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	CalendarHome.com - Iranian calendar - Calendar Encyclopedia
		The first calendars based on Zoroastrian cosmology appeared during the later Achaemenian period and though they have evolved and changed over the centuries, the names of the months have remained more or less the same till now.
		Under the unified empire of the Achaemenian it was necessary to create a distinctive Iranian calendar based on Zoroastrian beliefs.
		For example in Achaemenian times the modern Persian month ‘Day’ is called Dadvah (Creator), in Parthian it is Datush and Sassanian named it Dadv/Dai (Dadar in Pahlavi).
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /Iranian_calendar.htm (2147 words)

	The Prescise Iranian Calendar
		The names of the six Gâhânbârs, six parts of the Vedic year and the Achaemenian months, as seen below, show that the calendar was based on various seasonal phases of the year.
		The names of the Achaemenian months, as given in the bas-reliefs of Darius the Great are rendered to convey (1) Irrigation-canal-cleaning month, (2) Vigorous spring, (3) Garlic-collecting month, (4) Hot-step, (7) God-veneration, (8) Wolf-birth, (9) Fire-veneration, (10) “Anâmaka -- Nameless” month, and (12) Digging-up.
		The names of the Gahanbars, and those of the Vedic, Achaemenian, Sogdian, Chorasmian, and Armenian months show that the names of the pre-Zarathushtrian and Gathic months must have been based on the seasons and social activities, and not on deities.
	www.zoroastrian.org /articles/The%20Precise%20Iranian%20Calendar.htm (4059 words)

	Zoroastrianism - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Little is known of the religion for the next 500 years, except that an offshoot, Mithraism (stemming from the worship of Mithra), was taking hold farther west.
		226) under Ardashir I, who established the Sassanian dynasty and fostered a general revival of Achaemenian culture.
		For four centuries Zoroastrianism was the state religion of the Sassanids, and it successfully met the challenge of nascent Christianity and, later, of heretical Manichaeism.
	messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/Zoroastr (848 words)

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