Editing Yama in world religions (section)

== In Kalasha culture ==
Yama is also an important deity worshipped by the [[Kalash people|Kalasha]] and formerly by the [[Nuristan]]i peoples, indicating his prominence in [[Hinduism]].<ref name="Bezhan2017">{{cite web |last=Bezhan |first=Frud |date=19 April 2017 |title=Pakistan's Forgotten Pagans Get Their Due |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/28439107.html |access-date=11 July 2017 |publisher=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]] |quote=About half of the Kalash practice a form of ancient Hinduism infused with old pagan and animist beliefs.}}</ref><ref name="BarringtonKendrick2006">{{cite book |last1=Barrington |first1=Nicholas |title=A Passage to Nuristan: Exploring the Mysterious Afghan Hinterland |last2=Kendrick |first2=Joseph T. |last3=Schlagintweit |first3=Reinhard |publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-1845111755 |page=111 |language=en |quote=Prominent sites include Hadda, near Jalalabad, but Buddhism never seems to have penetrated the remote valleys of Nuristan, where the people continued to practise an early form of polytheistic Hinduism.}}</ref><ref name="WeissMaurer2012">{{cite book |last1=Weiss |first1=Mitch |title=No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan |last2=Maurer |first2=Kevin |date=2012 |publisher=Berkley Caliber |isbn=978-0425253403 |page=299 |language=en |quote=Up until the late nineteenth century, many Nuristanis practised a primitive form of Hinduism. It was the last area in Afghanistan to convert to Islam—and the conversion was accomplished by the sword}}</ref><ref>[http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/KalashaReligion.pdf Michael Witzel] Harvard University</ref><ref name="Jamil2019">{{cite web |last1=Jamil |first1=Kashif |date=19 August 2019 |title=Uchal — a festival of shepherds and farmers of the Kalash tribe |url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/450469/uchal-a-festival-of-shepherds-and-farmers-of-the-kalash-tribe/ |access-date=23 January 2020 |publisher=[[Daily Times (Pakistan)|Daily Times]] |page=English |quote=Some of their deities who are worshiped in Kalash tribe are similar to the Hindu god and goddess like Mahadev in Hinduism is called Mahandeo in Kalash tribe. ... All the tribal also visit the Mahandeo for worship and pray. After that they reach to the gree (dancing place).}}</ref><ref name="West2010">{{cite book |last=West |first=Barbara A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pCiNqFj3MQsC&pg=PA357 |title=Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania |publisher=[[Infobase Publishing]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-1438119137 |page=357 |language=en |quote=The Kalasha are a unique people living in just three valleys near Chitral, Pakistan, the capital of North-West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan. Unlike their neighbors in the Hindu Kush Mountains on both the Afghani and Pakistani sides of the border the Kalasha have not converted to [[Islam]]. During the mid-20th century a few Kalasha villages in Pakistan were forcibly converted to this dominant religion, but the people fought the conversion and once official pressure was removed the vast majority continued to practice their own religion. Their religion is a form of Hinduism that recognizes many gods and spirits and has been related to the religion of the ancient Greeks... given their Indo-Aryan language, ... the religion of the Kalasha is much more closely aligned to the Hinduism of their Indian neighbors that to the religion of Alexander the Great and his armies.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ghai |first1=Rajat |date=17 February 2014 |title=Save the Kalash! |newspaper=Business Standard India |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article-amp/opinion/save-the-kalash-114021700863_1.html}}</ref> There is a Chitral district by the [[Chitral]] river in the Swat (Suvastu) region in the north-western Indian subcontinent. The languages spoken amongst others are Chitrali and [[Chitral Kalasha language|Kalash]]. In the currently practised form of Indo-Iranian or Vedic-like religion in the region, certain deities were revered either in one community/tribe or other. Only one was universally revered as the Creator that is the god Yamarâja called ''Imr'o'' in Kâmviri.<ref>{{cite book |author=Guillard, J.M. |title=Seul chez les Kalash. Carrefour des Lettres. |year=1974}}</ref> The ancient region had historical and cultural links to the nearby regions of [[Gilgit-Baltistan]], [[Kashmir]] and [[Nuristan]].