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Posted: Tuesday July 20th, 2004 15:01 |
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athaba wrote: Stunning pics Ab - thanks for sharing. I have heard the tale about the covenant being in Ethiopia, but what I want to know is why is it 'said', to be there - why don't anyone know?
The Queen of Sheba is supposed to have been an Ethiopian monarch. The legends say that the Queen of Sheba travelled from Ethiopia to Jerusalem to visit King Solomon, was impregnated by King Solomon, and upon return to Ethiopia gave birth to a son, Menelik I (founder of Ethiopia's Solomonic dynasty, Emperor Haile Selassie was the 225th descendant of King Solomon).
When Menelik turned 20, he travelled to Jerusalem to visit his father and was received with great honour. So much, honour, in fact, that Solomon's advisers grew jealous of him, and asked the king to send Menelik home. Solomon relented, on the condition that his advisers send their first-born sons with him. One of the sons, Azarius, son of Zadok the High Priest of Israel, then stole the Ark of the Covenant, according to the story, and brought it with them to Ethiopia.
Although this is possible, another more plausible account is that a colony of Jews fled the Babylonian invasion of Judah, taking the ark with them down into Ethiopia for safekeeping.
No one really knows for sure which story is the truth or whether the Ark exists in Axum at all. The keeper of the Ark is the only one allowed inside the room where the supposed ark is kept, not sure why they keep it secret.
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Posted: Tuesday July 20th, 2004 20:58 |
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Abissinia wrote: athaba wrote: Stunning pics Ab - thanks for sharing. I have heard the tale about the covenant being in Ethiopia, but what I want to know is why is it 'said', to be there - why don't anyone know?
The Queen of Sheba is supposed to have been an Ethiopian monarch. The legends I have read say that hearing of King Solomon's great wisdom and glory, the Queen of Sheba travelled from Ethiopia to Jerusalem to visit him, was impregnated by King Solomon, and upon return to Ethiopia gave birth to a son, Menelik I (founder of Ethiopia's Solomonic dynasty, Emperor Haile Selassie was the 225th descendant of King Solomon).
When Menelik turned 20, he travelled to Jerusalem to visit his father and was received with great honour. So much, honour, in fact, that Solomon's advisers grew jealous of him, and asked the king to send Menelik home. Solomon relented, on the condition that his advisers send their first-born sons with him. One of the sons, Azarius, son of Zadok the High Priest of Israel, then stole the Ark of the Covenant, according to the story, and brought it with them to Ethiopia.
Although this is possible, another more plausible account is that a colony of Jews fled the Babylonian invasion of Judah, taking the ark with them down into Ethiopia for safekeeping.
No one really knows for sure which story is the truth or whether the Ark exists in Axum at all. The keeper of the Ark is the only one allowed inside the room where the supposed ark is kept, not sure why they keep it secret.
Thanks Abissinia! -I heard a rough version of that tale, but it is interesting to note that from the time all that supposed to have had happened, the keeper(s) have not broken the silence.  (Puzzled)
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Posted: Tuesday August 3rd, 2004 13:34 |
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@ All,
These are really stunning pictures. What's the point of going somewhere where you can't get to eat the local food, see the culture and hear the language.
Too many places of beauty, history and culture are being changed out of all recognition. I did a tour of Tunisia about 13 years ago. Fantastic! Went there about 3 years ago, what a mess  I was so shocked by the transformation. Nothing but fast or english food. Eventually found a (bonafide) Indian restaurant to eat properly and it took ages trying to find a Tunisian cafe/restaurant. My favourite place is Egypt but would really like to do the West coast of Africa next.
Can anyone suggest how/who best to organise these visits/tours?
Abissinia, who do you arrange your visit to Ethiopia with (if you don't mind).
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Posted: Tuesday August 3rd, 2004 17:40 |
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 Weirdly Femergy, at the back of Big Issues, (yes the homeless mag), they use to run no end of tours/expeditions etc., to Africa - very cheaply.
I don't know if they still do, (because its been a while since I bought one), but it may be worth getting one to find out, even if at the end of day you only end up helping the homeless.
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Posted: Tuesday August 3rd, 2004 22:00 |
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@ Athaba, thankx for that slice of info.
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Posted: Wednesday August 4th, 2004 18:05 |
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| Your welcome Fem!
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Posted: Thursday August 12th, 2004 15:03 |
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Posted: Thursday August 12th, 2004 23:15 |
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Femergy wrote:
Abissinia, who do you arrange your visit to Ethiopia with (if you don't mind).
My aunt who lives in Ethiopia 6 month of the year organised most things for me and my brother like flight tickets (internal), car rental etc. But everything else we did ourselves when we got there.
When we first got there we had planned to visit just 3 places (cities) but ended up visiting about 8 places, we just went with the flow really. Each place we visited they recommended we visit another place and that’s exactly what we did.
Let me know if you need info on tour operators to Ethiopia, I can ask my dad for you.
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Posted: Friday August 13th, 2004 03:17 |
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Here are some pics from my trip to hargeisa Somaliland
I am wearing what most somali men wear.
It was my first trip there.
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Posted: Monday August 16th, 2004 14:55 |
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| Its a shame I am unable to download the pics of Sudan from my cd, apparntly they are bigger that 102400 bytes. If anyone knows alternatives of posting pics i will apprecitae it
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Posted: Monday August 16th, 2004 15:44 |
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Sooofresh wrote: Its a shame I am unable to download the pics of Sudan from my cd, apparntly they are bigger that 102400 bytes. If anyone knows alternatives of posting pics i will apprecitae it
Use Photoshop to reduce the file size of your pics, crop away any extra space around the image. This will reduce the pixel dimensions of your photos.
Saving your photos as JPEGs also helps compress the file, also try and reduce the number of colours in your image to the smallest possible (options 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256).
I hope this helps…
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Posted: Monday August 16th, 2004 19:33 |
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I.T. hmmm not my cup of tea whats Photoshop? urm i have windows xp if that helps
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Posted: Tuesday August 17th, 2004 11:07 |
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Abb., I saw a documentary about the covenant and they showed the small house it was supposed to be held in, it was all extremly intriguing. The keeper looked as if he was handpicked from a horrorflick, they couldn't get him to say anything. What I wouldn't pay to be a fly in that room.
Kunjufu, you didn't happen to visit the torture center Tould Sleng? Scary stuff. Looking at your picture, it's hard to belive that ever took place.
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Posted: Tuesday August 17th, 2004 11:27 |
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@sooofresh
As an alternative to Adobe Photoshop, you can use Microsoft Photo Editor which comes free with Microsoft Office, it has a much smaller set of tools and options to work with than Photoshop but enough for basic photo and image manipulation tasks such as cropping and resizing which is all you need really.
To crop you photo
1. Click Select  on the Standard toolbar, and then drag over the area of your image you want to keep.
2. On the Image menu, click Crop.
3. Select the options you want
4. Click OK.
To Resize your Photo
1. On the image menu, click resize
2. Enter the new width or height, or the percentage of the original.
3. Click Ok
Hope this helps…..
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Posted: Monday December 6th, 2004 03:54 |
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given the stone image (god) I'm surprised they didn't worship you when they saw you.
Nice photos, especially the second one and the stone god shot, both very powerful.
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Posted: Tuesday August 30th, 2005 00:43 |
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Beautiful pictures, everyone!
Kunjufu, I will have to try and come back tonight/tomorrow to see the ones you posted. They seem to be showing up with little red 'x's. I will definitely try again.
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Posted: Tuesday August 30th, 2005 00:46 |
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| Sorry but my picture have been taken down now...I'll need to repost them again in the future..
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Posted: Tuesday August 30th, 2005 00:57 |
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Oh, okay, that explains the red 'x's.
I will keep an eye out for the reposts.
Peace...
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Posted: Tuesday August 30th, 2005 06:12 |
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| who was this "mad queen?"
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