The Ark Of Urartu 2021-04-22, 309 PM Rolf Ward Green Anne Ruth Rutledge For then I shall give to peoples the change to a pure language, in order for them all to call upon the name of Jehovah, in order to serve him shoulder to shoulder. (Zephaniah 3:9) The Ark of Urartu - The Orient Express Part 1: (See also: Part 2 of The Ark of Urartu & The Orient Express) http://willofjehovah.com/Family%20History/_Rowe/from%20Adam/__orient%20express/the%20ark%20of%20urartu-1.htm Page 1 of 86 The Ark Of Urartu 2021-04-22, 309 PM Chapter 1: Chapter 2: Cangyan Mountain Chapter 3: Shem, Ham, Japheth Chapter 4: Confirmation of Dating Chapter 5: Nimrod and the Tower Chapter 6: Armenian History (See also: Part 2 of The Ark of Urartu & The Orient Express)> http://willofjehovah.com/Family%20History/_Rowe/from%20Adam/__orient%20express/the%20ark%20of%20urartu-1.htm Page 2 of 86 The Ark Of Urartu 2021-04-22, 309 PM Right: The Ark's skeletal structure from sub- surface radar and metal detector scans (from measurements by Ron Wyatt and Dave Fasold, Uzengili, Turkey, 1985-87; surface radar scans began some time after Ron Wyatt's first visit to the site in 1977 CE. Noah's Ark National Park, as declared June 20, 1987 CE by official declaration of the Turkish government, reported in Turkey's national newspaper, ``Hurriyet'', the next day. Reproduction from Anchorstone.com, `Turkey') Do you know how to build a fire? A much-neglected and perhaps long-forgotten art, fire-building has been practised since ancient times by people who lived even before the deluge-- Tubal-cain used fire to refine metals even before the time that we call the Era of the Dreamers (bef. 3282-1014 BCE)! Firebuilding is art, but it draws upon a number of skills. Fire may be used in conjunction with a woodstove for heat, but the building of a fire using kindling and larger junks of wood is far more difficult than fueling a burning fire. A small flame is a fragile thing and must be fed properly. Too much wood too quickly and pieces too large fail to go. Timing is also important if the flame is to be encouraged, and the necessity for air to circulate under the wood also requires consideration in the design of the fire geometry. What first appears to be a simple exercise is not so easy. To be able to quickly build a flame into a roaring fire is quite satisfying, and to be able to design a fire geometry that can sustain the flames to the end is also timesaving. (Revealing God's Treasure - Noah's Ark, video) (Wikimapia - Noah's Ark, or Flash Earth - Noah's Ark) Above: Byron C. Nelson - The Deluge Story in Stone (1931 book illustration, 2011 colour shading by Ward Green) 12 From the Greenealogy is the Deluge dated 3282 BCE, and the existence of The Ark structure as petrified wood in Turkey in the mountains of Ararat confirms both the Bible account of the location http://willofjehovah.com/Family%20History/_Rowe/from%20Adam/__orient%20express/the%20ark%20of%20urartu-1.htm Page 3 of 86 The Ark Of Urartu 2021-04-22, 309 PM as well as of the antiquity of The Deluge. The profileration of fossils in a widely distributed layer can only encourage all believers that all of these animals died suddenly in The Deluge and so the fossils were formed rapidly, as dead animals do not sink to the bottom nor are fossils formed by gradual soil deposits caused by erosion. Animals were frozen in water, with gut contents preserved. There are, actually, flood accounts in different cultures, and from places located as far apart as America and China. All of these facts testify that a global Deluge came true. The Bronze Age is dated after The Deluge at near 3300 BCE, and was not the first time that man employed metalworking. From the Greenealogy as presented in earlier articles, the Bronze Age, as after The Deluge of 3282 BCE, is so aligned with the earliest Bronze Age dating, being 18 years later! It is vain to believe dating based on a human reasoning in any case where the lack of written records exerts silence. The futility of using human wisdom to determine even small subtleties with regard to The Deluge is exemplified by the remains of Noah's wife found in their 18-foot sarcophagus! It is a great honour to be given a glimpse into this past. The Greenealogy dating has been tested and proven already, so in this article may confirmation no longer be required. (Genesis 4:22) (Wikipedia, `Bronze Age, Near East Timeline') Left: Map of Noah's Ark in Kurdish-inhabited area, Turkey (2002 Map by the CIA modified 2011 by Ward Green, reproduction from University of Texas Library, `Maps, Middle East and Asia, Turkey Republic 2002', Kurdish area in green by the CIA in 2002, with The Ark site added in 2011 in purple and red, by Ward Green. For the CIA version, albeit a cruder copy, please see also Wikimedia Commons, `File: Kurdish-inhabited area by CIA (2002).jpg'.) 13 The survivors of the Deluge had a use for firewood as well as wood to build houses, so it is natural that the wood of The Ark was used for both of these purposes and recycling. That wood that had saved their lives from the cataclysm of the Deluge that wiped every living thing from off the face of all earth was thus used by them and by their offspring. Epiphanius (d. 403 CE) wrote that The Ark remains existed, in his day, in the mountains of the Gordians (cf. Kurds or Cordyaeans), though in the 12th century Benjamin of Tudela wrote that The Ark had been moved so as to build a mosque! Epiphanius was the Bishop of Salamis, and he added that if one looked closely enough one could yet in the 4th century see the altar that Noah had built in order to worship God. Sometime between the 4th century CE and the present day it appears that the remains of The Ark were buried by mudflow and perhaps lava, based on the still-existing mudflow that surrounds The Ark and on the nearby volcanic peak, Ararat. That The Ark location itself was known from ancient times, and in the Kurdish mountains, is witnessed to by Josephus: Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of this flood, and of this ark; among whom is Berossus the Chaldean. For when he is describing the circumstances of the flood, he goes on thus: `It is said there is still some part of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans; and that some people carry off pieces of the bitumen, which they take away, and use chiefly as amulets for the averting of mischiefs.' http://willofjehovah.com/Family%20History/_Rowe/from%20Adam/__orient%20express/the%20ark%20of%20urartu-1.htm Page 4 of 86 The Ark Of Urartu 2021-04-22, 309 PM (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 1.3.6)(bold text ours) Berossus wrote ca 290-278 BCE; Josephus lived 37-ca100 CE. (The Museum of Unnatural Mystery, `The Search for Noah's Ark') (Wikipedia, `Berosus'; Wikipedia, `Josephus') Right: Drogue anchorstone (Kazan, Turkey) 14 The giant drogue anchorstones found along a line northwest of The Ark landing site have tapered holes with a hollowed out interior for the knot, and curvature to prevent shear. They are entirely consistent with their use on Noah's Ark. They are too big to be used on considerably smaller boats. Mr. Samuel Windsor, a naval architect in Seattle, WA, USA, wrote that each of these stones is designed for a specific diameter of hemp rope, which easily suffices for strength. One of the features of the design is that the hole is made in the narrow, thick end of the stone, while the other end of the stone is wider, but it is weaker, as it is thinner. The modern standard by his account (a breaking strength of 5 times rated load) was surpassed by hand- wound hemp rope. The presence of the stones along a line leading to The Ark site confirms their use on the vessel known as Noah's Ark. More than that, it displays beyond doubt the path it took. Each of the stones weighs between 4 and about 10 tons, and the difficulty of moving them gives no reason to doubt it! So these heavy anchorstones stayed put for all 5291 years! The animal and human live load made navigation so crucial. Drogue stones stabilized the vessel in heavy seas or wind, and could be cut loose for closer manœvring, to land. (Windsor, S. R., 1992, Noah's Vessel: 24,000 Deadweight Tons: Catastrophism & Ancient History, Jan. pp. 5-31, `Raw Data and Assumptions, Assumption 1.n.') Left: Urartian pitchfork 15 Both the Septuagint Bible (Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton) and the Hebrew Bible agree that after 5 months or 150 days (on the 27th or 17th day of the 7th month respectively), ``the ark came to rest on the mountains of rrt,'' where `rrt' is `Ararat' or `Urartu' and perhaps related to `Hurrite', the vowels not existing in any of the original Hebrew text, as the ancient Hebrew writing is in an abjad, without vowels. In this region southeast of the Black Sea is where Urartu, or Biainili, or the Kingdom of Van or Ararat, was located, in ancient times around 860-590 BCE (Wikipedia, `Urartu').