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Understanding Pateti: Parsi New Year

Pateti is the Parsi new year's day and the day before to close accounts for the wrongs of the past year. On Pateti, Parsis visit fire temples where the sacred fire is kept burning by priests and worship Ahura Mazda. They promise to live with good thoughts, words, and deeds. Parsis wear traditional clothes and offer sandalwood to the fire in rituals, clean their homes, and decorate with rangoli as they celebrate by meeting with family and friends.

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Understanding Pateti: Parsi New Year

Pateti is the Parsi new year's day and the day before to close accounts for the wrongs of the past year. On Pateti, Parsis visit fire temples where the sacred fire is kept burning by priests and worship Ahura Mazda. They promise to live with good thoughts, words, and deeds. Parsis wear traditional clothes and offer sandalwood to the fire in rituals, clean their homes, and decorate with rangoli as they celebrate by meeting with family and friends.

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Pateti is the Parsi new year's day.

The day before is Pateti, the last day of the previous year, and the day to close accounts for the year. The significance of Pateti is that it is the day to dwell on the wrongs or sins one may have committed the previous year, and atoning for them. India is a multicultural and multireligious country. We have people belonging to different castes and communities. Pateti is a festival of the Parsis and it is celebrated on the eve of New Year of the Zoroastrian calendar. On pateti day the parsis visit the fire temple or agiary. The agiary is called as a fire temple because the sacred fire which was brought from Iran once upon a time is always kept burning in the temple by the high priest. The parsis worship Ahura Mazda, symbolised by fire. The parsis on this day, promise to live with good thoughts, use good words and perform the right actions. The word pateti is derived from Pazend patet, meaning 'repentance'. The Zoroastrian tenets are based on the three ideals of good thoughts, good words and good deeds. Anything that is out of accord with this is considered a sin.

Parsis wear their kusti or sacred vest. The men wear their traditional dress called dagli and the women dress up in their traditional and heirloom gara sarees. In the agiary a puja (jashan) is performed and sandalwood is offered to the fire. As in most festivals, cleaning the house is an important activity of this day as well. The chowk chandan, which is rangoli stamped out of tin moulds, decorates the steps and threshold of the house. A garland on the doorway welcomes guests. A tilak is placed on the foreheads of children, new clothes are worn and elaborate menus organised. Jashan or thanksgiving prayers are offered in fire temples and t he day is spent in meeting family and friends and exchanging the traditional greeting Sal Mubarak. Six days later, Khordad Sal is celebrated as the birthday of Prophet Zoroaster. Parsis offer worship at fire temples and make a feast of Parsi specialities like Chicken Farcha and Sas ni Machchi.

Indian Festivals Calender 2007

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