Mount Ararat this legend "makes Armenia the cradle of all civilisation since Noah's Ark landed on the 'Armenian' mountain of Ararat. […] it connects Armenians to the biblical narrative of human development. […] it makes Mount Ararat the national symbol of all Armenians, and the territory around it the Armenian homeland from time immemorial." Mount Ararat has been depicted on the coat of arms of Armenia consistently since 1918. The First Republic's coat of arms was designed by architect Alexander Tamanian and painter Hakob Kojoyan. This coat of arms was readopted by the legislature of the Republic of Armenia on April 19,
Mountains of Ararat read: ""requievitque arca . . . super montes Armeniae"" ("and the ark rested . . . on the mountains of Armenia"); though in the "Nova Vulgata" as promulgated after the Second Vatican Council, the toponym is amended to ""montes Ararat"" ("mountains of Ararat"). By contrast, early Syrian and Eastern tradition placed the ark on Mount Judi in what is today Şırnak Province, Southeastern Anatolia Region, an association that had faded by the Middle Ages and is now mostly confined to Quranic tradition. The Book of Jubilees specifies that the ark came to rest on the peak of Lubar, a mountain