A salutary message from a strict dad on the event of the 2014 New Year. Enkutatash is a public occasion in the occurrence of New Year in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It happens on Meskerem 1 on the Ethiopian schedule, which is 11 September (or, during a jump year, 12 September) as indicated by the Gregorian schedule.
This occasion depends on the Ethiopian schedule. It is Ethiopian/Eritrean New Year. Enormous festivals are held around the country, eminently at the Ragual Church on Entoto mountain. As indicated by InCultureParent, "in the wake of going to chapel in the first part of the day, families assemble to share a conventional supper of injera (flatbread) and wat (sauce).
Later in the day, little youngsters wearing new garments, accumulate daisies and present companions with a bouquet, singing New Year's tunes." According to the Ethiopian Tourism Commission, "Enkutatash isn't solely a strict occasion. Current Enkutatash is likewise the season for trading formal new year good tidings and cards among the metropolitan complex - in lieu of the conventional bunch of roses."
The Ethiopian including of years starts in the year 8 of the BC. This is on the grounds that the BC follows the estimations of Dionysius, a sixth century priest, while the non-Chalcedonian nations kept on utilizing the computations of Annius, a fifth century priest, which had put the Annunciation of Christ precisely 8 years after the fact. Therefore, on Enkutatash in the year 2016 of the Gregorian schedule, it became 2009 in the Ethiopian schedule.
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