Alicia Ortego
a sign of the collective identity of much of the country
In the Church of the Savior of the World (be careful with the name), or Mekina-Medhani-Alem, besides being awestruck by the landscape and being subject to a rite of cleansing your sins (you pour water from the mountain on your head, filtered with a large cross, and then splash it on your face, 3 times), we saw the wonderful books from the 11th Century (although it seems that the church was built in the XII Century) and several crucifixes ... And the cross is "the" symbol, the star of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church ... It's everywhere ... Women tattoo it onto their forehead, or on their hands ...
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