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 ETHIOPIA-ኢትዮጵያ "Land of origin"✈️🌍🇪🇹

Socio-cultural, Historical and Geographical view

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#Enkutatash is the name for the Ethiopian New Year, and means “gift of jewels” in the Amharic language. The story goes back almost 3,000 years to the #Queen_of_Sheba of ancient Ethiopia and Yemen who was returning from a trip to visit King Solomon of Israel in Jerusalem, as mentioned in the Bible in I Kings 10 and II Chronicles 9. She had gifted Solomon with 120 talents of gold (4.5 tons) as well as a large amount of unique spices and jewels. When the Queen returned to Ethiopia her chiefs welcomed her with #enku or #jewels to replenish her treasury.

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The celebration is both religious and secular. Typically this is the end of the long rainy season and the countryside is covered with yellow #daisies. The day begins with church services followed by the family meal. Young children will receive small gifts of money or bread after the girls gather flowers and sing and boys paint pictures of saints. Families visit friends and adults drink #Ethiopian_beer.

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The Ethiopian calendar is a unique form of the Coptic or Alexandrian calendar, derived from the earlier Egyptian calendar which influenced the Julian calendar. On September 12, 2007 Ethiopia celebrated its bi-millennial, or 2,000 years from the #Annunciation of Christ. 

📌 #Why is #ETHIOPIAN calendar 7-8 years different from the West’s Gregorian calendar?

 

👉In the West, the calendar was calculated around A.D. 525 by Dionysius Exiguus a Roman monk-mathematician-astronomer who based his calculations for the birth of Christ on an erroneous date for the death of Herod the Great. In the East, an Alexandrian monk named Panodorus (or Annias) did his calculations differently back around A.D. 400 for the Egyptian calendar.

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ETHIOPIA-ኢትዮጵያ "Land of origin"✈️🌍

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