Keepers of the Lost Ark?[Ethiopia][Ark of the Covenant]

Smithsonian Magazine ^ | December 2007 | Paul Raffaele

[BGHater]

A huddle grows around the high priests, with one young priest bearing an ikon, or holy picture, while others hold ornate gold and silver crosses.

The St. George church in Lalibella, carved from the rock in the form of a cruciform.

A sermon is given on the mount by Abuna Andreas at Lalibella during Christmas rituals.

A monk, Abba Haile Mikael, stands outside his hut with a crucifix and a holy book on Tana Kirkos.

Abba Haile Mikael surrounds the bronze dish the monks at Tana Kirkos claim was stolen by Menelek from the Temple at Jerusalem, along with the ark of the covenant.

Abba Haile Mikael stands beside pre-Christian-era stone pillars, believed to be connected with ancient Jewish-style blood sacrifices, inside protective tin shed.

This is a typical mural seen all over Ethiopia (left, at Axum) of King Solomon meeting Queen Sheba in Jerusalem.

[BGHater]

Not a discovery, but Ark of the covenant, ethiopia, Smithsonian Magazine article. Maybe for GGG inventory. ping

[shield]

Total BS

[rellimpank]

-bflr-

[IndyTiger]

I thought it was being kept in a warehouse owned by the Smithsonian.

[dfwgator]

Beat me to it.

[BGHater]

It is, the article is from their Magazine. They are trying to throw us off the trail.

[bpjam]

Apparently they are so devout that they are determined to continue living in the past. Like, the 1000 A.D. past.

Its not like inventions of things like electricity, irrigation and the building of actual structures didn’t make it to the continent of Africa.

But as to the story, I say we storm the place, Take photos of whatever it is that they are calling the ‘Ark’ and we can put this all to rest. If it really is something of incredible regilious and historical proportion, then making it publicly available is the only way to truly keep it safe and also to prove the existence of Gods acts on this Earth as the Ethiopians believe. And if it turns out that the Ethiopians having been guarding a box full of rocks for the past 1000 years, then it would be impolite of us not to at least let them know they have been drinking the Koolaid.

[ASA Vet]

priests had hidden the ark from the invaders

"No king or patriarch or bishop or ruler can ever see it, only me."

So the priests hid it without seeing it?

[theFIRMbss]

> I say we storm the place

Us Freepers?! We have
a Rapid Deployment Force
that can span the globe?!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

There is another tradition that has the Biblical Prophet, Jeremiah. Going down into Egypt in 586 BC having with him the daughter of King Zedekiah. Eventually they make it to Northern Ireland where Tia Tephi marries the high king of Northern Ireland. The ark is supposedly buried near the hill of Tara.
Someday perhaps we will know what happened to it. I doubt if it was destroyed by the Babylonians. So, its out there waiting to be found somewhere.

[Constantine XIII]

bump

[Cicero]

The story that the Ark is in Ethiopia may well be true. I posted an earlier article here from Crisis Magazine, which I think is much more convincing than this article. The Crisis reporter ended up at the same small church with the iron fence mentioned here.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/julaug2002/feature2.htm

I recommend this earlier article in Crisis. Fewer pictures than National Geographic, but maybe more substance.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks BGhater. Many historians -- including Richard Pankhurst, a British-born scholar who has lived in Ethiopia for almost 50 years -- date the Kebra Negast manuscript to the 14th century A.D. It was written, they say, to validate the claim by Menelik's descendants that their right to rule was God-given, based on an unbroken succession from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. But the Ethiopian faithful say the chronicles were copied from a fourth-century Coptic manuscript that was, in turn, based on a far earlier account... "The ark came here from Aksum for safekeeping from enemies well before Jesus was born because our people followed the Jewish religion then," he said. "But when King Ezana ruled in Aksum 1,600 years ago, he took the ark back to Aksum." Ezana's kingdom extended across the Red Sea into the Arabian peninsula; he converted to Christianity around A.D. 330 and became hugely influential in spreading the faith. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[SW6906]

Ping!

[Monkey Face]

OK. That’s it: You’re buying!

[Library Lady]

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[RightWhale]

Graham Hancock blazed this trail long ago.

[SunkenCiv]

When the Ethiopian gov’t during the last king’s reign built a new building to shelter the ark, it was moved on a wagon or truck, but it was completely covered with cloth. I think footage or stills of that event exist online. There’s only one guardian at a time, and that one selects and “trains” his successor when he’s ready to die, so at most, two living people at a time have actually seen the thing — whatever it is, and regardless of where it came from. Supposedly it was on the island in Egypt for 800 years or so, and there’s no way to know how many people have seen whatever it is over the centuries, or probably how old the one-at-a-time rule is.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)