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Show Afghan Origin. Afghan historians date their people's beginnings to King Saul and refer to llicm as Children of Israel, a theory that may have gained popular acceptance accept-ance because of tho Afghan's Semitic appearance, but It Is not generally credited by ethnologists. Afghan literature lit-erature Is rich In poetry, mostly war epics and love lyrics. All hut the mountain kaflrs are Mohammedan, and they cling to n pagan belief In Which are blended faint suggest Ions of old mythologies and ancient religious. relig-ious. National Geographic Society. |