安娜离开我回国已经好几个月了,戴着她送给我的黑石头串成的手链,我时常不由自主地想起她给我讲的那个圣经故事:因为对互相残杀的人类不满意,上帝打算让人类重新开始,他决定毁灭人类,只留下有良心的好人诺亚。于是他让诺亚建一艘大船。当40天的大雨如注,整个地球被洪水淹没时,诺亚全家和他们带着的各种动物成为这次洪水中唯一的生还者。洪水退去后,诺亚的方舟停在了亚拉腊山的山顶上,也就是现在称作亚美尼亚的国家里。于是,诺亚和他的家人,或做牧人,或做农夫,与他们的子子孙孙过着太平的生活。安娜送给我的手链上那一颗颗特殊的闪亮黑石头,就来自那座山,来自亚美尼亚这个人类重生的地方。 Anna had been back from my country for months, wearing the black stone bracelet she gave me, and I often remembered the bible story she told me: because of dissatisfaction with the killing of one another, God intended Humanity began again, and he decided to destroy mankind, leaving Noah with good conscience. So he let Noah build a big ship. When the 40 days of heavy rain, the entire earth was flooded, Noah’s family and the animals they carried with them to become the only survivor of this flood. After the flood receded, Noah’s Ark stopped at the summit of Mount Ararat, which is now known as Armenia. Thus, Noah and his family, or shepherds, or farmers, live an equal life with their children and grandchildren. The special shiny black stone that Anna gave me from her bracelet came from that mountain, a place where humankind was reborn in Armenia.