Mount Ararat H. F. B. Lynch (1893)—climbed the mountain. The first winter climb was by Turkish alpinist Bozkurt Ergör, the former president of the Turkish Mountaineering Federation, who climbed the peak on 21 February 1970. According to the fourth verse of the eighth chapter of the Book of Genesis (Genesis 8:4), following a flood, Noah's Ark landed on the "mountains of Ararat" (Biblical , "hare ararat"). Most historians and Bible scholars agree that "Ararat" is the Hebrew name of Urartu, the geographic predecessor of Armenia and referred to the wider region at the time and not the mountain today known as Ararat.
Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition 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 the movement are Rumen (儒门 "Confucian