Kalash Festival is the world unique Festivals to celebrate every year
Kalash valley is situated in the Chitral district of
Pakistan. This valley has a historic background. Kalash is a Greek
civilization and the people have their own religion and culture. The people
here live in small villages which are built on the hillsides. These villages
are at the banks of the streams and rivers.
Kalash Festival is one of the most unique for many
in Pakistan and other countries on the earth. Kalasha people celebrate many festivals around the year. There are three main Festivals to celebrate every year. 1st Chilam Joshi
(spring festival) 2nd Choimus (winter festival) 3rd Uchal
(summer festival).
Kalash Festival 1st Chilam Joshi (Spring)
Chilam Joshi Festival
is one of the most vital and important Kalash festivals.
The Kalash people celebrate this
festival Four days in Pakistan Chitral
District across all three Kalash valleys 1st Rumbur 2nd Bumburet 3rd
Birir. A large number of People domestic
and foreign tourists attend the Chilam Joshi festival every year.
Chilam Joshi begins with “Milk day”. Ten days prior to celebrated
the festival, The Kalasha people store milk from their households. On the day
of the festival, the Kalash people offer
their libation. The Kalash festival reflects their unique cultural richness,
the harmony in their society, and the message of peace to the globe. They ask for
blessing from God and pray for a prosperous year of agriculture the health
and safety of their herds.
The main objective and aim behind the Kalash festival of Chilam Joshi are
that Kalasha men and women can find themselves a spouse to get married. The
women wear the world's unique traditional attire with lively colors and hair
dresses have patterns of flowers on them. They wear beaded necklaces that
complement their dresses and headgears.
Men wear traditional Shalwar Kameez with a waistcoat made of
wool. They dance together and sing in a circle on drum beats. Every year celebrate
this festival brings a smile to the bachelors and spinsters of Kalash Valley
tribes as it gives them an opportunity to choose their life partners and
announce their names on the last day of the festival.
Kalash Festivals Uchal Summer
Uchal is a summer festival of Kalash people. Kalasha
people during this festival every
year pay homage to God by celebrating the harvest and also thanking their God
for blessing them with good food and crops. Corn and cheese are prepared to
celebrate the Unchal summer festival.
People of Kalash take a procession to a high plateau which
is located different village in
Balangkuru and they pray to God and this is where the long night of dancing
begins. This Kalash festival is moved to different locations of the valleys and
it continues for several days.
Kalash Festival Choimus
Winter
Choimus festival begins on the winter solstice and holds
great importance among the Kalasha people. Choimus is a winter celebrated Kalash people this festival. The
annually observed event symbolizes and forecasts the prosperity of the village and
its people in the coming year. The locals perform rituals for purification
during the festival at the dawn of the new year.
Large numbers of people go out to seek foxes which are a
good omen to sight at this time. the people of Kalash arrive from nearby
villages at the main traditional dancing place and this place called a
“Charsue”. The Kalash people are held indoor winter festivities and dancing
that go late into the night as the local wine is handed around the bonfire.
The people gather at hilltops to watch the rising sun of the new year that is followed by goat sacrifices made to the Goddess, “Jastak”, and
the blood is sprinkled at the temple Jastar khan.
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