TYPE: Harvest Goddess
ORIGIN: Kafir [Afghanistan]
INFORMATION: A little-reported deity, the consort of the war god Gish and daughter of Sanu. She controls the harvesting, threshing, and winnowing of grain and the safe storage of wheat and butter. She carries a golden winnow and is either depicted in human form or as a goat. Her cult is known chiefly from the village of Pronz in the southern Hindukush where she enjoyed an important sanctuary with stons seats around the icon, part of which reportedly still exists. Wooden statues depict her in human form, nude to the waist. Alternatively, she is perceived as a bird that acts as a messenger. The blood of sacrificial animals was poured over the figure. Also Sulmech.