Tiv Calendar
Benue State / Middle Belt · Tiv / English · 4-day traditional calendar · 4-day market week
4-Day Market Week
☀️
Aôndo
God/Sky
🌍
Gbaa
Earth
🛒
Shighe
Market
⭐
Ikyaa
Rest
Ikpehemen
Nov
Dry season onset
👑
Traditional Rulers
Festival
Year-End Assembly
Who presides
Tor Tiv holds year-end assembly
Events
Annual clan heads assembly, Community accounts reviewed, Plans for new farming year
🌴
Farming
Guide
Post-harvest. Process sorghum. Sell surplus. Palm produce. Clear land.
Crops
Sorghum, Palm, Cassava
🎣
Fishing
Conditions
Good
Guide
Dry season. Good river fishing. Smoke fish for dry season food supply.
Target fish
Mixed, Catfish
🚛
Trading
Market guide
Post-harvest. Long-distance trading. Tiv crafts and weaving export.
Key goods
Crafts, Grain, Livestock
🐄
Herding
Conditions
Good
Guide
Dry season returning. Open grazing. Fulani herders returning from north.
🏺
Healing
Guide
Dry season. Collect savanna bark medicines. Prepare respiratory herbs for harmattan.
Herbs
Bark medicines, Chest herbs
Ritual
Ancestral remembrance
🌤
Weather
Season
Dry onset
Rainfall
15-40mm
Wind
NE beginning
Advisory
Dry season returning. Good travel. Long-distance trading resumes across Benue.
Nature & Environment — Live Data
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