Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Khuzestan
From: desert@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (Desert Man...)
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:30:20 MST
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In article <5371@rosie.NeXT.COM>, benf@next.com (Ben Fathi) writes:
> In article <1992Oct8.023140.1@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu>  
> desert@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (Desert Man...) writes:
>> Here are a few more... See if you can guess them...
>> 
>> 	o  Oolaa	o  A`cheh	o  Le-Vaa	o  Kanee-saa
>> 	o  Eelaa	o  Mooflangi	o  Harrysaa	o  Kelek
>> 	o  Mi		o  Dolabb	o  ShavAdoon	o  Reet
>> 	o  Shoomee	o  Sar Oo	o  Gajjdoom
> 
> shoomee = hendevAneh
> shavAdoon = zir zamin (see below)
> A`cheh = cherA
> 

Pretty accurate... Keep up the good job...! :)

> 
> Do you remember having to go to the shavAdoon in the middle of the day
> because the grown ups wanted to have a siesta after lunch, and how dark
> and cool it was down there, and how you couldn't fall asleep no matter
> what you did, and how the grown ups finally got fed up with all the kids
> making noises and said you could go upstairs and play in the yard, and
> how it felt like your brain was melting in the hot sun of the early
> afternoon, but you didn't care because all your friends and cousins
> were out there with you, and how it felt like the world was beautiful
> place? Do you remember the Karoun in Ahwaz? Do you remember the shady
> and beautiful side streets in Dezful? Do you remember spending all
> afternoon going from one movie theater to another, drinking Ab-havij?
> 

It feels like yesterday even though it has been a long time... What great
moments we all had to go thru to get to this stage in our lives... I'll never
forget those golden moments...

Dezful is a very ancient city and most of its building structures are still
centuries old!   Dezful has a very rich, moistured soil and is considered one
of the best fruit producing lands in Iran...  During the Shah, most of its 
portoghal (orange) crops were sent to Israel!!!  Kesht-o-San a`teh iran-o-
Am`rica took care of that...  Due to its soil wetness, centuries ago, the ppl
designed these shavAdoons (zir zamins)...  These shavAdoons were basically the
layers of the upper surface of the earth but digged a little deep... So there
were no bricks, cement or what have you ever used in the structure... The rocks
were cooled to almost freezing level by the wetness of the soil... You just have
to visit and experience the simplicity and amazing coolness of it yourself...

These ShavAdoons were later connected to each other underground for troops 
movements and etc since Dezful was constantly under attack and siege...  Now-
adays, each neighboring house places a bar style fence between themselves to 
have some privacy and etc... 

I have traveled around Iran quite a bit and THERE IS an OCEAN of knowledge,
richness, and sites that should be told by each of you from whatever city you
are from (of course other than Tehran!!! Sorry Tehrani friends... :)  

I am sure there are LOTS of you that perhaps never have had the opportunity to
travel around our beloved country and realize that we have got of the BEST 
nations in the world... And perhaps you should share the uniqueness of wherever
you come from so that we each of you gets the opportunity to travel across Iran
would look forward to it...

> PS: Is it time for soc.culture.iranian.kuzestani yet? :-)

If you knew how MUCH kuzestanies and the rest of Iran have *sacrificed* to stick
with what they believed and be part of Iran as a whole, the thought of going
independed would never accure!!!  Okay Okay!  I know you meant well!  I'm just
giving you a bit of a hard time... You can tell! Can't you...?  *smile*

Wish you well...

Ali...
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