Abstract
Abstract Millenarianism, widespread among Christians in general, was also deep-rooted in the flock of the Ethiopian Church. Several ideas of that kind occur in Ethiopic written sources. In particular, they appear in the treatise composed in Gəʿəz language probably around the 16th–17th centuries AD. This work bears a title Fəkkare Iyäsus (“The Explication of Jesus”) and is dedicated to the last days of the World. Eschatological ideas about the appearance of a righteous King from the Orient became popular among the Ethiopian Christians and are well attested in royal chronicles. Chiliastic aspirations were prevalent during the period of political disintegration in the late 18th – mid-19th centuries AD known as the “Epoch of the Judges”. The strong expectation for a graceful and powerful reign encouraged some clergymen to make prophecies. This tendency was manifested in the Ethiopian royal historiography and especially in royal onomastics.
Highlights
Royal onomastics – name symbolism – Millenarianism – Ethiopian clergy – Medieval Ethiopian Kingdom – Ethiopian royal chronicles – King Täklä Giyorgis I – Kings Tewodros (Theodore) I and II
The strong expectation for a graceful and powerful reign encouraged some clergymen to make prophecies. This tendency was manifested in the Ethiopian royal historiography and especially in royal onomastics
Tewodros II is mentioned at the end of the list of Metropolitans of the Ethiopian Church, which is, among others, included in a manuscript copy of the Synaxarion written in Gəəz.[10]
Summary
Royal onomastics – name symbolism – Millenarianism – Ethiopian clergy – Medieval Ethiopian Kingdom – Ethiopian royal chronicles – King Täklä Giyorgis I – Kings Tewodros (Theodore) I and II. Eschatological ideas about the appearance of a righteous King from the Orient became popular among the Ethiopian Christians and are well attested in royal chronicles.
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