In the dream, I'm in the Kalasha valleys for Chaumós, their great month-long celebration of the Winter Solstice.
(Living in the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains, the Kalasha are the only Indo-European-speaking people who have practiced their traditional religion continuously since antiquity.)
The culmination of the festivities is to be the revelation of the Three Hidden “Idols” of the Kalasha.
When the three wooden images are finally revealed, I realize—much to my surprise and delight—that they are none other than the Three Gods of the Great Temple of Uppsala: Óðinn, Þórr, and Freyr, but rendered in a distinctly Nuristani idiom.
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