Flag of Ashanti with the Golden stool symbol at the center
Observed by
Ashantis in Ashanti
Type
Ancestral worship
Date
Repeated nine times per year
Frequency
Twice within 42 days (on a Sunday, Akwasidae, and on a Wednesday, Awukudae)
Adae Festival (Twi: "resting place") is a celebration in Ashanti. Considered a day of rest, it is the most important ancestral custom of the Ashanti people.
AdaeFestival (Twi: "resting place") is a celebration in Ashanti. Considered a day of rest, it is the most important ancestral custom of the Ashanti people...
Adae Kese Festival ("big resting place") is an important albeit rare celebration among the Ashantis in Ghana. There are two main periods for this celebration:...
celebration of this period is called the AdaeFestival. The AdaeFestival has two celebration days: the Akwasidae Festival is celebrated on the final Sunday...
with them during the Adaefestival. Papa Festival Kente Festival Yaa Asantewaa Festival Mmoa Nni Nko Festival Nkyidwo Festival Kejetia Market Adinkra...
celebrations within the AdaeFestival cycle. The festivals of Adae are not interchangeable, having been fixed from ancient times. The festival is observed on Wednesday...
decorated palanquins shaded by umbrellas. AdaeFestivalAdae Kese Festival Akwasidae Festival Awukudae Festival Macdonald 2000, p. 207. "Asante History...
when the Asantehene celebrated the adaefestivals bi-weekly. On 12 January 1871, Ramseyer celebrated the Adaefestival where he paid his respect to the...
rhythm of dozens of drums. The Adae Kese ceremony was another important event in Ashanti. The custom of holding this festival came into prominence between...
Awukudae and Akwasidae (Wuko-Adae and Kwasi-Adae) are celebrated. These two 'bad' days, related to death, are called adae (perhaps deriving from da, sleep...
museum in Robeline, Louisiana. The center is about five miles north of Los Adaes State Historic Site, an early 18th-century Spanish mission and ancestral...
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro) is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest carnival in the...
Sylphides (choreography by Mikhail Fokine, music by Frederic Chopin) Flower Festival at Genzano Pas de Deux (choreography by August Bournonville, music by Holger...
have been made for several centuries. The Spanish established presidio Los Adaes in 1721 in modern-day Robeline, Louisiana. The descendants of these Spanish...
Okraman was to collect a rope-creeper on the Monday following the next Sunday Adae. Anansi would do the same, and the two would then meet together. Anansi told...
celebrated. These festivals include the Adae, which occur fortnightly, and the annual Odwira festivals. There is the annual Apoo festival activities, which...
city guide Los Adaes State Historic Site Archived 2015-05-12 at the Wayback Machine State of Louisiana Los Adaes Site Explorer Los Adaes at Texas Beyond...
Baptiste Forts Randolph & Buhlow Locust Grove Longfellow-Evangeline Los Adaes Mansfield Plaquemine Lock Port Hudson Poverty Point Rebel State Rosedown...
completes the traditional day of activities. (Wednesday) Opening of the Adae Butuw, Commemoration of the dead and the Cleansing of Stools and regalia...
Everything: Foodways, Tablewares, and Colonial Identity at Presidio Los Adaes". International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 16 (1): 199–226. doi:10...
ISBN 978-1-4696-0470-1. OCLC 1148108904. Galán, Francis X. (2020). Los Adaes : the first capital of Spanish Texas. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-62349-878-8...
Natchitoches, in what would later become the colonial Spanish presidio of Los Adaes and capital of Tejas.[citation needed] This historic site is located near...
large column dedicated to him, built between 1917 and 1934 and created by Adães Bermudes, António Couto and Francisco Santos. A bronze statue of the Marquess...
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