Search parallels subject complex of clothing population of the Upper Ob Early Iron Age in the hymns of the Rig Veda

There are many findings came from India, including beads and mirrors in the funeral monuments of early Iron Age on the territory of Verchneye Priobie (the Upper Ob region). As known, during commercial interactions there was exchange not only of objects of daily use, but also of ideas. Supposedly because of intensive interactions between the south of West Siberia inhabitants of Iron Age and southern nomadic tribes similar traditions of decorating clothes appeared. Those traditions were reflected in sang hymns of the Rig-Veda. The deities of the Rig-Veda wearing golden clothes remain the remnants of vestment found in funeral monuments of Verchneye Priobie. Such a token finding is a famous fighting man’s or a tribal chief’s clothes in the burial ground 9 Lokot’-4a. His clothes is similar with the description of costumes of Agnes and Indra. The most important similarity is between the image description of Marut Rig-Veda and simple burial of fighting men from Verchnyaia Ob. During the research was discovered that pendant from golden foil which were sewn on and colored beads are typical decorations of a neckpiece in monuments of Verchneye Priobie and they are similar to Marut’s ones. It is also important that the main symbols of Marut were a spindle whorl and a knife, the most wide-spread findings of Iron Age burials on the territory of Ob. Except for the identification of parallels between the clothes of the studied region’s population and hymns of Rig-Veda, there is the fixation of some last rites connected with clothes wearing and decorating. Author came to the conclusion that figurativeness, inaccuracy and abstractness of Rig-Veda texts reduce the source study potential of archaeological research devoted to clothes. Quotes from hymns describing the deity’s vestments used in the article are similar with not only clothes of Scythian population of Verchneye Priobie but also with costumes of other cultures and peoples. That’s why the Rig-Veda data may be used in extrapolate way while studying clothes of all cultures of Scythians and Saxons. According to this research we wanted to show that the use of indirect sources such as hymns of Rig-Veda can make any archaeological research of ancient and having no written language peoples bright.

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