The Sacred City of the Ethiopians: Being a Record of Travel and Research in Abyssinia in 1893Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 309 pages |
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... STREAM PRIEST'S FLY - FLAP • CROSS ON CHURCH OF AMBA DERHO ; CHURCH WINDOWS CHURCH OF AMBA DERHO . 28 • 29 32 38 40 · 42 50 52 55 • 61 • • 63 64 • 68 • 69 MULE COLLARS ( BRASS AND SILVER ) ABYSSINIAN GAME ROCK CHURCH , DEBRA SINA ...
... STREAM PRIEST'S FLY - FLAP • CROSS ON CHURCH OF AMBA DERHO ; CHURCH WINDOWS CHURCH OF AMBA DERHO . 28 • 29 32 38 40 · 42 50 52 55 • 61 • • 63 64 • 68 • 69 MULE COLLARS ( BRASS AND SILVER ) ABYSSINIAN GAME ROCK CHURCH , DEBRA SINA ...
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... stream , and to celebrate this event all the magnificent ritual of the Abyssinian Church is brought into play . Very early in the morning the ceremony began . As soon as the sun was up we started for the scene of action , across the ...
... stream , and to celebrate this event all the magnificent ritual of the Abyssinian Church is brought into play . Very early in the morning the ceremony began . As soon as the sun was up we started for the scene of action , across the ...
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... stream . About ten yards from the water was pitched a large tent of red cloth , erected for the benefit of the priests who wished to change their robes unobserved . When all were assembled on the bank , the cross and a large brass basin ...
... stream . About ten yards from the water was pitched a large tent of red cloth , erected for the benefit of the priests who wished to change their robes unobserved . When all were assembled on the bank , the cross and a large brass basin ...
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... stream itself floated a burning taper in a pottery vessel , presumably to add sanctity to the occasion . The cross was carried down to the brink ; water was put into the brass basin , and beneath a scarlet um- brella the chief priest of ...
... stream itself floated a burning taper in a pottery vessel , presumably to add sanctity to the occasion . The cross was carried down to the brink ; water was put into the brass basin , and beneath a scarlet um- brella the chief priest of ...
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... stream , one of the sources of the Mareb , running down it , we descried the sacred village perched on a gentle eminence . The inclosure of St. Michael's Church is just my idea of what the sacred groves of ancient days must have been ...
... stream , one of the sources of the Mareb , running down it , we descried the sacred village perched on a gentle eminence . The inclosure of St. Michael's Church is just my idea of what the sacred groves of ancient days must have been ...
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