Guardians of the Lost Ark — Mequamias
By: atakelt
Tags: Ark of the Covenant, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Faith, Lalibela
Category: Ethiopia, Spiritual World
Image: Ralph Bennett Crignola
Ethiopian prayer sticks, known as ‘mequamias’, rest against the wall.
When Menelik was about 20 years old, his mother revealed to him the identity of his father. The young man decided to go and visit King Solomon who, it is said, recognized Menelik as his son and treated him with honor. In the end, Menelik ended up spending three years in Jerusalem with the king, studying Hebrew Scriptures and, apparently, making himself unpopular with the Israelites, who kept getting him confused with his clearly youthful looking father.
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