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The article provides information on the different pre-Islamic signs and symbols indicating the persistence of pre-Islamic decorative patterns in the wooden architecture of Swat in Pakistan. It presents the decorative features of the aboriginal mountain cultures substratum which was deeply inspired from Central Asia from the most advanced mountain princely states and southern plains. It also notes the existence of a Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya cultural substratum characterized by pastoralism and wooden architecture and craft. Several photographs are also offered depicting the architectural decoration of the wooden architecture of Swat as influenced by Saka, Gandharan, Hindu and Iranian decorative culture as well as Dardic elements.