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EMPRESS MAKEDA - THE LEGENDARY QUEEN OF SHEBA 

the panther in the blossom .                                                                                                           Her only son Menelik I by King Solomon of Jerusalem established the Solomonic lineage in Itiopia.A revered ancestress of the Imperial Line,who for the sake of her people buried her love in her heart that the gates of her Queendom might be opened to the worship of the true Jah.A great adminstrator ,bulder and international stateswoman .She ruled Itiopia from Axum with Justice Fortitude and Wisdom.Tradition has it she governed quite extensive lands  Upper Egypt,Parts of Arabia,Armenia,Syria,India and the whole region between the Mediterranean and the Erythraen sea.

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                                                        ancient egyptian goddess

                                                    african princess  in ceremonial dress

                                                    african princess doing the adowa dance

    preening peacocks?  These teenage  krobo girls are pictured dancing at thier  puberty rites ceremony,also known as rites of passage after which they become full  spiritually grounded members of their community and no more adolescents .  (this puberty ceremony "DIPO" is unique to the krobo people of ghana ,other tribes have variations to the traditional rites of passage ceremony or puberty-coming of age)            

                                                 some call it afro ,just natural

                                                 PROTRACTED IMAGE OF GIRL FROM  THE NAMIBIAN BUSHMAN TRIBES

                                                       TAKEN FROM "THE SONG OF BE"  

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