All important festivities or cult rituals were connected with
beer in Georgia. It played an important role under many
different circumstances: it was drunk to toast to a new arrival
in a family or even to hostile families when being reconciled.
It was thought that by drinking beer they would get rid of any
impurities. It is interesting, that when it was impossible to
reconcile the enemies by help of mediators, the enemies would be
brought to the holy place. The offender would be offered a mug
of beer that would mean that the culprit had to make the first
step towards the reconciliation and utter the following words:
"Here is to your respect" and that would mean that the person
admitted his guilt. Therefore, beer played a major role in this
process, which obviously proves its significance. One more
tradition was spread in Khevsureti: in village Akhieli, they put
up a show depicting "kidnapping". They formed two groups, one of
them would kidnap a woman, and the other would be "fighting"
them. In this theatrical