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2007- sellassie.vtheatre.net/2008 him.filmplus.org/sellassie.net ... from/for calendar: Timkat (Epiphany), is the most colorful event in the year when Churches parade their Tabots to a nearby body of water. This is the commemoration of Christ,s baptism, which falls one the 19th of January. The Tabot is taken out in the afternoon on the eve of epiphany and stays overnight with the priests and faithful congregation. The following morning the water is blessed and splashed on everyone in a ceremony where the faithful renew their vows to the Church. If the body of water is large enough, some people will immerse themselves. Woman who have been unable to have children participate in the ritual for fertility. After the ceremony, the Tabot is paraded back to its Church accompanied by much singing and dancing. Fasika (Easter) is a festival that follows a fasting period of 55 days. During this time, no animal product is eaten. The faithful do not eat anything at all until the daily service is finished at around 3 in the afternoon. From Thursday evening before Good Friday, nothing is eaten until the Easter-service ends on 3 in the morning on Easter Sunday. Kidus Yohannes or Enkutatash Ethiopias New Years day is celebrated on the 11th of September. It is primarily secular and a time for People to put on new clothes and visit friends and relatives Maskal, Said to be in memory of the finding of the true Cross by the Empress Eleni. This is as colorful as Timkat, however instead of water the focus of the celebration is a bonfire topped with an image of a Cross, to which flowers are tied. Priests in full regalia bless the bonfire before it is lit. This festival coincides with the mass blooming of the golden Yellow Maskal Daisies, called Adey Ababa in Amharic. Lidet or Gena, the Ethiopian Christmas is not the primary religious and secular festival that it has become in Western countries. Falling on the 7th of January, it is celebrated seriously by a Church service that goes on throughout the night, with people moving from one Church to another. Traditionally, young man play a game similar to hockey called Gena on this day, and now Christmas has also come to be known by this name. ... contact: PO. Box 11411 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia E.Africa
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http://www.shagtown.com/days/ethiopia.html - holidays
in Amharic
http://www.quatero.net/http://www.amharicdictionary.com/
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Learn/Amharic.asp
... http://www.amhariconline.com/
... Names of the 13 months of the Ethiopian calendar
... http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0603/feature6/ Ethiopian wolf * links page
... animals, trees, birds of Ethiopia and etc.
http://astore.amazon.com/ethiopia-20/