The Holy Arab Trinity as a model in the Kingdom of Aksum (Ethiopia) at the beginning of the first millennium BC

Document Type : Brief summaries of Dissertations.

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Institute of African Research and Studies, Aswan University

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It flourished in Abyssinia (Ethiopia and southern Eritrea) in the middle of the first millennium B.C. It is in northeastern Ethiopia (currently). This kingdom arose because of southern Arab migrations that came from the eastern side of the red sea and encouraged them to do so. Two reasons: the first is the narrowness of the width of the Red Sea (if, the proximity of the distance), and the second is the calmness of navigation throughout the year, and gradually they settled the country and mixed with the local population, and were able to lay the first building block of civilization represented in the establishment of many different cultural centers during the fifth century BC, which In its beginnings, it was an extension of the kingdoms of Sheba and Himyar in the country of ancient southern Yemen. The culture of these immigrants had a clear impact on the religious life of the Aksumites who sanctified the southern Arab deities, the most prominent of which is the holy Arab trinity represented in a divine family consisting of (the mother goddess “the sun” and the god “the moon” " which represents the father and "Other" who represents the son), and then this research paper aims to trace the Arab deities that were worshiped by the Kingdom of Aksum, reviewing the most important sacred deities to it and then determining the Arab influence I have a religion on the kingdom of Aksum.

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