This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. So hello everybody.

I'm really excited to be back with Richard Rowland

for our third discussion on mythical history,

on this universal history.

For this episode, we're going to dive into Ethiopia. And I'm really excited about this

because I have been a big fan of just this mystery of Ethiopia. I traveled to Ethiopia. And I've

just been fascinated with how its role is, not just in the Bible, but in other ancient cultures

as well. And so I'm really looking forward to exploring this with him.

Yeah, I'm very excited about this conversation.

I have been actually since I was a little kid, we had this textbook.

I think it might have been like a middle school textbook or something like this,

but there was a single paragraph in this world history textbook,

a single paragraph, you know, probably three to four sentences, that mentioned the once great Christian kingdom of Aksum in Northern Africa and then basically said, but it was wiped out by Islam and there are no more Christians there anymore. And this isn't a, this isn't a textbook.

It's actually a fairly well-known history textbook.

I won't say which one.

But, and so I, I sort of as a kid, like I had this romantic idea in my head. And then, of course, many years later discovered actually, you know, there are still Christians in that part of the world.

And, you know, now I've actually

been able to meet a few Archbishop Dmitri, who's the sainted founder of the diocese that I'm in.

He was very, he had a very loving relationship with the Ethiopian and Eritrean communities

here in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. And so we actually have some, you know, Eritrean communities here in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

And so we actually have some, you know, Eritrean folks who are actually, you know,

were received into our parish and our members of our parish.

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