Calendar | Ethiopian

That night, Dawit walked through the village. He saw his neighbors sleeping under blankets woven from sheep's wool. He looked up. The Ethiopian sky is different—you see more stars there, because the air is thin and the faith is thick.

Emebet poured the coffee into a tiny cup, letting the berbere scent drift. "Let me tell you the secret of the thirteenth month." Ethiopian Calendar

In a small village perched in the highlands of Ethiopia, where the air smelled of eucalyptus and roasting coffee, lived an old woman named Emebet. She was the keeper of the bahire hassab —the ancient calculator of time. That night, Dawit walked through the village

She beckoned him closer. The smoke from the jebena (coffee pot) curled between them. Ethiopian Calendar