Grandmother of the Sky
Buryat · deity · primordial · deity
Spirit-class grandmother goddess (classed as deity). 'Toodei' is the Buryat term for grandmother. The romanization Manzan Gürme follows Mongolian Cyrillic; documentation rests mainly on Buryat oral tradition recorded in the Geser epic and the Buryat-American shaman Sarangerel.
Children
Domains
- fate record
- ancestral origin
- wisdom knowledge
Powers
- watches all that happens on earth and sky in two shaman mirrors
- reads the great book in which all that was, is, and will be is written
- sustains the fifty-five tengri with her silver cup
Epithets
- Manzan Gurme
Relations
- ancestor of: Father Sky
- ancestor of: Lord of the Western Sky
Sources
- Sarangerel (Julie Ann Stewart), Chosen by the Spirits, 2001
- Abai Geser epic invocation, buryatmongol.org