SADEH FACTS
What natural element is celebrated during Sadeh?
What is fire?
This sitcom featured the characters Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe.
What is Friends?
The holy text of Zoroastrianism is known by this name.
What is the Avesta?
This ocean is the largest on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Who said: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
Sadeh is traditionally celebrated this many days before Nowruz.
What is 50 days?
This singer was known as the “King of Pop.”
Who is Michael Jackson?
This Avestan term refers to the six divine emanations that represent aspects of Ahura Mazda.
What are the Amesha Spentas?
This type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
What movie is this quote from: "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
The Godfather
During Sadeh, large bonfires are lit to symbolize the triumph of this over darkness and cold.
What is light and warmth?
What 1994 Disney film features the song “Circle of Life”?
What is The Lion King?
The oldest portion of the Avesta, believed to be composed by Zoroaster himself, is known by this name.
What are the Gathas?
Discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, this was the world’s first true antibiotic.
What is penicillin?
Who said: “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
Who is John F. Kennedy
Sadeh is sometimes connected to the legendary king Jamshid, who is said to have discovered fire after this natural phenomenon.
What is a rock spark?
This actor starred as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997).
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
The downward pointing elements of the Faravahar represent humanity being weighed down by this opposing moral triad.
What are bad thoughts, bad words, and bad deeds?
These tiny structures within cells are responsible for energy production and have their own DNA separate from the nucleus.
What are mitochondria?
Who said: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
In Zoroastrian tradition, Sadeh honors the discovery of fire, which represents wisdom, community, and this core moral concept.
What is truth, or Asha?
This rock band released the album Rumours in 1977.
Who is Fleetwood Mac?
The raised hand of the Faravahar is commonly interpreted as a gesture of praise toward Ahura Mazda and this abstract principle.
What is Asha (truth and order)?
This city, once called Byzantium, was renamed after Emperor Constantine in 330 AD.
What is Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul)?
What movie is this quote from: “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
What is Dead Poets Society?