12 Facts About Zoroastrian calendar

Fasli is a term for a 1906 adaptation of the 11th century Jalali Zoroastrian calendar following a proposal by Kharshedji Rustomji Cama made in the 1860s.

Babylonian Zoroastrian calendar was used in the Achaemenid Empire by the 4th century BCE for civil purposes.

The earliest Zoroastrian calendar follows the Babylonian in relating the seventh and other days of the month to Ahura Mazda.

At this point the Zoroastrian calendar was realigned with the seasons by delaying the epagemonai by eight months and adjusting the dates of the gahanbar accordingly.

The major feasts, or gahambars, of contemporary Zoroastrian calendar practice, are still kept as five-day observances today.

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The Zoroastrian calendar had continued to slip against the Julian Zoroastrian calendar since the previous reform at the rate of one day every four years.

In Iran the Fasli calendar gained momentum following a campaign in 1930 to persuade the Iranian Zoroastrians to adopt it, under the title of the Bastani calendar.

Sources cited above state that the Fasli Zoroastrian calendar both follows the Gregorian and was such that New Year's Day coincided with vernal equinox.

Three different Zoroastrian calendar-traditions are similar with regard to the principle of the beginning of the months.

Fasli Zoroastrian calendar has become very popular outside India, especially in the West, but many Parsis believe that adding a leap day is against the rules, and they mostly continue to use the Shahanshahi Zoroastrian calendar.

Months and the days of the month in the Zoroastrian calendar are dedicated to, and named after, a divinity or divine concept.

Zoroastrian calendar is followed by those closest to him, Sraosa and Rasnu, likewise judges of the soul; the representatives of which, the Fravashi, come next.