Baher Hasab (ባህረ ሃሳብ) 🇪🇹

Overview

Ethiopia has its own ancient calendar based on the system called Baher Hasab - ባሕረ ሃሳብ which means the Sea of Ideas. Baher Hasab also known as Abushakir is a chronological system used for calculating the times of festivals and the beginning and ending of the fasting days throughout the year.

The baher_hasab is a Python package that simplifies the process of working with the Baher Hasab (also known as Abushakir) calendar. This package provides a set of tools and functions to help users easily calculate the dates of festivals and the beginning and ending of fasting days throughout the year.

Links

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Key Features

• Calendar Conversion: Easily convert between the Gregorian calendar and the Ethiopian calendar.
• Festival Calculations: Automatically determine the dates of major festivals and holidays based on the Baher Hasab calculations.
• Fasting Day Tracking: Effortlessly track the start and end dates of fasting periods throughout the year.

Installation

To install the package, you can use pip:

pip install baher_hasab

Usage

Here's a simple example of how to use the package:

from baher_hasab import BaherHasab

# Create a Bahire Hasab instance
bh = BaherHasab(given_year=2016)

# Get the date of a specific festival
event_date = bh.get_event_date('hudade')
print(event_date) # Outputs Megabit 2

Contribution

Contributions to the baher_hasab package are welcome! If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for new features, please feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository.

Note

Defining some terms to get started:

• Baher Hasab: Also known as Abushakir, is a chronological system used for calculating the times of festivals and the beginning and ending of the fasting days throughout the year.
• neneweh (ነነዌ): is the Ethiopian name for The three day fast that the neneweh people did (Book of Jonah)
• Hudade (ሁዳዴ): also known as abiy_tsome (አብይ ጾም) is the Ethiopian name for the Great Lent.
• debrezeit (ደብረዘይት): is the Ethiopian name for the middle day of the Great lent.
• hosana (ሆሳዕና): is the Ethiopian name for the day of Entrance of Jesus to Jerusalem.
• seklet (ስቅለት): is the Ethiopian name for the holy Friday.
• tensae (ትንሳኤ): is the Ethiopian name for the Easter.
• rekeb_kanat (ርክበ ካህናት): is the Ethiopian name for the "Coming together of the priests".
• erget (ዕርገት): is the Ethiopian name for the day of ascension of Jesus Christ.
• piraklitos (ጰራቅሊጦስ): is the Ethiopian name for the Pentecost.
• hawaryat (ሐዋርያት): is the Ethiopian name for the fast of the apostles.
• dehenet (ድህንነት ): is the Ethiopian name for the starting day of wenesday and friday fasting.
• wengelawyan (ወንጌላውያን): is the Ethiopian name for the gospel of the year.
• awde_kemer (አውደ ቀመር): its a cycle that comes every 532 years.
• awde_mahtot (አውደ ማሕቶት): its a cycle that comes every 76 years.
• awde_tsehay (አውደ መስከር): its a cycle that comes every 28 years.