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Archaeological findings, including kurgans (burial mounds) and artifacts with the distinctive "Animal style" art, are older in the eastern Altai region (like those in Tuva) than in the western regions associated with the Scythians. This suggests an eastern origin for the Scythian culture and its spread westward. Ancient cave systems in the Xinjiang region of China were built by Scythians, or at least used by them. Scythian priests worshipped an ancestral deity as well known as the serpent-legged goddess, she was human from the waist up and a serpent from the waist down.
Obviously this is what the Hindus call a Naga who have dominion over subterranean cave systems as well as water systems throughout the planet, so it could be either really. Perhaps the Scythians lived side-by-side with the Nagas.