Abstract
The “Sacred Cedar Grove” burial ground of the 4th -7th centuries “Sacred Cedar Grove” is located in the north of Western Siberia. In 2016, two Persian silver drachmas minted under Shahinshah Khosrow II Parviz were found among the sacrificial offerings. On the first coin, a flying bird is scratched on the obverse, and a man with “supernatural” abilities is depicted on the reverse. The second drachma depicts sacred animals: birds (obverse) and snakes with one and two heads (reverse). The plots on the coins find direct analogies in the modern mythology of the Ob Ugrians. The drachmas were found next to the burial of the priest (?), at the same depth with him. The coins were buried in the same way as people on the burial ground - wrapped in fur and birch bark.
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