VMs: Why the year begins from Pisces

[Vladimir Sazonov <vladimir@xxxxxxxx>]

Many calendars were in use in Iran, also lunar hijra and several solar 
calendars.

The solar zoroastrian calendea have 12x30 days and 5 additional days at 
the end.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/zoroastrian/cal.html

In the year 1006 CE the roaming Noruz day again coincided with the day 
of the Vernal Equinox. There was great rejoicing both in Iran and India. 
It was resolved that Zoroastrians must add an extra month every 120 
years. Between 1126 and 1129 CE, the Parsees in India remembered and 
added a 13th month called the 2nd Spendamad but the Zoroastrian in Iran 
forgot. The intercalation made by the Indian Zoroastrian Community, put 
the Calendar of the Iranian Zoroastrians ahead by one month. This 
difference between the two Calendars went unnoticed until a learned 
Kermani priest, Dastur Jamasp Vilayat, visited India in 1720 and brought 
it to the attention of the Parsi community. Long after the Dastur had 
left, the Zoroastrians in India continued to debate the issue of the two 
Calendars. In 1746, a group of Zoroastrians in India decided to adopt 
the Iranian Calendar as that of the "old time". They separated and 
formed a new group called Qadimi but the majority of Parsees continued 
to follow their traditional Calendar and called themselves Shenshais 
(Royalist). No intercalations have been made since 1130 CE.

The Shenshai and Qadimi Calendars do not have any means of intercalation 
built into them. Consequently, in both these Calendars, Noruz recedes 
from the day of Vernal Equinox and the Gahambars, the seasonal 
festivals, are celebrated at the wrong time of the year.

Nick Pelling wrote:

> Hi Vladimir,
>
> At 23:00 29/03/03 +0100, Vladimir Sazonov wrote:
>
> > f67r2 maybe is a key.
> > You see a sequence of black and white moons, normally 
> > black-white-black-white but one time is black-black-white-white.
>
>
> Lunar Hijra is a very interesting possibility (I'm fascinated by all 
> things calendrical), though for f67r2 I guess the smart money's 
> probably on a dumb scribe (ie who painted them in wrongly). :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
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