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While Ashenda originated in Tigray, it has spread to other parts of Ethiopia, including the Amhara and Gurage regions, where it has been adopted with regional variations. Leading up to the festival, women and girls prepare by adorning themselves with traditional jewelry, dresses embroidered with colorful patterns, and unique hairstyles.
The daily life of Tigrayans is highly influenced by religious concepts. For example, the Christian Orthodox fasting periods are strictly observed, especially in Tigray; but also traditional local beliefs such as in spirits, are widespread. In Tigray the language of the church remains exclusively Ge’ez.
Omotic Hamar women wearing their traditional attire. Men wear pants and a knee-length shirt with a white collar, and perhaps a sweater. They also frequently wear knee-high socks, while women might not wear socks at all. Men as well as women wear shawls, the netela. The shawls are worn in a different style for different occasions.
In almost every rural household of Tigray, the woman knows how to prepare the local beer, siwa in Tigrinya language.Basic ingredients are water; a home-baked and toasted flatbread commonly made from barley in the highlands, [1] [2] [3] and from sorghum, finger millet or maize in the lowlands; [4] some yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae); [5] and dried leaves of gesho (Rhamnus prinoides) that ...
Eritrean women dancing in traditional zurias. A zuria is a dress worn by the Tigrinya women in Eritrea and Ethiopia. [1] Traditional zurias often feature intricate designs, [2] go to the ankles, and are accessorized with a netsela, a white, scarflike accessory worn about the shoulders and head.
Tilfi is also a handmade Tigray clothing, with cross-like stitching around the chest area, neck, and wrist. Some women include small button-like silver or 24-karat gold around the designs. It comes with an extra material that also has intricate stitching that is wrapped around the head and shoulders.
The young mother was trying to get home with food for her two children when she says soldiers pulled her off a minibus in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, claiming it was overloaded. The woman, 27, is ...
About 95% of Tigre practice Islam, the remainder practice Christianity. [2] [7] Religious divisions have not been of particular concern within the Tigre. [7]Most are Sunni Muslims, but there are a small number of Christians (who are members of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eritrea) among them as well (often referred to ...