ChrisKean1 > Wall painting, Ura Kidane Mihret, Lake Tana area
ChrisKean1 > Wall painting, Ura Kidane Mihret, Lake Tana area
ChrisKean1 > Wall painting, Ura Kidane Mihret, Lake Tana area.  This depicts the founding of Debre Damo monastery (to which I climbed after leaving Axum).  The cliff walls are sheer, so legend has it that the founder had the help  of a magical snake to get to the top.
ChrisKean1 > Wall decoration, Ura Kidane Mihret, Lake Tana area
ChrisKean1 > Wall painting, Kibran Gebriel, Lake Tana area.
ChrisKean1 > Wall painting, Kibran Gebriel, Lake Tana area.  This depicts the baptism of Jesus, and is remarkably similar to some of the much older depictions I had seen in Ravenna (for instance,  http://chriskean1.smugmug.com/gallery/2020074/4/103492028 and  http://chriskean1.smugmug.com/gallery/2020074/4/103491929).
ChrisKean1 > Ancient text, Kibran Gebriel, Lake Tana area
ChrisKean1 > Ancient text, Kibran Gebriel, Lake Tana area
ChrisKean1 > Wall painting, Ura Kidane Mihret, Lake Tana area
Wall painting, Ura Kidane Mihret, Lake Tana area
ChrisKean1 > Wall painting, Ura Kidane Mihret, Lake Tana area
Wall painting, Ura Kidane Mihret, Lake Tana area
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