Umay (also known as Umai; Old Turkic: 𐰆𐰢𐰖; Kazakh: Ұмай ана, Ūmai ana; Kyrgyz: Умай эне, Umay ene; Russian: Ума́й / Ымай, Umáj / Ymaj, Turkish: Umay (Ana)) is the goddess of fertility in Turkic mythology and Tengriism and as such related to women, mothers and children. Umay not only protects and educates babies, but also may separate the soul from the dead, especially young children. Umay resembles earth-mother goddesses found in various other world religions and the angel of life and death. From Umai, the essence of fire (Od Ana) was born.

Etymology
In Turkic mythology, earth was considered a "mother" symbolically. Her color was brown, like the Earth's soil, as opposed to Tengri, whose color was blue, like the sky. The Turkic root umāy originally meant 'placenta, afterbirth', and this word was used as the name for the goddess whose function was to look after women and children, and she is associated with fertility. In Old Turkic, the word “eke” means 'mother', and she is often compared to the Old Turkic Yağız Yir ("brown Earth") goddess. In Mongolian, Umai means 'womb' or 'uterus', possibly reflecting acculturation of Mongols by Turks, or ancient lexical ties between Mongols and Turks, and the mother Earth is likewise personified as a brown-skinned woman in Mongolian culture.