Thirteen Months Of Sunshine

Kenya Tue 04-08-2009

Thirteen Months Of Sunshine
By a Correspondent

Dominique Thoenes studied Fine art, religious studies and archeology, at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 2000. Since then she has dedicated her life to her love of horses, and being a nomadic artist.

Having traveled, explored and ridden horses all over the world, the opportunity to take a Kenyan Ladies polo team to Ethiopia, was too good to miss.

So in February this year the polo team Bella MATATA hit Addis Ababa. Competing against the Addis Police, the Palace Guards, and the Addis polo club teams, Bella MATATA was only just beaten in the finals by the Addis men.

Playing for the Trade Route Trophy a bronze sculpted by Dominique.

Ethiopia was a highlight in Dominique’s career, all three aspects of her University degree coming into play. Falling in love with the culture that the Orthodox Christian church has developed, the huge hearted ponies and the mystery of Ethiopia.

“There is a great feeling of piece and harmony in Ethiopia, as an artist I believe that if there is such a thing as a Universal truth, in Ethiopia I felt closer to it.”

The Ethiopia Orthodox Tewahedo church is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church; it was part of the Coptic Orthodox church until 1959, when it was granted its own Patriarch by Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of all Africa Cyril VI.

Tewahedo means “being made one” or “Unified”. A belief that a complete, natural union of the Divine and Human Natures into ONE is self-evident in order to accomplish the divine salvation of Human Kind.

As opposed to the “two Natures of Christ” belief promoted to today’s Roman and Eastern Orthodox churches. (Unmixed, but unseparated Divine and Human Natures called the Hypostatic Union)

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