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Nadia’s reference is the Hindu Kush The Hindu Kush religion is a set of polytheistic beliefs and cults of archaic Nuristan-speaking and Darda-speaking tribes located in the inaccessible valleys of the Kunar (Chitral) and Alinagar (tributaries of the Kabul River) basins south of the Hindu Kush mountain range. Has its origin in the cults of Indo-Iranian tribes (the Aryans), who invaded South Asia in the middle of II millennium BC, which had substrate influence of the local non-Indo-European population. Followers of the Hindu Kush paganism ("Kafirs"), most of whom were modern Nuristanis, remained fairly massively until the XIX century, at present this religion is virtually superseded by Islam. The last people, some of whom (about 3,000 people) adhere to traditional Hindu Kush beliefs, are the Darda-speaking Kalashis, who live in the Chitral district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The religion of Hindu Kush is a typical polytheistic tribal cult based on developed mythology and sacrifices to deities. In traditional Hindu Kush beliefs, the world is essentially limited to the set of valleys inhabited by them. Beyond them lie the "unclean" lands of Chaos, inhabited by demons. The followers of the Hindu Kush religion have a three-part structure of the world: Urdesh is the upper world of seven heavens, the upper of which (Il-Munj) is inhabited by the god Mon/Mandi, Michdesh is the middle world, Yurdesh is the lower abode of the dead. Despite the significant transformation of the Hindu Kush religion compared to that of the Aryans and the absence of important Aryan gods such as Mitra, the beliefs of the Hindu Kush retain many Aryan and more widely Indo-European archaisms, such as the cult of the horse, practically unused in the economy. An important ritual role is assigned to the juniper, which was also revered in archaic Iranian cultures.