Mount Ararat that the biblical passage implies that the ark rested upon a "mountain in the district which the Hebrews knew as Ararat, or Armenia", wrote in an 1878 article for the Royal Geographical Society that the biblical writer must have had Mt. Ararat in mind because it is so "very much higher, more conspicuous, and more majestic than any other summit in Armenia." During his visit to Armenia in 2001 Pope John Paul II declared in his homily in Yerevan's St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral: "We are close to Mount Ararat, where tradition says that the Ark of Noah came to
Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition of Yiguandao and broader Chinese Maternism. Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition The Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition (Chinese: 儒宗神教 "Rúzōng Shénjiào"), also called the Luandao (鸾道 "Phoenix Way" or 鸾门 "Luánmén", "Phoenix Gate") or Luanism (鸾教 "Luánjiào") or—from the name of its cell congregations—the phoenix halls or phoenix churches (鸾堂 "luántáng"), is a Confucian congregational religious movement of the Chinese traditional beliefs. The first phoenix hall was established in Magong, the capital of the Penghu Islands, in 1853, and from there the movement spread throughout mainland China and Taiwan. Other names of