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From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal">
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.20 (03) [EN]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span></span></p>And, among the Zoroastrians, in India at least (where they are called
Parsis/Parsees) only those whpo follow the Fasli/Bastani calendar
celebrate New Year now (as Jamshed-i Nouroz). Parsis who follow either
of the other two calendars celebrate today as a holiday, but New Years
is in July or August.<br>
<br>Some Kashmiri Hindus also celebrate New Year now..<br><br>mwm<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px;color:rgb(0,0,153)">On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Lowlands-L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><font>I second that, although </font></span><a style="color:rgb(0,0,153)" href="http://goog_1407859701/" target="_blank">Nowrūz</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><font><a href="http://goog_1407859701/" target="_blank"> (</a></font></span><a style="color:rgb(0,0,153)" href="http://goog_1407859701/" target="_blank"><span lang="fa">نوروز</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz" target="_blank"> "New Day")</a>
is not an all-Muslim holiday. It appears to have originated in the
Persian-speaking world, probably within early Zoroastrianism, and has
been spread to Persian-influenced (mostly Turkic-speaking) cultures in
Central and Southern Asia as well as to some cultures in Western Asia
and Southeastern Europe. For instance, it is celebrated also among
Zoroastrians, Kurds, </font>Bahá'ís, and Christians (e.g. Aramaians/Assyrians, Armenians, Georgians and both Christian and Muslim Albanians).</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><br></span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,153)" size="4"><span lang="fa"><span><font>!</font> </span></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)" lang="fa"><font size="4"><span>نوروز</span> <span>مبارک</span> <span>به</span> <span>همه</span></font></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<font style="color:rgb(0,0,153)" size="4"><span lang="fa"><span></span></span></font><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">Seattle, USA</span><br>
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<span><br></span></div></font><span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888"><div>mwm || <u>U</u> C > || mike || мика || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br>sign language linguist / linguistic typologist at large / "Have language(s), will travel"</div>
<div><br><b>"If one has no affection for a person or a system, one
should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so
long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence." (MKG)<br>
"You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its
orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such
allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil.</b> <b>A good
person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of
the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty." (MKG)</b><br>
been there, done that...<br></div></font></span><br><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><div style="text-align:center"><span>==============================</span><span>===========================</span><br>
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