The book about the antiquity of visible, gray-haired and mysterious is the result of many years of research and excavation of ancient monuments of Khakassia. For the first time, one of the late Neolithic cultures was described - Tazminsky (beginning of III millennium BC), represented by bright monuments of the pagan cult - stone sculptures, ancient shrines, menhirs and cave paintings; the author proposed a new explanation of various categories of ancient sacred images, revealed the worldview, beliefs and many other aspects of the spiritual culture of the ancient tribes that inhabited the lands of the Abakan and Chulym river basins during the Neolithic and early metal periods.