From the end of ramadan celebreation we went to the Salassee Church. While we were there a guide told us that this was the beginning of the celebrations for the new year - and while in the church the Orthodox priests began singing for the new year celebration. It was magnificent and numinous. They were older men- about 8 of them all singing these haunting solw and deep harmonies. We saw the tomb of the emperor Haile Selassee - and were filled with a sense of the almost 2000 years of history and tradition that is the Ethiopian Orthodox church.