The Shast-Sheshi festival (or Shast-o-Shashi; of or related to "sixty-six" in Persian) is held annually in the village of Sian in the Jarquyeh County (Jarqavieh) of Isfahan Province in Iran. Beginning on the sixty-sixth day after Nowruz (the Iranian New Year), the festival corresponds in date and function to the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian feast of Khordadgan, dedicated to the divinity Khordad, the female guardian of water.
The Shast-Sheshi festival (or Shast-o-Shashi; of or related to "sixty-six" in Persian) is held annually in the village of Sian in the Jarquyeh County (Jarqavieh) of Isfahan Province in Iran. Beginning on the sixty-sixth day after Nowruz (the Iranian New Year), the festival corresponds in date and function to the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian feast of Khordadgan, dedicated to the divinity Khordad, the female guardian of water.
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