Celebrate Unique holiday of TIMKET/Epiphany in Ethiopia
The package includes the peculiar religious celebration of Epiphany or Timket, an intangible heritage registered by UNESCO and other churches and monasteries that have great historical significance in medieval and modern times.
Timket or Epiphany is an intangible heritage registered by UNESCO of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Religion. It happens every year 10 days after Genna (Ethiopian Christmas) and the eve known as Ketera lies on January 18 and becomes 19 in a leap year. It is the day when all the replicas of the Ark of the Covenant (Tabot) are out and head to the resting place for the evening accompanied by the clergies, Sunday school students, and the Orthodox Tewahido religion followers. In the evening different prayers take place and in the morning after the procession is over, the blessing from the head of the church is forwarded and the Holly Water is sprinkled to all the people present. Shortly after the blessing, the replicas will return the same way as the eve to their respective areas. They all sing the season's religious songs with much more symbolism of the journey of Jesus Christ to River Jordan and his baptism at the hands of John the Baptist. It is celebrated throughout the country.
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