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Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) * 1
    #14270469 - 04/11/11 01:57 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

http://www.cnngo.com/mumbai/life/kalasha-happiest-people-pakistan-261067


A 3,000 strong peace loving Pagan tribe in the Middle East?
Holy REAL Rainbow Tribe!

A 3,000 strong peace loving Pagan tribe in the Middle East?
Holy REAL Rainbow Tribe!




:heart:
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Gul Sayed, 25, sports a grin a mile wide as she hugs me, a lone foreigner in her home.

She is a member of the Kalasha, a peace-loving pagan tribe living in the remote villages
that lie between Northern Pakistan’s Chitral Valley and the Afghan border.

She’s dressed in a black robe embroidered with rainbow threads, a beaded headdress
adorned with cowrie shells and colorful necklaces.

Rumour has it the blue-eyed, fair-skinned Kalasha are the descendants of the armies of
Alexander the Great. But unlike their putative bellicose ancestors, the country’s smallest
minority group -- numbering around 3,000 -- prefers to make love, not war.

Proud of their warm, caring, crime-free culture, these could just be the happiest people
in Pakistan. 
We sing, gossip and sew. No chores
— Gul Sayed, member of Kalasha
Sexually free

Take the tribe’s approach to matters of the heart.

Loveless liaisons hold no appeal for the spirited Kalasha women: "We choose our
husbands, and if they don’t treat us well, or it doesn’t work out, we can leave and find a
new partner," says Gul, as her two friends, teenage mothers Farida and Asmar, nod and
blush.

Nothing to shout about if you're a Western woman, but under rural Pakistan's strict Islamic
code, it's a radical divergence from the norm.

Here in their rustic one-room homes in the valley of Rumbur, the ladies clutch calm,
cherubic infants, the progeny of such liberal unions.

They live in tune with nature, amidst fields filled with crops, walnut, apricot and mulberry
trees, and flanked by fast-flowing streams.

From the terrace of Gul’s house, a web of channels and aqueducts fans out to distribute
water to everyone in the village.

In the distance stands a mill, and further away a darkened temple, its wooden statues
and altar stained with the blood of goats that are occasionally sacrificed to honor the
Kalasha’s spirit ancestors.

Kalasha girl, Pakistan
The fair-skinned Kalasha are said to be descended from the armies of Alexander the Great.

Pastoral lives

As we nibble on grapes and apples laid out on a rug on the floor, Gul explains that she has
just returned from the seclusion of the Bashali, a house at the bottom of the village, where
the women are quarantined during menstruation or pregnancy.

You’d think being viewed as impure, as Kalasha women are during this time, and forbidden
to mingle with the menfolk, might dampen their spirits.

But no. It seems the Bashali is the perfect excuse for women to chill out. "We sing, gossip
and sew -- no chores," says Gul, smiling.

Up in higher pastures, a shepherd, who like most Kalasha men wears the Pakistani garb of
shalwar khameez, is tending his goats.

Managing livestock is the main occupation of the men. "My husband has six cows and three
hundred goats," says Asmar.

And from the rooftop of Gul's house, I can see what the women do when they’re not in
the Bashali, or gathering water, fruit, or firewood from the forests.

A couple of meters below, a girl is milling maize to make flatbread to be eaten with vegetable
and goat curry, honey and tangy goat’s cheese, or tea, for a Kalasha-style Continental
breakfast.

On a roof to the left, another violet-eyed beauty is bent over a sewing machine, her
eyebrows knit in concentration as she adds a rainbow-colored border to a dress.

By her side a wizened old woman sits with a loom between her legs, weaving black cloth
for the new clothes they will wear for the three-day Joshi Spring Festival.

Kalsah dancing
Dancing and festivals make up a bit part of the Kalasha lifestyle.

Parties through the year

The Kalasha love a knees-up. Joshi, held in May, is one of four major festivals celebrated by
the tribe. "We seek the blessings of our gods and goddesses for the safety of our herds and
crops," explains Gul.

At the break of dawn on the first day, children gather walnut branches and flowers to
decorate their homes, and the doorway of the temple.

As the sun rises, the villagers drink goat's milk and the men light a fire on the altar of the temple.
They make offerings of goat’s blood, wine and honey to their spirit ancestors.

Then the fun begins. Girls gather in groups, clasp each other’s shoulders and dance, stomp
and shuffle in circles. The men beat drums, play flutes and clap their hands to cheer them on.

Year round, the Kalasha dance their way through a stream of festivals and rituals, and
socially and culturally, theirs appears to be a joyful existence.

The only shadow on their rich, textured lives are the attitudes of some local Muslims towards
their beliefs.

"They  call us 'Kafirs,' unbelievers," says Gul, who like many of the Kalasha are fearful of their
Islamic compatriots who live outside the valleys.

Still, times are changing.

In years gone by the Kalasha were threatened with forcible conversion to Islam, now the tribe
receives government protection, improved health and education services, and -- bar an isolated
incident when a Greek volunteer was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2009 and later released -- are
largely untouched by the region’s political troubles.

Left to get on with living life to the brim, the Kalasha do just that, with compelling devotion.
~

:rainbowcloud:

Hearing this sort of thing makes me smile VERY big.

Hearing this sort of thing makes me smile VERY big.


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Men look at themselves and they see flawed humans, we look at women and we see perfect
GODDESSES
Women look at themselves and they seem utterly human, when looking at men they see proud
GODS.


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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: Todcasil]
    #14270493 - 04/11/11 02:16 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

it's good to know I can get pussy even in pakistan


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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: Cherk]
    #14270508 - 04/11/11 02:21 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Yeah, but you gotta be a generous lover brah.


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Men look at themselves and they see flawed humans, we look at women and we see perfect
GODDESSES
Women look at themselves and they seem utterly human, when looking at men they see proud
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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: Todcasil]
    #14270516 - 04/11/11 02:23 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

bitches love me and say I am a sweet heart

tonight the jazz singer at the bar put her arm around me and sang a song


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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: Cherk]
    #14270558 - 04/11/11 02:48 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Just doing her job?
Or outrageous come on?

You be the judge.

(protip: her job is to appear sexy,
but that don't mean she isn't into you)


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Men look at themselves and they see flawed humans, we look at women and we see perfect
GODDESSES
Women look at themselves and they seem utterly human, when looking at men they see proud
GODS.


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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: Todcasil]
    #14270560 - 04/11/11 02:48 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Good to see some pagans doing well

I dig it greatly


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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: propensity]
    #14270585 - 04/11/11 03:01 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I know right?

It's like... It can be done right, see?
Paganism is a beautiful path.

:pagan:


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Men look at themselves and they see flawed humans, we look at women and we see perfect
GODDESSES
Women look at themselves and they seem utterly human, when looking at men they see proud
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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: Todcasil]
    #14270590 - 04/11/11 03:03 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

8)

I've always been quite an animistic guy

The worlds a very strange and mysterious place, I believe it's much more alive than we give it credit for


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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: propensity]
    #14270626 - 04/11/11 03:32 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

....the women of Kalash — who legend says are part-fairy and part-human because of their ethereal beauty. Local people say the Kalash woman can make a man lose his religion. As the story goes, when a Kalash woman drinks water, you can see it streaming down her throat. Yet they are considered impure in their own community; they are also called "whiter than the white"....






Beautiful people....



















beautiful land....















And beautiful plants....














:bliss:


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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: openmind]
    #14270637 - 04/11/11 03:37 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I am an anamist myself, since I was a young boy :peace:

:pagan:

And those woman are gorgeous!  Such eyes.


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Men look at themselves and they see flawed humans, we look at women and we see perfect
GODDESSES
Women look at themselves and they seem utterly human, when looking at men they see proud
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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: Todcasil]
    #14271180 - 04/11/11 08:44 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Nice, just a little correction though. Pakistan is not in the middle-east, it's in south asia.


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Re: Happiest People in Pakistan (Pagan Tribe in Middle East) [Re: Todcasil]
    #14271246 - 04/11/11 09:10 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

interesting read. highly idealized, no doubt, but interesting none the less. there is this great documentary that came out in the 90's about an anthropologist who traveled to either Nepal or Tibet (can't remember which) and lived with a small tribe of people living high in the mountains.

it was interesting to see how they lived life much the same way they had for hundreds of years. a large part of the documentary focused on the tribes "progressive" culture.

i'll have to find it and link it here.


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