Cult
The cult of Tetri Giorgi is syncretic, being a combination of Christian patron saint of Georgia and a pagan moon deity, which, in Georgian folk tradition, represents the male principle. The Tetri Giorgi holiday ("tetrigiorgoba") was once marked annually on August 14, when many pilgrims from the eastern Georgian provinces attended an overnight feast at the saint's chief shrine – a 14th-century Orthodox Christian church overlooking the village Atsquri in what is now Akhmeta Municipality, Kakheti.
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