On the Issue of Interdisciplinary Study of the Traditional Circassian Festival of Sozeresh

The article discusses issues related to the interdisciplinary study of the traditional Circassian winter holiday Sozeresh. The main historiographical versions and information are given, which describe the plot and compositional features of the rite. Attention is paid to its ideological components, where traditional ideas about the world order, its patterns, and cycles are transmitted through certain sequences of traditional actions and through a system of a number of cultural symbols. The question is raised about the need for further cultural and special ethnographic analysis of the functional aspects of the festival. For the first time, a philosophical and cultural understanding of the Sozeresh holiday is proposed, its vision as one of the most important components of the specific socio-cultural self-organization of traditional Circassian society. The authors vision of the essence of the main artifact of the ritual - the “fetish of Sozeresh” as a symbol of fertility and orderliness of the world is substantiated, and the fact of the gradual re-actualization of the archaic festive culture is shown. It is determined that the mytho-epic image of Sozeresh is inextricably linked with the cyclical pattern characteristic of the archaic worldview.