Women in Georgia
Many important turning points in the history of Georgia are associated with women’s names. Among them with kings and queens to peasant females. If we adhere to periodicity, the first one that can be remembered is a somewhat mythologized episode – the story of the daughter of the king of Kolkheti, Ayeet Medea. He is not a vengeful face alone, a man of tragic fate, a girlfriend of Argonaut’s leader Jason, who retaliates her for betrayal by killing her children. All of this is preceded by the passion of the Golden Fleece from Colchis to Medea by the same aeronauts.
Even if a woman can govern the country no less than a man, and more Georgians have known since ancient times to turn her into a politically economically powerful state, the example of Giorgi IIIs daughter Tamar also testifies. The 18-year-old young queen had to overcome difficult obstacles, including dealing with the feudal willingness to restore rebellious, lost privileges, which manage to regulate relations again as a result of the diplomacy of women, Kartli Eristavi, Rati Surameli’s mother, Kravai Jakeli, Then was the defeat of the Muslim army in the Battle of Shamkori, a victory against the army of the Rumi Sultan at Bassian. During Tamar’s day, Georgia was a political-economically and culturally highly developed state.
Since Georgian culture is patriarchal, women are assigned a knightly form of respect. A woman can have the role of “breadwinner and housewife” together. Most home affairs are done by women. By gender, there is no apparent division of labor except in the fields of physical labor.
The statue of the mother of Georgia (“Kartlis Deda”), which stands on the slope of Tbilisi (the capital of Georgia), overlooks the whole city from above and perhaps best expresses the national character: in his left hand holds a wine-filled slab with which he hosts friends and holds a sword in his right hand with which he fights enemies.
The most important figure in Georgian culture and mentality has always been the mother, Mother has been perceived in Georgian culture since ancient times as a starter, and a symbol of everything important, this was primarily reflected in the Georgian dictionary, for example, Mother Earth, Mother Tongue, Mother Nature, all these words are naturally created and officially so used in the Georgian language.
The cult of respect for a woman is reflected in the Georgian National Ballet, where a man does not establish physical contact while dancing with a female dancer and from afar tries to prove his loyalty and show him the masculine force that will subsequently protect him, the woman at this time, with gentle movements, looks at the man and his eyes. As a portrait of strength as a woman was often created, Georgian artists, a prominent sculptor of the twentieth century, Merab Berdzenishvili, who has made many masterpieces, clearly showed us in his sculptures, showing us the moral strength of a woman through their eyes, Best of all, this is reflected in one of his works “Medea”, which is now located in the occupied territory of Georgia,(Abkhazia) in The Eyes of Medea, along with despair and fear, power and courage are visible.
Also of course Shota Rustaveli, an XII-century Georgian poet who is perhaps the best example of describing a woman as an independent strong individual, was the source8 of inspiration from the poet Tamar King, who at that time was the ruler of Georgia, Rustaveli shares a peculiar vision of the mightiness and wisdom of Tamar, after reading the ”panthers skin”, you realize that you have learned everything, although you still have doubts that you perceive something differently and cannot understand the thoughts of the poet. To summarize, throughout Georgian history, the glory of Georgia was never represented without a woman, a woman has always been recognized as family, love, or the warmth of a mother.