The collection is the first experience of synthesizing the results of archaeological research of objects of material culture and ethnolinguistic study of culture of spiritual . It consists of four parts, reflecting the linguistic, archaeological, ethnographic and mythological aspects of the study of the funeral rite, which allows you to establish isomorphism of different levels of the rite and the typological similarity of "transitional rites" in general. A special role in this belongs to the linguistic section, since it is the linguistic facts that have the greatest evidential power in the reconstruction of the Indo-European rite. For linguists, ethnographers, folklorists, archaeologists and all those interested in the problems of the spiritual culture of the Slavic and Baltic peoples