No Ruz Spring Festival

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General Thread ₂ Featured April 23 , 2004

Opens Thursday, Noon - Come and celebrate the most famous of Persia's festivals - No Ruz! This wonderful spring celebration is colorful, exotic, and inspiring. You won't be disappointed as you learn all about this holiday in Babylon's tribute to spring -- created by our own Caileadair Etana!

Babylon Presents!

Roses! No Ruz Spring Festival Spring is here!

"No Ruz is the oldest tradition of Iran and is celebrated beginning on the first day of Spring (around March 21st). It is also called eyd-i sar-i sal and eyd-i sal-i now (meaning “new day” though today it is translated as “new year”). The traditional festival of Spring is both mythological and cosmological in nature. A deputy of Ahura Mazda is its founder and this position gives him and the festival a dimension of spirituality and a distinct sense of secular authority. No Ruz celebrates the dynamics of love between the Creator and the created (the physical realm). Descendants celebrate the annual return of the spirits of their ancestors in order to reestablish close familial bonds.

The celebration of No Ruz, colored as it is by its both Mazdian and Zoroastrian history, is not religious nor national. It is celebrated widely throughout the world by those who are Jewish, Turkish, Armenian, Iranian, and Central Asian. The elegant, yet simple rites and customs deliver a strong universal message of belonging."

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