The Glory of Kings

...her husband, Philip, intended to divorce her original: "put her away". A relationship developed between Nectanebus The last native Egyptian Pharaoh, who according to legend fled to Macedonia and became a sorcerer and Olympias, and he appeared to the queen one night in the form of the god Amen of Libya. He was dressed in all the symbols of the god and became the father of Alexander the Great. Tradition passed the horns of Amen on to Alexander, and ancient Arab writers call Alexander "Dhu'l-Karnen" original: "Dhu'l-Ḳarnên", which means "The Two-Horned One." This title is an exact translation of one of the titles of Amen, "Sept abui" original: "Sepṭ ābui".

Two Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols: the first is a sharp, vertical point, and the second is a pair of curved horns.

Isaac, the editor and translator of the KEBRA NAGAST The "Glory of Kings," the national epic of Ethiopia which chronicles the Solomonic dynasty, and his fellow countrymen found it perfectly natural that Makeda, the virgin queen of Saba Sheba, gave herself to Solomon. She did this because she believed him to be of divine origin; to her, he was like a god. Furthermore, he was the guardian of the "Heavenly Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law of God," from which he daily renewed his divinity, power, and authority.

The Tabernacle of the Law had much in common with the arks or sacred tabernacles of the Babylonians and Egyptians. These structures served as the dwelling places for statues of the gods or their most significant symbols. The ark of Bel Also known as Marduk, the patron deity of Babylon, the great god of Babylon, contained a statue of the god. The king would visit it ceremonially once a year, pleading with tears for forgiveness and grasping the hands of the sacred statue.

The chamber where the statue stayed was believed to have been built by the gods themselves. On major festivals and holy days, the priests carried the ark in a procession. In Egypt, the arks of the gods were kept in rooms specially built for that purpose, and the statues of the gods were seated on thrones inside them. These arks were placed on sledges or in boats and carried by the priests in processions during great festivals or solemn occasions. We know from ancient inscriptions that the ark of Amen was fitted with doors that were kept bolted and—