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Celebration of the feast of Huli in Kabul. The feast, a remnant of pagan cults, lasted the two days of the full moon of February. On the second day, the inhabitants of Kabul would gather at the central square and destroy a gigantic effigy made especially for this festivity. The feast closed as a child, symbol of the new-born god, shot his arrows at the giant's heart.

Date

1727

Bibliographic Citation

THEVENOT, Jean de. Les voyages de Mr. De Thévenot aux Indes Orientales, contenans une description exacte de l'Indostan, des nouveaux Mogols, & des autres peuples & païs des Indes Orientales; avec leurs moeurs & maximes, religions, fêtes, temples, pagodes, cimetiéres, commerce, & autres choses remarquables. Troisième edition, vol. V, Amsterdam, Michel Charles le Céne, M. DCC. XXVII. [=1727].

Area/Place

Kabul
Afghanistan

Subject

Religious practices
Social sphere and everyday life

Collection

The Gennadius Library - The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

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