7 Heavens

ሰባቱ ሰማያት ፡ የመጀመሪያው ርእዮተ ዓለማትና ከዋክብት

እግዚአብሔር ከመጀመሪያይቱ ቀን አስቀድሞ በኃይሉ ቅነ ሰማያትን በጥበቡ በዘረጋ ጊዜ የሰማያትን ጠፈር ቀለም በማስተዋል በቀባና በደመደመው ጊዜ በሰማያት ክልል ውስጥ ምንም ፍጥረት አልነበረም።

እግዚአብሔር ከአሥራ ሁለቱ ሰማያት መካከል በመረጣቸውና ብሩሃን ብሩካን ሁኑ ከአላቸው ከሰባቱ ሰማያት ይልቅ በከበረው ግርማው በሚያስፈራው በሰባተኛው ሻዳያ ሰማይ ክበብና ክልል ውስጥ ላይ፡

1. በአቃጣይነትና በነበልባል የተከበበውንና የእሳት ዓለም የሆነውን ኮሬብን
2. የረጋና ከባድ የሆነ የአፈር ዓለምን ላሌብ-ዱላሌብን
3. የጠራ ፈሳሽና በረዶ ያለውን የውኃ ዓለም ናጌብን
4. ረቂቅ ተንሳፋፊ ቀላል የሆነውን የነፋስ ዓለምን አዜብን

ካለመኖር ወደመኖር አምጥቶ ፈጠራቸው። እነዚህን አራቱን ታላላቅ ዓለሞች በሻዳያ ሰማይ ክልል ውስጥ አኖራቸው።

በእንዚህም ክበብና በውስጣቸው የሚንቀሳቀስና የሚሳብ ወይም የሚበርና የሚንሳፈፍ ሕይወት የአለው ፍጥረት እንዳይኖር አትሞ አፅንቷቸዋል።

የእግዚአብሔር መልእክተኞች መላእክት መናፍስት እንኳ አያልፉም በአካባቢያቸውም አይደርሱም።

እግዚአብሔር ብሩሃን ብሩካን ሁን ባላቸው በሰባቱ ሰማያት ክልል ውስጥ የከበረ ስሙን ለማሳወቅ የጥበቡን ኃይል ለመግለፅ የፍጥረታት ሁሉ ፈጣሪና ባለቤት የምስጋና ጌታ መሆኑን ታምኖበት እንዲመሰገን ሲል በሰባቱ ሰማያት ምሳሌ፡

1. ሦስት ፀሐዮችን
2. አራት ጨረቃዎችን
3. አንድ መቶ ዓለማትን
4. አእላፋተ-ማእለፍታት ከዋክብትን
5. በሰው ልጆች አንድበት በመላእክትም አፍ ሊቆጠረ የማይቻል ልዩ ልዩ የሆነን ግዙፍና ረቂቅ ፍጥረት
6. የማይንቀሳቀስን ማእድን
7. የሚንቀሳቀስ አየራትን

በእግዚአብሔር ቃል ፈጠራቸው። በአፉ እስትንፋስም ሁሉም እንደየወገኑ ደማዊ ነፍስ የሌለው ግን ሕይወት የሚሆን እስትንፋስ እፍ አለባቸው። ተንቀሳቀሱም፡ ገደብ የአለው መኖሪያቸውንና ምግባቸውን የሚመርጡበት የሚይስቡበትም የጸጋ አእምሮ ሰጣቸው። በእግዚአብሔር ቃል የተፈጠሩበት ቀን ልደታቸው ሆነ።

እግዚአብሔር በቃሉ የፈጠራቸው የሦስቱ ፀሐዮች ስሞች የሚከተሉት ናቸው፡

1. ኦርያ
2. ያሪስያ
3. ቶማስያ (እኛ በምንኖርበት ኢዮር ክልል ውስጥ)

እነዚህ ፀሐዮች እግዚአብሔር ለፈጠረው ፍጥረት ሁሉ ብርሃንነት ከመሆናቸው ሌላ ሙቀታቸው ለአጥንት ኃይል ብርሃናቸው ለአእምሮ ግልጽነት በመሆን የተፈጥሮን ሕይወት ያድሳሉ። እያጠነከሩም እድገትን ይሰጣሉ።

ነገር ግን እኛ ከሦስቱ ፀሐዮች መካከል ቶማስያ የተባለውን ፀሐይ ብቻ እንጂ ኦርያንና ያሪስያን አናይም። ከኢዮር ሰማይ ክልል ውጭ ናቸው።

እንደነዚሁ የአራቱ ጨረቃዎሽ ስሞች የሚከተሉት ናቸው፡

1. ኢራአያ
2. ናስያ
3. አብላያ
4. አስንያ (እኛ በምንኖርበት ኢዮር ክልል ውስጥ የሚገኘውና በሰው ልጆች የሚታየውና የሚፈተነው)

አስንያ የሚባለው ጨረቃ ከቶማስያ ፀሐይ የሚያገኘውን የብርሃን ጨረር ለዚህች ምድር ያበራል።

ነገር ግን ቶማስያ ለዚህች ምድር በምታበራበት ጊዜ ብርሃኑ ይቀንሳል። የፀሐይን ክበብ በሚያውድበት ጊዜ የሰሌዳው ገጽ ይቀንሳል ምድርም እንዲሁ የምታገኘውን ብርሃን ትቀንሳለች።

እግዚአብሔር በቃሉ ለፈጠራቸው ለሰባቱ ሰማያት ብሩሃን ብሩካን ካላቸው በኍላ መቶ ዓለማትን እስከ ሰራዊቶቻቸው አደላቸው። ለዘለዓልምም በእነርሱ ክበብ ውስጥ እንዲኖሩ አደረግ። ለዓለማትና ለከዋክብትም የራሳቸው እጣ የሆነ ክበብን አዘጋጀላቸው።

መቶ ዓለማት በእግዚአብሔር ቃል ተፈጥረው ወደ የእድል እጣቸው ወደሆነው ሰማይ እስከሚገቡ በውስጣቸው የሚንቀሳቀስ ፍጥረት አልነበረም። አንዱ ዓለም ከሌላው ዓለም በስፋትና በወርድ በዲካም እንዲበላለጡ አድርጎ ስለፈጠራቸው የተለያዩ ነበሩ።

እንዲሁ አእላፋተ-ማእለፍታት የሆኑ ከዋክብት አንዱ ኮከብ ከሌላው ኮከብ በብርሃን በክብር በስፋትና በወርድ በቁመት በገጽና በቅርፅ ልዩ ልዩ አድርጎ ፈጠራቸው። ዓለማትም ይሁን ከዋክብት አንዱ ከሌላው ጋር እንዳይቀላቀልና እንዳይወሃድ ሲል በመካከላቸው ልዩ ልዩ የሆነ የተፈጥሮ ባህርይ እንዲኖራቸው አደረገ።

እግዚአብሔር ከአምስቱ ሰማያት ይልቅ በሰባቱ ሰማያት ዘንድ ክብሩንና ኃይሉን ቸርነቱንና ጌትነቱን ስሙንም እንዲያውቁትና እንዲያመሰግኑት ሲል ለፍጥረቱ ሁሉ ገደብ የአለው ነጻ አእምሮ ሰጣቸው ራሱንም ገልጾላቸዋል።

እኛም እድል እጣችን ከሆነችው ከዚህች ምድር ዓለም ተፈጥረናልና ሰለአለንበትና ወደፊት ወደ እጣ ክፍላችን ሰማያዊ ዓለም እስከምንሄድ ድረስ ለእግዚአብሔር በሰባቱ ሰማያት ክልልና በመቶ ዓለሞች ክበብ ሰለአለው ክብርና ኃይል ቸርነቱም ምህረቱንም በኪሩብ መልአክ እንድንጽፍ የተነገረንን እንጽፋለን። ከእኛ ጋር ሕብረትና አንድነት ይኖራቸው ዘንድ ከቃላቸው ብዛት የተነሳም መለያየት እንዳይኖር ለልጆቻችን እናስተምራለን።

በእዮር ሰማይ ክልል ውስጥ የአሉት አሥራ ሁለት ዓለሞች

ቀጣይ ነው…

ይህን ጽሑፍ እዚህ አቀርብ ዘንድ ፈቃዳቸውን የሰጡኝን፡ መሪራስ አማን በላይን ከልብ አመሰግናለሁ።



Ethiopia Conspiracy

ኢትዮጵያ ተከባለች

አውሬው ተለቅቋል፡ አውሬው ከግራ ከቅኝ፡ ከላይ ከታች፡ ከውጭ ከውስጥ እያለ ይፈታተነናል። አውሬው በተከታዮቹ አማካይነት ምድረ ሞርያን እና ምድረ ኢትዮጵያን ለመዉረር ዳር ዳር ይላል። የኢትዮጵያ አምላክ ግን እንደተለመደው በኢትዮጵያ ተራሮች ላይ በሠፈረው መንፈሳዊ ሠራዊቱ አማካይነት በዝምታ ይከታተላቸዋል።

ከየመን እስከ ሶማሊያ ከባህረ ገሊላ እስከ ቪክቶሪያ ሃይቅ ድረስ የአውሬው ሠራዊት እየቀበረ ያለውን ወጥመድ የኢትዮጵያ አምላክ ፎቶ በማንሳት ላይ ይገኛል።

የአውሬው አገልጋዮች፡ ሸህ ቢን ላድንን ወደ ሶማሊያ ሃጂ አልሳርካዊንን ደግሞ ወደ ጋዛ ለማሸጋገር ዝግጁ ይመስላሉ፡ እስካሁን ካልተሸጋገሩ።

ሊያውቁትና ሊቀበሉት ያልፈለጉት የእስራኤል አምላክ ቅዱስ መንፈስ በምድረ ኢትዮጵያ እንደሚገኝ ደርሰውበታል። ኢትዮጵያን ሊደፍሩ ይፈልጋሉ፡ ግን እስካሁን አልተቻላቸውም፡ ስለዚህ፡ በአውሬው ዓይን ከኢትዮጵያ ጋር በብዙ ነገሮች ተመሳሳይነትን በምታሳየው፡ ነገር ግን የቅዱሱ መንፈስ ተቃራኒ መንፈስ በተንሰራፋባትና የኢትዮጵያ ጆግራፊያዊ የመስተዋት ግልባጭ በሆነችው በአፍጋኒስታን አስፈላጊ ያልሆነ ትኩረት በማድረግ ከፍተኛ መስዋእትን በመክፈል ላይ ይገኛሉ።

በአሜሪካ ግዛቶች ብዙ ጥፋት የሚያስከትሉት አውሎ ንፋሶች መነሻ የኢትዮጵያ ተራሮች መሆናቸውን መመልከት የቻለው የጠፈር መርማሪው አሜሪካዊ ድርጅት፡ “NASA” ለኢትዮጵያ መንግስት በብዙ ሚሊዮን የሚቆጠር ዶላር እንደሚከፍል ይታወቃል። የሚገርመውና ብዙዎቻችንን ምናልባት ሊይስደነግጥ የሚችለው ነገር፡ በመስከረም ፩፩ ፪ ሺ ፩ ዓ.ም. ሽብርተኞች በኒውዮርክ ከተማ ላይ ጥቃት ባደረጉበት በአዲሱ አመታችን መግቢያ እለት፡ “ISS” በመባል የሚታወቀው ዓለም አቀፋዊው የህዋ መመርመሪያ ጣቢያ፡ የኦርቢታዊ ቦታ አቅጣጫው፡ (Orbital Position) ልክ አፍሪቃ ቀንድ ላይ ማረፍ እንደነበረበት፡ ነገር ግን ፕላኑ በጊዜው በስራ ላይ እንዳልዋለ ጭምጭምታዎች መሰማታቸው ነው። ምስጢሩ ምን ይሆን?

ከክትባት እንቆጠብ

እ.አ.አ በ August 1, 1989ዓ.ም. “The Sun” ተብሎ የሚታወቀው ታዋቂ የእንግሊዝ አገር የመንገድ ወሬ አሳዳጅ ጋዜጣ፡ “Big Brother’s Coming!” በሚል ርዕስ፡ በላብራቶሪ ውስጥ የተፈጠረ የአሳማ ጉንፋን ኤፒደሚ ገብቷል ይባልና የክትባት ዘመቻ ይካሄዳል ፣ ክትባቱ የሚያስፈልግበትም ምክኒያት በዚህ ሰበብ ህዝቡን ሁሉ በጸረ-ክርስቶሱ የአውሬው መርዝ ለመንደፍ በማሰብ ነው የሚል ዘገባ አቅርቦ ነበር።

ጋዜጣው ገና ከ 20 ዓመታት በፊት እንዲህ የሚል ነገር በገጾቹ ላይ አስፍሮ ነበር፡

“Coded microchips implanted in every person in the country would tie all of us into a master computer that could track anyone down at any moment, and plans for such a system are already under way whether you like it or not!”

ይቀጥልና…

“The tiny transmitters can be injected painlessly from a tiny gun in humans without them even knowing it through a nationwide vaccination program.”

በመጨረሻም፡

“All the government would have to do is make up something like the swine flu vaccine.”

በማለት ጽፎ ነበር።

እነዚህ የዲያብሎስ አገልጋዮች፡ እንዲህ የመሳሰሉትን ሴራዎች ገና ጥንት ነው ሲጠነስሱ የቆዩት። እግዚአብሔር ይይላቸው፡ እግዚአብሔር ከተንኮላቸው ሁሉ ይጠብቀን።

ባካችሁ እኛ አንተነኳኮል፡ አንድከም፡ በመጨቃጨቅ በመሰዳደብ አውሬውን አንመግብ። እንቀራረብ፡ እንሰባሰብ፡ እንተሳሰብ፡ እንተባበር፡ እንፈቃቀር፡። በኋላ አቅሙም ጊዜውም ስለማይኖረን እንዳይዘገይብን።

http://www.mediafire.com/?mnhltmmyzqn

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Suicides of Ethiopian Maids in The Middle East

A recent spate of suicides by foreign maids in Lebanon is prompting outrage among human rights groups, who say the government is doing too little to protect migrant domestic workers from severe abuse.

Over the past seven weeks at least 10 women have died, either by hanging themselves or by falling from tall buildings. Six of these cases have been reported in local media as suicides and four more have been described as possible work accidents.

An Ethiopian woman working as a cleaner in Lebanon told CNN by phone that she was sad about the recent suicides, and that she had a friend who killed herself several years ago, when she too was working as a live-in maid.

The abuse faced by migrant domestic workers is a common problem throughout the Arab Middle East, both because of generally poor labor regulation and also cultural prejudice.

The responsibility lies primarily with the state. There are no inspectors who can check on working conditions. The laws need to be modified.

The mistreatment of these women and the absence of any government protection is not just in Lebanon — it’s in all the Arab countries,

According to HRW, more than one third of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon are denied time off and more than 50 percent work at least 10 hours per day.

In North American and European cities, whenever the Ethiopian immigrant population reaches the 300 mark, it is natural to discover Ethiopian shops, Cafés, Restaurants and similar expressions of sociocultural dynamism. But, this is not the case in Arab cities, where hundreds of thousands of men and women Ethiopian origin live for decades, even centuries. The fact that nowhere in the Middle East, except in Israel, a single Ethiopian restaurant is to be found says it all on the degree of tolerance in that part of alienating world .

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UN & Population Control

“Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord; and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” Psalm 127:3

One of the most difficult concepts for many of us to accept is that there are human beings dedicated to coercive population control and genocide. It’s difficult to acknowledge that some governments help to finance the program of forced abortion, forced sterilization, infanticide, and control of the numbers of live births in the developing world. It’s known that rich nations are helping to finance the United Nations’ world-wide “family planning program,” a form of population control. Most rational men and women, however, find it impossible to believe that such programs are really part of a “master plan” to kill off large segments of the world’s population.

In the year 2003, the United Nation’s emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (EUE) has called for pressure tactics for depopulation in Ethiopia. Rather than providing food aid, the EUE is suggesting that a “reward and punishment” system should be implemented to implement ‘family planning’.

African media quote the EUE report as saying, “If Ethiopia wants to become less dependent on foreign food aid, all appropriate means should be explored to stop the ongoing population explosion.”

“The dissemination of family planning methods, possibly linked with relief operations, must be stepped up,” it said. “Family planning education should be pursued more aggressively and it might be worth contemplating how far a system of reward and punishment could help implement family planning strategies.”

There is a substantial evidence to prove that UNICEF has become a very willing partner in the population control anti-child and anti-family programs of the U.N. Until recently, UNICEF was vehemently denying its involvement in contraception and abortion programs. Since the Vatican’s Nov. 1996 withdrawal of its targeted $2,000 annual symbolic contribution, UNICEF seems to have dropped the pretence and has become more open about its participation in such programs.

Most people have no idea that one of the key goals of the United Nations is population control. In fact, an incredibly shocking U.N. population division policy brief from 2009 has been uncovered that not only discusses the need for population control, but also asks how fertility decline in the least developed countries can be accelerated.

The policy report begins with this stunning question:

What would it take to accelerate fertility decline in the least developed countries?

So who exactly are the least developed countries?

Well, apparently they aren’t places that have a lot of white people. The report defines the “less developed regions” this way:

The document says……”For purposes of this brief, the less developed regions include all the countries and areas of the world except Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United States of America and all countries in Europe:”

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Thanks, Enemamar!

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Dear God…..

….Please confirm what I already believe

God may have created man in his image, but it seems we return the favour. Believers subconsciously endow God with their own beliefs on controversial issues.

“Intuiting God’s beliefs on important issues may not produce an independent guide, but may instead serve as an echo chamber to validate and justify one’s own beliefs,” writes a team at the University of Chicago in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

I found the readers comments on HYS more interesting than the “research” itself

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The World’s Changing — The Media Isn’t

What do Ethiopia, Israel and Christianity have in common? The answer is: the three are permanently ridiculed and bashed by the self-hating world liberal media,

What do negative media images, conveyed by mainstream Western Media about Ethiopia communicate? What darkness prevails in the mind of the producer(s)? What gains for whom derive from journalistic bombast and unmitigated stereotype of the whole Ethiopian nation?

Nouns and adjectives like famine, drought, hunger, disease, AIDS, tribe, tribalism, underdeveloped, third world, dictatorship, corruption, over population, war, civil war, etc., are yet pervasive when Ethiopia is the story.

Ethiopia’s image in the Western Media is not a self-portrait. It is not a what you see is what you get. Because media conditioning shapes, molds, and monopolizes those images, references to Ethiopia are received sometimes with disdain and contempt. Even some Ethiopian descendants, who have virtually no cultural and moral competence, actually contribute to how Ethiopia is projected globally. Ashamed of their recent “heritage and socioeconomic development” some popular Ethiopian news-makers and blogs side with media characterizations projected through stories, datelines, specials, documentaries and nightline episodes. This attitude, while supremely disturbing, also abets the media-as if they need assistance-in defaming Ethiopia.

Of course, I don’t dare to blame for Ethiopia’s woes solely on the Western medias. They have been sufficiently aided and abetted by inept, corrupt and short-sighted political leadership and intellectuals who in my opinion must take most of the blame. Political figures and leading personalities who sold their souls to the Devil are the first who are exposing their people to all sorts of ignorance and exploitation

Yet, this permanent portrayals of Ethiopia in a bad light can only spread and prolong ignorance in a world much closer in proximity than ever before a media industry that thrives on the negative.

Ethiopia’s negative and contrived image, promoted in the Mainstream Media, pervades the psyche, pre-empts behaviors, infers worthlessness, and devalues the mind, while it attenuates human spirituality and connectivity: key ingredients in equitable planetary wealth sharing.

I wonder why the likes of the BBC have devoted a great deal of their resources and energy toward painting Ethiopia in a negative light for such a long time.

Those so affected by this practice must not only instigate its demise, but also they must independently try to research, investigate and study why these media-outlets are meanwhile famous to report in a meanspirited manner about our country.

Ethiopians attack BBC’s doom-laden coverage

I was expecting to see Ethiopian blogs post this particular news. None of them did, what a shame!

Ethiopian tour operators, in London for this month’s World Travel Market, have addressed a furious open letter to the BBC’s Director General, concerning the Corporation’s recent coverage of the drought in Ethiopia. The letter, signed by some 25 companies, accuses the BBC of casually dramatizing its broadcasts with footage from the infamous 1984 famine.

“Ethiopia,” they wrote, “has changed beyond all recognition since 1984, yet the BBC insists on showing images from that time. They are very intrusive and are deeply upsetting to many millions of Ethiopians.”

But beyond the matter of stung pride, the tour operators insist that the “doom-laden scenario” implied by the BBC’s use of old newsreel damages the national image, deterring foreign investment and scaring off tourists. “Investment, trade and tourism are key to Ethiopia’s development,” they claim “more so than aid.”

Which is true. The tourism industry currently accounts for approximately five per cent of Ethiopia’s GDP and tourism is a “featured component” of the government’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. With about 400,000 tourists a year, the country is still not exactly a hotspot, but adroit marketing of events like the 2007 ‘millennium’ and the annual Addis ‘Marathon’ (10km) have seen visitor numbers increase steadily over the last five years (visitors, incidentally, who invariably comment on green the country is).

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November 25, 523 – Crucial Day in History

The amazing story below is about the massacre of Christians on the Arabian peninsula back in 500’s A.D.

It happened in what is present day Yemen, on November 25 – on the same day as the start to the Christian holy season prior to the Feast of the Nativity of Jesus – Lidet (Christmas) of Tsome Neviyat (the fast of the Prophets known as Sebket / Advent – 15 November to 28 December Ethiopian Calendar )

The massacre of Christians on November 25, 523 has changed the entire world history in a very mysterious fashion.

In the sixth century, the nation of Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia) dominated the kingdoms of Himyar and Yemen on the southern Arabian peninsula. There were flourishing Christian churches in the area (also known as Homerites) which looked to Christian Abyssinia for protection.

It happened that a Himyarite Jew, Yusuf As’ar (better known by nicknames referring to his braids or ponytail: Dhu Nuwas, Dzu Nuwas, Dounaas, or Masruq), seized the throne from his king and revolted against Abyssinia, seeking to throw the Ethiopians out of the country. He captured an Ethiopian garrison at Zafar and burned the church there and burned other Christian churches.

Christians were strongest at the North Yemen city called Najran (sometimes spelled Nagran or Nadjran). Dhu Nuwas attacked it. The Christians held the town with desperate valor. Dhu Nuwas found he could not capture it. And so he resorted to treachery. He swore that he would grant the Christians of Najran full amnesty if they would surrender. The Christians, knowing they could not hold out forever, yielded against the advice of their leader Arethas (Aretas or Harith).

What happened next was so appalling that Bishop Simeon of Beth Arsham (a Syrian) traveled to the site to interview eyewitnesses and write a report… “The Jews amassed all the martyr’s bones and brought them into the church where they heaped them up. They then brought in the priests, deacons, sub-deacons, readers, and sons and daughters of the covenant…they filled the church from wall to wall, some 2,000 persons according to the men who came from Najran; then they piled wood all round the outside of the church and set light to it, thus burning the church with everyone inside it.”

In the ensuing week, hundreds more Christians were martyred, among them many godly women, who were killed with the most horrible tortures when they refused to renounce Christ. According to Simeon, many were told “Deny Christ and the cross and become Jewish like us; then you shall live.”

Versions differ as to date, but one says that it was on this day, November 25, 523, Dhu Nuwas took his vengeance on Arethas and 340 followers, killing them. These men were quickly included in martyr lists in the Greek, Latin and Russian churches. A song was even written about them by one Johannes Psaltes, although it reports only about 200 deaths.

Other accounts written within a century add that deep pits were dug, filled with combustible material, and set afire. Christians who refused to change faiths were hurled into the flame, thousands dying in this painful martyrdom. Some think that this is the event that the Koran refers to when it says, “Cursed be the diggers of the trench, who lighted the consuming fire and sat around it to watch the faithful being put to the torture!” although Muslim commentators deny this.

A wealthy lady named Ruhm was compelled to watch her virgin daughter and granddaughter executed and to taste their blood before she was killed herself. Asked how the blood tasted, she answered, “Like a pure, spotless offering.”

When word reached Constantinople, the Roman Emperor encouraged the Ethiopian king Ellesbaas (Ella Atsbeha or Kaleb) to intervene, as did the Patriarch of Alexandra. Ellesbaas was only too willing to do so, since his garrisons had been massacred and fellow Christians killed. He destroyed Dhu Nuwas and established a Christian kingdom. An Ethiopian-Jewish writing known as the Kebra Nagast regarded the downfall of Dhu Nuwas to be the final catastrophe for the Kingdom of Judah. Another Ethiopian book told the story of the massacre under the title The Book of the Himyarites.

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Ethiopia’s Cultural Cornucopia

“The Omo is oddly reminiscent of the American west in the 19th century. Life revolves around cattle, gunplay and getting the girl.”

Exactly! I even “SEE” a striking similarity between some tribes of the OMO and the original Nordic tribes of Northern Europe.

UNTIL recent years the tribes of the Omo River Basin in the remote southwest of Ethiopia had not even heard of the nation of which they were a part. For all they knew of it, Addis Ababa might have been the dark side of the moon.Theirs is a traditional world.

The men count their wealth in cattle, their wives in goats and their status by the number of enemies they have murdered. They paint their bodies for war and celebration, and drink cow’s blood to revive their spirits. The women, among the most beautiful in Africa, scar their torsos in elaborate patterns for erotic effect, and in preparation for marriage insert plates the size of Frisbees in their lower lips. “This is what one dreamed about as a child,” a seasoned Africa traveller told me once. “An Africa untouched by our own culture.”

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Ethiopian tribes – picture galleries

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Emperor Menelek Wasn’t Barbarian

The following amazing article was written and published by the World’s best Newspaper, by the New York Times, 113 years ago, on May 4, 1896

Origin of Monastic Live – Africa. Not so Dark After All – Emperor Menelek’s Descent from Sheba—Priests Can Divorce—The Problem in the Soudan—Many of the Monasteries Said to Possess Valuable Documents and Manuscripts.

Christendom has a deeper interest in Abyssinia and its remarkable monarch, Emperor Menelek, than the world at large has stopped to consider. It is not the fate of the Italian Army nor the march of the British toward the Soudan that attracts thinking people. It is the general focusing of the world’s lenses upon that part of the globe which was literally the cradle of culture and of Christianity.

It has been the vogue to speak of Africa as a “dark continent.” a God-forsaken and debauched region. There has been some foundation—nay, one had almost said positive justification—for this practice because among the wild and untamed tribes of Central Africa and the inhabitants of the South and West all the excesses of debased carnalism prevailed.

Not so, however, in Abyssinia has this been the case, despite the habitudes of sensational correspondents and those who were part of or accompanied besieging and invading European armies. Abyssinia/Ethiopia and Egypt have been and still continue to be the repositories of the relics and treasures of a wondrous civilization, a grandeur, learning, and culture to which modern historians referentially defer and point with reverential awe.

If the wars which have begun in Africa, particularly in that region of which Ethiopia is part, reveal the treasures hidden in the monasteries of the Coptic monks and the monophysite priests, they will be a blessing to Christianity, science, and progressive civilization.

Emperor Menelek has been regarded as a “barbarian” by Europeans, who seem to have adopted the term with even less justification for it than had the Roman people when they applied it to all other races on earth. But when this “barbarian” is investigated he turns out to be by birth and possibilities very much of a gentleman of lofty lineage and invaluable possessions. He rules to-day a country of about 100,000 square miles, inhabited by 5,000,000 persons, whose forefathers were believed to be the oldest and greatest people known to history. They are divided into three great subdivisions of the whole: First, the Ethiopians of Tigré, who speak the ancient Geez language; second the Amharic tribes, living in Amhara and Shoa, and, third, the Agows of Wag Lasta, said to be of Phoenician origin. There are also the Gallas, who settled in Amhara and Shoa.

It must be admitted that the frequent civil wars brutalized and depraved these people by engendering evils and vices and by destroying the literature that once belonged to Abyssinia and which tradition tells us was important and extensive. Abyssinia is situated between latitudes 8 degrees 30 minutes and 16 degrees 80 minutes north, and between longitudes 34 degrees 20 minutes and 43 degrees 20 minutes east. It is bounded north and northwest by Nubia and south and east by Galla and Somali and Adal. Its topography may be described as elevated table land and extensive valleys, and it has many thriving cities. So much for the geographical summary of Emperor Menelek’s dominions. Of its relations to Christianity and the world’s early greatness a few words of description will be interesting.

Menelek claims to be a direct descendant from the Queen of Sheba and her son Menelek, whose father was said to be Solomon, and the legendary lore of this part of Africa says that the first Menelek was a Jew and was educated by the wise King himself. Be this as it may, the present Menelek is a wise man, and is bent on being classified by his European cousins as their peer—a potentate of common sense and progressive, of longer descent and loftier lineage—prepared to take his place among them for the benefit of his people and humanity. He wishes to belong to the Geneva Convention, and it is asserted that he stands ready to throw open the innermost recesses of his kingdom and its monasteries to the properly accredited explorer.

There should be plenty to repay research of this character in a land so wealthy in Biblical tradition, and where stands the oldest temples and religious edifices. In Axum, the city of the Queen of Sheba, there stands a cathedral to-day as old as Christianity itself. If historians are to be believed.

Coptic Christianity was and is the religion of the people. There are, of course, many Mohammedans and Jews. The first apostle of Christianity in Abyssinia chroniclers claim to have been the Chamberlain of Queen Candace of Ethiopia, whose baptism is recorded in Acts Vll., 27. But Frementius and Adesius of Tyre were slaves to the King of Abyssinia, and on his death the former became tutor to the hereditary Princes, and Adesius went back to Tyre. This was in A.D. 320, and Frementius formed a Christian Church among the Greek and Roman merchants in Axum. He then went to Alexandria and was consecrated by Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. The King was baptized and Axum became the See of a Metropolitan, with seven suffragans. In the fifth and sixth centuries the monophysites controlled the patriarchal See of Alexandria.

Subsequent to this Christianity spread over Nubia and Abyssinia and continued to spread until the Mohammedans overran the country and planted the faith of Moslem wherever they appeared. Through the frightful days of the seventeenth century Abyssinia remained faithful in a large sense to Christianity, and Rome, through the Portuguese, made vigorous efforts to bring the Abyssinian Christians beneath the Papal rule. The effort was not successful for any length of time any more than was the effort to establish the Anglican Church there when Andraos was consecrated Abuna, or Metropolitan, of Abyssinia by the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, in 1841.

The Church has always been monophysitic and has many peculiar features in its ritual; the Jewish Sabbath was observed as well as the Christian; circumcision preceded baptism; dancing was in the services just as it was in the Jewish Temple; baptism among the Coptic Christians was by immersion, and communion was administered daily to the laity.

The Church is a monastic Church. The beginning of the monastic life was in the deserts of Egypt, and the Coptic Christians gave the impulse to the development of Christian asceticism, which later resulted in monasteries and convents. The most celebrated convents in Abyssinia are Debra Libanos, in Sliso; St. Stephen, on Lake Haik; Debra Denus and Axum Thion, in Tigré, and Lahbela, in Lasta.

Each Church has a Tabot, or ark of the Covenant, behind the curtain of is own holy of holies, which may have lent some color to the tradition that the Ark of the Covenant from the Temple had been transferred for safety to Axum by the early Menelik when it was imperiled. But, as Mr. Kipling points out, “that is another story.”

At present this article’s purpose is to show that this “barbarian” Menelek is not such a barbarian after all, and that he really may be, and very likely is, the custodian of the archives and secrets of the earliest Christians and the orthodox Jews. One thing is quite certain. It is that the Coptic Christians were the first of great Christians, and that Africa was not so dark a continent then as people imagine. The Copts were the principal sect of Christians in the Valley of the Nile, and were and still are descendants of the inhabitants of Egypt in the days of the Ptolemies. There is ancestral greatness.

A few additional peculiarities in Abyssinian Christianity are worthy of note. Priests have power to divorce, and a married man can cast his matrimonial gyves and throw the support of his children on to his wife’s shoulders by becoming a monk. The Bible is in eighty-one books and is written in the ancient language of Axum, and contains the Roman Catholic canon and many other books.

Thus it will be seen that Christendom, through these wars and strifes now raging in the Valley of the Nile, may acquire information hitherto hidden from all but Abyssinian and Coptic fanatics’ eyes for centuries.

It is asserted that in many of the monasteries valuable documents and manuscripts have been saved for ages, just as were manuscripts in the Middle Ages in Europe. It has even been suggested and published that tomes, parchments, and volumes believed to have perished with the library at Alexandria were in reality secreted in Coptic convents and sanctuaries throughout Ethiopia, Abyssinia and Nubia to be resurrected shortly by means of these bitter conflicts and annihilation of armies.

Abyssinia and Ethiopia – once the Ethiopian Empire – are repositories of secrets vital to history and to progress. Shall they be revealed by force of arms or by moral suasion and courtesy to a monarch who has hitherto been proclaimed a “barbarian”?

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They Can See You Through Walls

This is potentially great news for firefighters trying to locate people trapped in burning buildings, and for police SWAT teams faced with the task of rescuing hostages. And it might be a boon to home-security companies tasked with detecting burglars. But it’s hard not to see an Orwellian degree of potential for privacy-eroding surveillance as well.

Two engineers from the University of Utah showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls.

Their method uses radio tomographic imaging (RTI), which can “see,” locate and track moving people or objects in an area surrounded by inexpensive radio transceivers that send and receive signals. People don’t need to wear radio-transmitting ID tags.

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