Dr. Fikre Tolossa has released his book, The Hidden and Untold
History of the Jewish People and Ethiopians, and his feature
film, Multicolored Flowers, both in print and electronically.
Did you know that Melchizedek, builder and King of Jerusalem,
the father of Ethiop, the forefather of Ethiopians, and Abraham,
the forefather of the Jews, were friends as far back as 4000 years
ago? Did you know that Abraham and kings in Palestine bowed
to Melchizedek, the High Priest and King of the Most High God,
and paid him tithes in return for his blessings?
Did you know that in the veins of the Lord Jesus Christ did flow
Ethiopian blood because he descends from King David whose
mother, Adoli called by us Hable’, and whose great grandmother,
Ruth, were Ethiopians?
Did you know that it was Ruth who designed and created the
famous “Star of David”, which is the emblem of the Jewish
people? Did you know that Isaiah the Prophet lived in Ethiopia
for three years? Did you know that Ethiopia translated the
important books of the Old Testament Bible from Geez to Hebrew
and gave them to the Jewish people when they returned to
Jerusalem without any books from their 70 years of slavery in
Babylon?
And as such, did you know that the world owes
Ethiopia a gratitude for preserving the Bible and other books?
Did you know that Moses, Joshua and Samuel the Prophet
acknowledged the existence of special books now lost to the
world? Did you know that these books were found 40 years ago
in Geez in the ruins of an ancient Ethiopian church in Nubia
(today’s Sudan)?
Did you know that Jehtro, the High Priest of Median, and later
Emperor of Ethiopia, whose daughter Moses married and begot
two boys, trained Moses how to be a priest and taught him how
to establish the structure of a court?
Did you know that Africa was called Africa because of Ethiopian
Afars otherwise known in the Bible as Afriscans?
Did you know that “Asia” bears the name of the greatest
Ethiopian Emperor whose throne name was “Asia-el”?
Did you know that Rap music has its roots in the African and
Ethiopian “Fukera” chants? Did you know Afro-hair-styles,
bandana, braids, doo-rag, fantastic dances and drum-beats
originated in Africa? Did you know that, if, in the past, blacks
“acted white” to fit in, now whites “act black” for the same
reason, because times are changing? To find out more about
these, please check out the movie “Multicolored Flowers” at
“Multicoloredflowers.com” where you will find it in DVD
format.
‘Multicolored Flowers,’ is a feature film written, produced and
directed by Dr. Fikre Tolossa. It is the saga of a white,
conservative family from Utah and a radical black family from
California. It is a coming-of-age family movie with satirical
overtones and undertones which was highly acclaimed by the
San Francisco Film Festival. To watch its preview, go to
“Youtube” and search for “multicoloredflowers”.
