GONDAR (Ethiopia), Jan 22 — Getahun Fetana spent years admiring Emebet Melaku from a distance before plucking up the nerve to speak to her, taking advantage of a chance encounter during Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox celebration of epiphany. Breaking off from his friends, the 37-year-old...
Getahun Fetana and his wife Emebet Melaku pose for a portrait in their home in the city of Gondar, Ethiopia. — AFP pic
It is far from the only Ethiopian love story closely bound up with Timkat, which Orthodox Christians celebrated Monday with feasts and elaborate processions across the country. Finally, worshippers don their finest traditional clothing on Timkat, including pristine white robes and tunics accented with the greens, reds and yellows of the Ethiopian flag.
The ceremony during which the seating area collapsed — in which worshippers dive into holy water to recreate Jesus’ baptism — was meant to cap a weekend-long traditional celebration that last month was inscribed on Unesco’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. But while lemon-throwing is still common in rural areas, it is increasingly out of fashion in Ethiopia’s fast-growing cities.
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