The Ob-Ugric mother- and birth-goddess, classed as a deity. Khanty Kaltaś-aŋki ('Kaltaś the mother') and Kattaś-imi; the corpus also carries the Mansi form (mansi_kaltes_ekwa) per the tradition split. Wife of Num-Torum and, in some variants, the heavens' former ruler whom he defeats and casts down; on earth she becomes the giver of children and of each newborn's fate (the goddess Khanty women invoke at childbirth) and is linked with dawn, the moon and the hare. Mother of the World-Watching Man and of the other sons of Num-Torum. Documented for the Khanty by Karjalainen and in the modern Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies.