Mount Ararat

The famous mountain where Noah came to rest, ending the ecliptic flood, building an altar for time as test. Flourished kingdoms at the upper Tigris grew, Babylonia and Urardhu created powers to sew. Persian legends refers the holy Vulcan as the cradle of human race, Armenians built a monastery in honor to St. Jacob’s pace. Mount Ararat as omnipresent and utterly elusive, snow capped peaks imaginative conclusive. Magical countenance almost not of this earth, crisp air in endless blue white mountain infinite birth. Center of legends, myth and story, the fire God Vahagn stumbles upon Ararat with all gory. Giving life to Tigris and Euphrates River, pagans visited ghost of royal ancestor in shiver. Armenians and their homeland of Kurdistan under fire, centuries in war for nationhood and holy place entire. Good spirits in distillation known as Ararat Brandy, Sir Winston Churchill called his favorite tipple, ‘handy’. No Arc ever found beside many tries on Mount Ararat still today, keeping mysteries in holy books still at bay.