Agbadza is an Ewe music and dance performed during a festival celebrated in what month?
Hogbetsotso festival The Hogbetsotso festival "(pronounced Hogbechocho)" is celebrated by the chiefs and people of Anloga in the Volta region of Ghana. The festival is celebrated annually on the first Saturday in the month of November. The name of the festival is derived from the Ewe language and translates as, "the festival of exodus". or "coming from Hogbe (Notsie)". The celebration of the festival was instituted about four decades ago.
Ganesh Chaturthi Ganesh Chaturthi (IAST: Gaṇēśa Chaturthī ), also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi (Vināyaka Chaturthī ) is the Hindu festival that reveres god Ganesha. A ten-day festival, it starts on the fourth day of Hindu luni-solar calendar month Bhadrapada, which typically falls in Gregorian months of August or September. The festival is marked with installation of Ganesha clay idols privately in homes, or publicly on elaborate pandals (temporary stage). Observations include chanting of Vedic hymns and Hindu texts such as "Ganapati Upanishad", prayers and "vrata" (fasting). Offerings and "prasada" from the daily prayers, that is distributed from the pandal to the community, include sweets such as modaka believed to be a favorite of the elephant-headed deity. The festival ends on the tenth day after start, wherein the idol is carried in a public procession with music and group chanting, then immersed in nearby water body such as a river or ocean, thereafter the clay idol dissolves and Ganesha is believed to return to Mount Kailash to Parvati and Shiva.