Queen of the East Zenobia
Zenobia (in Palmyra: Zenobia's name is written in the Palmyra language and pronounced: Bat-Zabai) is the Queen of Palmyra. She, along with her husband Uthaina, led a rebellion against the Roman Empire during which they were able to control most of Syria.
As for the official language of Palmyra, it is the Palmyra Aramaic dialect, and its people worshiped the sun, and the Temple of the Sun is still the largest Palmyra monument to date. The people of Palmyra also worshiped Al-Lat, and this is evidenced by the Al-Lat Temple located among the ruins of Palmyra.
This woman, famous for her beauty, courage, and intelligence, was worthy of being the wife of Odainatti, who held the title of “Dux Orientis,” and she actually participated with him in setting the policy of his kingdom during his lifetime, and did not succeed him in his position only after his death (in the year 266 AD). -267 AD) Rather, she was determined to extend her authority over the Eastern Roman state, and her son, Wahb Al-Lat bin Uthayna, was still a child at the time, so she took the reins of government into her hands.
After the death of her husband, she led the armies of the Kingdom of Palmyra in their invasion of Egypt and Asia Minor for a short period before Emperor Aurelian was able to defeat her and take her prisoner to Rome, where she soon died of mysterious causes.
Zenobia's real name is "Bet-Zabai." Her first name was given by the Romans and means the power of Jupiter. Her mother traced her lineage back to Cleopatra in Egypt. Zenobia was born in Palmyra and educated in Alexandria. She studied the history of the Greeks and Romans and was shaped by Cleopatra's morals and ambition. She was a woman obsessed with glory and power. She saw in Uthaina her opportunity to achieve this ambition. She attended with him the people’s assemblies and the Senate sessions, and thus she grew up with him with the same goals, and the king’s crown fluttered over their heads in daydreams, until when she reached the throne, the hand of treachery snatched her husband, and after his rival was eliminated, she ascended the throne on behalf of her son, “Wahb Al-Lat.” She led the government, the sheikhs, and the wars
From the secret papers of Queen Zenobia of Palmyra (Bernard Simeuth)
She said : "Our destiny in the East is to remain, sometimes in armed conflict and sometimes in political conflict, with the forces of oppression and tyranny. With the forces of destruction, not reconstruction. With the methodology of tyranny, not justice and equality. I may flee back to my people. I may be killed. Or I may commit suicide. But... I am Zenobia, the queen of Palmyra. I am a descendant of the Arameans. I am not the only one who has Aramaic blood in my veins. There are hundreds of Zenobians and hundreds of Zabai leaders, and the dream must come true one day. We have never known anything but our freedom.
We only accept the independence of our word.
I am but one of my father’s people, dear soul. Her chastity. magnanimous. Simple living. . . .
Via Roma. The gold plates of our temples have been stolen. Precious stones are among the symbols of our statues. The sanctities, houses, and palaces were demolished, and the gardens and orchards were destroyed. And you burned the goods of our world. And your barbaric army wanders among our animals. The eagle of your oppression is planted on the tops of our mountains. But you will not extinguish the dream. You will not be able to erase the idea. The dream is inherited to us in our blood. We pass it on to our grandchildren.
It is the most durable in a world where gold is melted and shaped the way we want.
He carries the stone and cuts it as we want.
But the dream cannot be melted down. Don't cut it. Don't throw him deep into prisons. Or he was hit by a arrow to bring him down from his height to the ground.
A dream is an idea that runs in our blood. In our souls.
We are a people who do not accept injustice or being ruled by anyone whose blood is foreign to us. And the days will prove what was hidden from you, O Rome....
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