184 - Richard Rohlin - Extreme Ethiopia

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This is my third and final Universal History discussion with Richard Rohlin on the topic of Ethiopia. Today we will look at several Ethiopian practices and how they ultimately manifest the two roles of Ethiopia as both the “container”, or the Ark, and the extreme. We discuss the importance of personhood in culture and the role of the saints, before we dive into different themes in Ethiopian tradition and hagiography that include a focus on the 9 Roman Saints we mentioned last time, the good thief, the saint as punisher, the scandalous aspect of salvation regarding cannibalism and the Eucharist, and much more. Enjoy. Richard Rohlin’s work: -Amon Sûl podcast, co-hosted by Richard Rohlin: https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/amonsul -Finding the Golden Key book project for listeners to submit abstracts: https://findingthegoldenkey.com Read more: -The Mystery of Ethiopian Iconography article, by Jonathan Pageau: https://orthodoxartsjournal.org/the-mystery-of-ethiopian-iconography/ -The Serpents of Orthodoxy article, by Jonathan Pageau: https://orthodoxartsjournal.org/the-serpents-of-orthodoxy/ Original video: https://youtu.be/ynovna2c9r8 Support this podcast: Website: https://thesymbolicworld.com/support/ Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/pageauvideos Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/jonathan-pageau Paypal: http://www.paypal.me/JonathanPageau Join the conversation: Unofficial Facebook discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1989208418065298/ The Symbolic World Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSymbolicWorld/ Social media links: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pageaujonathan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathan.pageau

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. I am back here with Richard Rowland. One more episode of our Universal History series, which has been really bringing up so many positive comments. People are excited about it. So it's fun for us because we are so excited about universal history that we're both surprised and overjoyed to see that people are following us down this rabbit hole. And so today is going to be our
0:23.0	last episode on Ethiopia. I know we've been talking about Ethiopia a lot, but it is so relevant
0:28.7	to the situation of kind of the beginning and the end, joining together and all this kind of
0:34.0	eschatological vision. And so today we're going to look at Ethiopian, several Ethiopian practices and how they kind of manifest the two
0:43.2	aspects of Ethiopia, one which is this idea of the container or the arc, and then the other
0:47.8	aspect is the idea of the edge and the extreme and how all these kind of traditions
0:51.7	come together to manifest a very specific and particular,
0:56.1	particular version of Orthodox Christianity. So Richard, I hope you're ready for this because I'm excited.
1:16.6	This is Jonathan Peajot. Welcome to the symbolic world. I'm also excited. And yes, I'm ready. I've been reading, I think I'm also excited and yes I'm ready I've been reading I think I told you this
1:30.9	I've been I've been working my way through like an 800 page Ethiopian the there's
1:37.6	Synexarium their hagiographical text I haven't made it quite all the way through this week but
1:42.0	I've read I've read just a lot of hagiography,
1:45.0	and it's also sort of bouncing around on my head, so I'm, I'm ready.
1:47.8	All right.
1:48.3	And we'll let you.
1:49.3	I'll let you throw the ball in there and start the conversation and we'll go along on it.
1:54.3	I think you're probably the only person in the world that I know that has read, like I know about the Nine Saints, but I've never heard of this more
2:02.1	extensive kind of hagiography, Ethiopian hagiography. Yeah, well, they have a, in the Orthodox
2:09.2	church, we call it the Synexarion. And I think the word that they use from the Coptic tradition
2:14.7	is the Synexarium, but is the same, same word, same thing.
2:18.2	Right, which is basically just like the daily commemorations, the daily lives with the saints.
2:23.5	And so they have, they have a book like that, very much like we do,
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