Experience and knowledge of the sacred liquid, shared during collective feast in Tusheti, is closely linked to German culture.

Tusheti is a high mountain region of Georgia, where you have to pass one of the most difficult ways in the world. The place which is not equiped with electricity, natural gas, mobile and internet networks…This isolated place that is cut off from modern infrastructure still keeps huge sacral information.

Tusheti's alleged connection with oldest civilization is attested by the signs carved in stones, depiction and decryption of which was the priests privilege. Till today is not researched what the simbolic signifance has these pictograms.

The hidden signs on the edge of the disappearance, are layered in archetypes in our collective subconscious. The information engraved in stone is disappearing subsequently new constructions and brutal changes of unique buildings. Gross intervention destroys the authentic infrastructure of Tusheti, in the villages the nature substances are replaced by concrete and other modern synthetic construction materials.

The Tushetian gods lived in the vertical model of the universe, composed of three parts – underland (Qveskneli), land (Skneli) and upperland (Zeskneli). After the christianization of Tusheti, the names of the gods were replaced by the Christian saints, but the unique symbiosis of pagan and Christian culture kept the ancient Tushetian customs and rituals almost unchanged.

In the strictest climatic conditions, the sun was one of the main deities for mountain people, dependant on sun warmth and harvest. Just to the solar cult, as the source of warmth and light and the symbol of permanent rotation is interrelated the sacred drink of Tusheti - Aludi, the ingredients and method of preparation of which over centuries, have gone through the process of transformation and desacralization.

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