The year celebrates 6 holidays called Gaahanbaar, each lasting 5 days.
The word Gahanbar can be translated as «storage time, saving», for example, fruits or cereals (Gaah — time, Anbaar — storage, saving).
Gahanbar, dedicated to Atar — Heavenly Fire —, is celebrated on December 4, when the Sun is at 13 degrees Sagittarius.
Atar — Divine light, Heavenly Fire — resides in all phenomena and is associated, first of all, with the creation of all things. Fire — is the only desecrated of the sacred elements. He burns any evil. The transforming, destroying and resurrecting fire has always been revered by the Zoroastrians. Therefore, the holiday presupposes the triumph of all creative people, the expression of spiritual unity.
At sunset, everything unnecessary is burned. House altars are arranged. They tell fortunes from sacred books. They bury symbolic keys and treasures for posterity.
They heat the stoves and light 16 lights — according to the number of good lands.