petition was signed!

another 75 days of celebrating till NoRooz!!!

W00t!!

Thank you Angeliki

wohoooo

Singed

156609 Signatures Total

Signed yesterday

Thank you so Much queen

157136 Signatures Total Mine included

I signed three times...

Hooray for the countdown! Soon we will party like it's 1983!!!

@ karen

Signed few days ago.
While someone was seating his arse of in gym

what year will it be? like 3,500?

wohoo Thank you Alla

Kare ThanX I signed 2 time`s

Hay DaX ThanX Again I did mention in my blog post:"ThanX to all the guys that sign there Already"

I ArtMan, Persian year 2568 - (1388) Islamic Persian solar year

2568 560 years more Persian Pride

wow new Avatar Naomi, NICE!!

Thank you! I love the old pic, but it's old (like 2 years old) & I've had the same pic on Opera the whole time, I decided to put a recent pic up (from last month) to celebrate my soon-to-be second year on Opera.

You look much prettier this year

My Work of Art Is don Finally : http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?postid=5597462#post5597462

Aw...you are sweet. I'm just getting OLDER!!!!!!!!!

Look at my newest post if you want to really, really laugh.

Wow. Your work is really incredible. And I love the fact that you promote Persian culture so much. VERY cool!

No your the prettiest one around ,Angel

I`m hedding there

Thank you I LOVE Persia

Ew...you're gonna be in trouble with the other angels.

amm...i meant ,ONE of the prettiest ones around !!that was close

very good amir, thanks for the answer. i know why moslem year is 1399 but what makes the persians start counting 2,568 years ago? is that connected with alexander, so called 'the great'?

1388 for the Islamic count and 2568 for the Kingdom count.

http://www.iranchamber.com/culture/articles/norooz_iranian_new_year.php


Tradition takes No-Rooz as far back as 15,000 years-before the last ice age. King Jamshid (Yima or Yama of the Indo-Iranian lore) symbolizes the transition of the Indo-Iranians from animal hunting to animal husbandry and a more settled life in human history. Seasons played a vital part then. Everything depended on the four seasons. After a sever winter, the beginning of spring was a great occasion with mother nature rising up in a green robe of colorful flowers and the cattle delivering their young. It was the dawn of abundance. Jamshid symbolizes the person/people who introduced No-Rooz celebrations.

Avestan and later scriptures show that Zarathushtra improved, as early as 1725 BCE, the old Indo-Iranian calendar. The prevailing calendar was luni-solar. The lunar year is of 354 days. An intercalation of one month after every thirty months kept the calendar almost in line with the seasons. Zarathushtra, the Founder of the Good Religion, himself an astronomer, founded an observatory and he reformed the calendar by introducing an eleven-day intercalary period to make it into a luni-solar year of 365 days, 5 hours and a fraction.

Later in the post-Gathic period, the year was made solely a solar year with each month of thirty days. An intercalation of five days was, and a further addition of one day every four years, was introduced to make the year 365 days, 5 hours, and a fraction. Still later, the calendar was further corrected to be a purely solar year of 365 days 5 hr 48 min 45.5 sec. The year began precisely with the vernal equinox every time and therefore, there was no particular need of adding one day every four years and there was no need of a leap year. This was [and still is] the best and most correct calendar produced that far.

Some 12 centuries later, in 487 BCE, Darius the Great of the Achaemenian dynasty (700 to 330 BCE) celebrated the No-Rooz at his newly built Persepolis in Iran. A recent research shows that it was a very special occasion. On that day, the first rays of the rising sun fell on the observatory in the great hall of audience at 06-30 a.m., an event that repeats itself once every 1400-1 years. It also happened to coincide with the Babylonian and Jewish new years. It was, therefore, a highly auspicious occasion for the ancient peoples. The Persepolis was the place, the Achaemenian king received, on No-Rooz, his peoples from all over the vast empire. The walls of the great royal palace depict the scenes of the celebrations.

We know the Parthians (250 BCE to 224 CE) celebrated the occasion but we do not know the details. It should have, more or less, followed the Achaemenian pattern. During the Sassanian time (224 to 652 CE), preparations began at least 25 days before No-Rooz. Twelve pillars of mud bricks, each dedicated to one month of the year, were erected in the royal court. Various vegetable seeds-wheat, barley, lentils, beans, and others-were sown on top of the pillars. They grew into luxurious greens by the New Year Day.

The great king held his public audience and the High Priest of the empire was the first to greet him. Government officials followed next. Each person offered a gift and received a present. The audience lasted for five days, each day for the people of a certain profession. Then on the sixth day, called the Greater No-Rooz, the king held his special audience. He received members of the Royal family and courtiers. Also a general amnesty was declared for convicts of minor crimes. The pillars were removed on the 16th day and the festival came to a close. The occasion was celebrated, on a lower level, by all peoples throughout the empire.

Since then, the peoples of the Iranian culture, whether Zartoshtis, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Baha'is, or others, have, under Arab, Turk, Mongol, and Iranian rulers, celebrated No-Rooz precisely at the time of vernal equinox, the first day of the first month, on about March 21.


http://www.iranchamber.com/culture/articles/norooz_zarathushtrian_new_year.php

totally cool amir. i appreciate the effort. now i know everything. that is so interesting. especially, the technique which obviates the need for a leap year which seems so lame. 15,000 years eh? that makes me a 'spring chicken'

My honor

15,000 yes , King Darius the Great I`s in the true Persian`s heart.
I am bleaved to be the descendant of King Darius the Great My ancestors come from the old Pasargad capital city, now called Shiraz

at least i like to think so

cool man... the best. omar khyaam talks about shiraz and jamshid.

i myself am descended (with 'collateral') from the first kings of scotland.
'cumming' is still the largest county in scotland. and on my mother's side, from robert louis stevenson. cool eh? yeah right... now i have to live up to those noble genes.

you better!
If I have to live up to Alexander the Great's genes!
hi meli,
meeting you in Persia makes the meeting more exotic!

Amir,
I love your banner!Thanks for mentioning it to me!sorry I opened my p/msgs too late tonight and I missed you!
it is very cool!
you are such a gifted artist Amir!
I am proud of you!

I love the banner you made for me too! I really do and I thank you very much!!!
I will treasure it!

*hugs* from New York,
it is a lovely night here!
I have all my windows open, a very clear night...
sleep well

and Thanks !!!!

Sir noble scott I love william wallis Fredommmmmmmmm

Angeliki Alexander had 2 Persian wifes

ThanX Angeliki O.K treasure it until i make you another one

Amazing,i love clear nights you can see the moon

thanks! I will give the material too! it does have to have Acropolis in it once Greek always a Greek !


"Angeliki Alexander had 2 Persian wives "
he liked them that much he had to have two!

I wonder how many Persian brothers and sisters I have!!!

Dont look at me , I`m the son!!

I am not! honest!

I am looking at the new banner and I love it!

wohoooooo

THANKS !!!!

Dont mention it!

I will! thanks!

meeting at 10am! see ya!!

Have fun

67..11..50...

ThanX Henry

I can't believe this!! I posted this almost 2 years to the day
Your culture is fascinating to me Amir. Thankyou..please tell me if i have made any mistakes
Perhaps a Premonition of us meeting
Moon calendar and Culture

ThanX Hery ,will check the link out

four hours to go Amir,
I am all excited and I hope you set this clock for next year soon,
this way I can keep the link to this post
in my sidebar along with my favorite links to my friends' web sites/posts/art and all!

that said ,
You ,Nadiya,De Niro,your brother and young sister,
have my best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year
The Year 2568
















































you are very special to me!!!



and to my kids too!




this post is also shown here Amir :

http://my.opera.com/ellinidata/favorites/

happy 2568 amir... yahooooo it will be a very good year. i wish you the best year ever.

Angeliki Thank you so much.

Angeliki I wish you and my bro And sister one amazing year ahead Party timeeeeeeeeee

Sir ArtMan Thank you very much.
Happy new year To Earth And All it's People

it is here Amir!and it was worth the wait! Happy NoRooz♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Vaia and Yannis wish you all the best too! *hugs*♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Thank you

Vaia and Yannis I love you guy's
you guy are lucky to have Mama Angeliki around

Angeliki see my new post

I was listening to the message on CNN when you were posting it!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
By sending a message of hope to the Iranian people on NoRooz it was a heart felt move!
American and Persian people are very much alike!
Kudos to Barak for respecting a special Day and the Persian people !
I hope things get better and you visit America Amir!

Amen to that

I will be with Opera for today tomorrow the family visits begin ...but today It's Opera's Time

I hope you take a picture of Nadiyas eyes.... we spoke about it earlier! OK I have to admit I am dying to see the facial hair of DeNiro too!

O.K That's a Promise

meeting my Persian relatives soon !