Ethno-confessional interaction in South Siberia and Central Asia led to influence of different religious and ideological traditions upon syncretic world outlook notions and nomads rites forming. Analysis of written and archaeological sources made it possible to make a conclusion that the basis of religious elite in nomads societies in Khunnu-Zhuzhan epoch were ministers of religion of beliefs and rites traditional (shaman) complex, clan of leader and his surroundings (chiefs of tribes or elders). Besides, unlike Scythian epoch, religious elite included Buddhism missionaries close to nomads# leader surroundings that liked confession. However, Buddhism support by nomads elite did lead to wide spread of the confession among other majority of people.

The reflected in sources data about different forms of sacrifice, magic, mantic,

funeral-burial complexes and cult buildings testifies to compound religious-mythological system and further tendency to forming and development of peculiar category of priests. Priests were bearers of important sacral information and could influence political events in nomads# empire, for instance, overthrew leaders. However, the formed religious elite did not transform into corporative social group of professional sacrifice for the reason of specific social-political organization of nomads and historical processes in Late Antiquity epoch.