Grandmother of the Sky

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

• Father Sky

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