Recently a young reader of Parsi Times asked me some interesting questions: “How come we observe a Hindu ‘Ram’ Roj in our Zoroastrian calendar? Why don’t we name our children as Ram? Why do we abstain from consuming gosh (meat) on Gosh Roj?” Mino Ram The twenty-first day in the Zoroastrian calendar is not dedicated […]
Thou, Ahura Mazda, hast created Tishtrya, the radiant, glorious star genius of the rain, the lord of all other stars, for the fertility of the fields, farms and all other lands. Men and beasts, birds and plants, trees and rivers, streams and thirsty earth, look eagerly and entreatingly to the rising of the star Tishtrya, […]