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Persiana is a 32 year old married woman from Shiraz, Iran.

I'll be posting links and photos of Iran's archaeological and historic treasures. I think they are fascinating and belong to all humanity. Viewing them teaches one a great deal about the history, beliefs, arts and ways of living of ancient people. 11 12 15 17 19 22 25 27 30..33

Mar 4, 2007 9:18pm: Nowrouz; a beautiful heritage handed down from our ancient ancestors

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"Some achievements even were made because of these thousands of years of belief in the sky; people found some constellations; they found seven stars that were moving in the sky, and also found a series of constellations and gave each a name.

After that, it took other thousands of years for them to realize that each month the sun, sets behind the mountains with one of these constellations. When they count the constellations, they found there were twelve. After decades and centuries of survey, they also found about months and years. The word "sal" (means "year" in Persian) we use now, "sol" in the language of Zoroastrians, "soleil" in French, and "solar" in English, all go back to the same origin: the sun. "sal" means "When the sun becomes fresh and new." And "sal e no" (New Year) means: the new sun. So, a scientific calendar was made about 8,000 years ago; at the end of times of Jamshid.

Our ancestors found the accurate time in which day and night were exactly of a same length. (The very time we celebrate as the beginning of New Year or Nowrouz.) So they must have had a tool like a clock. But we don't know yet about this clock; how it worked, etc."

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