Karlyk is an intermediary spirit of the upper world named in Anokhin's shamanic texts as the constant companion of the watcher Suila. Where Suila keeps watch, Karlyk bears the message: he carries tidings between the heavenly powers and the human world and assists the ascending kam along the celestial road. He appears always in tandem with Suila, the pair forming a unit among the mediating spirits that stand between Ülgen and humankind.