| − | '''Haile Selassie I''' is the [[God]] of the [[Rastafari movement]]. He is seen as God incarnate, the [[reincarnation]] of [[Jesus]], returned as a great [[king]]. Rastas worship him smoking the sacred [[marijuana]].<ref>Joseph Owens ''Dread, the Rastafaraians of Jamaica''</ref> He was crowned Emperor of [[Ethiopia]] on November 2, 1930<ref>Time Magazine, November 3, 1930</ref> and reigned until overthrown by a Marxist revolution led by the Derg in 1974. He died the following year. His rule was interrupted by the 1936-1941 Italian occupation of Ethiopia by [[Mussolini]]. | + | '''Haile Selassie I''' is the [[God]] of the [[Rastafari movement]]. He is seen as God incarnate, the [[reincarnation]] of [[Jesus]], returned as a great [[king]]. Rastas worship him smoking the sacred [[marijuana]].<ref>Joseph Owens ''Dread, the Rastafaraians of Jamaica''</ref> He was crowned Emperor of [[Ethiopia]] on November 2, 1930<ref>Time Magazine, November 3, 1930</ref> and reigned until overthrown by a Marxist revolution led by the Derg in 1974. He died the following year. His rule was interrupted by the 1936-1941 fascist Italian occupation of Ethiopia by [[Mussolini]]. |