Adae Kese Festival (big resting place) is a celebration of the Ashanti. It glorifies the achievements of the Asante kingdom. It is also the occasion when the purification ceremony of Odwira is performed at the burial shrines of ancestral spirits. Generally this coincides with the harvest season of yam and hence the ritual was also called the Yam custom by Europeans.
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