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This article treats of the reckoning of days, months and years in the calendar used by adherents of the Zoroastrian faith. Zoroastrian religious festivals are discussed elsewhere, but have a fixed relationship to Nawruz, the New Year festival, whose timing is discussed below. Three distinct versions of the calendar are currently in use by different Zoroastrian communities.
In this article, except where explicitly noted to the contrary, Western-style dates prior to October 5, AD 1582 are reckoned according to the Julian calendar; subsequent dates are according to the Gregorian calendar, in which 15 October 1582 (Gregorian) was the day following 4 October 1582 (Julian).
English spellings follow this recommended usage.
The forerunner of all modern Zoroastrian calendars is the system used to reckon dates in the Persian Empire. In 539 BC, Persia's rulers conquered Babylon, and soon afterwards – at least by the 4th century BC – adopted the Babylonian luni - solar calendar for civil purposes. This kept in step with the seasons, unlike the religious calendar which consisted of 12 months each containing 30 days, adjusted at that time by the addition of five epagemonal days at the end of the year to bring the total up to 365. The earliest Zoroastrian calendar (also misleadingly called "Avestan calendar" although it is younger than the Avesta proper) follows the Babylonian in relating the seventh and other days of the month to Ahura Mazda.
This article treats the reckoning of days, months and years in the calendar used by adherents of the Zoroastrian faith.Zoroastrian religious festivals are discussed elsewhere, but have a fixed relationship to Nawruz, the New Year festival, whose timing is discussed below.Three distinct versions of the calendar are currently in use by different Zoroastrian communities.In this article, except where explicitly noted to the contrary, Western-style dates prior to October 5, AD 1582 are reckoned according to the Julian calendar; subsequent dates are according to the Gregorian calendar, in which 15 October 1582 was the day following 4 October 1582 . ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- About the author(s): Tinette. License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0) Author(s): T...
http://www.psbt.org/ Directed by Divya Cowasji Producer & Commissioning Editor - Rajiv Mehrotra The most important day in the Zoroastrian calendar falls on the Spring Equinox, and is celebrated as New Year’s day or ‘Navroz’. The film ‘Navroz: The New Day’ explores how the three thousand year old spring festival of Navroz is celebrated in India by the Parsi and Irani communities. While this festival is celebrated the world over, this film aims to bring to the world the uniqueness of the Parsi/Irani community in India and how they celebrate and give thanks. The festivities are an ode to spring, newness and righteousness. Structurally, the film takes the form of the single day of Navroz, taking the viewer on a journey, through various spaces, of what a typical New Years day is like in a Par...
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This was part of the conference "Looking Back: Zoroastrian Identity Formation through Recourse to the Past" (http://goo.gl/rB6usu) which was held at SOAS, University of London on 11-12 October 2013 to coincide with the exhibition "The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination" which was held at the Brunei Gallery SOAS (http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/everlas...). If you are interested in studying Zoroastrianism or other world religions at SOAS you can find out more at http://www.soas.ac.uk/religions/ Frantz Grenet (Collège de France, Paris): Extracts from a Calendar of Zoroastrian Feasts: a new interpretation of a Bactrian silver plate at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
659J(Important)【重要】 自由の女神は「男」だった。 (ゾロアスター教とフリーメーソンをつなぐ、謎の像) Statue of Liberty in USA was a Man. (The secret Line that connect Zoroastrianism and Freemason) たいへん重要な話です。古代の神々の謎に迫る重要なビデオです。This is a very important story about ancient Gods in Ancient Times. Hiroshi Hayashi++++++++++++はやし浩司 These are based upon Akatsuki-san and Hiroshi Hayashi's original ideas. Please keep it in your mind that no one is allowed to use my ideas and theories in any case without my permission and my names. これらは、「Akatsuki-san説」と「はやし浩司説」です。内容の転用、転載、盗用、流用は、厳禁です。 Jan.22st,2013 Hiroshi Hayashi Akatsuki はやし浩司
February 24, 2016 (Persian calendar 1394/12/5) Iran Land of Love, Zoroastrian سرزمين مهر زرتشتيان ايران
The course of the Sun and the Moon are the most evident forms of timekeeping, and the year and lunation were most commonly used in pre-modern societies worldwide as time units. Nevertheless, the Roman calendar contained very ancient remnants of a pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year.[2] The first recorded calendars date to the Bronze Age, dependent on the development of writing in the Ancient Near East, the Egyptian and Sumerian calendars. A larger number of calendar systems of the Ancient Near East becomes accessible in the Iron Age, based on the Babylonian calendar. This includes the calendar of the Persian Empire, which in turn gave rise to the Zoroastrian calendar as well as the Hebrew calendar. A great number of Hellenic calendars develop in Classical Greece, and with the Hellenistic pe...
Frantz Grenet (Collège de France, Paris): Extracts from a Calendar of Zoroastrian Feasts: a new interpretation of a Bactrian silver plate at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris Vesta Sarkhosh-Curtis (British Museum): Zoroastrian Symbols in Parthian and Sasanian Culture James Russell (Harvard University): Imagery of Zarathushtra: continuity and change in tradition
Nowruz is the traditional Iranian festival of spring which starts at the exact moment of the vernal equinox, commencing the start of the spring. It is considered as the start of the New Year among Iranians. The name comes from Avestan meaning “new day/daylight”. Nowruz is celebrated March 20/21 each year, at the time the sun enters Aries and Spring begins. Nowruz has been celebrated for at least 3,000 years and is deeply rooted in the rituals and traditions of the Zoroastrian religion. Today the festival of Nowruz is celebrated in Iran, Iraq, India, Afghanistan, Tajikestan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. The Zoroastrian Parsis of India celebrate Nowruz twice, firstly in common with their Iranian brethren on the vernal equinox as Jamshedi Navroz (also referred to as t...