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| Cupid, photo: :Shahrzad Ghaffari, feb.2013 |
Today was a wonderful Valentine day...
1. Woked up besides my beloved Bahram, prepared crêpes for 4 of us....and had breakfast with my beloved son Maziar who should leave early for his job...leaving my beloved one in our bed...
I had gifts for my beloved Sépandat & Maziar; one set of a red cushion + one pair of socks + one sock full of colorful hearts symbolizing joyful hearts with transparency what I wished for my sons, to be happy and in love with someone with whom they share colorful moments of love and joy through the experiences of Life...
2. I drove Maziar to his job and on my way to Ballet Jazz, I stopped to buy for my ballet + ballet jazz teacher a pot of flower. When I saw the small beautiful Orchids I could not resist and chose the most beautiful one ...I also bought a small beautiful plant for 4 of us...
And even if I was late for my dance class, I thought I should create a story with this amazing beautiful orchids before I offer it to dear Sheila...
When I offered this beautiful Orchid to Sheila, she told me that she loved orchids and I was so happy that my choice had gone for the orchid. The classv was great as usual and I enjoyed it entirely...
I did some grocery and went home and cooked (negetarian lasagnia + a strawbery pie)...
And, went to hotel and got lots of roses from Bahram and now I am going hooooooooome to find my sweet heart!
Here some more....
Many thanks to my dear cousin from London, Minoo for her Valentine day message with the title of :
Happy Sepandārmazgān
This reminded me about when a few days ago, I went to Iran during the Valentine and I saw in the shops lots of gajets about the celebration of Love in the shops (we did not have it when I was young and living in Iran) and when I talked to the owner of the shop, he explained that some Iranians believe that the origin of the Valentine day is from the Persian day of love...which encouraged me to make a short research and found the following sites-blogs which talk about this special tradition in Persia:
And, I figured out that why my intuition brought me to the Iranian library at the university of Paris III, the language section to choose the name of Sépandat (a story and history behind), , our first son and then years after the name of Maziar (a story& history behind), our second son!!! When I saw Spandarmazgan, I realized that it seems that both combined are so similar to it!
1. http://absdostan.deviantart.com/journal/Sepandarmazdegan-Iranian-Love-day-for-3700-Years-268090783
Sepandarmazdegan- Iranian Love day for 3700 Years
Sepandārmazgān
Sepandārmazgān or Esfandegan (in Persian: سپندارمذگان)[1] is the celebration day of love and earth in ancient Iranian culture. This day is dedicated to Spenta Armaiti, Spandārmad in Middle Persian, the Middle Iranian language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times (224-654 CE) became a prestige dialect and so came to be spoken in other regions as well.
It is celebrated the 29th of Bahman in Iranian calendar. Modern folklore dates the celebration to ancient times and Zoroastrian tradition.[citation needed] Sepandarmazgan is the celebration day of Love, Friendship and Earth in ancient Persian culture.
Sepandārmazgān or Esfandegan (in Persian: سپندارمذگان)[1] is the celebration day of love and earth in ancient Iranian culture. This day is dedicated to Spenta Armaiti, Spandārmad in Middle Persian, the Middle Iranian language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times (224-654 CE) became a prestige dialect and so came to be spoken in other regions as well.
It is celebrated the 29th of Bahman in Iranian calendar. Modern folklore dates the celebration to ancient times and Zoroastrian tradition.[citation needed] Sepandarmazgan is the celebration day of Love, Friendship and Earth in ancient Persian culture.
2. http://dostantarikh.blogspot.ca/2010/02/sepandarmazgan-iranian-love-day.html
Sepandarmazgan
Sepandārmazgān or Esfandegan (in Persian: سپندارمذگان)[1] is the celebration day of love and earth in ancient Iranian culture. This day is dedicated to Spenta Armaiti, Spandārmad in Middle Persian, the Middle Iranian language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times (224-654 CE) became a prestige dialect and so came to be spoken in other regions as well.
It is celebrated the 29th of Bahman in Iranian calendar. Modern folklore dates the celebration to ancient times and Zoroastrian tradition.[citation needed] Sepandarmazgan is the celebration day of Love, Friendship and Earth in ancient Persian culture.
According to Iranian tradition, the day of Sepandarmazgan was held in the Great Persian Empire in the 20th century BC. That is the national title of the Earth and the Earth is the symbol of love & modesty. Persians have a rich culture with many great feasts based on natural occasions that have been mixed up with happiness and Joy. In the feast of Sepandarmazgan, the Earth was worshiped and women venerated. On this day, women and girls sat on the throne and men and boys had to obey them and bring them presents and gifts. In this way, men were reminded to acclaim and respect women. Sepandarmaz is another name for mainyu (earth) meaning Holy, Humble and Passionate. Sepandarmaz is also Earth Guardian Angel. It is the symbol of humbleness. It means modest toward the entire creation. These are the qualities attributed to Earth that spreads beneath our feet, thus the symbol of modesty and love. As human beings, there are creatures that we find unpleasant and repulsive, but Earth is not like us. She embraces all creatures the same and loves them the same; like a mother who loves all children alike, even when they are ugly. In ancient Persian culture, mother is symbolized by Sepandarmaz or earth.
In ancient Iran each day of the month had a name, and all months had 30 days. For example, the first day was called Ahuramazda, the second day Bahman, which is the first attribute of God, the third day was called Ordibehesht meaning truth and purity which again are attributes of God. The fourth day is called Shahrivar, meaning ideal kingship that belongs to God who rules the whole universe. The cryptic meaning of this word is that in the same way that God rules over the heavenly bodies, we should rule our bodies with good thoughts, words and deeds. This brings us to the fifth day Sepandarmaz. Another rule here was that whenever the name of a day coincided with that of the month, a feast was held. So the feast of Sepandarmazgan is held on the sepandarmaz day of the month of Esfand (originally Spand or Espand). Similarly, the 16th day of any month is called Mehr and the feast of Mehrgan is held on the 16th day of the month of Mehr which was one of the most important feasts of the past. The day of Aban in the month of Aban is the day of another feast called Abangan, and was used as an occasion to appreciate and worship water and the day of Azar in the month of Azar, called Azargan was the feast of appreciation of fire and so forth.
Date of celebration
The original date for this ceremony was 5th of Esfand, which corresponds to 17th February in the Gregorian calendar. The popular revised date of 29th Bahman, or 23th February, is due to the disorganized calendering during the past 20 years.
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