Monument to the Lion of Judah on a black granite pedestal decorated with relief portraits of Menelik II, Haile Selassie I, Zewditu, and "ras" Makonnen Wolde Mikael. The monument is located in the square in front of the old railway station and marks the end of Winston Churchill Avenue, one of the main arteries of the city. Monument to the Lion of Judah The monument to the Lion of Judah is a statue of the Lion of Judah, symbol of Ethiopian Emperors and Ethiopia. It is located in the square of the Addis Ababa railway station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The statue is particularly well known
Tribe of Judah Song of Deborah, rather than present but described as unwilling to assist in the battle between Israelites and their enemy. Traditionally, this has been explained as being due to the southern kingdom being too "far away" to be involved in the battle, but Israel Finkelstein et al. claim the alternative explanation that the southern kingdom was simply an insignificant rural backwater at the time the poem was written. As depicted by the Deuteronomists and post-exilic writers, the tribe of Judah was the leading tribe of the Kingdom of Judah. David and the royal line belonged to the tribe, and the