Based on new ethnographic, folklore, literary materials, the monograph describes and analyzes the holidays and rituals of the peoples of mountainous Dagestan, provides a scientific justification for the emergence and distribution of rituals, games, spectacles - the main components of holiday culture. Along with scientific, the book also has practical significance: the material presented in it can be used to enrich the new socialist rite. The book is intended for ethnographers, historians, folklorist philologists, cultural workers.