I looked up pantocrator under the image search and found nothing. This would indicate that the Icon we are looking at may not be so popular. The Pantocrator that the St. Kathrines Chruch of Siani likes to show off is this one:
This painting is supposed to be one of the oldest, going back to the 5th centuray.
But about my source of the photo. There is a man named St. Paco who writes and illustrates a magazine called "Kung Fu pimp" and one of his side works was a little pamphlet called "In His Image", which was written based apart of the Icon that I showed.
To elaborate:
HAILE SELASSIE: IN HIS IMAGE by St. Paco
Category: Religion and Philosophy
"As much reggae as I listen to, a lot of the politics, history, and chronology has always been unclear to me. IN HIS IMAGE is very comprehensive and right on."
- Martin Wong, Giant Robot Magazine
IN HIS IMAGE: HAILE SELASSIE, BOB MARLEY AND THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
Inspired by a stunning sixth-century icon of Christ housed by St. Catherine's Monastery (Sinai, Egypt) and its startling rememblance to former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, the man believed by millions to have been the re-embodiment of the Biblical Messiah, St. Paco offers and intriguing essay in book form--An ambitious text that delves into the history of both ancient and modern Ethiopia, examines the origin of Jamaica's Rastafai faith, explores the devotion of believers like the late reggae artist Bob Marley, and redefines the face of the Christian God.
Teaser: "The uncanny resemblance between the image of Christ painted on the weathered wooded slab and the former Ethiopian Emporer was haunting. Equally as haunting were the sweeping waves of recollection baptizing my memory; the legendary prophecy credited to Marcus Garvey, the scriptures likening Haile Selassie to the Messiah, and a convergence of events seventy years ago that converted several thousand Christianized Jamaicans into believers that the emperor of Ethiopia and the Messiah of the Bible were one and the same. And the longer I gazed at the strange and ancient portrait, the greater grew my cause to ponder whether the Rastas had been right."
St. Paco is a writer/artist from Chicago, presently residing in Tucson, Arizona where he is at work on his third book entitled Nigra Sum. He is also editor of the zine Kung Fu Grip!, and author of the chapbook Kung Fu Pimp: The Poems & Rhymes of St. Paco.
56 Pages / 8.5" x 11 digest format / $5.95
I want to get a copy of the book and see if more is discussed about our Icon.
St. Paco and "Kung fu grip" are both on myspace.com and you can mail him and buy a copy.
Peace
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