Nawrooz Mobarak... wait what!!?
Last night was the celebration of Nawrooz, which is celebrated by whoever is following the Persian Calender (Iran, Afghanistan and who else hmm). Anyway, growing up it was a thing we used to celebrate with my family. My mom would clean the house and we would prepare sofreh haf seen and colour the eggs and stuff, it was fun and a good family gathering. The coolest thing was having the bean sprouts grow on a clay weeks in advance then break the clay after the celebration, representing something which I can't remember.
I am actually grateful I didn't know what the everything represents, its been 5 years that I haven't been home for Nawrooz, so I thought of reading about it. It has all sort of un-islamic traditions and beliefs (no wonder its celebrated by Bahais as well), I think this is another way the Iranians are trying to distinguish themselves from Islam. To think of it I don't even know why we call it Eid Nawrooz... damn I was brain washed as a kid.
But I gotta admit, it is kinda cool that we have our own calender and our own "NEW YEAR" or whatever, so I don't mind it. Not that I did anything special for it... ahm
posted by Ali at
12:21 am
5 Comments:
Does it fall around the same time every year? It's interesting that you dye eggs. Easter is around the corner here and dying eggs is something they do.
The same goes for an ancient holiday we celebrate in Egypt called "sham-al-naseem" celebrating spring. We also dye eggs and eat salty smoked fish.
Ya it falls around the same time each year, beginning of the spring. I actually had no idea it relates to "easter" until I came to NZ and found out they do that for easter too.. weird! It will be interesting how all those traditions got started hmm.
Oh ya I knew about "sham al naseem" since I was a kid, from the jokes about it in "Flash" (an Egyptian comic book :D), when is that by the way?
LOL. You used to read flash? How funny :-). I forget sometimes that you grew up in the Arab world.
When is Sham-An-Naseem you ask? According to google it was March 21.
even omanis have some weird habis which i dont think are islamic.. especially all those superstitious stuff.
Organic: ya Flash was my favorite comic growing up, I also used to read "mal al mostaqbal" and "rajol al mosta7eel" still have the collection somewhere hmm.
Oman roses: welcome to my blog. I guess every country has certain traditions they cannot change sigh.
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