The Friday Event of Simpa Aboakyer Festival 2024 _

Описание: Festival Background

The #natives of Simpa (Winneba) adore and hold in high esteem their principal deity, Penkye Otu, for leading their #ancestors through the arduous journey from #Timbuktu to their present #settlement. Oral records indicate that all along this route, their leaders propitiated the deity for all forms of #protection #against the numerous challenges that confronted them, including diseases and hunger. At their present #location, the annual rites were #performed by the principal elders of the Otuano Royal House who established Simpa (Winneba). #PenkyeOtu and its “sons” (#lessergods) did enjoy human #sacrifices in the beginning but this had to be changed with the dawning of civilization. Slaves were kept for this purpose but the gruesomeness of the #rituals created a social concern that led to consultations with the deity for a more humane alternative.

It was also noted that by then, the able-bodied men and fearless among the leadership of the Gyateh family would have deserted town. Eventually the “Wansan” (the deer) became a practicable and most acceptable substitute, probably before or during the reign of #King Bondze Enyinam around the mid-1400s. All this while, the propitiation and the preparation of the ambrosia for the deity was the sole preserve of the principal #elders of the royal #family at Otuano.

The capture of a live “Wansan”, like the leopard, required many more hands than the members of the #royal family could find. The additional hands required were solicited from the local militia as a service to the stool. It was this change in form; i.e. the involvement of the local militia, that the annual consecration and appeasement of the deity became a public, state-wide affair. This marked the birth and hence the origin of the “Aboakyer” festival we have today

#Deer #Hunt Festival as the early European writers who witnessed it called it was recorded by de Marees (1620) that “four miles below lies the high mount Mungo, on which the blacks sacrificed to the Devil”… (Courtesy: Anthony Ephrim-Donkor in “The Making of an African King). The design of the Effutu State emblem tells this story; the black stool at Otuano on which the King is installed sits on the wansan. The festival is thus important for the stool, its occupant and the entire royal stool family. It is a religious duty and an obligation for the general citizenry to ensure its celebration annually to ensure a prosperous life in the coming year.

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