🇪🇹 American Couple Reacts "The Biggest Religious Festival In Africa, Ethiopia (Meskel Festival)"
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I appreciate you both for showing interest in learning about other cultures and traditions. A Meskel festival is an Ethiopian Orthodox Church ceremony. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has 60 million followers with in Ethiopia. All the church followers from there respective local parishes come together to celebrate the founding of the true cross. After the cross was found the cross was divided into 4 places. And from among the divid 4 part one was brought to Ethiopia during Emperor Dawit era, know part of that cross resides in a place called Gishan. Now the festival is registered in UNICO as a world heritage. If you need more info feel free ask me and I will be glad to respond if I know the answer. But love you personalities and what you do. Stay blessed.
Thank you
I am from Eritrea love to my blood brothers Ethiopians.
My Ethiopia people 😚 proud to being Orthodox
Ethiopian Orthodox is under siege we all need to be our voice the enemy is trying to divid us into ethnic lines within our church.
Ethiopian culture is always beautiful.
We love you 😘 guy FROM ERITREA ✊🏾🇪🇷✊🏾🦁👑✍🏾🔥 I love ETHIOPIA & ETHIOPIANS. GOOD JOB GUYS.
This is national holiday. But it is also a religious festival for one religion. Since majority of the population is orthodox, it is assumed as national holiday with a day off. But everyone enjoys it. People celebrate it in two ways: christians as religion festive and for those non Christian it is cultural celebration
we also have a day offs on Muslim holidays, about 3 times a year it's not about being a majority but the officially known religions in ETHIOPIA are these two religions Christianity and Islam
I have always loved Ethiopia i think that them not being colonised like the rest of Africa allowed them to preserve alot of their culture and heritage which is beautiful
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The bonfire is not representing the Christmas tree. The shape came from the fact that they always have to make it wider at the bottom and thinner at the top so that it holds together.
In our religion christmas tree is not common at all
Thank you sis good explanation !
The celebration happens everywhere. The main ones are at Meskel Square, Lalibela church in Gondar, and also other regional churches. The song style is similar but the theme of the song lyrics differs depending on the event or topic.
Thr most i like from my fellow Habesha people is the way how they respect other foreign people wherever he comes how he acts everybody tries to give him comfort and safety.
It's the all country of Ethiopia celebrate this. It's not just one place 💚💛❤
7:56 i wanna answer your question. Okay as eveybody know Ethiopians follow Orthodox Christianity before 3 thousands years ago. So they majority population of the country follow this religion. So this festival celebrated by the whole population who follow this religion(around 60 million people ). Not only one church but all people celebrate this fastival. "meskel" means cross 😊 thanks to our ancestors who keep this religion till now
The songs are hymns... They are worshiping the whole time. This is a religious event that happens all over the country. The holiday is mainly celebrated by Ethiopian Orthodox but still the celebration brings all Ethiopians together.
Thank you sister good explanation !
ሁለት ቆንጆ ባልና ሚስቶች በጣም እናመሰግናለን ።ልጆቻችሁ ይባረኩ።❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏
In Ethiopian language she said you are a beautiful couple God bless your children
The EOTC (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo church) is 1 church. He mentioned d/t churches coming together but they are all like d/t branche offices of the same institution & the EOTC is 1 of the 6 ancient sister churches of Oriental Orthodox Churches.
Additionally as it relates to this celebration more than 3/4 of the cross that Jesus Christ was nailed on, bled & died on is located in Ethiopia.
the hand movements have its own meaning and reason. So when you swing your hand you start from left to right ( left side is an example of Hell and right is Heaven) it’s an example and reminder how Jesus saved us all
Eleni (Ge'ez: እሌኒ, "Helena"; died April 1522) also known as Queen of Zeila was Empress of Ethiopia by marriage to Zara Yaqob (r. 1434-1468), and served as regent between 1507 and 1516 during the minority of emperor Dawit II.
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Yes this is country wide, it's all the Orthodox churches that come together. It's epiphany in Ethiopia! And yes they are singing christian songs! Holidays are big in Ethiopia.
this festival is nations wide and in Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church we are not separated by different churches and priests like the Baptists. we all are led by a single synod and one patriarchy
This is one of the festivals for Meskel (finding of the true cross) but there are many other celebrations for birth of Christ, for Epiphany, for Easter, and many many more. I suggest you also check out some of the unique churches and monasteries that are ancient and/or out of human imagination
Thank you good explanation !
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The Ethiopian New Year comes up with various religious and cultural celebrations which are marked indoors among families and outdoors with the entire public in mammoth paraphernalia Meskel, the holiday celebrated in commemoration of the Finding of the True Cross.
Meskel, meaning the Cross in Amharic is an annual religious Ethiopian holiday among Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christian believers and the first outdoor feast in the Church calendar. Meskel takes place on the 27th of September, or 28th during a leap year, Gregorian calendar.
In addition to its religious values, Meskel coincides with the end of the main rainy season (June to September) and the onset of Ethiopian spring in which fields and meadows in the country are carpeted with mesmerizing endemic daisies, locally known as adey abeba, with their captivating yellow colors which majestically envelop the Ethiopian fields. The daisies prevail for only two months and disappear over the next ten months to reappear at the same rainy season the next year.
Meskel is also a time when many urbanites return to villages. Neighborhoods and villages celebrate Demera. In the morning, the faithful paint cross on their foreheads with the ash from the burned bone fire as a gesture of good will.
The feast of Meskel started on the 26th of September with the celebration of the Demera, a ceremonial burning of a large bonfire. It is a special event that is conducted on the eve of Meskel to recall the smoke that supposedly led Empress Helena to the site of the True Cross.
The True Cross, upon which Christ had been crucified, was thrown in a ditch or well, and then covered with litters, until Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, discovered the place where three crosses that were believed to be used at the crucifixion of Jesus and two of the crosses where the two thieves were executed with Him.
Empress Helena had a revelation in a dream to make a bonfire and that the smoke would show her where the true cross was buried. So she ordered the people of Jerusalem to bring wood and make a huge pile. After adding frankincense to it the bonfire was lit and the smoke raised high up to the sky and returned to the ground, exactly to the spot where the True Cross had been buried.
The national feast of Demera is held at Meskel Square(named after this festival), a huge square in Addis Ababa, on September 26, in commemoration the Finding of the True Cross.
At the Meskel Square, in the afternoon, dozens of Sunday school students and members of the clergy move through the square singing spiritual songs that last for hours. As darkness begins to set in, the demera is set ablaze.
The following day, the official day of the feast of the finding of the True Cross, Ethiopians attend liturgy and a feast and celebrate with family and friends. Many use the ashes from the demera mark a shape of cross on their foreheads.
The Demera festival of the Meskel holiday, whose celebration dates back to 1600 years, has been registered as world intangible heritage by UNESCO in December 2013, as the first intangible Ethiopian heritage.
During Meskel festival, a special species of birds known as ‘YeMeskel Wof -Meskel’s Bird’ also appears to be visible. Generally, the word ‘YeMeskel Wof’ is used to call the four bird species, namely the northern red bishops, indigo-birds, whydah and widow birds, and yet it has more than ten species under it. These birds are also enjoyed by bird watchers during Meskel.
These birds are endemic to Ethiopia, and do not migrate from one place to another as other birds do. As September, Ethiopia’s first month, is their reproduction season, the colors of their feathers gets changed in order to attract opposite sexes. Due to this change, it looks that they are new birds that appear only at this time of the year.
Meskel also marks a tourist season in Ethiopia. Thousands of tourists from many countries converge on Ethiopia to enjoy the ceremonies during the Meskel celebrations.
Meskel is celebrated as a grand religious occasion among the Ethiopian Orthodox believers because it is believed that a part of the True Cross has been brought to Ethiopia. It is said to be kept at Amba Gishen, which itself has a shape of a cross.
The cross has a special meaning for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Christians of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church dangle the symbol of the cross on their neck.
Priests carry various types of cross with their ceremonial staff in conducting mass and other forms of prayers including a ceremonial blessings and sanctification of holy waters meant for healing the sick and casting out evil spirits from persons suspected of being possessed by demons.
Mario De Salvo says that “There is no country in the world that matches Ethiopia in the number of forms and types of its crosses. Ever since Ethiopia’s conversion to Christianity, the cross has appeared almost universally, not only as a liturgical instrument in churches and monasteries, but also in common devotion and in daily life.”
From the cross stamped on the Aksumite coins, depicted in architecture and illustrated in the ancient illuminated codices to the astylar, manual or pectoral crosses made and forged respectively for liturgical functions, (Mario Da Silva, Crosses of Ethiopia, 2006)
There are various types of crosses that are used on various religious and cultural occasions. The most popular ones are the crosses of Lalibela, Axum and Gondar. Tourists from various countries visiting Ethiopia make sure that they purchase various types of Ethiopian crosses that are made from silver and bronze, as well as carved from wood and marble.
Thousands of tourists from all over the world are expected to arrive in Addis Ababa and regional towns to mark the event. Meskel is a season of reunion of families who were separated during the rainy season due to torrential rains and over flooded rivers.
Meskel holiday, it commemorates the discovery of the True cross by the empress Helena (Saint Helena) - all orthodox Christians celebrate this once a year and all orthodox churches across the country celebrate. The hymn you hear with the drums are religious praises to Jesus Christ, St.Mary and all the saints, they are accompanied by decons and priests. The different colors you see worn are students of the different churches.
All love to you guys from Ethiopia to helping put eyes on our country.
The English bible..."David dance before the Lord"; the Ethiopians considere secular and relegious dances and that particular movement "shibseba' is a religeous dance- singing joyously while your hands open, placed forward and bowing your head...[with very slow magestic wriggling along with your hands] symbolize Ethiopic 'dancing'/ celebration of joy before their Lord with such great symolism in its performance- 'open hand' - dependence on Him for the daily bread...and spiritual sustainance; and ofcourse bowing-- as jesture for not only respecting but also submitting oneself to His Magestic, Everlasting authority- as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
This is not a festival it is religious ceremony
You guys are just nice, I like how you are respectful of African cultures even though some things u may find to be strange, I hope u guys visit someday
grass symbolizes the return of life to the earth.
This is a yearly festival all around the country, and all churches in each town will gather and go to a specific place.
A smoke from a bonfire led queen Elena to find the true cross. That’s why we lit a bonfire.
New subscriber here. Thank u for reacting about my beautiful country. Love u guys
Welcome to the family! Much love!
The significant of the Bonfire is when Queen Ellena make the bonfire the smokes raised up and went down over the mountain where the True Cross is berried
We love our culture, our flag and our nation Ethiopia ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Meskel celebration is an Ethiopian ORTHODOX christian festival celebrate in meskel square once in a year
Much love from Ethiopian proud to be orthodox
Today is the another reaction for African too I'm proudly we 😍 love you so
It is celebrated across the country and also different colors represents different church.
Thank you so much guys I am from Ethiopia please react the Ethiopian ephipany trust me you like it
Thank you for showing the beautiful orthodox religious celebration of my country
Ethiopia is the greatest
The last guy just missed almost every part... the queen was Ethiopian.. many people is celebrating it because those people are orthodox Christians... it is not celebrated just because the rainy season is ending NO!!! It is celebrated as to remember how Queen Eleni found the cross of Jesus which was lost... the bonfire has nothing to do with christmas tree.... and Thank you guys for covering this event. Much respect
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Yup…I believe Epiphany is bigger population wise, it is also a 2 day celebration. The holiday u reacting is only for churches around that area and there is a small similar celebration everywhere but Epiphany includes more churches from different areas that makes it more exciting and very interesting. Orthodox the oldest religion has a very unique things that has been going for years and years.
Thank you so much 🙏
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Yes several church's come to one to celebrate together. This is praise and worship songs of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
This is exclusively a ceremony of finding of the true cross celebrated by Ethiopian orthodox twahdo church every year .
Answer for the question in the 8:00 min yes it is celebrated in the whole country and all church’s
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Truly appreciate you guys! Love the content. Keep it up!
To answer few...
EOTC (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church: one of the five Oriental churches) is the religion. Different Churches but the Same religion.
The festival is celebration of Finding the True Cross. Queen Helena (mother of Constantine the Great ) set up to find the cross which was buried Under a mountain of trash that was being dumped for more than 300 years. For the cross not to be found a roman emperor had instructed for trash to be dumped on 3 places which accumulated for centuries to make 3 mountains. So the queen after her dream, lit the biggest bonfire and added incense to it. With the grace of God the smoke showed her which of the three mountain of trash the cross was buried under. Later the Cross, which Christ was crusified on, was found. Hence the celebration.
The celebration lasts only a day. (Another big celebration "Epiphany" is minimum 2 days tho)
Although the meskel square is the biggest one. It is country wide celebration. EOT Churches at every town celebrate it with mezmur (spiritual songs) and bonfire.
The hand movement is to signify the fact that Jesus Christ was born and took us from hell to heaven (from left to right hand movement). The clothes they wore, the drums they were using, 1:09 the tools they are holding here...all have meaning. It is truly fascinating)
Yes it is a reenactment of the finding the Cross (I think this one is just at meskel square and other main squares outside Addis Ababa)
Ethiopia has 13 months in a year September 11(if not a leap year) is basically a January 1, the begining of a new year. And Late 2022 (from Sep) to 2023 (to Sep) in Gregorian Calendar is equivalent to 2015 in Ethiopian Calendar.
Queen Elena, as per instructions in her dreams, used a bonfire to point to the mountain of thrash where the True Cross was hidden. The smoke pointed her to the specific mountain where the Cross Jesus used to heal people while he was teaching Christianity was hidlden and she had it dug out. That's what the bonfire symbolizes. All Ethiopian Orthodox churches in Ethiopia, US, Canada, Europe & Middle East have same Synod (Administration) under one Patriarch. No sects or differences at all.
The hall county celebrate it but remember what u r watching is just in the capital city. Every city holds their own. As u know Ethiopia has a different calendar & this is a religious festival I think it's the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist in the River Jordan.
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It is a found of True Cross ✝️ celebration. It is only celebrate in Ethiopia by Orthodox Christians.
The festival is across the country and there is only one church, the Orthodox church.
all churches gathering in meskel square and celebrate all over in Ethiopia
It is praise, it's orthodox celebration, that is held throughout the entire country, where there are orthodox peoples
yes its all the churches of the city combined
Please help us 😭😭😭😭 ethiopian government is still killing the Orthodox Christian at this time please be the voice for us 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
All churches celebrate this festival. The entire country. Those close to Meskel square gather there.
Please be a voice for Ethiopian Orthodox people we are not good now please tell your people to be voice please
The Hosting church for this Holiday is Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church is vast by the estimate followers of 70mil & 40k churches allover Ethiopia,the objective of it remebering the founding of the truecross in Queen of Constantinople.it's a Religious cermony
Orthodox Churches gather together
5:20 oh yes, very true
I love you guys
And the bone fire is shaped like that because the cross that Jesus Christ was hanged on was under trash and after time it started to look like mountain field with trash. My English is not so good but hope y’all understood
It’s not a Christmas tree
According how it fall the fire it can indicate how is going to be the new year
Different church come from all part of the city but those churches are one. They have only one leader. They practice the same religion called Ethiopian orthodox church. It has over 70 million followers. This celebration is to remember the founding of buried cross. The smoke lead the wife of Roman emperor Constantine to the locations of the buried cross that juses got crucified.. Ethiopia new years began on separate 11 and right now Ethiopia calendar is 2015.. we have different way of counting clocks. We began our day at the morning. That's when we change days and we start counting 1 am. But the west start their new day at midnight. If you say 12 pm which is when you eat your lunch, we Ethiopian call that time 6 am.. our PM start when the sun set which is the 6pm. We call that time 12pm
This is a religious holiday celebrated by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Not a regular holiday.
answer to the question raised at 7:55;
This festival is practiced trough out the country.
Its akin to Christmas in the west. But instead of at home with family, everyone in the community (city, village..etc) comes together in the city/vilage center and celebrates by singing, dancing and then at the evening the music slows down and usual a church leader talks on a for a while about the gathering, thanking god for everything done trough out the year and praying for the year to come and then a bond fair is light at dawn of night and everyone goes around it singing and praysing god. But now adays there is a bond fire light at the evening in some areas and then the do a second smaller bond fire at their own "gybe" (house gate) with family and freinds. (this is because now cities are so large that its dengrous to wait all night, specially when traffic is halted, so going backhome becomes tricky specially for those with kinds and young onces)
(But nowadays there are alot of modern things added to it. especially in Addis Abeba.)
This is Orthodox Christian
I wish his hosts helped him explain things better. Great video but not enough information.
The whole process is very beautiful and intricate. The night before and the morning off the streets are scrubbed. The tabot and the priests carting it walk on red Carpet and not on the regular street, all the different churches bring out choirs, people get holly water …. And many many more things!!
It’s nation wide and the songs are Like Hymm.
This video shows 36-50% of what happens, maybe you will get the opportunity to watch more videos
what did the dude just told him that queen helena is not Ethiopian.....ok am sorry for the confussion but she is
This is the celebration of the finding of the true cross. Ethiopian Orthodox church is one of the holder of the piece of the true cross that Jesus crucified on. The bone fire shape has nutting to do with x mass tree. Infact we don't cebrate x mass and we don't do x mass trees. We have our own calanderic day and way of celbration of the birth of Jesus christ. Every song you heard on the celbeation is a gospel and We only use few selected instruments, infact traditional musical instruments and a bare hand to praise God. Btw this is bonfire is for a collected celebration. After this ceremony completed the congregation went to lit millions of bonfires in his hillage and churches located around his village.
Those are worship songs especially made for Meskel.
I saw our president. She was sitting next to the priest.
It's Orthodox epiphany celebration
Not Epiphany…!?😖🤦🏽♀️😂
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Ethiopian orthodox Tawahido church
They are praising the Lord. In Orthodox Church they use a drum when they sing to remember how Jesus was whipped.
Did you know Christianity started in Ethiopia way before Europe! Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christian nations in the world!
Each color represents different churches
Ethipia is very rich culture country
But wesren median can't see apositiv side to our country ..
One religion is orthodox Genesis
Its not meskel festival....its meskel celebration! Ok....and the guy is making fun of us.....its really irrespective....I'm really sad.....sorry for him
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And its different Orthodox church in addis Ababa there is no other religious in there only Orthodox can attend the religious festival
The only festival you will experience and such gathering is to praise God this is one of the time u will praise God country wide and this is the practice of Orthodox tewehado followers ( Orthodox means one ) it is the gathering of same churches located in different part of the city but only one doctrine the Orthodox tewehado followers , we have thousands of churches in different places of the country!!
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Know 🇪🇹Ethiopia Orthodox charch is on bad thing from government kills orthodoxian pls
Pls show or exposed this this torching
If u donot. Anderstand i will right by my languge and u can transfert by googel
No
No is a Country thing, thier culture
Hi Gays this Selbreshen is finding a cross the Queen Elene find Jesses cross wher He daie Real cross one mossok toled her that she make. A faire and When gose The smoke. Wich mounten that mounten it has the cross she did as he sai and she goino jesses craise cross that is Why the u firing . I’ m sorry About My hip u anderstand me
They are only from Ethiopia Orthodox Christian church in addis Ababa no Protestant no other religious only Orthodox
Only Orthodox Church
Worship song
Meskel is like chrismas,ramadan a pagan holyday.
Against the holy one God the creater of heaven and the earth.
the hand movements have its own meaning and reason. So when you swing your hand you start from left to right ( left side is an example of Hell and right is Heaven) it’s an example and reminder how Jesus saved us all