Posted on 03/19/2024 2:18:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Some 300 million people around the world are starting their annual celebration of renewal and harmony with nature in what is to them the biggest cultural holiday of the year, typically involving 13 days of rituals.
Nowruz (alternatively spelled Nauruz, Nauryz, Navruz, Nevruz, Nooruz, Norooz, Norouz, or Novruz), also known as Persian New Year (Nowruz means “new day” in Persian), is celebrated across ethnic groups with a common Silk Roads heritage, including Afghanistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Turkey, as well as their diaspora in other countries.
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The excitement for Nowruz was captured on Tuesday’s Google Doodle, which appeared on the site in more than a dozen countries, including Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. (Access to Google is restricted in Iran.)
The colorful scene, featuring animals playing instruments, was created by Iranian artist and Google Design Director Pendar Yousefi, who said the doodle draws inspiration from what he described as his “happy childhood memories of Nowruz.”
Here’s what to know about Nowruz:
When is Nowruz? Nowruz, which marks the first day of spring, is celebrated at the time—down to the second—of the vernal equinox, the point at which the sun is equally aligned over the Northern and Southern hemispheres, based on the earth’s rotation and tilt.
When exactly Nowruz begins thus varies across countries, depending on time zones. This year, it takes place at 26 seconds past 6.36 a.m., March 20, in Tehran, Iran (11:06 p.m., March 19, EDT). In India, Nowruz is celebrated on two days, this year on March 20 and August 15, based on calculations according to two different calendars.
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Sounds like some weird crap my mentally deranged ex wife would get into while she worships rocks
Do we have to care about this?
John 3:19
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
Older than Festivus?
At least Nowruz is more legitimate than Kwanzaa. A fake “holiday” with origins of violence and torture.
Nope. Never heard of it, don’t care.
Nowruz - otherwise known as “Applebees’ Two for $25 entrees promo!”
Hurry in to Applebees for your Nowruz special today!
As long as it isn’t “Endless Skrimp Night”.
So....i gotta ax then....
....at what social activity did you meet said ex-wife?
We don't give a shit about your clown culture. Get it out of my face. Go back home and live it up.
It's obvious you came here to try to replace Judaism and Christianity, and you have failed.
We tried to be nice and pretend that we were vaguely interested in your pagan shit customs but we are not.
Plus, if we were foolish enough to go to your countries and seek acceptance we would be treated like shit. So cram it you idiots. Read books about our culture and religion. And shut up. We don't care about your culture nor should we.
At a New Year’s Eve party when she was 15 before she went nuts
Well said.
Not really, no.
Zurwon spelled backwards.
Is this the festival where they sacrifice their firstborn? Yeah, I heard about this before.
If the Greeks lose to Persia at Marathon or Termopylae Zoroastrianism could have been our religion. The Three Wise Men likely celebrated Nawroz.
Another name for sun worshipping.
What bikini to wear today?
It means literally “new light.” Same words in Latin would be “Nova Lux.” The Persians are Indo-Europeans.
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