Mount Judi term for the region north of ancient Assyria which encompasses the Armenian plateau. According to Josephus, the Armenians in the 1st century showed the remains of Noah's ark at a place called αποβατηριον "Place of Descent" (, "Nakhichevan", Ptolemy's Ναξουανα), about 60 miles southeast of the summit of Mount Ararat (ca. ). The "mountains of Ararat" in Genesis have become identified in later (medieval) Christian tradition with the peak now known as Mount Ararat itself, a volcanic massif on the border between Turkey and Armenia and known in Turkish as "Agri Dagh" (Ağrı Dağı). The Quranic account of the Flood
Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition Phoenix Halls" (鸾堂圣典 "Luántáng shèngdiǎn") was published in 1979. While early phoenix halls showed ritual patterns inherited from Taoist cults and Longhua vegetarian halls, since the formation of the Assembly of the Phoenix Halls in 1978 "new-style" urban phoenix halls, such as the Shenxian Tang and the Wumiao Mingzheng Tang, strengthened a Confucian style omitting Taoist and Longhua-derived rituals. The tradition of the Wumiao Mingzheng Tang was influenced by Xuanyuanism and Yiguandao. The book "The Mysterious Meaning of the Way of Heaven" (天道奥义 "Tiāndào àoyì"), published in the 1980s by the Wumiao Mingzheng Tang, incorporates "Wusheng Laomu", the central concept