Bibi Seshanbe, 'Lady Tuesday', is a patroness of women venerated across the Tajik and neighbouring Uzbek populations of Central Asia. Her cult centres on a vow-rite: a woman seeking a husband, a child, cure, or relief from want pledges to hold the 'meal of Bibi Seshanbe' on a Tuesday, at which women gather, share a simple dish of flatbread and grain, and recite a hagiographic tale in which the lady rewards a poor but pious woman with sudden fortune. Soviet ethnographers such as Sukhareva and Snesarev documented her among the plains Tajiks and read her as an Islamised survival of an older female divinity of water, spinning, and household increase. Sources differ on whether she should be identified with the pre-Islamic goddess Anahita, with the Islamic figure of Fatima, or treated as an autonomous folk patroness.