Ayısıt

The Sakha goddess of childbirth, who descends to bring the soul (kut) to the newborn and to protect mothers in labour and the increase of the herds. The Lena-basin counterpart of the steppe mother-goddess Umay and the feminine birth-power of the northern Aiyy pantheon.

Domains

• childbirth
• birth souls
• fertility
• protection of mothers

Sources

• existence: Uno Harva, Die religiösen Vorstellungen der altaischen Völker (FFC 125, 1938), on the Yakut birth-goddess Ajysyt (scholarly)