The Tabot Calendar By Peter Meyer This page first published
September 27, 2006 CE = Sawwara 30, 75 H.I.M. Following the
coronation of H.I.M. Haile Selassie 1st on November 2nd, 1930
AD, as Emperor of Abyssinia, an offshoot of Christianity
emerged, known as Rastafarianism. The term is derived from Ras
Tafari, where Tafari was the birth name of Haile Selassie (born
on the 23rd of July 1892), and Ras is a title (like Duke) which
he was given on the 11th of February 1917. The Tabot creed holds
that Haile Selassie 1st is the second coming of the seed of
David in power and that the spiritual significance of his
crowning is known as the revelation of Jesus Christ which marks
the beginning of a new era. The Tabot calendar was created by
Mark Moore, a.k.a. Ras Mahitema Selassie, and was first
published in paper form in 1997. (Tabot is short for The
Anointed Body of Testimony = Haile Selassie 1st.) As the rules
for the calendar had not been fully worked out a representative
of Tabot ministries requested me to ascertain