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Parwanaya (Panja)

A five-day festival of Mandaeans before the new year, kept with baptisms and prayers for the dead. The priesthood sets the date each year.

Heritage · day to keep · variable · religious

A five-day festival of Mandaeans before the new year, kept with baptisms and prayers for the dead. The priesthood sets the date each year.

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Parwanaya (Panja) · variable · Set each year by the priesthood

Kept byMandaean communities
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Parwanaya (Panja)

Kind
religious
Calendar
variable
Date
Set each year by the priesthood
Set each year by the priesthood
secondary
Dates given by the calendar that fixes them; movable days move with it.

The year

21 fixed-date days · this one in red
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Parwanaya (Panja) moves with its calendar (variable), so it has no fixed place on this strip.

Fixed-date days on the strip; movable days are listed by their own calendar.

Other days in the variable calendar

6
eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz
Chaharshanbe Surifestival
Open
Set each year (October or November)
Birth of the Bábreligious
Open
Set each year (October or November)
Birth of Bahá’u’lláhreligious
Open
Set each year by the priesthood
Dehwa Rabba (Mandaean new year)religious
Open
Set each year by the priesthood
Dehwa Haninareligious
Open
Set by the community (winter); the calendars differ
Zartosht no-Disoreligious
Open
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