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190 - Deacon Henok Elias - Inside the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Symbolic World

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Hit the Drum, You Know?

In Ethiopia, they use what's called a system, which is a staff. It has these little metal parts inside that move. And so you shake it and it chinks like a, and he said that systems were common in ancient worship. They exist in all these ancient culture in the men and civilization as well. So for him, it was like a connection frame to connect Ethiopia to kind of ancient Hebrew worship,. He said it's the only place in the entire world where they still use this instrument.

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