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| | joel donnet News 111 |
 | | For, in the Ancient times, Mahram Bilqis was a high place of pilgrimage, so sacred that people came there from very far away to pray -and even to be buried, as is attested by funerary inscriptions in the necropolis that bear names of families and tribes of the deceased. |
 | | If the Queen of Sheba -Bilqis or another one, and even maybe a princess -as Holy scriptures are usually not of tremendous historical precision- actually existed, she necessarily came to Marib, and therefore took part in ceremonies in its biggest sanctuary. |
 | | Arab folklore calls this queen Bilqis while, in the Ethiopian folklore, Makeda (which means Greatness) came back from Jerusalem pregnant and gave birth to Salomon's son, Menelik, the mythical founder of the Ethiopian dynasty that lasted up to the last Negus, Haile Selassie, who died in 1975. |
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