Blavatsky's Gem "Wise men are light-bringers." ARARAD THE ALL BOUNTIFUL

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Ararat (Western Armenian pronunciation: Ararad) is the Greek version of the Hebrew spelling (אֲרָרָט; RRṬ) of the name Urartu,^[16] a kingdom that existed in the Armenian Highlands in the 9th–6th centuries BC. German orientalist and Bible critic Wilhelm Gesenius speculated that the word "Ararat" came from the Sanskrit word Arjanwartah, meaning "holy ground." Some Armenian historians, such as Ashot Melkonyan, link the origin of the word "Ararat" to the root of the endonym of the indigenous peoples of the Armenian Highland ("ar–"), including the Armenians. The mountain is known as Ararat in European languages, however, none of the native peoples have traditionally referred to the mountain by that name.

Noah's Ark landed on the "mountains of Ararat" (Biblical Hebrew: הָרֵי אֲרָרָט‎, hare ararat), according to Genesis 8:4. Many historians and Bible scholars agree that "Ararat" is the Hebrew name of Urartu, the geographical predecessor of Armenia; they argue that the word referred to the wider region at the time and not specifically to Mount Ararat. The phrase is translated as "mountains of Armenia" (montes Armeniae) in the Vulgate, the fourth century Latin translation of the Bible. Nevertheless, Mount Ararat is traditionally considered the resting place of Noah's Ark. It is called a biblical mountain.


The breath of Hayk 'The Spirit Of Dawn' that named the mountain in the Armenian Highlands Ararad was simply alluding to the fact that it was a land of plenty. I posit that Armenian name for their highlands Ararad the word Cornucopia symbolizes Abundant & Bountiful. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the word cornucopia is derived from the Latin term cornucopiae, meaning horn of plenty. I suggest that the mountain of Ararad like the horn of plenty, cornucopia was revered as a location and a symbol of bounty or abundance. The cornucopia, emblematic of the bountiful potential harvest can actually be traced back to Classical Antiquity. Many explanations of its origin and its symbolism can be found in Greek Mythology. Greek Gods Zeus and Hercules as well as Demeter, the Goddess of the Harvest have each been mentioned in varying stories of its origin. In one anecdote, Zeus as an infant was nursed and nourished by Amalthea, a she goat. One tale mentions that he created the horn of plenty to repay her for nourishing him.joyful life of plenty.

The fields tended by small-scale farmers from the beginning, across the region of the highlands of Armenia were alive with nutrients, they are continuously providing nourishment to their communities. As farmers, the cornucopia symbolizes a hope for a bountiful and abundant harvest, all after months of incredibly difficult work in the brutal winter cold and the summer sun. Farmers work their fields rain or shine and face many challenges including crop failures, weather extremes, swarms of damaging insects, biting flies, relentless gnats, and many other realities. While organic farming is often romanticized, it was insanely challenging and truly a a very hard life, a labor of love. 

Armenia is famous for its high mountains and the rivers flow all year . There are about 9480 rivers in Armenia, 379 of which are more than 10 km long. That is why Armenia has been called bountiful, a "land of rivers and lakes"  as well as a  "land of fast-flowing waters."

The Armenian Highlands (Armenian: Հայկական լեռնաշխարհ, romanized: Haykakan leṙnašxarh; also known as the Armenian Upland, Armenian plateau, or Armenian tableland[1]) is the most central and the highest of the three plateaus that together form the northern sector of Western Asia.[1] Clockwise starting from the west, the Armenian Highlands are bounded by the Anatolian plateau, the Caucasus, the Kura-Aras lowlands, the Iranian Plateau, and Mesopotamia. The highlands are divided into western and eastern regions, defined by the Ararat Valley where Mount Ararat is located. Western Armenia is nowadays referred to as eastern Anatolia, and Eastern Armenia as the Lesser Caucasus or Caucasus Minor, and historically as the Anti-Caucasus, meaning "opposite the Caucasus".

During the Iron Age, the region was known by variations of the name Ararat (Urartu, Uruatri, Urashtu). Later, the Highlands were known as Armenia Major, a central region to the history of Armenians, and one of the four geopolitical regions associated with Armenians, the other three being Armenia Minor, Sophene, and Commagene.

The population of the region has been primarily Armenian for most of its known history. Prior to the appearance of nominally Armenian people in historical records, historians have hypothesized that the region must have been home to various ethnic groups who became homogenous when the Armenian language came to prominence. The population of the Armenian Highlands seem to have had a high level of regional genetic continuity for over 6,000 years. Recent studies have shown that the Armenian people are indigenous to the Armenian Highlands and form a distinct genetic isolate in the region. The region was also inhabited during Antiquity by minorities such as Assyrians, Georgians, Greeks, Jews, and Iranians. During the Middle Ages, Arabs and particularly Turkmens and Kurds settled in large numbers in the Armenian Highlands. The Christian population of the western half of the region was exterminated during the Armenian genocide of 1915. Today, the eastern half is mainly inhabited by Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Georgians, while the western half is mainly inhabited by Kurds (including Yazidis), Turks, Azerbaijanis, Armenians (included crypto-Armenians and Hemshins) and Zazas. 

4000 to 1000 BC, tools and trinkets of copper, bronze and iron were commonly produced in this region and traded in neighboring lands where those metals were less abundant. It is also traditionally believed to be one of the possible locations of the Garden of Eden. The Armenian Plateau has been called the "epicenter of the Iron Age", since it appears to be the location of the first appearance of Iron Age metallurgy in the late 2nd millennium BC. In the Early Iron Age, the Kingdom of Van controlled much of the region, until it was overthrown by the Medes and Orontid dynasty.

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the land of Aratta is placed in a geographic space that could be describing the Armenian plateau. In Antiquity, the population living on the Highlands was ethnically diverse, but in the Achaemenid period (550–330 BC), Armenian-speakers came to prominence. Recent studies have shown that Armenians are indigenous to the Armenian Highlands and form a distinct genetic isolate in the region. There are signs of considerable genetic admixture in Armenians between 3000 BC and 2000 BC, these mixture dates also coincide with the legendary establishment of Armenia in 2492 BCE,^[8] but they subside to insignificant levels since 1200 BC, remaining stable until today.

The flora and fauna the apricot, known by the Romans as the prunus armenicus (the Armenian plum), was brought to Europe from the Armenian plateau.

Armenian Landscape With 8 geographic, 7 climate, 9 altitude, and 16 soil zones; over half of all plant species in the Transcaucasus (bordering Iran, Turkey and parts of Asia; Webster, 1985); and two-thirds of all bird species found in Europe, Armenia is a stunning biotops region. Armenia‟s rich diversity of terrain includes Dry Sub-Tropic, Mediterranean, Desert, Semi-Desert, Mountain Steppes, Mixed Forest, Sub-Alpine and alpine vegetation zones. The diversity is due in part to Armenia‟s weather system, which mixes moisture from heavy snowfalls in the mountains and the Black and Caspian Seas with hot blasts of air from the Syrian and Iranian plateaus (Ney, 1997).

Armenian Viticulture and Wine has very ancient roots.  In a primitive state, a vine is a liana. Some researchers claim that it is very difficult to date the appearance of the first cultivated vines, and that, geographically, the Trans-Caucasian countries of Armenia and Georgia seem to be the birthplace of viticulture (Sopexa, 2000). By 3000 B.C. at the latest and probably much earlier, viticulture is thought to have come down from ancient Armenia, eventually reaching an advanced stage of sophistication in the states of Mesopotamia, in all the lands of Syria and Phoenicia.

According to the Bible, right on the Armenian Highland was situated the Garden of Eden, in the valley of the four sacred rivers: Euphrates, Tigris, Araks, or Bible Geon, and Chorokh. The waters of the Araks and its tributaries irrigate the Ararat valley, where the annual rainfall is only 250-300 mm.