High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Umay (also known as Umai or Mai; in Old Turkic: ) is the goddess of fertility and virginity in Turkic mythology and Tengriism and as such related to women, mothers and children. Umay resembles earth-mother goddesses found in various other world religions. Literally in the Mongolian language, "eje" or "eej" means "mother." In Mongolian "Umai" means womb or uterus. The earth was considered a "mother" symbolically.