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Enkutatash

Ethiopian New Year, when the rains end and the highlands turn yellow with Meskel daisies.

This photo has been taken in the country: Ethiopia
Photo: Nati Tad, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What happens

Enkutatash is the first day of the Ethiopian year and falls on 11 September, or 12 September before a leap year. The long rains are ending, and the highlands are covered with a yellow daisy called adey abeba, which flowers only at this season. It is the sign of the new year. Girls in white dresses go from house to house singing and hand out small bunches of the flowers or pictures they have painted of them. Fresh grass and flowers are spread on the floor of the house.

The flowers

BouquetSmall bunches are given by singing girls.

Also part of it, and being written: Bidens (Adey abeba, the yellow daisy that marks the end of the rains.).

More flowers and customs of Enkutatash

Adey abebaBidens macroptera The yellow eight-petalled flower of Ethiopia’s New Year 🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Wildflower
About this page

Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Enkutatash" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

  • Bouquet: James Vick's Sons (Rochester, N.Y.); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed, No restrictions, source
  • Adey abeba: (c) Luke Lythgoe, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0, source

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