SHARABIRAYAK (14 December) Making goat-like statuettes, called kut'amrũ, from dough.
The men of each Kalasha family (women are not excluded) make these small statuettes with plain flour and water and bake them on a stove. After they are well baked, they place then on a shelf just behind the stove, called onj'as't'awã ‘holy place’, banned to women. In making the sharabirayak they believe that they send the spirits of these goat-like statuettes to a place called Dizil'awata, on the high pasture where their goats are kept.
Inside a house, with a fire burning in a stove, a
man and a woman making goat-like statuettes.