Coffee ceremony is an integral part of the celebration. The ritual of coffee serving and drinking, which can last for hours, is an important social occasion offering reunion for relatives and friends and a chance to discuss community matters while enjoying top-notch coffee.
To be invited to a coffee ceremony in an Ethiopian family is a sign of great respect. Enkutatash is also a special day for children. They gather in groups and go from house to house -- girls play the Amharic song "Abebayehugn," meaning "I have seen flowers," with hand drums, while boys often present pictures painted by themselves -- with expectations of praise and gifts. For children, the new attires from parents and gifts from community members are undoubtedly the most expected thing of Enkutatash.
Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida Keys. Xinhua weekly photos. Parade held during Shanghai Tourism Festival. I discuss their calendar in the article, but why does our calendar year start on January 1? Thank the ancient Roman Senate and Julius Caesar for that. Celebration of Enkutatash The celebration is both religious and secular. Date for Enkutatash The Ethiopian calendar is a unique form of the Coptic or Alexandrian calendar, derived from the earlier Egyptian calendar, influencing the Julian calendar.
Modern Day Enkutatash As I mentioned in the article for the Washington Post, the availability of modern social media and Internet resources makes the promotion of this ethnic and cultural holiday more visible for this Diaspora of African and Caribbean peoples. Subscribe to have future articles delivered to your email. Like this: Like Loading Bill Petro on September 9, at pm. Alexandre Lima Will on June 29, at am. Bill Petro on July 4, at pm. Heaven on October 1, at pm. Bill Petro on January 1, at pm.
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It works as a fill in with all other months being 30 days and 12 x 30 being , so it adds up the year to days. By a calculation the Ethiopian calendar is currently seven years and eight months behind the Gregorian calendar which is widely followed throughout the world.
So what are the celebrations for New Year? It is of course not only a national holiday but a feast day and families will celebrate the New Year together on the 11th or 12th. This lighting of the torches is then accompanied by the singing of songs by the young and old. The celebration of the New Year is mainly secular with the day beginning with family meal of injera and wat. Young children will receive small gifts of money or bread after the girls gather flowers and sing and boys paint pictures of saints.
Much like the tradition of Christmas choirs and carol singing children, the boys of Ethiopia on the other hand sell pictures that have been drawn by them. Also as the elder sit together and discuss about things that concern them like, the hopes for New Year, the children roam around freely and try to spend the money that they managed to earn on the occasion.
Embracing the modern spirit, the city dwellers notably in the capital city Addis Ababa have adopted the more Western way of sending out greeting cards etc. The New Year is one of the main warmly celebrated holidays in the country. All people from different religious and cultural backgrounds celebrate the holiday together. The atmosphere in the cities, towns and country side embrace the positive spirit created by the holiday.
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