The online journal of Sean Winslow, a graduate student in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, focusing on his photography and various thoughts about music, food, and reading.
A group of däbtäras (liturgical specialists unique to Ethiopia) travels from Gabriel Church to Jan Meda at the beginning of the Timkat procession.
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 [...]