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Traditional Malagasy New Year by Hotel ★★★ Gourmet restaurant Coco Lodge Majunga.

Most of the festivities are based on the beliefs and traditions of Madagascar. The ubiquitous chants and dances, more known under the name of Vodrazana or d’Hira Gasy, used to wear everywhere in the country the Malagasy popular wisdom, where mutual, solidarity and fraternity are the mremo. The diversity of the ethnic groups of the Red Island makes many and regular throughout the year.

Alahamady Be, the Malagasy traditional new year

Reappeared recently in Madagascar through a burst of popular associations, the festivities of the Alahamady Be represent new year celebrations. They are an expression of the "fivahanna"., a link of solidarity and mutual assistance, a very special value for Malagasy. It is a time that oscillates between purification, forgiveness and wishes for the new year.

A time of sharing between ascending and neighbours to seal the brotherhood.

The new year begins with a ceremonial trio, generally composed of ceremonies of purification Fidiovana, blessing Tsodrano and renewal Santatra.
Malagasy begin with purify themselves by initiating a big "cleanup" spiritual and material. Fire and water are usually the symbolic elements of this part of the festivities. Eternal fires AFO tsy maty and it scrolls with the harendrina, small bright lanterns. Each takes a bath to wash symbolically of the faults and mistakes. Everyone demonstrated repentance to his friends and relatives, is the time for forgiveness and unity.
In practice, This translates into the houses by a cleaning and a large storage.

Then the day of the new year comes, where everyone wishes itself a happy new year and addressed to the other spontaneous blessings to help wishes to come true. Finally, Once the places and minds cleansed and wishes formulated, the Malagasy people share a symbolic meal, compounds of rice, honeymoon, milk or meat of zebu followed current, often accompanied by rhythms, dances and traditional songs.

A new year which can be celebrated any day of the month of March

Missing from Madagascar under French colonial rule, The Alahamady Be continued to be celebrated in secret by some families of the Malagasy nobility until a popular momentum claim it more firmly in the years 1990.
Long hidden and marginal, the purity of its practices was dissolved in the diversity of the ethnic groups of the Red Island, so that different types of celebration have emerged.
If the date of new year is calculated on a specific astrological calendar, It is accepted for each region to celebrate according to its customs and any day in March, known as the fararano, the month that marks the end of the rainy season and the beginning of the harvest of rice.

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