Whether this is the specific meaning of the hybrids in Pazyryk art is debated, but the association is plausible.

The saturation of the Ice Maiden’s burial with this imagery — the tattoos on her skin, the carvings on her coffin, the decorated harnesses on her horses — means that she was surrounded, in both life and death, by a visual field of spiritual meaning.

The world she inhabited was not a secular world; it was a world saturated with spiritual significance, and the material objects of that world were the means through which that significance was expressed and communicated.

The Felt And Wool Of The Altai