Easter Weekend in Chicumbane...no Cadbury mini eggs, Peeps or Easter baskets. But, we did have a traditional spirit ceremony and neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. Instead of ham, we had goat; instead of chocolate, we had hard fruit candies; instead of plastic eggs, we painted egg cartons and instead of the Easter Bunny hiding eggs, it was "Mana Colinda" and some of the neighborhood teenagers. Happy Spring! (Well, really it is just the start of fall here, but ta bom, cooler days are on the way...)
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| My tutor invited me to a traditional spirit ceremony at her house... |
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| Some said it was to call the dead. Some said it was the traditional medicine doctors' traditional graduation. Some said it was spirit ceremony. All three in one? I still do not 100% understand what was going on exactly, but there are some things you will never understand right? |
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| The ceremony started with the traditional medicine doctors running to find a hidden object. It was said that this was part of their graduation of training to become a traditional medicine doctor so if they were able to find the object, they would graduate. |
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| A traditional medicine doctor. |
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| Everyone dancing! |
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| There were just enough eggs for each of the 25 kids to get one. |
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| EASTER!! |
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| Their first ever Easter egg hunt. |
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