UMAI. The name Umai (Umay) first appears in the Old Turkic inscriptions of Mongolia (mid-eighth century CE), where it is borne by a feminine deity of unspecified but benevolent functions. There is a gap of more than a thousand years in the relevant...

Umay (also known as Eje) is the goddess of the earth and fertility in Turkic shamanism. Umay is similar in many ways to earth-mother goddesses found in various other world religions. Umay and Eje (Ece) are rarely used female names in the Republic of...