190 - Deacon Henok Elias - Inside the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
The Symbolic World
00:00
The History of Ethiopian King Lalibela
Most kings grew up in monasteries to hide them so that they don't get slaughtered as potential claimants to the throne. At one point, he's like 12 or 15. Marauders come and slaughter everyone in the monastery. And he's the sole survivor. He became a little bit of a political realist after that. Some of his actions, people thought of him as a brutal guy, but he's a little traumatized, slightly traumatized PTSD. Yeah. Imagine you live in a monastery and that that happens to you. But anyway, King Lalibela, at this time, I think it also kind of coincides with the rise of Islam.
Play episode from 38:40
Transcript
