Tranian New Year:
An Astronomical Date To the Eaitor of the formiCuisa Day News" sin-—Your correspondent, Mancaner ariwarm, in her Jeter appearing in ihe June i Issue of your most valued Anficle which was published in' your per, "has made. feterence 10.
columns on March" 22, 1090, appears your correspondent. under the impression that have Sugaested a diferent. day' for the iranian New Year, with a different selling of its name, which she found io"be' at variance with that accepted ud adopted by the American Behals for thelt Bahat festivities.
1. therefore, hasten to explain to yotir correspondent. that T have' not Niugested, but slated the fact as for fs'tho. Iranian New Year is con cerned.
The Iranian New Year has nothing to do with March 21 or 22 of the Gregorian entendar of any other Calendar, but fs a solar phenomenon, beginning exactly at. the moment wien the sun oh Ils course. from South fo North reaches the. cts fstronomieat term. ts called the story which phenomenon in the As for the time and date of thi phenomenon on the face of the eat Pinay point out that due to the earth's revolution on Its axis round the sun West t0 cash ak @ speed of about Ii'miles per second, the time of the cauinoe varies in every" locality recording 10 Its geographic position. in most cases this phenomenon of the crinal equinox eoineldes with March Brot the 'Gregorian, Calendar, but Some. years It coincides with Merch 22, as Int did this year. "The reason for "mis 'Variation' is a technica aatronomicn! question, and 1, there> fore, retrain from details.
As {or the spelling of Nov-Roo (ihe "new day," the. name ofthe Iranian New ear doy), for the Me formation of your correspondent, Tanian language Is a branch of the widely. spread Aryan languages of Wwhiel English fs aAather branch, and Wis therefore, a. philological issue most languages of Aryan. origin, the word "Nov" means "New." that te'to aay, the Iranian "Nov" and the English' "Now" avo. identical words Of the same origin, with only a Sight Ainerence In. pronunciation. have polled the word "Nov" instead. of 'Naw as spelled by your correspon dent so as to get n sound nearest the iranian pronunciation, and in spelling the Iranian word" "Roos" (day) Instead of "Rue" of spelled by: your correspondent, 1 had' the same flea {n'imind as explained above. "At the same time Tmay say that the Amneti= fan spelling" of the. word as. "Ttuz must have originally been introduced {o'Ameriea with the French spelling and pronunciation, because the French "U" Ix nearer the English sound "00", but the English hag entirely different a sound as com= pared (0 the. Iranian pronunciation Of the word "Rooz".
As regards your correspondent's contention that 1 may also be a Bahai and a follower of this new. Inter hationat Religion and Brotherhood, 1 may state that man and his faith' is something very holy and is a matter between him and his Creator, the Great Corse behind the Universe. However, I have studied Bahai teachings very" deeply as 1 have studied all other religions, ancient and modern, and, therefore,' T may say thatthe "Bahai teachings have "as much right fo command the attention mankind as another spiritual teachings of modern religions.
As for the second temple built by the American Bahais in Chicago, as referred to by your correspondent, may The permitted to say that all religions are deeply connected nbolism, therefore, I hope individual will {similar temple in his or her heart because the heart is: the throne and temple of Tave, and love Is. god Shanghai, June 3,
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