Article is dedicated to the review of cult and mythological parallels in some outlook ideas of peoples
of ancient North-Pontic and North-Germanian regions using the burial stones' images. Belonging of
scenes with images of a 'rider' and a 'female welcoming deity' on the plates of the Pontic peoples of
I — III AD to the Iranian ideology of steppe nomads is confirmed (materials ofV—I cent. BC). Some
comparisons with a similar tradition in Gotland burial steles ornamentation of Vendelperiod are made
with the attempt of its interpretation.