Human Health and Religious Systems

(According to Ethnographic Data from Kartli)

Abstract

Religion has always played a significant role in human life. The calendar year of official Christian and folk religion used to contribute to a population’s healthy modes of living. Nutrition rationing, both yearly and weekly, a fast system, twice in a week and several times in a year involving eating only vegetable products, benefited the human organism. Religious calendars regulated the issues of labor and rest too. Local religious systems used to regulate entertainment, as well as physical training for children and youth. Religious holidays were one of the best means for spiritual improvement as well as physical training and education. Religion played a specific role in the folk system of social protection. It contributed a feeling of solidarity amoung the population. Folk religious systems regulated modes of human life. They filled a man with hope and conviction in the success of his activity.