A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
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legends:<br />
5.2) Ethiopian legends about <strong>coffee</strong> origin<br />
Mercier (1980-2) menti<strong>on</strong>s in his Ethiopian myth of <strong>coffee</strong> and chat origin four<br />
- A camel shepherd observed an energizing effect <strong>on</strong> his animals after they grazed <strong>on</strong><br />
<strong>coffee</strong> leaves and berries. He tried to taste these berries but got unpleasantly surprised by their<br />
bitterness and threw it <strong>on</strong> the fire: the smell arising pleased him a lot. In this way <strong>coffee</strong><br />
roasting began.<br />
- Sheh Abol, Sheh Tola, Sheh Bäräka were the <strong>coffee</strong> discovers. They were Muslims.<br />
They left retiring themselves in the bush looking for Allah where instead of God they were<br />
finally going to die because of hunger and food absence. But they refused to turn back<br />
ashamed of failure. They decided to follow three different ways in three different countries,<br />
and to write what will happen to them as a proof if they got killed by wild animals then to<br />
meet after seven days. So they followed their way. The third day, Allah talked to Sheh Abol:<br />
“What are these problems you are disturbing me with? Eat this plant (chat) and this bean<br />
(coffe) roast it then drink it! ”. And he showed <strong>coffee</strong> and chat. Sheh Abol wrote it. The fifth<br />
day, it happened to Sheh Tola: “I already told it to Sheh Abol. Leave me al<strong>on</strong>e! This plant is<br />
made for eating and this <strong>on</strong>e for drinking! It will calm hunger! ”. And Sheh Tola wrote it. The<br />
sixth day, Sheh Bäräka wrote: “I told it to Sheh Abol and Sheh Tola! This plant, eat it! This<br />
<strong>on</strong>e, drink it! ”. The seventh day, they met. Sheh Abol first showed his paper and related his<br />
visi<strong>on</strong>, then Sheh Tola and Sheh Bäräka. Surprised and filled with w<strong>on</strong>der, they thanked God.<br />
They w<strong>on</strong>dered what they were going to do and decided that Sheh Abol who has been firstly<br />
chosen had to roast <strong>coffee</strong> beans. He did so then boiled its powder in the morning of this<br />
seventh day. They ate chat, and then thanked Allah. Sheh Bäräka prepared also what he wrote<br />
in the evening. And then they kept this custom enjoying c<strong>on</strong>versati<strong>on</strong>, and so <strong>on</strong>…Their<br />
descendants added the triple decocti<strong>on</strong>, and other elements of the <strong>coffee</strong> cerem<strong>on</strong>y.<br />
- In a bush similar to Jima’s <strong>on</strong>e, three ermites: abba Awäl, abba At<strong>on</strong>a and abba<br />
Bäräka firstly eating red <strong>coffee</strong> cherries decided to prepare a triple <strong>coffee</strong> decocti<strong>on</strong> drinking<br />
each <strong>on</strong>e according to their hierarchy degree. In this way, these decocti<strong>on</strong>s are called abol,<br />
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