About Shast-Sheshi festival
The Shast-Sheshi festival (or Shast-o-Shashi; of or related to "sixty-six" in Persian) is held annually in the village of Sian in the Jarquyeh County (Jarqavieh) of Isfahan Province in Iran. Beginning on the sixty-sixth day after Nowruz (the Iranian New Year), the festival corresponds in date and function to the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian feast of Khordadgan, dedicated to the divinity Khordad, the female guardian of water. Historically, its central rite involved immersion in the Shah Cheshme spring (now dry), along with visits to nearby sacred sites associated with women, fertility, and water. Al.
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