Marking the first Days of Winter solistice 2022 among Kalash tribe PAKIS...

Winter solistice Kalash 2022.

CHOMAS Kalash Festival 2022.

Snow Fall In Breda Park This Morning 17 12 2022.

FRESH SNOW OF THE SEASON IN BREDA,17th of December 2022.

Winter Solictice Kalash Chaumas,12 12 2022.

Land Of The Master's Tribute,,(breda Nederland),.

Ghoona Chaumus Yaad Kalash Tribe Pakistan 11.12.2022.

Kalash Solictice,TWO,

Marsia Bibi Kalash Filmed By Ekbal Kalash

Ghoona Chau Mus Yaad, By Ekbal Kalash

Help Preserve Kalash Tribe Pakistan,

Start A day with Fog,and Feed The Pigeons with a Raven announcing Food a...

Seasons Greetings from a super market,.

help preserve kalash be declared a -UN-protected site, an art activity...

House sparrows,20 11 22..

Rose Petels Between the Pages, of my Book a Poem

Autumn Rose in Slow Motion,(NO SOUND)

House spartrows feeding Behind the Glass,,in the front Garden,

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Autumn Flight before Winter sets INN,

Deleted films of IPL USA, SADLY*

Seasons Greetings for 2022..

Seasons Greetings,

Flight of Starlings in My Back Garden,

First Day Of Autumn and Fog Breda Nederland, Feeding Pigeons,

Help Preserve Kalash be declared a Un Protected Site, an Art activity ...

Autumn Brings Memories Of Friends that passed away

Floods In Pakistan Documenting a Painting,

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75 years of PAKISTAN, 1947 to 2020.

 https://kalash546.wordpress.com/2022/07/20/75-years-of-pakistan-1947-2022/

Roses in Slow Motion Front Door,

help preserve kalash be declared a un protected site, an art activity ...

BE CAREFUL stay Hydrated, LOOK AT THE BEES and Bumble Bees,

Opening Gallery Drift ,(a Re Run).

Exhibition Gallery Drift PART TWO,

Time for white Gladiolas...they are here.....Few hours old Just Opened,

The Humble Bumble Bee In Slow Motion.

First Butterfly In Front Garden On the Buddleja Davidii....Plant,

Feeding Pigeons in the Local Park Each Morning, for the last 30 Long Years,

In Memory Of Our Family Aunt sister of My Father, in Delhi,

Voice of The Kalash Tribe in Chitral Pakistan lets speak the truth,

Poppies In Slow Motion,

Bee Activity In My Garden,.

Feeding Pigeons In Breda North Nederland,

Shaukat Khanum, Cancer Hospital Gathering in Rotterdam Nederland,

Shalak Shah the Kalash King.

Spring Festival Kalash May 2022,,,By Adil,

Feeding Pigeons in Slow Motion,

Feeding Pigeons as Rain is expected Soon Today,

Second Summer Rose in My Front Garden,,,

Feeding Pigeons In Slow Motion,

Marsia Bibi Kalash Six Years Ago, i am supporting her since 2008.

Tulips on Its Last Journey among Spring Season,2022.

Dutch Defense Day 76 Years,

Kalash Paintings Chinese Calligraphy

To Thank all Friends With B/Day Wishes, TULIPS from Nederland,

Just a Field Of Tulips,

Tulips One word. Lets Do It,

Tulips Make My Day,

Giving Free Gifts To Kalash school,

Truth To A Mirror,

Early Morning Sounds of The Birds,

Storks in Our Park Next Door,

A Day In snow Breda Holland, First snow after a Long Wait,

Snow fall in a Message Ist Of April 01 04 22

BLACK Bird in My Front Garden,

Songs Of House sparrows Chirping Singing Announcing while Having Food,

Hang Drum In Pakistan For the First Time,

House Sparrow Sounds 26 03 22

Aik Hoon Muslim Haram Ki Pasbani Ke Liye

 

Rahmat Wali Kalash Made a flute,hi greetings from Us to you, Hope that You are well, 🧚‍♀️🧜‍♀️🕊🦚🦢🐉💐🌷🌹🥀🌺🌸🌼🌻🌞

Recent Works of Rahmat Wali The Wood Carver, from Kalash,

Snow Fall In Kalash Bamboorate Valley Filmed By Ekbal Kalash.

Snow Fall In Kalash 06 03 22.

Kalash Religion By Microsoft Word,

 https://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/KalashaReligion.pdf

Grand Mother 100 Years Old Of Rehmat Wali Kalash,

Snow in Breda One Year ago,

The horse was not known to them and the inhabitants were surprised 'at some feats' performed by the Mufti's horse. The people were 'masters of beauty and wore a dress made of goat's skin and let their hair hang down the shoulders. They drank wine and always sat on chairs.

They worshipped idols made of stone or wood and called them Baruk or Maha Dev. They wore iron rings in their ears and a string ornamented with shells round their necks.
They sacrificed cows on their holidays and when asked where God is, they pointed their fingers towards the west (Mecca is towards the west). They read the 'Kalimah' to please Muslims but also confessed that they were Kafirs.

Wood work Of Rahmat Sher Wali,Kalash Pakistan.

3 years ago was snow In Breda Nederland,

Kalash Education

NURISTAN OLD Kalash areas,

 

Mbugi Ansari added 3 new photos to the album: Bactria-ASIA . by Mbugi Ansari — in Afghanistan.

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Nuristan, also spelled Nurestan or Nooristan, (Nuristani/Pashto: نورستان) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It is divided into seven districts and has a population of about 140,900.[1] Parun serves as the provincial capital.

It was formerly known as Kafiristan (کافرستان, "land of the infidels") until the inhabitants were converted from a form of ancient Hinduism,[2] to Islam in 1895, and thence the region has become known as Nuristan ("land of illumination").[3]

The primary occupations are agriculture, animal husbandry, and day labor. Located on the southern slopes of the Hindu Kush mountains in the northeastern part of the country, Nuristan spans the basins of the Alingar, Pech, Landai Sin, and Kunar rivers. Nuristan is bordered on the south by Laghman and Kunar provinces, on the north by Badakhshan province, on the west by Panjshir province, and on the east by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Further information: History of Afghanistan

--------------------Early history----------------------

The surrounding area fell to Alexander the Great in 330 B.C. It later fell to Chandragupta Maurya. The Mauryas introduced Buddhism to the region, and were attempting to expand their empire to Central Asia until they faced local Greco-Bactrian forces. Seleucus is said to have reached a peace treaty with Chandragupta by giving control of the territory south of the Hindu Kush to the Mauryas upon intermarriage and 500 elephants.

Alexander took these away from the Indo-Aryans and established settlements of his own, but Seleucus Nicator gave them to Sandrocottus (Chandragupta), upon terms of intermarriage and of receiving in exchange 500 elephants.'[4]

— Strabo, 64 BCE–24 CE

Some time after, as he was going to war with the generals of Alexander, a wild elephant of great bulk presented itself before him of its own accord, and, as if tamed down to gentleness, took him on its back, and became his guide in the war, and conspicuous in fields of battle. Sandrocottus, having thus acquired a throne, was in possession of India, when Seleucus was laying the foundations of his future greatness; who, after making a league with him, and settling his affairs in the east, proceeded to join in the war against Antigonus. As soon as the forces, therefore, of all the confederates were united, a battle was fought, in which Antigonus was slain, and his son Demetrius put to flight.[5]

— Junianus Justinus

Having consolidated power in the northwest, Chandragupta pushed east towards the Nanda Empire. Afghanistan's significant ancient tangible and intangible Buddhist heritage is recorded through wide-ranging archeological finds, including religious and artistic remnants. Buddhist doctrines are reported to have reached as far as Balkh even during the life of the Buddha (563 BCE to 483 BCE), as recorded by Xuanzang.

In this context a legend recorded by Xuanzang refers to the first two lay disciples of Buddha, Trapusa and Bhallika responsible for introducing Buddhism in that country. Originally these two were merchants of the kingdom of Balhika, as the name Bhalluka or Bhallika probably suggests the association of one with that country. They had gone to India for trade and had happened to be at Bodhgaya when the Buddha had just attained enlightenment.[6]

The region was historically known as Kafiristan (meaning "Land of the kafirs") because of its inhabitants: the Nuristani, an ethnically distinctive people who practiced a local polytheistic religion.[7] It was conquered by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan in the late 19th century and the Nuristani people began converting to Islam.

The Kafirs are thought to be the original inhabitants of the plains country of Afghanistan in what is now Nuristan. They were driven back into the mountain areas by the arrival of Islam in the country about 700AD. They are thought to be the descendents of the old native population that used to occupy the region, and they did not convert to Islam with the rest of the population, remaining pagan for several more centuries.[8]

— Frank Clements, 2003

British missionaries wrote:

The Kafirs were largely independent until the late nineteenth century, when the region was attacked by the forces of Abdur Rahman and the population was more forcibly converted to Islam.[8]

The region was renamed Nuristan, meaning Land of the enlightened, a reflection of the "enlightening" of the pagan Nuristani by the "light-giving" of Islam.

Nuristan was once thought to have been a region through which Alexander the Great passed with a detachment of his army; thus the folk legend that the Nuristani people are descendants of Alexander (or "his generals").

Abdul Wakil Khan Nuristani is one of the most prominent figures in Nuristan's history. He fought against the British-led Punjabi army and drove them out of the eastern provinces of Afghanistan. He is buried on the same plateau where King Amanullah Khan is buried...

After Joining few Friends from Nooristan here is what I found Great wood works of Nooristan- — in Afghanistan.---------------------------

Rescued and Patched, Afghan Art Back on View

By CARLOTTA GALLDEC. 28, 2004

KABUL, Afghanistan - The newly repaired National Museum of Afghanistan opened its first exhibition in 13 years this month, a display of life-size pre-Islamic idols smashed by the Taliban three years ago and now painstakingly restored by a museum and international experts.

The wooden statues from Nuristan, one of Afghanistan's mountainous northeastern provinces, are an apt subject for an inaugural exhibition. Museum staff had worked hard to hide the collection from looters and Islamic fundamentalists intent on destroying all idols and artistic depictions of the human form. The figures, from what was formerly known as Kafiristan, or Land of the Heathens, are ancestor effigies and animistic and polytheistic gods, representing beliefs and traditions that were practised there little more than 100 years ago.

"This is part of our culture and we should preserve it," said Fauzia Hamraz, director of the ethnographic collection, who helped piece the statues back together. "Our country is an Islamic country, but displaying these things will not destroy our religion."

The statues, as well as carved doors, pillars and furniture, date from the 18th and 19th centuries. The figures were brought to Kabul by the army of Emir Abdur Rahman, a ruler of Afghanistan who forcibly Islamized Kafiristan in 1896 and renamed it Nuristan, or Land of Light.

The 14 statues that remain stand like silent sentries, with primitive flat faces, large turbans and headdresses, skirts and gaiters, similar to the clothes still worn in Nuristan. Many are warriors, one astride a horse, one armed with an axe and a dagger. Another sits on a throne.

They come from different tribes in Nuristan's high valleys. In addition to the ancestor effigies, others represent the pantheon of gods once worshipped by the local people, said Prof. Max Klimburg, director of the Afghan-Austrian Society and a longtime expert on the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush mountain range. One with a moon face, thought to be Disanri, the goddess of goat fertility, sits astride a mountain goat and rests her face between its horns.

There are also elaborate carved wooden bedposts that depict embracing, seated couples with legs entwined. Remarkably, they escaped the attention of the ax-wielding Taliban.

The statues were packed away in the early 1990's as the country threatened to dissolve into civil war after the withdrawal of the occupying Soviet army. Some were stored in the Ministry of Culture, some in the Kabul Hotel and some in the museum itself, on the western side of Kabul, which came under heavy rocket fire in 1993.

Some pieces looted then are still missing, said Professor Klimburg, who donated a number of his own discoveries from Nuristan to the museum in the 1970's. A large male bust he found in 1971 and temple posts with deity figures acquired by a Kabul museum expedition in 1976 are missing, he said. One figure, an effigy from the Kafirs of the Kalash valley in Chitral, in neighbouring Pakistan, was found cut in half at the waist by smugglers who were trying to export it. It was seized by customs at the Kabul airport. In April 2001, as extremists gained the upper hand in the Taliban government and blew up the giant Buddha statues at Bamiyan, armed men turned on the museum collection. The staff managed to hide the most valuable pieces in old crates, but the larger ones, including the figures from Nuristan and many Buddhist and Kushan statues, were smashed. The wooden figures were splintered with an axe into as many as 20 pieces.

It took more than a month of intense work by staff and a visiting Austrian-Italian wood restorer financed by the Austrian government to reconstruct the figures. Even the tiniest slivers of wood were salvaged and, where appropriate, a mixture of paint, chalk and glue was used to fill in gaps. The cracks are barely visible now, and the figures look as they did when last on display 13 years ago.

School children and youth groups have been among the early visitors to the exhibition. "They ask many questions," Ms. Hamraz said, smiling. "They ask why the Taliban didn't destroy all the broken pieces."

But that question still haunts her and the staff just three years after the Taliban was removed and peacekeepers of the International Security Assistance Force, known as I.S.A.F., arrived in Kabul.

"As long as I.S.A.F. are here," Ms. Hamraz said, "I don't think anything will happen. But if they leave, we could have insecurity again and maybe those who did these things would come back again.".Old Kalash Sculptures — in Kabul Museum,, Afghanistan.

Houses,Picture from OLD kalash (kasivoh) Waigal Afghanistan..

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Music From Nuristan Horse Riders,

Feeding Pigeons in the Park nearby, 5th January 2022,,

Grand Son Of Azar Khalil .

Migration of Birds,Ist January 2022,

Wood works Of Rehmat Wali Kalash,