Holiday Pictures Day 14:
In honor of me eating Ethiopian food for the first time today I will post about Ethiopian “Christmas”. The picture is a Ethiopian representation of the ”Adoration of the Magi”.
Ethiopian Christmas (Genna)
Christmas, called Lidet, is not the primary religious and secular festival that it has become in Western countries. Falling on 7 January, it is celebrated seriously by a church service that goes on throughout the night, with people moving from one church to another. Traditionally, young men played a game similar to hockey, called genna, on this day, and now Christmas has also come to be known by that name.