The Lion of Judah is a Jewish national and cultural symbol, traditionally regarded as the symbol of the tribe of Judah. The association between the Judahites and the lion can first be found in the ble
Menelik I was the first Emperor of Ethiopia's Solomonic dynasty. According to the Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynast
Detail from a larger painting in the church at Axum
Emperor Menelik I Bringing the Zion Tabot [ Ark of the covenant ] to Axum.