There are currently three main Zoroastrian calendars : Fasli, Shahanshahi and Qadimi.

The Fasli calendar is a solar calendar adding one day every 4 years as the gregorian calendar. It starts on the 21st of march 631, date of the arrival of islam in Persia.

The Shahanshahi calendar is probably the most used by Parsee Zoroastrian people, it is a religious calendar supposed to be synchronized with the seasons by an insert month every 120 years, but the rule was no more followed and this calendar is sliping back.

The Qadimi calendar seems to be the iranish calendar which is one month ahead of the Shahanshahi.

The one you see is the Fasli calendar which starts on the 21st of march which is 'NawRuz'. This calendar has 12 months of 30 days and 5 insert days (6 in the leap years) at the end of the year, these days are dedicated to Gatha.

The days are not denoted by a figure but by a name in relation with some entity known by the prophet Zoroastre (Zarathustra born approximatly in 1400 before JC).


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