Siberian Mythology

Ajy

Ajy

Ajy In Siberian mythology, a term meaning creator, birth-giving, life-giving, or nourishing. It is often used in conjunction with the ...
Ajyset

Ajyset

Ajyset (Ajysyt) (birth giver) In Siberian mythology, mother goddess worshipped by the Yakut, a Turkish people living near the Lena ...
Ajysit

Ajysit

Ajysit Milk Lake Mother; Birthgiving Mistress ORIGIN: Yakut (Siberia) Ajysit is a goddess of laughter, fate, fertility, and childbirth. She ...
K’daai Maqsin

K’daai Maqsin

K’daai Maqsin ORIGIN: Yakut (Siberia) K’daai Maqsin is the primordial blacksmith; the very first smith according to Yakut cosmology. He ...
Pajana

Pajana

Pajana In Siberian mythology, a creator god of the Black Tartars. Pajana formed creatures from the earth, but seeing that ...
Solbon

Solbon

Solbon (Sulbundu, Tscholbon) In Siberian mythology, god of horses, worshipped by the Buriat; he rides through the sky with a ...
Tengri

Tengri

Tengri (Tangara, Tengeri, Tura) (god, heaven) In Siberian mythology, the sky god and a general term for God among the ...
Torongoi and Edji

Torongoi and Edji

Torongoi and Edji In Siberian mythology, the first man and woman. Both Torongoi and Edji were created with fur on ...
Ulgen

Ulgen

Ulgen (rich?) In Siberian mythology, a creator god. Various myths are told of Ulgen’s role in creation. According to the ...
World Surveyor Man

World Surveyor Man

World Surveyor Man The Gander Prince; Gander Chief; Golden Prince World Surveyor Man is the spirit hero of Siberia’s Finno-Ugric ...

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