Ethiopia
The Jamaican black communities (garveytas), formed in 20s, saw Africa as the promised land, especially Ethiopia, because it is an ancient African empire never colonized and responsible for maintaining a culture without any major European influences.
Ethiopia, which has about one hundred dialects and Amharic as official language, also claims a biblical ancestry because they say that their kings are descended from the union of the Ethiopian Queen Makeda of Sheba to King Solomon in Jerusalem, this union was born Menelik I, and then emerge from a dynasty Ethiopians solomonic lands. The biblical texts have King Solomon as an ancestor of Jesus Christ and the Ethiopian book Kebra Nagast recounts the meeting of the King Jerusalem with the Queen of Sheba and consequently the origin of the family tree of the largest African empire of all time, Ethiopia, former Abyssinia (also called Axum and Cush), the only African nation mentioned in all versions of the Bible.
The Kebra Nagast is considered a sacred text for both Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia and for the Jamaican Rastafarians. According to his account history, Queen Makeda (also known as Balkis, or Belkis) Sheba (South), Queen of Ethiopia, knowing of the existence of a wise king of Jerusalem, deep knowledge of the divine laws should go to him to know about his reign and his religious convictions.
The queen was welcomed at the palace of Solomon, who introduced the belief of one God and the principles of Jewish faith. The king of Jerusalem I would spend the night with a virgin queen and have a sexual relationship with her, but this declined the invitation, but proposed a compromise where Solomon she could not make use of their no wealth. Believing it to be very rich and powerful, the queen of Sheba had no doubt that he need not the material wealth of the king, but before bed, Solomon ordered their employees to put enough salt in the Queen's dinner, putting is also a pitcher of water at the head of your bed. At dawn, Makeda became thirsty and drank the water, the king stood up and said she had consumed a great treasure of his realm and asked if he knew the Queen of Sheba wealth greater than water. Both fell in love and this meeting the queen pregnant returned to Ethiopia, left rare animals and works of art that was loaded with great difficulty with his caravan along the arduous journey Middle East and returned to Africa with a historical present: The ring that bore the mark of the lion, symbol of the tribe of Judah, also Family Solomon. His son, Ebna grew up knowing about the identity of his father and become an adult known by his own queen. Ebna was crowned and named Menelik I and traveled to Jerusalem to meet his father. Solomon at first doubted the truth of his paternity, but over time felt an affinity with the boy and see the antique ring on the finger of Menelik I recognized his offspring. From then on, King Menelik I lived with and gave great secrets of the young Ethiopian Jerusalem.
Solomon was struggling in his homeland and gave him the Ark of the Covenant containing the Ten Commandments of Moses original; by Menelik I order of his father led the "Tablets of Moses" to Ethiopia and made the trip accompanied by twelve thousand Israeli Jews. According to the Orthodox Church, the ark there still remains today and is monitored and covered by a single priest, who dedicates his life to save her, being substituted for generations.
Solomon was struggling in his homeland and gave him the Ark of the Covenant containing the Ten Commandments of Moses original; by Menelik I order of his father led the "Tablets of Moses" to Ethiopia and made the trip accompanied by twelve thousand Israeli Jews. According to the Orthodox Church, the ark there still remains today and is monitored and covered by a single priest, who dedicates his life to save her, being substituted for generations.
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