Sadah (Festival)
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Name (Hebrew)
סדה (חג)
Name (Latin)
Sadah (Festival)
Other forms of name
Sada (Festival)
See Also From tracing topical name
Winter festivals
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MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q1070318
Library of congress:
sh2005007036
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 2003361602: Cristoforetti, S. Il natale della luce in Iran, 2002:t.p. (Sada)
- Encycl. Iran:v. 9, p. 543 ff. (article Festivals: Sada ... a winter fire-festival)
- Muʻīn, M. Farhang-i Fārsī mutavassiṭ, 1963-(Sadah: Winter festival celebrated on the 10th of Bahman, i.e. 100 days after the start of the winter; a holiday celebrated in Ancient Iran and in the early centuries of Islam, in which fires are lit; the festival is still celebrated today by Zoroastrians)
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Sadeh
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Wikipedia description:
Sadeh (Persian: سده also transliterated as Sade), is an Iranian festival that dates back to the Achaemenid Empire. Sadeh is celebrated 50 days before Nowruz. Sadeh in Persian means "hundred" and refers to the one hundred days and nights remaining to the beginning of spring. Sadeh is a mid-winter festival that was celebrated with grandeur and magnificence in ancient Persia. It was a festivity to honor fire and to defeat the forces of darkness, frost, and cold.
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