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BBC - Religion & Ethics - Zoroastrian Festivals The Zoroastrian calendar is full of holy days, feasts and festivals, giving Zoroastrians the reputation of being a joyful religion full of celebration. The Zoroastrian calendar presents a difficult issue for Zoroastrians, as there have been a number of changes over the centuries with the result that there are now three different calendars. Zoroastrians have seven obligatory feasts, six of which are the gahanbars. www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/zoroastrian/festivals/index.shtml   (421 words)

Iran Heritage He explain­ed that the Zoroastrians of Iran were ahead of their co-religionists in India by a month in commencing their year and observing religious festivals and functions. The said difference of one month between the Zoroastrian calendar of India and that of Iran may be explained by the assump­tion that the forefathers of the Zoroastrians of India intercalated a month after the downfall of the Sasanian Empire either in Khora­san (where they lived in exile) or after their arrival in India. This difference of a month between the Zoroastrian calendar of Iran and that of India was stressed and highlighted in 1721 when Jamasp Velayati, a Parsi priest of Iran, came to Surat. www.iran-heritage.org /interestgroups/timearticle5.htm   (3405 words)

2004 Asian Holidays: Zoroastrian - Jain - Sikh - Taoist - Shinto Zoroastrians worship the one transcendent and immanent Deity Ahura Mazda, who is symbolized by a sacred fire. There are three Zoroastrian calendars in use today, resulting from different reforms to reconcile the original 360-day Zoroastrian calendar with the solar year. Jain festivals and the Jain calendar (Vir Samvat) are based on the Indian lunisolar calendar (Bikrami calendar or Vikram Samvat). www.wheeloftheyear.com /2004/asian.htm   (5068 words)

TheParsiChronicle.com Zoroastrian Festivals a list of gahambars and some important days,... Zoroastrian traditions can still be found in the country's legends, fairytales, and music.[9]. Dear everyone, I wanted to share with you a series of pictures from my recent travel to Iran's various Zoroastrian sites: http://ztravel.blogspot.com I hope that in sharing these pictures, you will have a chance to experience what I found to be a truly inspirational and exhilarating journey. TheParsiChronicle.com   (2322 words)

University of Sydney Library. Quick Reference Guide Alphabetical listing of holidays and festivals throughout the world. Search for holidays and festivals by date, country, region or religion. Includes links to Julian, Mayan, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Chinese and Zoroastrian Calendars. www.library.usyd.edu.au /subjects/readyref/calendars.html   (2322 words)

2003 Asian Holidays: Hindu - Zoroastrian - Taoist - Shinto There are three Zoroastrian calendars in use today, resulting from different reforms to reconcile the original 360-day Zoroastrian calendar with the solar year. Jain festivals and the Jain calendar (Vir Samvat) are based on the Indian lunisolar calendar (Bikrami calendar or Vikram Samvat). Sikhs celebrate some Hindu festivals as well as the birthdays and/or death days of the 10 gurus. www.wheeloftheyear.com /2003/asian.htm   (2322 words)

parentalia The Parentalia and Feralia festivals of purification were celebrated between February 13-18 in ancient Rome... 17th Feast of Ovens (Roman) 18th Spenta Armaiti (Zoroastrian) Birthday of Ramakrishna (Hindu) Parentalia End (Roman) Festival of Women as Cultivators (Persian) Feralia Ends (Roman) 19th Mahashivatri (Indian... of the dead, worshipped collectively as di manes (the divine dead) at the festivals of Feralia, Parentalia and Lemuria. parentalia.networklive.org   (2322 words)

THE TANNAIM They persuaded the king to persecute other faiths, including the Jews, forbidding them to light candles if Jewish festivals and Shabbat coincided with Zoroastrian fire festivals and to bury their dead or bathe in springs. The Exilarch was responsible for civil administration and for the appointment of judges and police. The power of the Exilarch was the same as the semi-independent provincial governors, but his influence of Jews shrank as that of the rabbis grew. www.chiswick.demon.co.uk /TALMUD4.htm   (2968 words)

Bawarchi: Indian Festivals: Parsi New Year Parsis celebrate Khordad Sal as the birth of their Prophet Zorastor who was born in the middle of second millennium B.C. His birth anniversary falls on the 6th day of the first month of the Zoroastrian Calendar and is observed with rejoicings. But what is of paramount importance in the case of Parsi festivals is the free mixing of men and women which certainly is a sign of equality. On the occasion of these Parsi festivals people from all the classes come together, ignoring social differences to rejoice whole-heartedly and celebrate the festive occasion in friendship, harmony and happiness. www.bawarchi.com /festivals/parsinewyear.html   (1053 words)

Religious Calendars -- The Calendar Zone Shap Calendar of Religious Festivals -- Religious Calendar, (Bahai, Buddhist, Chinese, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Japanese, Jewish, Muslim, Rastafarian, Sikh, Zoroastrian (Parsee)- organised by month or religion. American Nameday Calendar of First Names -- a nameday calendar in which most of our namedays are based on both religion and American history. ROMCAL: the General Roman Calendar -- ROMCAL is a package of software to compute the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic Church. www.calendarzone.com /Religious   (799 words)

Zoroastrianism -- Beliefnet.com Main Sacred Text: The Zoroastrian "Avesta" ("Book of the Law") is a fragmentary collection of sacred writings divided into: liturgical works with hymns ascribed to Zarathustra; invocations and rituals to be used at festivals; hymns of praise; and spells against demons and prescriptions for purification. Later Zoroastrianism conceived of an opposition between body and soul, though there was no suggestion in its theology that the body was evil and the soul was good. This was a departure from previous Indo-Persian polytheism, and Zarathustra has been termed the first non-biblical monotheist (though monotheism in Zoroastrianism never took on the absolute quality that it assumed in Judaism and Islam). www.beliefnet.com /index/index_10035.html   (513 words)

Iranica.com - FERQA The former, kept generally throughout the community, were in honor of great yazatas (benign divinities) of the Zoroastrian pantheon, with the exception of Fraward^ga@n (q.v.) and Sada, which is a winter fire-festival. This is the last instance of a recurring phenomenon, that every reform of the 365-day calendar led to some duplication of festivals, which was then piously maintained for generations, when not in perpetuity. The dedications of the twelve months to twelve out of the same thirty yazatas were probably made later in the Achaemenid period, for there is no listing of them in the Avesta, where the names of only seven of them occur, incidentally and in late contexts (Bartholomae, Air. www.iranica.com /articles/v9f5/v9f553a.html   (513 words)

Religious Calendars -- The Calendar Zone Shap Calendar of Religious Festivals -- Religious Calendar, (Bahai, Buddhist, Chinese, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Japanese, Jewish, Muslim, Rastafarian, Sikh, Zoroastrian (Parsee)- organised by month or religion. American Nameday Calendar of First Names -- a nameday calendar in which most of our namedays are based on both religion and American history. ROMCAL: the General Roman Calendar -- ROMCAL is a package of software to compute the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic Church. www.calendarzone.com /Religious   (513 words)

Holiday Calendars -- The Calendar Zone Shap Calendar of Religious Festivals -- Religious Calendar, (Bahai, Buddhist, Chinese, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Japanese, Jewish, Muslim, Rastafarian, Sikh, Zoroastrian (Parsee)- organised by month or religion. www.calendarzone.com /Holiday   (466 words)

liber paganum, part G Gahanbar (Zoroastrian) The six holy genies presiding over the festivals of the six timeframes in which Ahura Mazda created all living beings. She was born out of the Chaos, and gave birth to Pontos, Erechtheos, Tityos and Uranos as well as the mountains; from Uranos, her first husband, she bore the Titanes Andes, Anytos, Iapetos, Hyperion, Koios, Krios, Kronos, Mnemosyne, Okeanos, Phoebe, Rhea, Tethis, Thia, and Themis. From that union also came the Hekatoncheires Briareos, Gyges and Kottos, and the Zyklopes Arges, Brontes and Steropes. homepage.mac.com /dykow/libpagan/g.html   (466 words)

Yezidism at Mountain Center Melek Taus, the Great Archangel of the Yezidis, is generally depicted (as far as outsiders know) in the form of a Peacock symbol, which is also presented in the form of a bronze sculpture revealed to believers during their holy festivals. This weeklong holiday is a celebration of the Creation, and takes place around the same time of year that the ancient Zoroastrian and Mithraic celebrations were held. Whether this speaks of an Indian origin of the Yezidis, or a wider range of the peacock in ancient times, is not known. home.earthlink.net /~xristos/GoldenDawn/yezidi01.htm   (466 words)

THE IRANIAN: Culture, Yalda festival, With the conquest of Islam the religious significance of the ancient Persian festivals was lost. The Persians adopted their annual renewal festival from the Babylonians and incorporated it into the rituals of their own Zoroastrian religion. The last day of the Persian month of "Azar" is the longest night of the year, when the forces of Ahriman are assumed to be at their peak. www.iranian.com /History/1999/December/Yalda   (466 words)

Iranian-Americans Celebrate Persian New Year - Persian Journal Latest Iran news & Iranian Newspaper Iranian immigrant Delnaz Behzadpour says that in the United States, the celebration of Norouz and associated festivals keeps her Persian traditions alive for her three children. The ritual dates from pre-Islamic Persia, when followers of the Zoroastrian religion celebrated the purifying properties of fire. The Persian New Year is held at the spring equinox, which arrives in Los Angeles this year in the early hours of Sunday morning. www.iranian.ws /iran_news/publish/article_6084.shtml   (466 words)

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