Koyash
Bashkir · deity · Bashkir traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Koyash is the Sun personified, one of the two luminaries wed to the sky-king Samrau. As his solar consort she is the mother of Humay, the radiant swan-maiden, and so passes her brightness into the heroic line through Ural's marriage. In Bashkir belief the Sun is broadly venerated as a life-giving power, and within the epic she takes shape as a named celestial wife and mother.
Children
Domains
- solar
Powers
- give light and warmth to the world
Relations
- spouse: SamrauUral-batyr. Bashkort halik izhadi: Epos. Ufa: Kitap, 1998. (primary)
- child: HumayUral-batyr. Bashkort halik izhadi: Epos. Ufa: Kitap, 1998. (primary)
Sources
- Koyash, the Sun, is one of the two celestial wives of Samrau and the mother of the solar bird-maiden Humay.: Ural-batyr. Bashkort halik izhadi: Epos. Ufa: Kitap, 1998. (primary); Khisamitdinova, F. G. Mifologicheskii slovar' bashkirskogo yazyka. Moscow: Nauka, 2010, s.v. 'Qoyash'. (secondary)