Polytheistic Kalash Tribe Celebrates Spring In Remote Mountains

RUMBUR, PAKISTAN - MAY 15: Girls from the polytheistic Kalash tribe dance at the Joshi spring festival May 15, 2008 in the remote Chitral village of Rumbur in northwestern Pakistan. The Kalash people, who number about 4,000, claim to be descendants of Alexander the Great and worship their own gods. The tiny minority group, in a Muslim nation of more than 165 million people, holds the annual spring festival, featuring dance, music and special prayers to bring good crops and honey to its agricultural communities. The Kalesh are the remnants of the pre-Islamic culture called "Kafiristan," what the Muslims called "land of the unbelievers." They are connected to the rest of Pakistan by a single road, and lack phone service to the outside world. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)