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20 min
Published 2015
The Persian winter solstice festival is on the longest night of the year, December 21 or 22, and is called shab-e yalda, which means birthday eve of the sun. The ceremony can be traced back to the primal concept of Light and Good against Darkness and Evil in ancient Iran. From this night, when evil is at its zenith, light begins to triumph as days grow longer and give more light. In the autumn, during the grape harvest, the people of the grape-growing regions of Iran, such as the Azerbaijan