How1 Modern Queen of Sheba (jot Then the J : (L-- r Strange Royal Pair Staged the World's Biggest Banquet, ilk v 7 Lasting Seven Days, with 100,000 L J Guests Hungry ' tradition paints truly the ancient While " 1E)"t1"d IFQueen of SJieba, she was a lady t0tm who possessed charm and ' beauty MODERN SHEBA also IT in such supreme degree that every man who saw her, whether Queen Zaudita Solomon on his throne or some poor (Judith),' Empre of boatman of the Nile, went mad with Abyssinia and love and offered marriage, thrones, Ethopia, Who Claims even suicide, in return for her smiles. Direct Descent From l Today another handsome Empress who claims direct descent from Sheba the Queen of Sheba. finds herself less lucky. She has a throne and a fine young torgeous sit beside her on it, but the King is not her husband. He has an- other wife whom he has no intention of abandoning. And as for the Em- press, she has no husband at all. s This queen, who has a king but not a husband, is a Zudita (Judith) ruler of Abyssinia and Ethopia, a great realm in Eastern Central Africa, larger than Germany, France, Belgium and Hol- -' land put together. The king, by whose side she now sits, Is her cousin, Ras Tafari, a grandson of King Menelik II. For ten years this Ras Tafari had wielded great mili- tary and political power in Abyssinia as regent, and insisted finally that the actual throne should be his. . Rather than face revolt, Empress Judith agreed to let him be elevated end share the throne with him. The result is that Abyssinia is the only country in the world today whe the emperor and Map of Abyssinia and Ethiopia empress are not at the same Showing Their Location in East Africa. time husband and wife. Here to Tradition Once Both of these According strange Ruled the of rulers, since they are cou- Queen Sheba. sins, claim descent equally southern Arabia could from King Solomon and she have come the of all the way on camel back, whereas if Queen Sheba. she had lived When Ras Talfari was in Ethiopia the natural mode of in crowned only a few voyage, even those ancient months the days, would have been up and across ago, following the Red Sea traditfonal titles, going by ship. back to the days of Solo- While all this is speculative, one mon, were conferred on also called on Mussolini, thing is definitely known of the an- him: wliom he greatlv admires, cient Sabeans. They were great car- King of Kings. and patched up an old bitter avan traders, and whether Sheba was Conquering Lion of Ju-da- quarrel between Italv and their queen or not, they did send their Abyssinia, which has lasted camel caravans in those days not only into mi m Elect of God. since 1896. As a matter of Palestine and northern Arabia, is a verv but even so far as India. Shadow of God Upon fact, Abyssinia Earth. powerful country, as the The new German theory of the ori- when of the of of Abyssmians proved gin Queen Sheba conforms Negus Abyssinia. they inflicted crushing de- with the Arabic tradition. In Arabic Emperor of Abyssinia. feat on an Italian expedi- legend they tell stories of her At many the coronation, tionary force, which tried to glory, and even believe that they know which was a &. ' invade and them. . m the which was gorgeous I conquer ' jtt x i WWw ANCIENT lady's name, they say event attended by diplo- Old Menelik, of Abyssinia, W "Balkis." matic KING , SHEBA envoys from all the FrW If Julius The Arabs will therefore he t T pleased countries of white 11 H" T'ari. TafarifrDltrltneaimildW ) ,s. important Europe, JSll Kranberp's to learn that Dr. Carl Jungmann an elaborate manifesto was set- of delicate cast of his S - read, m features, ! W SS" Of agrees with their traditions. forth all the Abyssinia, im- - Painting Empress ting emperor's new titles Jim Hi and the saintlike aspect lg the Queen of Sheba Gifts of Judith, the modern "Queen of and It was his is also ffillSllllwj Bringing Sheba," powers. afterward pub- parted by beard, Gold and bplce to King Solomon will not be so pleased with these lished in the seventy-tw- o HI- Zaudita His When languages a lion in his way. in Biblical Times. doubts cast on her ancient and dialects which are lUi Empress, but Early lineage. spoken in his HypN he first became regent How strongly she and the Emperor realm. ' in 1916 a grandson of the Emperor Queen Judith, believe, and 'so it is the familiar Old Testament story1, in- Ras Tafari believe It with Wife. He' Ras immed- that; their rfafilit? ,. states, grandiloquent poeti- jPff B opposed his power. Tafari taught in many histories, that the cluding the famous Song of Solomon, is actually descended from the ancient cal Claims d exaggerations, that "on earth no HI iately went to war, and after a battle hieen of Slieba was a in which Solomon has the heroine and is M Descent girl Queen King Solomon indicated greater power is thinkable or feasible Jp; in which 16,000 men were killed the beauty that Ethiopia was her country, singing: by the fact that at the coronation not than of Menelik the Great was and that exercised by the Negus of grandson that after she had visited Kins; "I am black, but comely, O, ye only was the Emperor hailed as "Lion M ; 3& Solomon. and has been in Solomon son was Abyssinia," and that "through the taken prisoner, kept horn to her and daughters of Jerusalem, as the' tents of the Tribe of Juda," but two actual, close captivity to this day. that Solomon was the father of the of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." live, chained lions, nervous and believed in tire to glaring It is Europe that child. According historic tradition However, with reference to the like huge, restless tame cats, crouched ,. . .. Empress Judith agreed this son bore so remarkable a resem- Queen, a new alternative theory is now beside him on the throne. to half a throne blance to Solomon that when later in to accept advanced wit: that the Queen came Interest in the ethnological aspects without a husband be- life he visited Palestine he was rec- not from Ethiopia at all, hut from a of Ras Tafari, as a descendant of King h cause she was faced at the of the Holy different lost ognized gates City ancient kingdom on the Solomon, was whetted with an armed revolt and acclaimed as the son of the Arabian recently sharply ' - - ? Kinq. Peninsula, and that conse- by the in cable histo- - discovery, reported led, by the Regent and Bible students and' secular quently she was not d but would have dispatches, of the mummy of Solo- probably rreed Semitic, related to the great ethnologi- mon's favorite wife. It was shared a similar fate if cal exhumed - - - of which both the Hebrews . "i , owJ IB- J group in a burial vault in Jerusal- ' the Arabs a magniiicent and form part. em, where it had lain for 3,000 The of this years. leading exponents theory, A Cairo newspaper, Al Mokatam, is which would greatly annoy the Empress accredited with are the having instituted the Judith, German scientists and search which led to the sensational explorers who accompanied the Carl find. Jungmann Expedition into southern As it afterward turned Arabia. came back out, the They convinced Cairo had, that the province of Arabia now called paper innocently enough, Saba was the reprinted the story of the rich find original Kingdom of from a Palestine Sheba's Queen, that it a weekly, thinking it enjoyed high simply news and not it degree of civilization in Bibiical times, realizing that and had been intended as pure and simple that its inhabitants were the same fiction. racial stock as the Arabs and Hebrews. But, at that, it made good and in- The German has reading helped to reawaken expedition found in Solomon. di- which make terest Following is a inscriptions the theory of the plausible if not true. The gest original story: certainly The queen's burial chamber is said people of Saba used the primitive Semitic and to be more gorgeous than that of King script, worshiped among of was other things, the moon and the ser- Egypt. It built It will be by King Solomon, whose reign began pent. recalled that Moses some himself lifted a 897 years ago, for Moti Maris, up. serpent in the wi- his lderness, and Mount which Egyptian consort, who met her Sinai, from in he the Ten means death attempting to thwart a plot got Commandments, heV literally "The Mountain of the Moon." against royal husband. Strangest of all, in this A golden coffin, which was easily un- building up contained theory is the possible etymology of the earthed, the mummy of Moti word "Hallelujah," which occurs in Maris. It had been brought by Solo- mon from niany Hebrew psalms, songs of rejoic- Memphis to Jerusalem. The ing and hymns of praise. It has never body was wrapped in rich coverings ROYAL CEREMONY been explained satisfactorily. From embellished with precious stones. This Picture of the is A From Royal Cavalcade It Possible to Imagine the the inscriptions discovered by the Ger- parchment scroll, containing Gorgeous Coronation Ceremonies of Ras Tafari, at Addis Ababa, mans, however, it is learned that the Hebrew writing, said to be in King ( Capital of Abyssinia. ancient Sabean word for the new moon Solomon's own script, had been buried was with the body. This of God no "Halil," and it is argued that document told power king, ruler, monarch, the choicest steaks for the most have been the tragic circumstances of his or combination of earthly nortant "Hallelujah" may originally wife's emperor guests. a religious exclamation in salu- death, and highly her powers would ever be of any avail In the meanwhile car- joyful praised wifely nearly every tation of the new moon. virtues. y the new Negus." mason and of the against penter, engineer All Bihle readers will recall How Moti Maris met her death in And the coronation ban- was in tri- the certainly country engaged erecting of the thirty-sixt- h was conducted on a scale com- scenes great dramatic splendor in year of his reign and quet umphal arches, building roads, hanging the court of Solomon when was buried beneath mensurate with such for and to do the Queen the palace in which pretensions, (lags decorations honor to HEADGEAR of Sheba with she had lived is set with a citi- this modern Lion Crown of arrived her mighty forth on the parch- magnificent gesture every "Conquering of the The Famous the Emperor Theodore, Presented to Empress trains and It is ment. zen of the realm was invited to it! Tribe of and his of Judith and costly gifts. recounted Judah, Queen By King George Queen Mary of England. that she Solomon, other Three months before the More than 100,000 hungry people Sheba, the Empress." brought among queen's things one hundred and twenty talents death, her father, Amento, came from actually came, so that it was probably The new is a she had refused to be Ethiopian-Abyssinia- n emperor acquiescent. royal family to of gold huge gold bars which would laden with but th biggest banquet ever given in the slightly built man of medium Those rumors of a Egypt gifts, cherishing height, war, followed by this origin might well he literally, true. have totaled in value like malicious He was history of the world. Furthermore, with delicately chiseled features. The and the Not is something plans. scheming to peaceful agreement gorgeous only the royal family marked, $3,000,000. in modern money. It is oust Solomon from the the attended it in person, and new also is and y throne and Negus empress, dark, heavy coronation with its festivals, have despite the dark color of its skin, with recounted also she came seize the so did the modern Queen of Sheba. handsome. revived old that "with country for Egypt. Moti the historical, and very strongly Hebrew or Semitic camels that bore and in was For ssven days and seven nights the Two years ago Raa Tafari made a ethnic of whether the claims spices gold secretly ordered to poison Solo- problem but there are whole tribes in abudance and stones." mon's wine, but banquet lasted, great droves of cattle, journey through Europe with a mag- of the of de- precious frustrated this mur- Abyssinian royal family Abyssinia which have this definitely Although there are gold and derous sheep and other animals passing each nificent retinue, and was scent from Solomon and Sheba lit- precioui attempt by drinking the lethal elaborately are Semitic cast of countenance. stones in Abyssinia there is herself. day through the abattoirs and great entertained by King George in Eng- erally true, or whether are today prac- draught While her father, while they merely That the Queen of Sheba did come tically no spice of any sort, whereas with a loud of cooking ovens, butchers worked land, and by most of the kings and legend. from and was cry rage, rushed from twenty-fou- r hours a out of Ethiopia actually Arabia is the land of spices, and if the the room, the fell day cutting presidents European countries. 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