Mount Ararat rest." Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, also mentioned Mount Ararat as the resting place of Noah's Ark in his speech at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral during his visit to Armenia in 2010. Those critical of this view point out that Ararat was the name of the country, not the mountain, at the time when Genesis was written. Arnold wrote in his 2008 Genesis commentary, "The location 'on the mountains' of Ararat indicates not a specific mountain by that name, but rather the mountainous region of the land of Ararat." Ararat has traditionally been the main
Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition same years, under the influence of the medium Yang Mingji, phoenix halls in northern Taiwan began to unify under the name "Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition" (儒宗神教 "Rúzōng Shénjiào") and the liturgical manual "Rúmén kēfàn" (儒门科范 "Liturgical Regulations of the Confucian Way") published in 1937. Effective unification came after the retrocession of Taiwan in 1945; the "Republic of China Assembly of the Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition" (中华民国儒宗神教会 "Zhōnghuá Mínguó Rúzōng Shénjiào Huì") was created in 1978 incorporating over five hundred phoenix halls. A new ritual book, the "Sacred Code of the