Ethiopian New Year Celebration

Her return to ethiopia after receiving the gift coincided with the new year celebration in september and hence the name enkutatash came to be.

Ethiopian new year celebration. The ethiopian new year enkutatash means the gift of jewels. The ethiopian new year is a celebration involving the entire family. It occurs on meskerem 1 on the ethiopian calendar which is 11 september or during a leap year 12 september according to the gregorian calendar.

And enjoy traditional ethiopian food. The holiday starts on new year s eve when each household light wooden torches called chibo in amharic language that symbolise the coming of the new season of sunshine after the end of the rainy season that has prevailed since june. A group of local ethiopian activists and businessmen want to make the day known as enkutatash in ethi o pia a part of the american roster of holidays in a way that is very similar to st.

Area has over 200 000 ethiopian americans who celebrate the holiday this year on september 12. While the girls are out singing and clapping their hearts out the boys are making beautiful paintings that herald the coming of a bright new day which they then go from house to house handing out their works of art on the morning of the holiday to relatives neighbors and. A girl wears a face mask to curb the spread of the coronavirus as she attends a prayer ceremony to mark the holiday of enkutatash the first day of the new year in the ethiopian calendar which is traditionally associated with the return of the queen of sheba to ethiopia some 3 000 years ago at bole medhane alem ethiopian orthodox cathedral in the capital addis ababa ethiopia friday sept.

But instead of wearing green or dancing to a mariachi band you re invited for a much simpler down to earth sort of celebration. Celebrations for the ethiopian new year usually last for a week and are focused on family events. Patrick s day or cinco de mayo.

There s been a movement to make enkutatash a k a. Ethiopian new year 2013 celebrations by artists. Before coming to ethiopia we didn t even know that ethiopians have a different calendar and that their new year celebrations happen on the 10th and 11th of september new year s eve and new year.

Patrick s day or cinco de mayo. Legend has it that king solomon of jerusalem gave the queen of sheba jewels during her famous visit to jerusalem some 3 000 years ago. እንቁጣጣሽ is a public holiday in coincidence of new year in ethiopia and eritrea.