Haile Selassie I
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Haile Selassie I is the God of the Rastafari movement. He is seen as God incarnate, the reincarnation of Jesus, returned as a great king. Rastas worship him smoking the sacred marijuana.[1] He was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia on November 2, 1930[2] and reigned until overthrown by a Marxist revolution led by the Derg in 1974. He died the following year. His rule was interrupted by the 1936-1941 fascist Italian occupation of Ethiopia by Mussolini.