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Makeda, Queen of Sheba
a.k.a. the Queen of the South

"The honoring of wisdom is the honoring of the wise man, and the loving of wisdom is the loving of the wise man. Love the wise man and withdraw not thyself from him... harken to the utterance of his mouth, so that thou mayest become like him... "

Makeda, the Queen of Sheba (10th century BCE), ruled over Abyssinia (present-day Yemen and possibly a part of Ethiopia as well).

She visited King Solomon's court to test his wisdom by asking him to solve a number of riddles.

 

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