The Ethiopian Calendar, boasting 13 months of ‘Sunshine’, runs a little slower than it’s Gregorian counterpart.
Accordingly, Ethiopians will be celebrating their Millennium year on September 10, 2007. The Ethiopian new year begins on September 11 of leap-challenged Gregorian years (9-11? Dhun dhun dhuuun!).
A Yahoo! search indicates that the discrepancy in calendars results from a difference of opinion between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church on the date of the creation of the world. Ethiopic.com mentions that, according to the beliefs of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, God created the world 5500 years before the birth of Christ and it is now 1999 years since Jesus was born.
Now I don’t know what your ‘science’ is telling you, but that is one helluva accurate date for the Big Bang!
So if you missed the celebrations 7 years ago because you were holed up in a millennium bunker awaiting the end of the world, uncork your champagne this September 10th and join the party! (Next time you want to schedule Armageddon on your Outlook, ask an Ethiopian Bishop).
If your boss refuses to give you a day off, threaten to sue your company for religious discrimination.
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On Ethiopian new year blog…
While the blog is informational to those a bit knowledge challenged, I thought it could have been a bit more informing. For instance, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church isn’t making “helluva accurate date” out of thin air; the counting of generations of Adam’s descendants to Abraham, from Abraham to Kink Solomon, and from Solomon to the crucifixion (not birth) of Jesus Christ. Each breaking point (from X to Y, and from Y to Z) comes up to an exact number of generations. And there are other coptic nations using this calendar, not just Ethiopia because the Julian calendar used by Catholic Church is newer and is Rome’s exclusive calendar. Second, the tone of your blog at the end seems a bit satritical at the expense of our religious figures “Next time you want to schedule Armageddon on your Outlook, ask an Ethiopian Bishop” which is highly unwelcomed considering that we are expected to respect emams and sheikhs, pope, etc. yet for all the moral obligations we fulfill for other communities, we are often marginalized from reciprocation. And one other thing, really, enough with the jokes “If your boss refuses to give you a day off, threaten to sue your company for religious discrimination”. Just because the Ethiopian calendar is based on religion, it does not make a New Year celebration religious…it’s not like Ramadan.
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and dude, not cool with the 9-11 affiliation. people can take you serious even though you’re joking (like Homeland Security did shortly after 2001). we got nothing to do with that S*&%. Please be careful when making any references with people outside of your own community.
thanks.