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 Gate[way]) or Holy Church of the Confucian Tradition (儒宗圣教 "Rúzōng Shèngjiào"). The aim of the phoenix halls is to honour the gods through Confucian orthopraxy ("rú" 儒 style), spreading morality through public lectures and divinely-inspired books (善书 "shànshū"). The Confucian Way of the Gods is defined as Houtiandao (后天道 "Way of Later Heaven" or "Way of the Manifested") by the antagonistic Xiantiandao (先天道 "Way of Former Heaven" or "Way of the Primordial") traditions, which claim to be closer to the God of the universe. The phoenix halls are concerned with the salvation of the disciples, which basically means deification. This