[3] This tradition further claims that Ethiopis' descendants included his son Aksumawi, grandson Malayka Aksum, and great-grandsons Sum, Nafaz, Bagi'o, Kuduki, Akhoro and Farheba.
[3] This genealogy suggests a connection between Ethiopia and the Nubian kingdom of Kush, as represented by Ethiopis being the son of Cush.
Aksumani, the son of Ethiopis, is likely meant to represent the kingdom of Axum, which ruled from the 1st to the 10th century A.D. over parts of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea.
[6] The official chronicle of the Ethiopian monarchy from 1922, written by the then prince regent Tafari Makannon, includes a different tradition.
However, the Ethiopian queen Cassiopeia of ancient Greek myth is mentioned earlier as part of the same dynasty and thus may be intended to be perceived as an ancestor of Ethiopis.
Pliny the Elder stated that Ethiopis or "Aethiops" was the son of the Roman god Vulcan (unverified information).
According to George Hatke, the reason why the territory of modern-day Ethiopia today claims this name may be due to the conquest of Meroe by the Aksumite Empire (located in modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea) in the 4th century A.D., after which the Axumites began referring to themselves as "Ethiopians".
[16] He argued that it was unlikely that the "Ethiopians" mentioned in ancient Greek writings were the Abyssinians, but instead were far more likely to be the Nubians of Meroë.