Astrology
Price has a nice "traditional" article on this. But as she does not know anything about Astrology, she missed the whole point. Bless. Never mind. Basically the old Iranian Calendar was 12 months of 30 days with a massive party at the end to welcome the New Year, which started exactly to the very second, the New Spring or the Spring Equinox.
The ancient Iranians timed the heavens pretty accurately, and our mathematics was second to none. The main reason was that we invented and used the number zero. In fact the oldest Iranian tribe, the Sumerians used a base 60 to have the most accurate clocks ever.
The Astrological Calendar of Iran is used today, but no thanks to the Islamists the Astrological element is missing. Ask an Iranian what his or her birthday is by the Iranian Calendar, and they might tell you 10th of Mehr Mah. But tell them that that corresponds to exactly the 10th degress of Sun sign Libra (Latin for love btw), and they would be gobbsmacked.
Anyway there is a slight quirk in the relationship between the present calendar and the 7000 year old one. This one has 6 months that are 31 one days, and five months of 30 days. Now each day in the old calendar was name after an important universal phenomenon, energy, concept. The old Iranians believed that the first day of the month belonged to the most wisest energy, and called it just that, Ohrmazd. Then the second day was used to deal the second most practical and useful concept, namely thinking well, and called it Bahman, or Aquarius or the most liberal humanistic thoughts, Astrologically catagorised under the Sun Sign Aquarius.
This process went for thirty energies or dieties. It was not polytheistic as Jews or Christian or worse still Moslem historian have interpreted. The 16th energy was called Mehr. Now the new Calendar is 31 days for the 1st 6 months and it messes up the whole day system, so that the 10th day of the new calendar corresponds to the 16th day of the old Calendar, such that the Mehr Rooz of Mehr Mah is not on the 16th of Mehr but on the 10th day of Mehr of the new calendar. And of course with the new Calendar we do not have a five day or six day bash at the end of the year.
So you need to be a bit of an Astrologer or know a bit about the world of Astrology to link your mind to the old Iranian calendar. I will let you find it out for yourself, as Life is your quest, and it is not my job to tell you that what I say is The Truth as JCM's would have you believe out of fear. I want you to really want to go after it yourself, if something is triggered inside you. If it is, then you are linked to all this.
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Astrology
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Price has a nice "traditional" article on this. But as she does not know anything about Astrology, she missed the whole point. Bless. Never mind. Basically the old Iranian Calendar was 12 months of 30 days with a massive party at the end to welcome the New Year, which started exactly to the very second, the New Spring or the Spring Equinox.
The ancient Iranians timed the heavens pretty accurately, and our mathematics was second to none. The main reason was that we invented and used the number zero. In fact the oldest Iranian tribe, the Sumerians used a base 60 to have the most accurate clocks ever.
The Astrological Calendar of Iran is used today, but no thanks to the Islamists the Astrological element is missing. Ask an Iranian what his or her birthday is by the Iranian Calendar, and they might tell you 10th of Mehr Mah. But tell them that that corresponds to exactly the 10th degress of Sun sign Libra (Latin for love btw), and they would be gobbsmacked.
Anyway there is a slight quirk in the relationship between the present calendar and the 7000 year old one. This one has 6 months that are 31 one days, and five months of 30 days. Now each day in the old calendar was name after an important universal phenomenon, energy, concept. The old Iranians believed that the first day of the month belonged to the most wisest energy, and called it just that, Ohrmazd. Then the second day was used to deal the second most practical and useful concept, namely thinking well, and called it Bahman, or Aquarius or the most liberal humanistic thoughts, Astrologically catagorised under the Sun Sign Aquarius.
This process went for thirty energies or dieties. It was not polytheistic as Jews or Christian or worse still Moslem historian have interpreted. The 16th energy was called Mehr. Now the new Calendar is 31 days for the 1st 6 months and it messes up the whole day system, so that the 10th day of the new calendar corresponds to the 16th day of the old Calendar, such that the Mehr Rooz of Mehr Mah is not on the 16th of Mehr but on the 10th day of Mehr of the new calendar. And of course with the new Calendar we do not have a five day or six day bash at the end of the year.
So you need to be a bit of an Astrologer or know a bit about the world of Astrology to link your mind to the old Iranian calendar. I will let you find it out for yourself, as Life is your quest, and it is not my job to tell you that what I say is The Truth as JCM's would have you believe out of fear. I want you to really want to go after it yourself, if something is triggered inside you. If it is, then you are linked to all this.
read more | digg story
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You know how it is. Some one asks a question. Then you look up in Google for an answer. Then you come across your own work. Oh dear.A friend from my elementary school wanted to know about Jashne Mehregan food. I did not know there was any particular food...
- The Us And British New Year Began With Iranian New Year In Farvardin Until 1752.
We Iranians all know that we can be proud of one thing for sure. Our calendar. Looked from an Iranian's perspective, the British calendar is seriously wrong. But there is more to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSrQJS3lrO0&feature=youtube_gdata_player...
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The Iranian Calendar is the most accurate Calendar in the world, because the Iranians take into consideration the little bit of unaccounted minutes that the Gregorian Calendar leaves behind, after a day has been added every four years. But then the Iranian...
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