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Legends of all three desert religions say they fell in love, two of the brightest minds in the world in those primitive days a thousand years before Christ when less than 1% of humanity could read. 
Notice their stance implies a wedding, a sacred marriage.  They were equals in both heart and mind.

Arabian and Jewish traditions go so far as to say the Queen of Sheba got pregnant by Solomon and had a child. He ruled Sheba after her and one of his descendants was asked to protect the Ark of the Covenant centuries later when Solomon’s Temple was destroyed.  So say the legends.

 

 

King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; Lorenzo Ghiberti ca. 1378-1455

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba by Ghiberti
Renaissance relief, Bronze gate of Florence Baptistry, Italy

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