Queen of Sheba (Queen Makeda)’ The Exotic & Mysterious Woman of Power

Africa Facts Zone presents The Queen of Sheba — an exotic and mysterious woman of power.

She is immortalised in the world’s great religious works, among them the Hebrew Bible and the Muslim Koran.

She also appears in Turkish and Persian painting, in Kabbalistic treatises, and in medieval Christian mystical works, where she is viewed as the embodiment of Divine Wisdom and a foreteller of the cult of the Holy Cross.

In Africa and Arabia her tale is still told to this day.

Her tale has been told and retold in many lands for nearly 3,000 years.

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Queen of Sheba & The Kebra Nagast (Glory of King)

Of all the stories of the Queen of Sheba, those of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa are those that probably retain the most resonance today with the people who tell them.

The stories are immortalized in the Ethiopian holy book — the Kebra Nagast — where we find accounts of the queen’s hairy hoof, her trip to Solomon and her seduction. But these tales go further.

According to this tradition, the Queen of Sheba (called Makeda) visited Solomon’s court after hearing about his wisdom.

She stayed and learned from him for six months. On the last night of her visit, he tricked her into his bed, and she became pregnant.

She returned to her kingdom, where she bore Solomon a son, Me

The story goes that years later Menelik traveled to Jerusalem to senilek meaning ‘Son of the Wise’.

To see his father, who greeted him with joy and made him king to rule after his death.

But Menelik refused and decided to return home. Under cover of darkness, he left the city — taking with him its most precious relic, the Ark of the Covenant.

He thus found the royal Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia, which ruled until the deposition of Haile Selassie I in 1974.

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