MAMBOKADZI WESABA

Mambokadzi weShebha paakasangana naMambo Soromoni kuti ave nechokwadi chekuchengetedzwa kwekutengeserana paPerfume Routes, muzana remakore rechi10 BC, Balkis, Mambokadzi weShebha akaronga musangano naSoromoni, mambo wechiHebheru.

Humambo hweShebha (“Saba” zvinoreva “chakavanzika”) hwakanga huri kumaodzanyemba kweFertile Crescent. Hupfumi hwayo hwainyanya kubva pakurima mura nezvinonhuwira zvemutengi wayo mukuru: Egypt.

Zvinonhuwira ndiyo resini yakatorwa kubva ku boswellia carterii uye boswellia serrata.

Miti iyi yaive inoera uye yakachengetedzwa nenyoka, shato dzinobhururuka uye dzaive pamwoyo wengano dzakawanda dzakanangana nekuchengetedza iyi resin inoshamisa iyo, ichipukunyuka pamuti wakakuvara, yakapa fungidziro yekuchema misodzi chena.
Kutarira kwomunhu kungashatisa rusenzi; nokudaro, mhuri zviuru zvitatu chete zvaiirima ndiyo yaigona kuitarisa, irombo rakapihwa kubva kuna baba kusvika kumwanakomana.
Mhare dzengamera dzakatakura rusenzi kubva kuumambo hweShebha kuenda kuzviteshi zvegungwa zveMediterranean uye kuIjipiti. Mugwagwa womugwenga wakanga une ngozi kwete bedzi nemhaka yemamiriro okunze asiwo nemhaka yokuvandira nokupamba.

Mambo Soromoni akanga ari tenzi akakwana weiyi nzira. Kuti ave nechokwadi chekuchengetedzwa kwemakaravhani emidziyo kuenda nekudzoka kuUmambo, Mambokadzi weShebha akatanga kunyengedza Soromoni. Yakanga iri dambudziko rakaoma nokuti murume wacho akanga akazadzwa nemufaro, akanga akakomberedzwa nevakadzi 700 nevarongo mazana matatu. Kumubata kumeso.
Soromoni akawirwa nouroyi hwamambokadzi uyo akadzokera norukundo kuumambo hwake kwete bedzi norugare rwakapikirwa munzira yokupisa rusenzi asiwo nechibvumirano chegore negore choumambo hwaSoromoni.

Yakanga isiri kusvika muzana ramakore rechina BC. AD kuti maNabataea anotsiva maSabea mukutengeserana kwekaravhani. Guta ravo guru, Petra, rakanga riri nzvimbo inokosha zvikuru yokumira vasati vasvika muzviteshi zvikuru zveMediterranean.

Ishe werenje, vaNabataea vaidzora nzira dzezvinonhuwira uye kutakurwa kwezvinonhuwira kubva kugwenga reArabia yekumaodzanyemba kuenda kuhushe hweRoma, zvichitora chinhambwe chingangosvika 1800 km. Kwakatora mazuva anenge 80 kuti ngamera dziyambuke idzi nzvimbo huru dzomurenje.