Yer iyesi (Tatar: Җир Иясе or Cir İyäse, Chuvash: Ҫĕр Ийĕ, Sakha: Сир Иччи) is the Turkic / Mongolian spirit or deity of earth or territory. In Turkic languages Yer means land or earth. And İye is the familiar spirit of any natural asset. Yer iyesi protects the earth or any region. Also known as Toprak iyesi.
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Yer Ana
Yer Ana is the Mongolian and Turkic / Altai goddess of earth. Also referred to as goddess of fertility. She is the female form of Yer iyesi. She was said to have been there at the beginning of the world, when the earth and sky separated.
Yer Ata
Yer Ata is the Mongolian and Turkic / Altai god of earth or land. He is the male form of Yer iyesi.
Yereh
Yereh (Chuvash: Йерех) is a female spirit in Turkic mythology, which recently came to be regarded as a "Turkic goddess" with a function of "hearth mother", protectoress of the home. It is akin of Yer iyesi. The word originates in the Pre-Christian Chuvash mythology but in the modern usage it has only one meaning. The confusion in the name's Etymology owes to the fact that a Turkic word Yer means land or earth, while the word Yerleşmek is a verb that means to locate. Early in the 20th century Yereh combined a prehistoric Scythian earth-goddess and Mother Earth. Today she is identified as a combination of the "hearth-mother" (associated with the guardianship of the nation itself) and the earth mother.