SoS ~ Eden Rising…
The age of printed books in the West began with the Gutenberg Bible, the earliest major book to use movable type to enhance and facilitate the capabilities and global reach of abstract western writing technologies, through the mass-production and dissemination of select Africa-sourced narratives told through propagandistic Euro patriarchal storying. One might regard the Gutenberg Bible as its own sort of New Beginning – the Genesis of a mass printed communication technology disseminating themes of Creation (set in a Garden of Eden) and a Covenant purportedly made between the Almighty Creator & His Chosen People profiled in biblical Genesis with clear lines of inclusivity/exclusivity. Jewish and Christian scholars attribute the authorship of this biblical Genesis and the other 4 books of the Pentateuch […Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy] to Moses. Historically elevated by Abrahamic faiths/platforms as the Greatest Of All Prophets, the roles said to have been played by Moses as the leading character included a parting of the Red Sea, and his receipt of the Ten Commandments upon which Jewish law was founded as he led Israelites out of slavery & away from Egypt – where these Commandments were most likely sourced.
In the same printed Gutenberg Bible, we find the Canticum Canticorum, Latin for Song of Songs [SoS], another Old Testament book, in this case attributed to Solomon [r. 970-931 BCE], who succeeded his father David to become King of Israel. Historically promoted as the Wisest Of All Men, Solomon is also notoriously famed for having 700 wives “of royal birth” & 300 concubines! According to many scholars, the black female protagonist in SoS – identified as the Shulamite – represents Sheba [aka Makeda], the African Queen who came to Solomon’s Kingdom to test his legendary wisdom. 
Corresponding accounts of this visit between the two say this became the Genesis of Ethiopia’s Royal Dynasty which was inaugurated in the 10th century BCE through Sheba’s son Menelik… purportedly seeded by Solomon. Ethiopia’s legendary Solomonic Dynasty – which, 
under Emperor Menelik II, totally crushed Italy’s role in Europe’s colonial incursions into Africa during the 1896 Battle of Adwa – eventually ended after Emperor Haile Selassie I was assassinated in 1975. Born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael in 1892 CE, Rastafarians in the Africa-centered world still hail this final Ethiopian Emperor as the bible’s Messianic Lion of the Tribe of Judah…
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Malaika Mutere 