Category: Photography
Photographic postings.
Procession #4, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
I’m really having trouble conveying the size of the crowd in an image that is really pleasing to me, but here you can see some of the extent of the procession (there is easily as much or more behind me, and more around the corner in front.
Choir #2, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
Däbtära #2, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
Choir, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
Ceremony, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
Däbtäras perform liturgical dance on the stage in front of the priests carrying the tabot during the first day of the Timkat celebrations.
Cross, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
A young priest with a processional cross; liturgical umbrellas are in the background.
Däbtära, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
Däbtäras, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
A group of däbtäras (liturgical specialists unique to Ethiopia) travels from Gabriel Church to Jan Meda at the beginning of the Timkat procession.
Tabot, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
These priests marched and stood with the tabot (replicas of the Tablets of the Law, contents of the Ark of the Covenant supposedly resident in Axum, and the sanctifying piece of any Ethiopian Church) on their heads for hours, very patiently. It is a great honor to be selected to carry the tabot, but I wonder how it is on the back. . .