Spontaneous Dancing

  • Hoye hoye ho, Yani geta ho
  • Ye setine buri ho
  • Ala geberi ho
  • Hoya Hoya gudai zina zina wadaday (repeat once)

Some songs were in Amharic and some in Galinya

When is it likely to break out. On feast days and days

attributed to saints’ days. Also, to a day attributed to the finding of a

piece of the true cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

It was called Maskal Day, and everyone had a bonfire which they lit outside their houses. We had one too and we would run round and round our bonfire and then try to count all the bonfires we could see burning around other people’s houses. I seem to remember that we counted over 100 of them. So, Maskal was a major festival that we shared with many other households around Mulu and indeed much further afield It was a very exciting evening, and we had a lot of fun.