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Lets close this chapter by saying this girls tradition is an old habesha tradition probably inherited from Judaism. The problem started when TPLF moved it out of the rural villages and made it an urban street carnival styled display and requesting UNESCO to register it as Tigrayan culture. The plan was to build a national identity that served the political nationalism. It appears, this tradition exists everywhere in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea in different forms and flavors