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Saint Yared — the man who wrote the chant.
Tradition gives him the whole of Ethiopian sacred music: three modes, a notation of small marks above the words, and the aquaquam, the slow chanted dance with prayer staff, sistrum and drum. The story says he learned it from three birds sent from Eden. His books are still the ones cantors learn from.
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