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Revisiting Ethiopia's demigod
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Thick clouds of incense and dirge-like
chants drift through the Bahta Church, on the grounds of the former
Imperial Palace. A priest rolls back the red carpet and opens a
steel door set in the floor, revealing a low stone stairway. At its
base rest the bones of Ethiopia's past.
Down here the chanting is muffled by thick stone walls and the
incense is even more dense. Against one wall are arrayed the massive
marble sarcophagi of the country's early-modern rulers ...
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