Ürüng Aiyy Toyon
Yakut · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
White Creator Lord, head of the benevolent Aiyy of the upper world.
Domains
- creation
- sky
Powers
- Create the universe and lesser deities
- Bestow the kut (life-soul) upon newborns
- bestows the kut (life-soul) upon every newborn and grants fertility of people and herds
- emanates pure white light, the supreme expression of his creative power
Epithets
- Ürüng Aiyy Toyon The White Creator Lord; the supreme sky-god of the Sakha, enthroned in the highest heavenW. Sieroszewski; G. Ksenofontov, on Sakha (Yakut) belief (secondary)
Relations
- enemy: AbaasyThe benevolent aiyy of the upper world under the White Creator Lord stand in perpetual opposition to the iron-toothed abaasy of the lower world.W. Jochelson, The Yakut (AMNH Anthropological Papers 33, 1933) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Olonkho 'Nurgun Bootur the Swift' (primary)