{"id":158488,"date":"2025-07-05T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=158488"},"modified":"2025-07-05T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:22:34","slug":"celebrating-the-ancient-gahambar-festival-at-the-zoroastrian-association-of-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=158488","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Ancient Gahambar Festival at the Zoroastrian Association of Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Zoroastrian Association of Washington State recently held the Gahambar Maidh-yo-shema ceremony with participation from community members.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event took place on the evening of Saturday, June 28, 2025 (7 Tir 1404 in the Persian calendar) at the association\u2019s center.<\/p>\n<p>The Maidh-yo-shema Gahambar occurs between Khur day and Day Be Mehr day in the month of Tir according to the Zoroastrian calendar, corresponding to July 29 to August 2 (8 to 12 Tir) in the Persian calendar. In Avestan, \u201cMaidh-yo\u201d means \u201cmiddle\u201d and \u201cshema\u201d means \u201csummer.\u201d This Gahambar is held in the middle of the seven-month-long great summer and marks the creation of water according to Zoroastrian tradition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-158489 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-36-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-36-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1-36.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-158490 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-13-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"538\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-158491 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4-11-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4-11-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4-11.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zoroastrian Association of Washington State recently held the Gahambar Maidh-yo-shema ceremony with participation from community members. The event took place on the evening of Saturday, June 28, 2025 (7 Tir 1404 in the Persian calendar) at the association\u2019s center. The Maidh-yo-shema Gahambar occurs between Khur day and Day Be Mehr day in the month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":158490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1082,1081],"class_list":["post-158488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians","tag-gahambar","tag-washington-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}