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The ark on this site is first of all Noah’s ship, the vessel that carries a family and the animals through the flood, and the same story returns in Mesopotamia, Hawaii, Mexico and the channeled accounts of Atlantis. The other ark, the chest of the covenant, has its own page. These are the pages where the ark appears.
The ship of gopher wood
On The Deluge of the Bible Ignatius Donnelly gives the Genesis account in full, with God’s order to Noah:
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis 6:14, quoted by Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
On The Blueprint of the Ark I go through those measurements one by one: the unknown gopher wood, the pitch inside and out, and the 5:3 ratio I compare with the proportions of the pyramids. Donnelly made a more practical comparison on The antiquity of some of our great inventions:
The proportions of the fastest sailing-vessels of the present day are about (91.4 meters) long to 50 wide and 30 high; these were precisely the proportions of Noah's ark--300 cubits long, 50 broad, and 30 high.
Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
On Noah’s Family I list who was on board according to the Bible: Noah, his wife, Shem, Ham, Japheth and their wives. On Genesis 8 – The floodwaters recede Elohim remembers Noah and every living thing with him in the ark and sends a wind to make the waters go down.
Where the ark came to rest
On Mount Ararat the mountain in eastern Türkiye is the traditional resting place of the ark. On Noah’s Ark and the Giza Tunnels: How New Claims Get Shot Down I set the claim for the boat-shaped Durupinar site next to the mainstream answer. Donnelly saw the many landing places as a pattern: on The Aryan Colonies from Atlantis he reads Ararat as one more case of an Atlantean people moving the flood story to a high mountain in their new home.
The same vessel in other lands
On Flood Stories from Around the World Utnapishtim builds a boat on Ea’s advice, Deucalion and Pyrrha float in a wooden chest and Manu ties his ship to the horn of a fish. On What Is the Relationship Between Utnapishtim, Ziusudra, and Noah? I compare the Mesopotamian hero with Noah. On The Ark of Nuu the Hawaiian Nuu, thirteenth generation from the first man, is told to bring his wife, three sons and a pair of every breathing creature.
In the Americas Donnelly found the ark kept alive in ritual. On Mandan Indians he writes:
Among the Mandan Indians we not only find flood legends, but, more remarkable still, we find an image of the ark preserved from generation to generation
Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
On The Chiapenese people: Votan came to their lands after a great flood Clavigero records the Chiapenese tradition that Votan was the grandson of the man who built the ark to save himself and his family from the Deluge.
Noah as an Atlantean
Several channeled sources place the builder in Atlantis. On Noah’s Family Bashar answers yes when asked if Noah was an Atlantean, and says that extraterrestrials gave him the instructions to build the ark.
In Oahspe the story changes again. On Noe (I’hin Prophet) Noe and the Faithists prepare an arc of ships for the submersion of the continent of Pan, and the aim is to save the I’hins rather than the animals.
The Ark of the Covenant
The same tag also covers the gold covered chest that Israel carried through the desert. That story has its own page, The Ark of the Covenant, with the transport described on Transport of the Ark of the Covenant and the Philistine capture on Dagon, a powerful one from the past, semiaquatic.
Related pages
- The Blueprint of the Ark
- Noah’s Family
- Mount Ararat
- Flood Stories from Around the World
- What Is the Relationship Between Utnapishtim, Ziusudra, and Noah?
- The Ark of Nuu
- Mandan Indians
- Noe (I’hin Prophet)
- The Ark of the Covenant
For every page I tagged with Ark, see the Ark tag archive.
