Mother Earth Celebration
This celebration story belongs to the roots of the Persian Empire, around 3500 years ago. Back then, the Achaemenid Dynasty ruled over one of the world’s major empires. Way before Islam, glorious Persian kings from Cyrus the Great to Darius I, believed Zoroastrian. They respected nature highly; in particular the fire as a sacred element.
In Zoroastrians believe, Earth is a deity called “Sepandarmaz”: the loving mother, the guardian angel of Earth, breeder of all creations and human beings. She protects the earth as a mother tenderly looks after all her children equally. People praised the loving goddess on the fifth day of the fifth month of the solar calendar, both being called after her. Nowadays, it matches with the 29th of Bahman (February 18th).