Foregrounded demigod culture-hero. Chaumos is the great Kalash midwinter festival; Tsiyam (tsíam) the ancestral homeland. The 'budulak' shepherd-boy figure of Chaumos is connected to his cult.
Domains
festival and rite
fertility and fortune
Powers
teaches the people how to keep the Chaumos festival
returns each year from the homeland Tsiyam like Indra reborn
Epithets
Balumain
Sources
Witzel, M. (2004). Kalash Religion. Groningen: Forsten.
Jettmar, K. (1986). The Religions of the Hindukush, vol. 1: The Religion of the Kafirs. Aris & Phillips.