They celebrate their distinct seasonal festivals with a pageantry of coulour and a feast of music. Most of these festivals revolve round agriculture, it being the main-stay of Naga society. Over 85% population of Nagaland is directly dependent on agriculture and lives in a thousand and odd villages situated on high hill tops or slopes overlooking verdant valleys humming with murmuring streams. In this blissful setting Nagas enjoy the blessing of Nature with rare gusto striking the onlookers with awe and admiration. In most of the places agriculture consists of monocrop.

Although some religious and spiritual sentiments are inter woven into secular rites and rituals, the pre- dominant theme of the festivals is offering of prayers to a Supreme Being having different names in different Naga dialects. At these festivals, the spirit of Gods are propitiated with sacrifices by the Village Shaman for a bountiful harvest either before the sowing or on the eve of harvest.

Religion
Christianity is the predominant religion of Nagaland. The census of 2001 recorded the state's Christian population at 1,790,349 (90.02% of the state's population), making it one of the three Christian-majority states in India , and the only state where Christians form 90% of the population. The state has a very high church attendance rate in both urban and rural areas.

The largest of Asia 's churches dominate the skylines of Kohima, Dimapur and Mokokchung. Among Christians, Baptists are the predominant group constituting more than 80% of the state's population. In fact Nagaland is known as "the most Baptist state in the world." Catholics, Revivalists, and Pentecostals are the other Christian denominations in significant numbers. Catholics are found in significant numbers in parts of Wokha district as also in the urban areas of Kohima and Dimapur. Hindus and Muslims constitute the non-Naga populations of the state and form 7.7% and 1.8% of the population. A small minority, less than 0.3% still practise the traditional religions and are mainly concentrated in Peren and the Eastern districts.