Tutelary and weather god. Kafir [Afghanistan].
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Immat
Demonic god. Kafir [Afghanistan]. A deity to whom sacrifices were addressed in the Ashkun villages of southwestern Kafiristan. Legend has it that Immat carries off twenty virgin daughters every year. A festival includes blood sacrifice and dances by twenty carefully selected young priestesses.
Gujo
Tutelary guardian deity. Kafir [Afghanistan]. A god of whom there is nothing other than a passing reference from among the extinct southern Hindukush tribe of Pachags. He may have been a local consort of the messenger goddess Zhiwu.
Gish
God of war. Kafir [Afghanistan]. Known chiefly among the Kati people in the southern Hindukush.
Dogumrik
Local guardian and warrior god. Kafir [Afghanistan]. Known from the village of Shtiwe in the southeastern Hindukush, Dogumrik is the herdsman to the daughters of the god IMRA and possibly a localized equivalent of the god MON.
Bagisht
God of flood waters and prosperity. Kafir [Afghanistan]. The son of the supreme goddess DISANI, conceived when she was raped from behind by an obscure demonic entity in the shape of a ram who violated her while she was milking cows by a lakeside. Bagisht is said to have been born in the current of the Prasun river whereupon the turbulent waters became smooth-flowing and parted to allow the infant to reach the bank. There seem to have been no elaborate sanctuaries but rather an abundance of simple shrines always placed close to water. The god was celebrated at the main festivals of the Kafir agricultural year and received sacrificial portions of meat. Also Opkulu.
Arom
Minor god of contractual agreements. Kafir [Afghanistan]. Arom appears to have been significant only to a tribe known as the Kam in the southern Hindukush. He was honored by sacrifice of a male goat on the occasion of a peace treaty, and had seven brothers.