We have christened our writing group the Pinklings, sort of like the legendary group of British writers the Inklings, which included C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers. (The last wrote the Peter Wimsey novels, the eccentric-aristocrat-becomes-psychologically-wounded-in-WW1-and-turns-amateur-detective-as-therapy series. Awesome books.) The Inklings met in a pub and drank beer. The Pinklings meet in my family room and drink tea. They were all committed Christians and brilliant writers, we are all committed Christians and....well, I'm getting a big head here.
Anyhow, latest meeting of the Pinklings we talked about my Kebra Nagast hubs. I made the same mistakes I often do...the hubs are dense with information, but the reader isn't sure why it's all important. It's in my nature to like information for its own sake I suppose. Well, it all serves a purpose inside my own brain, I connect it to other bits of information, I can think up ways just about anything is important and meaningful. Of course, the reader doesn't know this, and thinks its all a bunch of facts. Oi.
So, I need to make more connections with the Kebra Nagast articles, if I want to continue the series.
I'm just going to go ahead and give away my thunder right here: I got interested in Ethiopia in the first place because they claim to have the Lost Ark Of The Covanent, the very same one forged at the foot of Mount Sinai, and carried around through the desert for 40 years, the Ark Solomon built his famous Temple to house. Studying Ethiopian Jews and Christians I became convinced they do have the Ark, the real one. I think this because of the greatly positive effect the artifact has had on their culture, the fact that it seems to have brought out their personal best. Also, because Ethiopia has a long history of being a place of worship of the One God, stretching back ito antiquity. Moses was married to an Ethiopian. Ethiopia first mentioned in Genesis 2:13, pretty darn early in the Bible.
I came to believe that God gifted Ethiopia with the Ark because he knew it would be good for them, and that they would take care of it. In other words, it was both a blessing and a responsibility that they could handle. That of course is a very personal conclusion, but it is the reason for my ongoing fascination with Ethiopian worship.
I think I need to go back to the hubpages articles, maybe write an introduction. We'll see, I have to find a way to get what's in my head (and in my heart) onto the page.
Anyhow, latest meeting of the Pinklings we talked about my Kebra Nagast hubs. I made the same mistakes I often do...the hubs are dense with information, but the reader isn't sure why it's all important. It's in my nature to like information for its own sake I suppose. Well, it all serves a purpose inside my own brain, I connect it to other bits of information, I can think up ways just about anything is important and meaningful. Of course, the reader doesn't know this, and thinks its all a bunch of facts. Oi.
So, I need to make more connections with the Kebra Nagast articles, if I want to continue the series.
I'm just going to go ahead and give away my thunder right here: I got interested in Ethiopia in the first place because they claim to have the Lost Ark Of The Covanent, the very same one forged at the foot of Mount Sinai, and carried around through the desert for 40 years, the Ark Solomon built his famous Temple to house. Studying Ethiopian Jews and Christians I became convinced they do have the Ark, the real one. I think this because of the greatly positive effect the artifact has had on their culture, the fact that it seems to have brought out their personal best. Also, because Ethiopia has a long history of being a place of worship of the One God, stretching back ito antiquity. Moses was married to an Ethiopian. Ethiopia first mentioned in Genesis 2:13, pretty darn early in the Bible.
I came to believe that God gifted Ethiopia with the Ark because he knew it would be good for them, and that they would take care of it. In other words, it was both a blessing and a responsibility that they could handle. That of course is a very personal conclusion, but it is the reason for my ongoing fascination with Ethiopian worship.
I think I need to go back to the hubpages articles, maybe write an introduction. We'll see, I have to find a way to get what's in my head (and in my heart) onto the page.
