Ashendye
Ashendye marks the end of a two-week-long fast known as Fisleta when adherents of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church gather to honour the Virgin Mary.
Ashendye is festival celebrated in August in the Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia. Ashendye marks the end of a two-week-long fast known as Fisleta when adherents of Ethiopian orthodox Tewahedo church gather to honour the Virgin Mary.
(The word “Ashendye” in the Amharic and Tigrigna languages denote a vertical sewerage channel that passes water down to the ground from the top of a roof. In the Khimra sect of Agew, Ashendye means the “tall green grass”, estimated at around 80-90cm minimum height, that girls wear around their waists during the holiday.)