The Feast-Day of Tamar and Lashari / written and directed by Hugo Zemp ; produced by Hugo Zemp and Documentary Educational Resources (DER) ; interview by Malkhaz Amashukeli
Published
Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1998
The Pshavi people of the eastern mountains of the Republic of Georgia perform a ritual which can be characterized as a syncretism of ancient polytheistic beliefs and Orthodox Christian faith, but which is qualified by city habitants of Tbilisi as pagan. The ritual of Tamar and Lashari celebrates queen Tamar (12-13th century) and her son Lasha, deified by the mountain dwellers
Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014)
Event
Recorded in 1991 in Mtskheta-Mitaneti, Republic of Georgia
Notes
This edition in Georgian and English with English subtitles
