The Encyclopædia Iranica: SADA FESTIVAL, the most important Iranian winter festival, celebrated by kindling fires. (on the 10th (Ābān) day of the month of Bahman)
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The Encyclopædia Iranica, Anna Krasnowolska:
SADA (Arabicized Sadaq or Saḏaq), the most important Iranian winter festival, celebrated by kindling fires. While the other seasonal festivals - Nowruz, Tiragān, and Mehragān - corresponded, at least theoretically, to the three cardinal points of the solar year (spring equinox, summer solstice, and autumn equinox accordingly), Sada fell not on the winter solstice, but forty days after it, namely on the 10th (Ābān) day of the month of Bahman (on or around 30 January in the Gregorian calendar, if calculated from the modern Solar Hejri calendar). more
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