Goddess of Hearth and Lineage
Kalash · deity · perennial · Recorded classification
The prompt's 'Jestak the lineage goddess'. Her han is one of the few Kalash sanctuaries not barred to women.
Domains
- household and hearth
- marriage and birth
Powers
- presides over the lineage house and its rites of marriage and birth
Epithets
- Jestak The goddess of home, family, lineage, and birth, whose hall (Jestak-han) is the clan’s shrineKalasha ethnography of Chitral (Cacopardo; Parkes) (secondary)
Sources
- Jeshtak (jeṣṭak) is the Kalash goddess of domestic life, family, marriage and lineage; each clan keeps her wooden house-temple, the jeṣṭak-han, where weddings and birth/lineage rites are performed.: Witzel, M. (2004). Kalash Religion. Groningen: Forsten. (scholarship); Cacopardo, A.M. & Cacopardo, A.S. (2001). Gates of Peristan. Rome: IsIAO. (scholarship)