My Subconscious Inspiration: The Queens of Kush

From the 3rd century BC to 2nd Century BC, the empire of Kush in Ethiopia was ruled by Independent female rulers called the Candace’s or Kandake. Queen Candace of 332BC denied Alexander the Great entry into Kush and deterred him on one of his military campaigns. The Kandake women were fearless queen rulers.

I learned that my name Candace was mentioned in the Bible. She was an Ethiopian Queen!

In Acts 8 verse 27 to be exact. "And he rose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem to worship."

I thought it was only one Queen Candace until years later. The name had been translated to English when it was written in the Bible. The original spelling of the name is Kandake.

The Kandake women was the royal title for queens and queen mothers of the ancient African Kingdom of Kush. The Kingdom was a prosperous land ruled from the capital, Meroe. The Kandakes were also known as Nubian warrior queens, queen regents, and ruling queen mothers. They controlled what is now Ethiopia, Sudan, and parts of Egypt. Some of the great queens ruled in their own right, others ruled with their husbands. The women who ruled with a husband usually had equal power with the king and sometimes more. The Kandakes had absolute authority, they ruled and were tasked with creating their sons as rulers.