{"id":64245,"date":"2017-02-15T22:12:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=64245"},"modified":"2017-02-15T22:12:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:12:45","slug":"seasonal-kit%ce%b4it-festival-celebrated-in-sost-gojal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2017\/02\/15\/seasonal-kit%ce%b4it-festival-celebrated-in-sost-gojal\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Kit\u03b4it Festival celebrated in Sost, Gojal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gojal:\u00a0<\/strong>People of Sost and surrounding villages celebrated the seasonal Wakhi Kit\u03b4hit Festival. The festival marks the departure of long winters, and the gradual arrival of spring. The land starts becoming softer as the mercury moves upwards from below freezing point.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64246\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64246\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-1.jpg?resize=960%2C720\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-1.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-1.jpg?resize=450%2C338&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-1.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Tuksuri match in progress. Photo: Farman Ali<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People from the valley gathered at a community center, feasted, devouring traditional cuisine, and also played Tuksuri, known as Gilli-Danda in Urdu.<\/p>\n<p>Kit\u03b4it is a compound word in the Wakhi language: kit, most probably, is a distorted form of K\u0289t (meaning Roof\/Ceiling), while \u03b4it is the Wakhi word for smoke. On this day the wooden pillars and beams of the traditional Pamiri house are cleaned, removing the smoke produced by burning of large amounts of wood during the long winter. Cleaning of the ceiling, thus, symbolically represents arrival of a fresh season.<\/p>\n<p>The wooden beams of the traditional Wakhi house are also decorated with floral patterns made with wheat flour.<\/p>\n<p>Lower parts of the Gojal Valley had celebrated Kitzhit earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gojal:\u00a0People of Sost and surrounding villages celebrated the seasonal Wakhi Kit\u03b4hit Festival. The festival marks the departure of long winters, and the gradual arrival of spring. The land starts becoming softer as the mercury moves upwards from below freezing point. People from the valley gathered at a community center, feasted, devouring traditional cuisine, and also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"better_featured_image":{"id":64247,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":960,"height":540,"file":"2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Kitzhit-2-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"Kitzhit-2-450x253.jpg","width":450,"height":253,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2.jpg?fit=450%2C253&ssl=1"},"medium_large":{"file":"Kitzhit-2-768x432.jpg","width":768,"height":432,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"Kitzhit-2-600x338.jpg","width":600,"height":338,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1"},"150x150":{"file":"Kitzhit-2-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2-150x150.jpg"},"120x85":{"file":"Kitzhit-2-120x85.jpg","width":120,"height":85,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2-120x85.jpg"},"300x240":{"file":"Kitzhit-2-300x240.jpg","width":300,"height":240,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2-300x240.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"Kitzhit-2-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2-415x260.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":64245,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kitzhit-2.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64248,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64245\/revisions\/64248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}