Sunday, April 8, 2012

"BP #6 - Freewriting christiana

Aboakyire is celebrated in the late April or early may by the people of effutu of winneba, ghana. the history behind aboakyire festival is to celebrate to consecrated the migration of their ancient western sudan empire where they were led by brother and a god clled otu. when they consulted the god thet were instructed by their traditional priest between the people and the god to sacrifice a young member of the royal family every year to their god. this was not a good news so they made an appeal to their god who asked for an animal from the wild cat family to be caught alive and beheaded before the god. before the festival began they settle the god at a place called penkye hence the god become penkyi otu. when the people went out to hunt down the wild cat they lost so many men before capturing it alive. this caused the second appeal penkyi otu decided to accept a matur deer.

2 comments:

  1. i like the way how you describe your home country's own culture but i would like to know how you guys are celebrating it. Does everyone in your country people celebrate this holiday?

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  2. today i knew little bit about Aboakyire.i understood that how the way you celebrate aboakyire.

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