Discover Ethiopia a weekly show on EBS TV. Mounted horses adorned with bright red plumes of yarn thunder past a towering outcropping of stone which juts 800 feet (244 m) above farmland plowed by these same animals. Playfully, but aggressively, the riders hurl sticks like spears at leather shields wielded by other horsemen. This show follows an Ethiopian Orthodox Church festival in which a replica of the ark of the covenant and the tablets of stone are paraded on the heads of richly robed priests. This is the religion and culture of the Awi.