Music and Time Annotation << Back Dances in Honor of God of the Thunder and the Lightning in the Ceremony «Shhyblje Udzh» A.V. Gucheva The work examines the ceremony in honor of the god of thunder «Shhyblje Udzh». Several ceremonial complexes and semantic layers were associated: 1) with the image of Shhyblje; 2) with a funeral rite; 3) with the sacrifice and 4) with ritual and ritual dance Shhyblje Udzh and song-prayers. Each of them has its own local features of implementation, interaction and development in a three-phase scheme rites de passage. Dances of religious action – «Sacred Dance», «Elders Dance», as well as the culmination dance «Shhyblje Udzh» are described. Each of these dances was performed by a certain age and gender group at a certain time and place. In the rite «Shhyblje Udzh» revealed the interaction of the divine, sacrifice, music, dance, prayer-treatment, etc. Keywords: Shybly Uj, religious and cultic action, Sacred dance, Elders Dance. Contacts: E-mail: anggucheva@mail.ru Pp. 03-08.