Festivals
Iranians created many feasts and celebrations to pay homage to many deities and they are mostly farming festivals.
Iranians divide the Iranian year into two equal parts or seasons. The first season was summer or ‘Hama’ and the second was winter or ‘Zayana’. The coming of the two seasons would be celebrated through Norooz and Mehregan. The later is the festival dedicated to Mehr Izad. It is celebrated on the 16th of the seventh month (Mehr) at the time of the harvest festivals and beginning of the winter. It has been the second most elaborate celebration after Norooz.
Mehr has been Mithra in Avesta and Mitrah in Phahlavi. It‘ Payman e Dousti’ (contract of friendship). In modern Persian it means love and kindness.