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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Feast-Day of Tamar and Lashari
  name:
    name part: Zemp, Hugo
    role:
      role term: filmmaker.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Internet videos.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (streaming video file)
  abstract: 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. Each year, and for three days, on the hillside of a Caucasus valley, pilgrims consecutively meet at two sanctuaries consecrated to these deities and worship them through prayers, songs and sacrifices, enjoying at the same time food and happy chats with friends they have not seen for a year. In addition to prayers and sacrifices by a shrine priest, religious songs are an essential part of the ritual. The purpose of this film is not to isolate the most archaic elements, nor to reconstitute an idealized image of a polytheistic ritual of the past, but it is to show the multiple dimensions of the festival as it happened in July 1991. Several centuries-old songs could be heard there, but also profane music, traditional and modern, rural and urban, oriental and occidental music. Filmmaker: Hugo Zemp
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1998.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: In English
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Music
  identifier: 1096012 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VDU
    record creation date: 150908
    record change date: 20260324182208.1
    record identifier: in00003590124
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng