Festivals and celebrations of the months. Kerman Ateshkadeh

Farvardingan/Froodog: ( night before Nowrouz)

Prayers on Farvardin month’s Farvardin day, 

Men for spirits, departed ancestors would say. 

Ordibeheshtgan/Ardavisht: ( 3th day of 2 month 

celebrates creation of fire and heavenly bodies)

Prayers on Ordibehesht month’s ordibehesht day, 

Cleanliness, purity, fire in Ateshkadeh, homes say. 

Khordadgan: ( 6th day of 3 month celebrates 

creation of water and water bodies)

Festival, Prayers, khordad month’s khordad day, 

For good health, water bodies, rivers, lakes say. 

Amordegan: ( 7th day of 5 month celebrates 

creation of plants)

Prayers on amordad month’s. amordad day, 

Angels, to protect living beings, plants, say. 

Shahrivargan: ( 4th day of 6 month celebrates 

creation of metals and minerals)

Prayers on the Shahrivar month’s, shahrivar day, 

to Kshatra vairya, angel, protecting minerals say.   

Abangan: (Aban-water) 

Festival on the month of Aban’s aban day, 

Prayer of Abzoor at sources of water say. 

Azargan: 

In the month of Azar’s azar day, 

People prayers to sacred fire say. 

Daegan: 

Festival in the month of Dae on the dae day, 

People prayers to Ahura Mazda, creator say. 

Shah Hormozd open court in a field’d array, 

In white clothes, dine, hear what people say. 

Bahmangan( 2nd day of 11th month celebrates 

creation of animals, Vohiman- good thoughts) 

On the Bahman month’s, bahman day, 

People, prayers for their livestock say. 

Jashn-e-Spandarmazd celebrates creation 

of the Earth

The twelfth month, Spendarmad’s fifth day, 

Prayers on the Esfand month’s, esfand day,
Spenta Araimati, protector of the Earth say. 

Lovers give presents to each other this day.  

 The virtuous, noble Siyawash's ordeal of fire. 

King Kaikavos' son, Siyawash, reputation for morality earned,

Lecherous step-mother, Sudabe, in lust for Siyawash burned.

Righteous Siyawash, her sexual advances, thwarted, spurned,

Unscrupulous Sudabe incriminated Prince, vengeance burned.

Kaikavos condemned Siyawash, to cross seven tunnels of fire,

Innocent, guiltless, would emerge unhurt, unscathed by fire,

Year's last chaharshanbe/Wednesday, city of Suri, lit a fire,

Pure, chaste, sinless, Siyawas emerged uninjured from fire.

To honour, unsullied,unblemished Siyawash's ordeal of fire,

Chaharshanbe  Suri, joyous, merry people light, jump a fire.

Saying, May I get your healthy, vigorous, robust red colour!

May you get my sick, infirm, unhealthy, feverish pale colour!

Jashn-e-sedeh the discovery of fire commemorates, 

The one, only Ahura Mazda’s unique gift celebrates. 

Hoshang Shah Pishdadi's gift, present, benefaction, 

10th, Bahman, acclaimed, observed, Iranian nation. 

Bundles made, tied dried sticks collected, gathered. 

Fires are lit, darkness to illumination, light, altered, 

Ancestors’ great discovery recalled, commemorated. 

Fire in the religion of Zoroaster is sacred, venerated. 

Qualities, unaffected by defilement, taint,impurities, 

Destroys all contamination, adulteration, impurities.

Fire upwards towards heavens, rises, ascends surges, 

Towards progress, advancement, betterment, urges. 

Hoshang Shah Pishdadi’s discovery of fire. 

(Shahnameh of Ferdowsi) 

One day Hoshang Shah would mountaineering be, 

A menacing black snake on hillside, he would see, 

A stone he threw at it missed, snake’d escape, flee. 

Impact, flintstone one on another, a spark he’d see, 

Ahura Mazda’s great gift to mankind, proved to be. 

Source of light, warmth on cold winter nights’d be. 

Arash the archer and Jashn-e-Tirgan 

Arash, hero, champion of righteous Manucher’s army, 

Battled evil, wicked, ignoble Turanian Afrasiab’s army.

At parley, distance a shot arrow traversed, would land, 

Was agreed, conceded, to Iranians’d belong, the land.  

Good spirit Amesa spenti Arimati motivated, inspired, 

Dawn, 6th Khordad, Farvardin, Arash magic bow fired.  

From Damavand, thousand farsakhs, arrow would fly, 

To establish where Iranian nations’ borders would lie.

  
Brave Arash, endeavour, venture, life sacrificed, gave, 

The lost in mountains, his kind spirit’ll preserve, save.

  
10th of Tir men celebrate, honour, commemorate,told, 

Sacrifice of Arash the gallant, fearless, valorous, bold. 

Soul of mighty Arash, slopes of Mt. Damavand lives,

Travelers, lost, astray, their way to civilization gives.

When hope, prospect of survival, lost soul disappears,

An imperious warrior, divine bow, from mist appears.

The story of Pirouz Shah (459-484 A.D)and the 

appalling, horrific drought that lasted seven years 

until the Jashn-e-Tirgan

Once, during Pirooz Shah Sasani’s righteous reign, 

Seven devastating, terrible years, there was no rain, 

Pirooz collected no taxes, from India imported grain. 

Men splashed water, one-another mercifully, it’d rain.   

 Jashn-e-Mehrgan, Festival of Mehr, kindness, 

Thanksgiving to Mithra. 

Nowrooz, Mehrgan, widely observed festivals, the day, 

Mehrgan marked 7th day, 7th month, year’s 196th day. 

Grand celebration, festivity, revelry in Persia, this day. 

Fraidoon, Kaveh, victorious over foul Zahakk, this day. 

Wicked Zahakk, tied, flung on Damavand died 7th day. 

Men’d bring presents Takht -e Jamshid, King, this day. 

King himself received visitors of provinces on this day. 

He wore furs, gave away his summer clothes, this day. 

Records maintained, money received by king that day, 

Twice that benefactor’d receive from king, needy day. 

Farmers harvested, gathered summer crops, this day. 

Prayers of thanksgiving, gratitude to Mithra this day. 

Mashi, Mashiane became human from plants, this day. 

Ahura Mazda’s kindness to first man, woman, this day. 

The seasonal festivals, called gahanbars (meaning "proper season"), occur six times a year. They include joyous communal feasting, exchanging gifts and giving charity.  They are:

• Maidyozarem Gahanbar ('mid-spring' feast), in the month of Artavahisht, 41 days after the New Year
• Maidyoshahem Gahanbar ('mid-summer' feast), 60 days later in the month of Tīr
• Paitishahem Gahanbar (feast of  the harvest'),  75 days later in the month of Shatvairō
• Ayathrem Gahanbar ('bringing home the herds/ Time of Prosperity ) 30 days later in the month of Mitrā
• Maidyarem Gahanbar ('mid-year'/winter feast), 80 days later, in the month of Dīn
• Hamaspathmaidyem Gahanbar (feast of 'all souls', 75 days later, in the 5 Gatha days of the year, just before Nowrouz)