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menelik

Posted By: olly
Date: Saturday, 8 September 2001, at 4:58 a.m.

Dear Domain of Man

Perhaps you can post your thoughts on this. Suppose the story told in the Kebra Negast about King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba is true. If Amenhotep III was the same person as the biblical king Solomon, then I wonder who their son Menelik was. Could Menelik be Ahkenaten? There is a story that Moses as a child took the crown from Pharoah's head and placed it on his own. There is also the story that Menelik did the same thing with king Solomon. Could this be two seperate accounts of the same events regarding Ahkenaten but him being referred to by different names? Ralph Ellis in his book Jesus, last of the Pharoahs refers to a passage in the Koran which states that Moses had his tongue cut off and was unable to speak. Could it be that Moses as a child had been raised in a foreign land (Ethiopia) and when he went to his father Solomon/Amenhotep III in Egypt, he was merely unable to speak the local Egyptian language and this story has made its way through history as Moses having his tongue cut off?

The Kebra Negast talks about Solomon and Menelik ruling together. It is also said that Ahkenaten and Ahmenotep III were in a coregency for a period of time. Could these be the same events from different narrators? If Ahkenaten was from a foreign land did not speak the local language, it might be another reason why the priests found his rule so objectionable on top his religious reforms.

The Kebra Negast mentions the Ethiopians worshipping the sun as a one God as it 'cooked their food'. Could this be where Ahkenaten brought his sun worship from as he had grown up with that theological system.

If you guys have been over this already, please accept my apologies for covering old ground. Can you point me to where you have discussed this before? I just wondered you people thought.

Thanks

Olly

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