Upon The Face of the Waters

I finished reading Brown's Wieland or, The Transformation, a book with unflagging merit and brutal insight into the latent religious fanaticism haunting an early, off-kilter, independent America. It is hard to deny the appeal of these books, though I've read critics calling the language somewhat neo-classical, sometimes convoluted by modern standards, and somehow not gothic enough compared to contemporary European writers. The trouble lies not in the novel, but in our contorted image of what gothic means, as we expect 'literal' portrayals of ghosts, vampires, ghouls, zombies, &c.. It is not, however, my intent to raise a quibble about how we look but do not see when we read. Once again I came across another passage in the Bible, still Genesis, which uplifted my attention to something loftier. In the account of the Flood, Noah and his kin safe in their vessel, there is a particular episode symbolizing (prophecies?) the ark of the covenant (type?), and shines some light on what happened before the opening lines of Genesis.

(17) And the flood was forty days upon the earth ; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
(18) And the waters prevailed , and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

The eighteenth line caught my attention because it resonated with Genesis, Chapter 1:

(1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
(2) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

The ark is a symbol of God, not merely anticipating the ark of the covenant, but also a secret revelation into the account of Genesis. The phrase 'upon the face of the waters' tipped me off, automatically linking it in my mind as a hidden allegory, simultaneously type and antitype. This reveals that the account in Genesis is a second creation, if you consider, when He repaired His world from the chaotic abyss it became with the tempestuous destruction wrought during the Heavenly War with Lucifer/Satan. This explains why God is wroth with the sons of God, or Angels, for procreating with the daughters of man to create the Nephilim , and mankind for succumbing to bloodshed, sin, and debauchery as the fallen angels had before them.

Does your TANAKH translation confirm this idea, Viv?