Od iyesi (
Tatar: ''Ут Иясе'' or ''Ut İyäse'';
Chuvash: ''Вут Ийӗ'';
Sakha: ''Уот Иччи'') is the
Turkic and
Mongolic spirit or deity of fire. In
Turkic languages
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, Od (or Ot) means fire, and iye is the familiar spirit of any natural asset, literally meaning "master" or "possessor." Od iyesi protects the fire.
Od Ana
Od Ana is the Turkic and Mongolian goddess of fire. She is also referred to as goddess of marriage. She is the female form of Od iyesi. The name ''Ot Ene'' means "fire mother" in the
Altay language
Altai or Altay () is a set of Turkic languages spoken officially in the Altai Republic, Russia. The standard vocabulary is based on the Southern Altai language, though it is also taught to and used by speakers of the Northern Altai language as ...
(''od'' "fire"; ''ene'' "mother").
In
Mongolian folklore, she is referred to as the "queen of
fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a fuel in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction Product (chemistry), products.
Flames, the most visible portion of the fire, are produced in the combustion re ...
." She was said to have been born at the beginning of the world, when the earth and sky separated and daughter of
Yer Tanrı.
Some equate her to
Umai, the mother goddess of the
Turkic Siberians, who is depicted as having sixty golden tresses that look like the rays of the sun. Umai is thought to have once been identical with Ot of the
Mongol
Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia and other 11 autonomous territories), as well as the republics of Buryatia and Kalmykia in Russia. The Mongols are the principal member of the large family of M ...
s.
Tengri
Tengri (; Old Uyghur: ; Middle Turkic: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Proto-Turkic: / ; Mongolian script: , ; , ; , ) is the all-encompassing God of Heaven in the traditional Turkic, Yeniseian, Mongolic, and various other nomadic religious beliefs. So ...
, the chief god, orders three fires to be burnt in the human soul, and Od Ana buries and puts out the three fires on Earth. Today,
Turkish people
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call this "cemre," the fire that falls to Air, Earth and Water every year.
In Turkic languages
*
Tuvan: ''От Ава''
*
Uzbek: ''O't Ona'' or ''Otash Ona''
*
Tatar: ''Ут Әни'' or ''Ут Ана'' or ''Ut Ana''
*
Azerbaijani: ''Od Ana''
*
Kazakh: ''От Ана''
*
Chuvash: ''Вут Анне'' or ''Вут Абай''
*
Bashkir: ''Ут Апай''
*
Yakut: ''Уот Ий̃э''
*
Turkmen: ''Ot Ene'' or ''Ot Eje''
*
Uyghur: ''ئوت ئانا''
*
Turkish: ''Od Ana''
*
Ottoman Turkish
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: ''اود آنا''
*
Kyrgyz: ''От Эне''
*
Altai: ''От Эне''
*
Khakas: ''От Ине'' or ''От Иӌе''
*
Karachay-Balkar
Karachay–Balkar (, ), often referred to as the "mountaineer language" (, ) by its speakers, is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia, European Russia, as well as by an immigra ...
: ''От Ана''
*
Gagauz: ''Od Ana''
Its name in
Hungarian culture Hungarian may refer to:
* Hungary, a country in Central Europe
* Kingdom of Hungary, state of Hungary, existing between 1000 and 1946
* Hungarians/Magyars, ethnic groups in Hungary
* Hungarian algorithm, a polynomial time algorithm for solving the ...
is ''Tűz Anya'' and in
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...
n belief is ''Гал Ээж'' (
Buryat: ''Гал Эхэ'';
Oirat: ''Һал Эк''). These entities have many similarities, and each has the same meaning, "fire mother."
Od Ata
Od Ata is the Mongolian and Turkic / Altai god of fire. He is the male form of Od iyesi. Od Ede means 'Fire Father' in the Altay language (''od'' "fire"; ''ede'' "father"). In Mongolian folklore he is referred to as the Od Khan "king of fire". Od Khan (or Odqan) is a fire spirit in the shamanistic traditions of Mongolia. He is usually described as a red coloured humanoid, riding a brown goat. His female counterpart is Yalun Eke (Yalın Eke), the 'fire mother' and son of
Kayra.
In Turkic languages
*
Tuvan: ''От Ата''
*
Uzbek: ''O't Ota'' or ''Otash Ota''
*
Tatar: ''Ут Әти'' or ''Ут Ата'' or ''Ut Ata''
*
Azerbaijani: ''Od Ata''
*
Kazakh: ''От Ата''
*
Chuvash: ''Вут Атте'' or ''Вут Ашшӗ''
*
Bashkir: ''Ут Атай''
*
Yakut: ''Уот Аҕа''
*
Turkmen: ''Ot Ata''
*
Uyghur: ''ئوت ئاتا''
*
Turkish: ''Od Ata''
*
Kyrgyz: ''От Ата''
*
Altai: ''От Ада''
*
Khakas: ''От Аба '' or ''От Ада''
*
Karachay-Balkar
Karachay–Balkar (, ), often referred to as the "mountaineer language" (, ) by its speakers, is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia, European Russia, as well as by an immigra ...
: ''От Ата''
*
Gagauz: ''Od Ana''
Its name in
Hungarian culture Hungarian may refer to:
* Hungary, a country in Central Europe
* Kingdom of Hungary, state of Hungary, existing between 1000 and 1946
* Hungarians/Magyars, ethnic groups in Hungary
* Hungarian algorithm, a polynomial time algorithm for solving the ...
is ''Tűz Atya'' or ''Tűz Apa'' and in
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...
n belief is ''Гал Эцэг'' (
Buryat: ''Гал Эсэгэ'';
Oirat: ''Һал эцк''). These entities have many similarities, and each has the same meaning, "fire father."
Similar creatures
# Ocak iyesi ("hearth spirit") is spirit of hearths. It is one kind of Od iyesi.
# Soba iyesi ("stove spirit") is a fire spirit as well.
References
External links
Fire Mother (Ateş Anası)
Od Ana
{{Turkic Deities
Fire deities
Religion in Mongolia
İye
Fire goddesses
Fire gods