Menelik II
THE GREAT OF ADWA March 2nd is the 123rd anniversary of the Battle of Adwa. The decisive victory at Adwa is a tale to be told every year on this day of its commemoration because it warms the heart and lifts the spirit of every black person in the world. Few places evoke stronger memories than […]
Taytu Betul
The Ethiopian Empress and master strategist behind the battle that humiliated the Italians in 1896 The Battle of Adwa is known to have stopped the colonial aggression of Europeans in Africa after Ethiopian forces surprised the world by defeating heavily-armed Italian troops that attempted to conquer the Empire in 1896. Behind this victory that maintained […]
Gender Divisions.
Despite Gadaa being an egalitarian social system, women were excluded from passing through age-sets and generation-sets. Gada effectively enforced a gender-based division of labor in Oromo society, although it allowed two equally important separate and interdependent economic domains. Explaining how the Gadaa system brought these two domains together by establishing mechanisms of balancing, regulating and […]
Preface of 1st Edition
This volume contains a complete English translation of the famous Ethiopian work, The “KEBRA NAGAST“, i.e. the “Glory of the Kings [of Ethiopia]”. This work has been held in peculiar honor in ABYSSINIA for several centuries, and throughout that country it has been, and still is, venerated by the people as containing the final proof of their descent […]
Preface of present Edition
When the English translation of the “Book of the Glory of Kings” appeared in 1922 it received a generous welcome from the gentlemen of the Press, and the approval of it by the public generally was shown by the fact that within two months from the day of publication a reprint was called for. The […]
The Queen of Sheba
A curious and interesting legend of the way in which King SOLSolomoncame the father of MENYELEK is found in a number of slightly varying versions among many of the tribes of Northern ABYSSINIA. According to this the mother of MENYELEK was a Tigrê girl called ĔTĔYÊ AZÊB (i.e. Queen of the South), and her people worshipped a dragon or serpent, to which each man, […]
The Contents
Contents When Solomon returned to Jerusalem he went with the elders into the House of God, and he and ZADOK embraced each other and wept bitterly. Then they dried their tears and the elders made a long speech to SOLOMON in which they sketched the past history of the Ark of the Covenant, i.e. the Tabernacle ZION. They reminded him how the PHILISTINES captured it and […]
The Coming of Christ
by E.A. Wallis Budge, [1932] The belief of ABRAHAM Thou dost not understand that they were justified by faith—ABRAHAM, and DAVID and all the Prophets, one after the other, who prophesied concerning the coming of the Son of God. And Abraham said, “Wilt Thou in my days, O Lord, cast Thy word upon the ground?” And God said unto him, […]
The Ark of the covenant
by E.A. Wallis Budge, [1932] The Angels who rebelled And there were certain angels with whom God was wroth—now He, the Knower of the heart knew them—and they reviled ADAM, saying, “Since God hath shown love to him He hath set us to minister unto him, and the beasts and creeping things, and the fish of […]
Prophecy about Christ
by E.A. Wallis Budge, [1932], MOSES proclaimed in the Law and said, “A prophet like myself shall rise up for you from your brethren, and hearken ye unto him, and every soul that will not hearken unto that prophet ye shall root out from among the people.” And this he said concerning CHRIST the Son of God. And he […]
The first war of the Ethiopia
by E.A. Wallis Budge, [1932] They renewed the kingdom of DAVID AZARIAH said, “Bring hither the jubilee trumpets, and let us go to ZION, and there we will make new the kingdom of our lord DAVID.” And he took the oil of sovereignty and filled the horn [therewith], and he anointed DAVID with the unguent, that is to say, with the […]
This is what ye shall eat
by E.A. Wallis Budge, [1932] They made him King “And when these had become silent there rose up the priest who gave us the Commandments, with the fear of God, and he shed tears whilst our bodies quaked and our tears flowed down. God is indeed, without falsehood, in our hearts, and He dwelleth in […]
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