Umay
deity earth Tengrism corroborated · 3
Goddess of children and babies' souls, daughter of Tengri.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 CE
- Attested period
- 500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in Old Turkic texts.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Mergen, Erlik, Ay Dede, Natigai, tngri, earth-spirits, Lord-Spirits, Protector-Spirits, Guardian-Spirits, İye, Venus, Azovka, Mistress of the Copper Mountain, Kaltes-Ekwa, Great Serpent, Kök-Tengri, Ülgen, Kayra, Gök Tengri, Itugen
- parent of
- Od Ana
- syncretized with
- Od iyesi
Mentioned by
Sources
internet (1)
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Umay ("placenta, afterbirth") is the goddess of children and babies' souls. She is the daughter of Tengri.”
#414 · extracted by claude-sonnet-4-6
“A. Sagalayev suggested that the character originated from the goddesses Umay and Kaltes-Ekwa”
#7005 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The name appears in the 8th century inscription of Kul Tigin in the phrase Umay teg ögüm katun kutıŋa "under the auspices of my mother who is like the goddess Umay".”
#29083 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001