The traditional Sadeh competition, rooted within the Zoroastrian period, was celebrated on Thursday night within the Iranian metropolis of Sheshtamad, a cultural hub within the northeastern Razavi Khorasan province.
Mohammad Hossein Davtalab, a cultural heritage skilled and the competition organizer, in an interview with IRNA information company, highlighted the competition’s wealthy historical past, courting again to historical Iran and Zoroastrian traditions.
The Sadeh celebration, honoring the deity Mithra, can also be noticed within the Zoroastrian communities of Yazd and Kerman provinces.
Davtalab defined that the principle occasion of the Sadeh competition includes lighting a hearth at night time. Contributors join steel wires with thread and kindling, making a fiery ball that’s thrown to represent hope and pleasure.
The traditional custom serves as a prelude to the bigger Nowruz, or Persian New Yr, celebrations in Sheshtamad. It’s celebrated 57 days earlier than Nowruz, with residents lighting fires on hilltops and reciting conventional poems.
Sheshtamad boasts quite a few historic and cultural landmarks, together with the mausoleum of the famend author and historian Abul-Hasan Beyhaqi and numerous sanctuaries.
The city’s temperate mountainous local weather and plush nature make it a pretty vacation spot for vacationers as nicely.
