Dǝbartä and Tǝgray Females’ Spiritual Power
Dǝbartä and Tǝgray Females’ Spiritual Power
Hagos Abrha Abay
With an erratic pattern of congregated women’s time-space, Tǝgray culture, and folk belief are endowed with a multi-fasted narrative of female spirits like däqqi ḥǝdrti/ḥalwul: branded, at the same time concealed tales of nymphs and elves in most parts of Tǝgray, most importantly in Arho (Ǝndärta). Such hidden stories and their extended standards validate the invisible, but virtually almost conventional, lenient power of female ghosts in various ranges of Tǝgray mystical landscape. Female seasonal and intermittent gatherings, among other things, must be a material reincarnation of alike fairy-tale subjects. Dǝbartä is women’s ritual and/or council, and the name of the women themselves, for blessings, cursing, supplication, purification, conflict resolution, justice, communication agencies, the list could go on here, in most parts of the south and south-eastern Tǝgray (mainly in Rayya, Wäǧǧärat, and Ǝndärta). During their ritual events, depending on the setting, the dǝbartä women plea names of God, angels, and traditional spirits with an allusive reference to the past ḍǝbartä members especially for the blessings in this matter. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to figure out the imperceptible power of dǝbartä and its position in society’s attitude and practice. The research brings about the women subject at the pinnacle part of its investigation; nonetheless, other members of the community and the sociocultural boundary of the scope are likewise dealt with