The Second Itation, The Revelation, expands and explores further aspects of the movement in more depth. Rastafari musical reality is illustrated with international artists live on stage, including THIRD WORLD, JUDY MOWATT, MISTY IN ROOTS, I JAHMAN LEVI, MUTABARUKA, BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH, all beautiful pictured in various settings, mostly LIVE on stage. There is a revealing series of pictures set in Ethiopia in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church showing the celebrations of Maskram (the finding of the true Cross), the huge and thunderous Koborro drums used in the ritual chanting of the Church, there are the awesome Tabots (the representatives of the Ark of the Covenant, said to have been taken to Ethiopia by Menilik, the son of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon), there are the priests and deacons in church robes with the huge ornate gold and silver ceremonial crosses, the church and its collection of icon wall paintings and the reality of the Holy of Holies.

There are some in depth theological Rasta reasonings featuring Message from the IHISEHMBLE of Elders in Jamaica by Jah Stone, the Godhead of Rastafari by Jah Bones, the Armageddon World War by Ras Joel Lawson, the International Rastafari Credo, the Holy Tabots of Ethiopia, Sheba's journey to Jerusalem to King Solomon and other texts from the Kebra Nagast (the Glory of the Kings of Ethiopia) and many other writings written as a kind of "Revelation Reasonings" to the readers from Rastafarian writers, poets and theologians of the movement.

Note : Currently this volume is out of print.


Volume 3 Volume 2 Volume 1 Itations Introduction
Article : Teacher & Mr. T    Text & Photos provided courtesy of Mihlawdhd Faristzaddi



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