Amordadgan · Jashn-e Amordadgan

Culture of origin: Zoroastrian · Ancient festival

Holiday sources: Iran · Zoroastrianism

Amordadgan is the name-day feast of Ameretat (Amordad), the Amesha Spenta of immortality, of long life on earth and endurance in the hereafter, and guardian of plants. It falls where the seventh day and the fifth month, both named for her, meet. In the Bundahishn's story of creation, when Ahriman withered the first plant, Ameretat crushed it and mixed it with water, and Tishtrya spread that water as rain, making countless plants grow.