The home of the Ob Master was presumably near the stronghold Samarovo in the mouth of the river Irtysh. According to their heathen belief he was the god of the fish, depicted in a most impudent manner: a board of wood, nose like a tin tube, eyes of glass, little horns on top of the head, covered with rags, attired in a (gilt breasted) purple robe. Arms – bows, arrows, spears, armour, etc – were laid beside him. According to their heathen belief they say about the collected arms that he often has to fight in the water and conquer other vassals. The frenzy ones thought that the atrocious monster is especially horrifying in the darkness and in the large waters, that he comes through all the depths where he watches over all fish and aquatic animals and gives everyone as much as he pleases.
We all know why you have come here – you want to pervert us from our ancient beliefs with your smooth-tongued flattery and damage and destroy our revered helper, but it is all in vain for you may take our heads but this we will not let you do.
——Novitsky: 92–93
诺维茨基對上述偶像的描述如下:
The idol was carved of wood, attired in green clothes, the evil looking face was covered with white iron, a black fox skin was placed on its head; the whole sanctuary, especially his site which was higher than anywhere else, was decorated with purple broadcloth. Other smaller idols nearby which were placed lower were called the servants of the real idol. I think there were many other things in front of him – caftans, squirrel skins, etc.
We will now obey the ruler's regulations and ukase. So we will not discard your teaching, we only beg you not to reject the idol so revered by our fathers and grandfathers, and if you wish to christen us, honour also our idol, christen it in a more honourable manner – with a golden cross. Then we will decorate and build a church with all the icons ourselves, as a custom goes, and we will place ours also among these.
And from Bolghar merchants travel to the land of heathens, called Wisu; marvellous beaver skins come from there, and they take there wedge-shaped unpolished swords made in Azerbaijan in their turn… But the inhabitants of Visu take these swords to the land that lies near the Darkness [Yugra] by the Black Sea [now known as the White Sea], and they trade the swords for sable skins. And these people take the swords and cast them into the Black Sea; but Allah the Almighty sends them a fish which size is like a mountain [a whale]; and they sail out to the fish in their ships and carve its flesh for months on end.
作為回應,佩林的漢特人和曼西人不間斷地向大彼爾姆的領土發起第四波反攻。因此,1581年因為同年的凱哥羅德(Kaigorod)和切爾登被襲擊而載入史冊。依據俄羅斯人的估計,曼西人及其盟友韃靼人所組成的軍隊有700人之多(Bahrushin 1955,1:99;2:144)。伴隨邊境戰火的持久抗爭引致到在1582-84年時,由斯特罗加诺夫家族主導和資助下以葉爾馬克為首發動了一場軍勢,該戰事開始於攻入俄罗斯拓殖者領地的曼西人戰團被消滅,以對佩林的曼西人和他們的盟友西伯利亞可汗的懲罰性征服作為終曲。據部分信源所述,孔達王子阿拉赫(Alach, Prince of Koda)是西伯利亞汗库楚姆汗的重要盟友,據說他被賞賜過一件繳獲自敵方的葉爾馬克的鎖甲(Bahrushin 1955, 1:114)。
He, prince Vassili and prince Fyodor have close brothers in Big Konda – our tax-paying murzas, and our simple Voguls are ruled by them in Big Konda, the brothers of prince Vasily, the murzas." (Bahrushin 1955,2: 148
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