used in place of Orion, in the Armenian translation of the Bible. The traditional etiology for the ethnonym is from Armenak or Aram, the great-grandson of Hayk's great-grandson, and another leader who is, according to Armenian tradition, the ancestor of all Armenians. Armani is mentioned among the enemies defeated by the Akkadian king Naram-Sin (2300 BC), locating them in the southern Armenian Highland. The Assyrians (direct descendants of Akkadians) to this day refer Armenians by their inscription Armani. Old Persian name 'Armin', means "dweller of the garden of Eden". Thutmose_III of Egypt (1500 BC in his 23rd year records) mentions the people of 'Ermenen' as paying tribute when he held his court at Nineveh, and says that in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars." (To this day Turks refer to Armenians by this form 'Ermeni') Artatama's (Armenian name with 'Arta' prefix) title was "King of the Hurri", which reveals the Hurrian-Aryan Armenian links.
A Babylonian inventory of the Akkadian Empire locates the land Armanî next to Lullubi[1] Another mention by pharoah Thutmose III in the 33rd year of his reign (1446 BC) as the people of Ermenen ("Region of the Minni"), and says in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars".[2] The Kurdish and Turkish form referring to Armenians is Ermenin.
V.V.Ivanov and Tamaz Gamreklide place the Indo-European (Aryan) homeland in Armenian Highland, postulating the Armenian language as an in situ development of a 3rd millennium BC Proto-Indo-European language
So in the 33rd year of his reign, while he was in the Armenian Highlands in 1446 BC, Thutmose III of Egypt, referred to the people of the highlands as Ermenen (Armenians), and said that in their land “heaven rests upon its four pillars”
King, Ara the Beautiful. However during the great battle, one of her lovers shot his arrow at Ara, piercing the King’s chest with the poisoned tip. Ara collapsed to the ground.
By the time the devastating news reached the compound of the Armenian fortress, it was evening, which meant the soldiers had only one night to evacuate the women and children to the mountains, and rescue whatever property they could before the brutal foreigners attacked.
The subjects of the Armenian King decided that under no circumstances should the enemy take hold of the Imperial Throne—it was a symbol of strength and continuity of Armenian kings. The colossal throne was made of plain tree wood and decorated with rubies, sapphires, and diamonds.
As the dawn neared, they still were not able to find a secure place to hide the throne. As the enemy’s horsemen got closer and closer to the city wall, the thunder of their hooves grew louder and louder.
Just in time, the subjects decided on a hiding spot—somewhere higher and farther away. This perfect hiding place was on the snowy peaks across from Mt Ararat. They quickly and carefully transported the throne to its temporary home.
By the time the Assyrian soldiers breached the city walls and began looting the castle and its cellars, the city was empty; not one person remained in the houses. However, somehow they found out about the throne being hidden and they searched long and hard, desperate to find it. They searched the hills, valleys and dark gorges; climbed to the peak next to Mt Ararat, but all to no avail. Their search went for days, weeks, months, but all in vain—the throne was gone.
Even though kingdoms have changed and centuries have passed, Armenians remember that starless night. They have not forgotten the death of the King, nor the Imperial Throne. The highest mountain peak in Armenia owes its name to that throne—Aragats.
Before going any further I posit that the referrence "heaven rests upom its four pillars" is alluding to the Aragats massif in todays Armenia which is surrounded by Kasagh River on the east, Akhurian River on the west, Ararat plain on the south and Shirak plain on the north. The circumference of the massif is around 200 km (120 mi), and covers an area of 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi) or around 1⁄5 of Armenia's total area. 944 km2 (364 sq mi) of the massif is located above 2,000 m (6,600 ft).
ARAGATS translates ARA-KAH in Armenian, meaning the "Throne of Ara" Mount Aragats (Armenian: Արագած, pronounced [aɾaˈgats]; formerly Ալագյազ, Alagyaz; is an isolated four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. Its northern summit, at 4,090 m (13,420 ft) above sea level, is the highest point of the Lesser Caucasus and Armenia. It is also one of the highest points in the Armenian Highlands. The ancient Armenians had a number of holy sites, the most important of which was Mount Ararat, which was thought to be the home of the gods as well as the center of the Universe. Ararat is the location where Noah landed, touched down, ground zero of the Abrahamic relegeon.
In 20th-century comparative mythology, the term axis mundi (variously also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, center of the world, world tree) was greatly extended to refer to any mythological concept representing "the connection between Heaven and Earth" or the "higher and lower realms"
Located in the four cardinal directions, as seen above Mount Aragats has four summits, they are a group of four mountains or pillars which obviously hold up the sky or Heaven in Armenia. They are symbolically important as a type of axis mundi and cosmology. Their functions in Armenian mythology could have ranged from pillars which functioned to hold the beautiful and heavenly ARA seated on an Earth Throne its four legs planted solid on the Earth and its peaks holding up the circular canopy of the Sky (or Heaven), allowing travel between the two, defining the location as paradise or the wonderland which associated with magical people like Ara, Atarghatis and Noah, the plants, and the animals in pairs, everything two by two.
The name of the mountain is less often spelled Aragatz or Aragac. According to Armenian tradition, Aragats originates from the words Արա Ara + գահ gah, which translates to "Ara's throne". Ara refers to the legendary Armenian hero Ara the Beautiful. Aragats was mentioned by the early medieval historian Movses Khorenatsi. In his History of the Armenians Khorenatsi claims that the mountain is named after Aramaneak, the son of Hayk, the legendary father of the Armenian people. The Orion-Aryan Armenian sun cult — a winged sun disk — was flanked on both the Right and Left by a pair of eagles and lions — symbolic of the solar power/energy. The lion and Eagle survive as symbols today.
NARA is the Arabic word for fire and the HOLY LIGHT.
Aramaneak called his possessions "the foot of Aragats" (classical Armenian: ոտն Արագածոյ, otn Aragats'oy; modern: Aragatsotn).The modern Aragatsotn Province, dominated by the mountain, was formed in 1995.
A relatively modern name for the mountain is Alagöz, which literally means "variegated eye" in Turkish. This term was widely used up until the mid-20th century in European, Tsarist Russian, and early Soviet sources. A variant of the word, Alagyaz (Ալագյազ), was used in Armenian. A village on the foot of Aragats is named Alagyaz.
British Museum curator Irving Finkel tells a real-life detective story that began with the arrival in 2008 of a single, palm-sized Babylonian cuneiform tablet. Dating from about 1850 B.C., this clay document proved to be a copy of the Babylonian Story of the Flood, a myth from ancient Mesopotamia containing instructions for building a large boat to survive a flood. Finkel shares his research and additional discoveries that provide unanticipated revelations about the ark before Noah. His recent publications include The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood (2014). The ark described in the tablet was circular, essentially a very large coracle or kuphar and made of rope on a wooden frame. Interestingly — Herodotus recorded that the boats known as Kuphars which come down the river to Babylon are circular, and made of skins. The frames, which are of willow, are cut in the country of the Armenians above Assyria.The boats are of various sizes, some larger, some smaller; the biggest reach as high as five thousand talents' burthen. Each vessel has a live ass on board; those of larger size have more than one. When they reach Babylon, the cargo is landed and offered for sale; after which the men break up their boats, sell the straw and the frames, and loading their asses with the skins, set off on their way back to Armenia. The current is too strong to allow a boat to return upstream, for which reason they make their boats of skins rather than wood. On their return to Armenia they build fresh boats for the next voyage. It seem to me that all societies retell stories of catastrophe and Atrahasis’s story is one of the best told which warns of disasterous concequences that will destroy humanity. It differs from the Bible’s account in not having an angry God eager to chastise; Atrahasis gets news of the impending bitter waters because he listens to a voice outside his wall of reeds telling him to expect the worst. Those who lived in Mesopotamia were in many respects like us, thoughtless. They could see how fragile all life was and they wanted to know whether it was possible to stay above the waters, away from the heard, in the event of the obvious impending disaster, obvious to a wise seer like Atrahasis, as the name in translated suggests. Atarhasis alone heard the message, for it was not written on the wall. And he got the message to build an Ark. As did Noah, Atarhasis listen to your voices, he survived and became the progenitor of upright god fearing civilised humanity. A message of this terrific book is that we too, modern man, as we may consider ourselves, should do the same. The story of the Babylonian flood drew attention because of its similari to the flood in the Book of Genesis, which was well-known, but this tablet provided even more startling information that people did not anticipate, according to Ancient Code. The tablet told of the Babylonian tale, and according to it, the god Enki told the Babylonian Noah, Atrahasis, to build an ark, and according to the old text, the ark used “quantities of palm-fiber rope, wooden ribs and bathfuls of hot bitumen to waterproof the finished vessel.”
Acording to Finkels decoding of the cuniform tablet, given the amount of rope described in the text, when stretched out in a line, would reach from London to Edinburgh. This lends itselfd to the idea that the Ark is a metaphor as is the fish/boat that saved the Hindu Manu again the first Man/Mind that brought forward Civilized Man as we know him today in pairs, by defining the creative or created spirit as the one that needs both a father and a mother and the definition of a Father being the relevent factor in the success of the experiment.The Ark would have an area of about 2.2 square miles.The oldest extant map of the world is depicted on a clay tile. The map was found in Iraq, in 19 century. Now it is stored in the British Museum.
This Babylonian map of the World dates back to 6 century BC. According to cartographer Ruben Galchyan, the map shows the world in the form of a circle, surrounded by “bitter” waters, in which there are 7 islands. In the center of the map is Babylon, next to it Armenia and Assyria are depicted. Another 7 cities are depicted in a form of small circles. The part called Bit Jakinu is probably the modern Iraqi Marshes. From the mountains of Armenia, the Euphrates River flows through Babylon and Marshes, and reaches the Persian Gulf.
On the back of the tile there is a text that describes seven islands in the sea and unusual creatures living there. The islands are depicted in a form of triangles, most of which are damaged and illegible.
Below is a drawing of the ancient map is the Babylonian stellate map drawn on a brick (6th c. B.C.). The Babylonian stellate map with geographical names on it is the fi rst well-known map in the world. The world is represented as a fl eating disc in the sea. The map is surrounded by salt water and there are seven islands on it. On that map Armenia is indicated in the northern territory from Mesopotamia, and it borders with Babylon and Assyria in the southern part. On the upper right side of the map the word Armenia is written. The Euphrates River is originated from the mountains. Assyria, Babylon and seven cities including Habban, Derri, Bitlakina and other cities are also indicated on the map. The islands are in a triangle shape and the Sun, the Moon as well as the fl ora and fauna are indicated on them. Today only Armenia exists from the above mentioned countries and cities
Babylonian Map of the World – The oldest map of the world
This map, for me, leaving out the idea behind the "Cosmic Ocean" encircling the World, which at the time was known to include Egypt, Canaan, Phoenicia, Syria, the Greeks of Asia Minor, Elam, Media and Persia, all nations that do not appear, suggest to me that this map is concerned, or simply plots out the Tigris' and Euphrates' beginning in the mountains of Armenia, encircling an acientof Assyria and Babylonia, ending in the marshes extending from Nedjef to Qurna, which it does.
The Babylonian "World Map" map is highly schematized:The double circle surroundsing Babylon appears on a rectangle in the center. This circle is labeled in cuneiform the Nar Marratum, translated to mean nar= "river," (Arabic: nahr= "river") marratum= "bitter" (Arabic: marah, myrrh, merra, murr, murrat also mean "bitter").
The usual scholarly explanation is that this River is being called "bitter" because it represents the idea of the Cosmic Ocean surrounding the earth separating the waters above from the waters below.
Surrounding the Circle-River ("Bitter River/Bitter waters," or "Cosmic-Ocean") are eight triangles, sometimes interpreted as being "islands" beyond the "Bitter Ocean" which encircles the land/world of Babylonia.
To the SE of Babylon appears Deri, to the NE of Babylon is Asshur and Armenia, to the NW of Babylon is Habban and to the SW of Babylon is Bit-Ya'kin ( bit= "house" or "tribe" of Ya'kin" or Ja'kin)
All agree that Armenia is the mountainolus area of Eastern Turkey that the map is referring to.
I have alwaysa thought about the ark as a metaphor or symbolic in our lives.
The Fifth Element, the wood gopher of the Arc of Noah with instructions for the Ark as specified “Make yourself an ark of gopher wood (atzei gopher)” could mean: do not get angry. Bitumen (gaphrit) signifies anger. In making an Ark of gopher wood you are to enclose anger, and not manifest it? “Make it an ark with compartments (kinim)” could mean: do not get inebriated, rather maintain inner balance. “Compartments (kinim)” are chambers, like one who has many chambers in their house has to be settled in their mind to know the location of each chamber and its use... “Cover it (vekhapharta) inside and out with pitch” could mean: be forbearing. “Cover it (vekhapharta)” signifies forgiving (tekhaper) from the depths of your heart, so that nothing remains of any anger against your fellow. (Mei Hashiloah)
From a Magical Treatise on the Properties and Inherent Nature of Elemental Wood so as to understand its use as a metaphor or alegory as related to the ARK.
Whereas each of the Four Elements, complete unto itself, maintains a Proper Balance between itself and the Pillars of Creation, and the Cardinal Directions, and the True and Proper Wandering Planets, and Many and Wondrous Other Things that manifest themselves in the Splendour of Being, the scholar is well-advised to consider them to be Complete and Whole unto Themselves, unblemished by exclusion of Any Principle by which they cannot so Effect.
Yet beyond this Wholeness there exists a Deeper Integration, the Blending and Manifestation of Kether in Malkuth, and within this Primal Form exists the Wondrous and Resplendant Form of True Wood.
TobySmith’s project, was interestingly titled “Heaven and Earth on Aragats,” however it ended up being less about showcasing a retreating glacier than it was about the disappearing livelihood of those who depend on Aragats.
Mani or Maney (Persian: مانی) is a common proper name in the Middle East and South Asia. In Persian, Mani (مانی) means "eternity", "thinker", and "thoughtful". It is most common in Iran, Pakistan and India.
Lapis Lazuri, again takes us to ancient Armenia, named the Armenian stone it was attributed with great healing, purifying and curative properties, the 'Armenian Stone' allegedly points the way to enlightenment, and aids in the opening of the Third Eye. Popular with ancient alchemists (who knew it as sapphirus), it was used in medicine, cosmetics and paintings. It was also believed to confer ability, success, divine favor, ancient wisdom and cure sore throats. No wonder it was as valuable as gold!.
Hayk is referred to as Orion, in the Armenian translation of the Bible. This needs to be researched further before I can have an opinion on the association for there is nothing out there I have found to suggest when and why the connection was made.
The orange supergiant Beta Arae, to us its brightest star measured with near-constant apparent magnitude of 2.85, is marginally brighter than blue-white Alpha Arae. Seven star systems are known to host planets. Sunlike Mu Arae hosts four known planets. Gliese 676 is a (gravity-paired) binary red-dwarf system with four known planets.
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