Editing Yared (section)

==Traditional account==
It was widely accepted that St. Yared was born on 25 April 505 in the city of [[Axum]], [[Axumite Kingdom]] from his mother Tauklia and his father Adam. When he reached six, his parent gave him [[Tutor|tutelage]] of Yishaq, who was a teacher of Axum. Under his instruction, St. Yared completed the alphabet and [[Psalms]]. Yishaq brought St. Yared back to his parent and his father died. Unable to raise him, his mother Tauklia left him to his uncle Abba Gedeon, who was a parish priest. Gedeon was a teacher of [[Old Testament|Old]] and [[New Testament]] in Saint Mary of Sion and he began translating [[Holy Scriptures]] into Ge'ez from Hebrew and Greek. At that time St. Yared was in poor education and unable to acquire knowledge, which led him severe punishments and mockery at school. Aware of his failure, St. Yared decided to go on to his uncle's birthplace Medebai Welel. Due to heavy rain, St. Yared sheltered under a nearby tree in place of Murade Qal.

Pondering his life, St. Yared rested and noticed a caterpillar climbing the tree to eat leaves. The [[caterpillar]] continued to fall down, but eventually, it succeeded in reaching its destination. St. Yared wept and returned to Gedeon and pledged him not to offend. Gedeon began teaching Psalms. St. Yared subsequently moved to Saint Mary of Sion for prayer. When St. Yared was fourteen, Gedeon died; St. Yared took his mastering position.

He then returned to Axum at the age of nineteen, becoming the chief priest in the Holy Ark of Sion. Soon after, St. Yared composed "Ariam".

While at Axum, St. Yared created musical notations and alphabets, as well as ''[[mequamia]]''.
[[File:"Yared An (sic) His Disciples Singing A Song In Front Of King Gebreme Skel . . ." (3171512810).jpg|thumb|Yared with disciples singing to King Gebre Meskel]]
During the 14-year rule of King [[Gebre Meskel]] (the son of [[Kaleb of Axum|King Kaleb]]) from 525 to 539, St. Yared became a dominant musical figure in Axum. He proclaimed as the greatest poet and the King favored him. Soon after St. Yared composed ''Zema'', resulting in his succession in church service. During this, St. Yared decided to live with [[ascetics]] and requested to the Emperor:
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Promise to grant me...allow me to retire from my work in the court and to live among the people so that I may devote the rest of my life teaching, to meditation and to prayer.
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Though Gebre Meskel resented his retirement, he kept his promise and granted him to leave his service. St. Yared travelled to [[Semien Mountains]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Saint Yared Poems > My poetic side|url=https://mypoeticside.com/poets/saint-yared-poems|access-date=2021-08-04|website=mypoeticside.com}}</ref>

St. Yared became a pioneer in observing [[Hosanna|Hossana]], also called [[Palm Sunday]] in Axum. He divided hymns into four parts: winter, summer, autumn and spring. He completed the [[Book of Deggua]], (De'guaa) in [[Geʽez]], which means "lamentations". Deggua divides into three chanting modes: Geʽez, Ezel, Araray. Geʽez relies a plain chant for ordinary days, Ezel is increased measured beat for funerals and Araray is a free mode, light beats for festivals. The highest part of Deggua is Mahlet St. Yared (hymn of St. Yared). Those three chants represent the [[Trinity]].

St. Yared also composed ten tones with notations, unlike the European modes consisting of six notes. St. Yared then developed their arrangements called "Seraye", which signifies hymnary guidelines. The [[glyph]]s of notations consist of dashes, dots and curves. Tsome Deggua is written for Lent, Me'eraf is sung for Sabbath vigils, Zimare is for [[Eucharist|Holy Communion]], Mewasit is for funerals, requiems and Eastern Eve and Quidase is for Communion. These books take nine years to complete.

The [[Nine Saints]], who were expelled by religious persecution from [[Byzantine Empire]] and who reached Ethiopia in the 5th century, met with St. Yared, with whom he visited individual churches and aided them in building with the assistance of Axumite Emperors. St. Yared also consecrated [[Debre Damo]] churches founded by [[Abuna Aregawi]]. One place where St. Yared successfully gave mastery is St. Qirkos in [[Lake Tana]].<ref name=":0" />

St. Yared communication with one of the saints named [[Abba Pantelewon]] was expedient. Pantelewon said that St. Yared knew Western tradition and he went to [[Constantinople]] once. He recalled that "I went to Rome [Second Rome Constantinople] where I saw a Church, I knew her and loved her like my own sister, a few years later, I visited her again during the time she was bathing in the river Tigre."

Through the assistance of Pantelewon, Aragawi and Abba Yesehaq, St. Yared acknowledged the Western culture. According to ''Tarika Nagast'' and ''Gadla Aragawi'', King Gebre Meskel, Aragawi and St. Yared maintained a stable friendship for establishing churches in Gojjam, [[Begemder]] (today: Gondar), and [[Tigray Province|Tigray]]. After two years, they went to [[Lay Gayint|Gayint]] and built a church called Saint Mariam at [[Zur Amba]]. The foundation is said to be as a result of "God's guide" and this location was named ''Zur Amba'' after "appearance of God to Aragawi". The account wrote about God's appearance and guidance to Aragawi in Geʽez: "Zur Abba Mengale Misraq...." which means "...Abba, turn to the east; you will find the way to the hill."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Saint Yared|url=https://www.abbayesehaq.com/htm/yared.htm|access-date=2021-08-17|website=www.abbayesehaq.com|date=20 November 2015 |language=en}}</ref>