Balumain the Festival-Bringer

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.