- The
seasonal festivals,
called gahambars (meaning "proper season"),
occur six
times a year. Due to the
peculiarities of the
Shahenshahi and
Kadmi variants...
-
these festivals is
celebrated over five days,
except Hamaspathmaidyem Gahambar,
which is held over ten days (two five-day periods, see "other holy days"...
-
developed for the
celebration of the
seven holy days of
obligation (the
Gahambars plus Nowruz) and was
dedicated to
Ahura Mazda.
While the very earliest...
- Zoroastrianism, the
seven most
important Zoroastrian festivals are the six
Gahambar festivals and Nowruz,
which occurs at the
spring equinox.
According to...
-
anniversary of
these creations are six festivals,
which are
known as
Gahambars. The main
prototypes of
creation are the cow, four-legged animals, and...
-
Temple attendance is
particularly high
during seasonal celebrations (
Gahambars), and
especially for the New Year (Noruz). The
priesthood is trigradal...
- nights)
before the
beginning of the new year (or
hundredth day
after the
gahambar of Ayathrima),
already noted, the
other celebration marked the hundred...
- Visperad, and the sum of all t****els,
which is six,
represents the six
gahambars (feasts). The kushti, was
often considered to be a
marker of Zoroastrian...
- six-day
festivals were
compressed to five days. The
major feasts, or
gahambars, of
contemporary Zoroastrian practice, are
still kept as five-day observances...
-
celebrating the
gahambars, the high
Zoroastrian festivals that
celebrate six season(al) events. As
seasonal ("year cycle") festivals, the
gahambars are dedicated...
