The Akan populaces live by western Africa who are based in Ghana but they are furthermore found in parts of western Ivory Coast and Togo by the east. They celebrate the Adae ceremonies to join their earlier period leaders to currently leaders for every three weeks. The ceremonies held on wednesday and sunday commonly. Most of them furthermore go the Odwira New Year. It is a ceremonies of refining so Akan people are purified.
The stretch Adae refers to the digit of nine of 6-weeks rotation in Akan's calendar. This is also the name of a ceremony celebrated twice all through each cycle. Akan calendar has 378 days and the initially cycle called Awukudae (Wednesday Adae) at that time followed by Akwasidae which held on the third Sunday. The ritual is destined in effect to honor late leaders and invoke the blessings of their spirits.
Inside Adae ceremonies, each family tree memorializes their dead in a similar traditional stylishness. Although the family tree members be inflicted with to attend the ceremonies, however not all members can participate on the ceremonies. Only few people (actually the senior member who are selected) are allowable to join the ceremonies which held in a place called the stool household.
Akans believe they be inflicted with a sunsum. A part of the soul wandering made known of the body all through the body during sleep and joins the world shadows after death called sunsum. However, they blacken the stools of their exhausted rulers with dust and egg yolk to arrange them as shrines. On an Adae, the present successors could call their spirits by first name to these shrines to dwell here again.
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