Abkhaz ⟨Џьаџьа⟩ Ǯʼaǯʼa. A female agrarian deity of the Abkhaz pantheon, functionally parallel to the harvest-patron Anapa-nagua and to Circassian Sozeresh/Thaghaledj and Vainakh Maetsill/Tusholi. SOLITARY: no genealogy, spouse or other named relationship is recorded for her in the surviving tradition — she is attested purely as a functional fertility/agriculture goddess (Mythological Encyclopedia; Inal-ipa).
Domains
agriculture and tillage
earth and fertility
household and domestic labour
Powers
makes the sown fields bear and brings the grain to ripeness
fills the soil with fertility and the increase of growing things
lends her help in the household and domestic labour of the farmstead
Sources
Mythological Encyclopedia (Мифы народов мира / Мифологическая энциклопедия), article on Caucasian-Iberian (Caucaso-Iberian) mythology, s.v. Dzhadzha; drawing on Sh. D. Inal-ipa's Abkhaz ethnography.
Hewitt, George (ed.). The Abkhazians: A Handbook. Curzon Press, 1999 (Abkhaz traditional religion and the agrarian deities).
Mythological Encyclopedia (Мифы народов мира), Caucasian-Iberian mythology (comparative list of agrarian/harvest patrons).