Haft Sin هفت سین [modified]
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That's very interesting, Mohammad. Does sin have a direct translation to English? I'm sure it doesn't have any relation to the meaning in English. Happy New Year to you, as well! :-D Personally, I'd love to start the New Year with seven sins surrounding me, but I've never managed to talk more than one or two into coming home with me New Years Eve. :sigh:
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I'm not Iranian but I think the reference is to the shared letter (between Arabic and Iranian) which is pronounced "Seen" which is latinized as the letter "s" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%ABn#Arabic_s.C4.ABn[^] (look at the Arabic Seen/sin)
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Hamed Mosavi wrote:
The interesting part for me is that people thousands years ago in Iran believed earth has a circular shape. OMG
A circular disk, or a spherical shape?
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:doh: You're right. My bad English. Sorry. Just updated my post. Thanks.
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Rage wrote:
I had never heard of this tradition.
There are a lot of old fables behind them mostly returning back to thousands of years ago. One of them I know is that a cow holds earth on one of her two horns. When year changes she put earth on the other horn because she is tired! :wtf: The apple in water, if I'm not wrong, is a symbol of earth. The interesting part for me is that people thousands years ago in Iran believed earth has a circular spherical shape. :omg:
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Hamed Mosavi wrote:
The interesting part for me is that people thousands years ago in Iran believed earth has a spherical shape.
All you need to know to figure that out is that the length of shadows at noon increase as you go north. Going one step farther, using geometry the Greeks calculated the size of the Earth or within a few percent of the correct value. I wouldn't be surprised if other people did the same independently.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Hi there and happy new year. There is an ancient custom in Iran named Haft Sin. We (Iranian) make a table with seven stuffs that begin with سین(pronounced
Sin) :) in beginning of each year. You can see some of them : http://tinypic.info/files/89wda6nks1elmuirxeei.jpg[^] http://www.hanifworld.com/Norouz85/Traditional%20haft%20seen.jpg[^] http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/5388389.jpg[^] http://shindokht.com/blog/photos/sh0012.jpg[^] http://weblog.alvanweb.com/img/norouz_sofreh.gif[^] http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87:Haft_Seen.jpg[^] :rose:modified on Friday, March 20, 2009 12:41 PM
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Hamed Mosavi wrote:
The interesting part for me is that people thousands years ago in Iran believed earth has a spherical shape.
All you need to know to figure that out is that the length of shadows at noon increase as you go north. Going one step farther, using geometry the Greeks calculated the size of the Earth or within a few percent of the correct value. I wouldn't be surprised if other people did the same independently.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
But thousands years ago they believed at something that Galileo had been arrested for saying that a few hundred years ago. That's strange and interesting. [edit] Or maybe I'm wrong. I just recall this from a movie that I saw when I was very young[/edit]
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
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But thousands years ago they believed at something that Galileo had been arrested for saying that a few hundred years ago. That's strange and interesting. [edit] Or maybe I'm wrong. I just recall this from a movie that I saw when I was very young[/edit]
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
Galileo was placed under house arrest for publishing a book that supported the notion that the solar system was heliocentric.
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Galileo was placed under house arrest for publishing a book that supported the notion that the solar system was heliocentric.
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MidwestLimey wrote:
Galileo was placed under house arrest for publishing a book that supported the notion that the solar system was heliocentric.
So let me blame the movie that had misleading information in it first. Considering that they probably believed it's for kids so keep it simple, I must be blamed for not looking for more accurate information. Sorry because of that.
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
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Happy New Year Mohammad! We have something similar called the Vishukani[^] for the harvest festival in Kerala (where I come from). Cheers Smitha
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Smitha Vijayan wrote:
We have something similar called the Vishukani[^] for the harvest festival in Kerala (where I come from).
Great, It's like what we have. http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87:Haft_Seen.jpg[^]
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Thanks Vikram
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I'm not Iranian but I think the reference is to the shared letter (between Arabic and Iranian) which is pronounced "Seen" which is latinized as the letter "s" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%ABn#Arabic_s.C4.ABn[^] (look at the Arabic Seen/sin)
http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87:Haft_Seen.jpg[^] Happy new year Mustafa :rose:
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http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87:Haft_Seen.jpg[^] Happy new year Mustafa :rose:
And to you too Mohammed :)
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Galileo was placed under house arrest for publishing a book that supported the notion that the solar system was heliocentric.
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In specific his crime was creating a character named Simplico (sp - "stupid person") who argued geocentrism and lost while clearly being a caricature of the pope. Stripped of the fluff he crime was lèse majesté.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
