Aiy is a figure from Kazakh mythology — a beneficent celestial spirit associated with light, fate, and protection of the newborn. The National Bank of Kazakhstan has issued several collector coins drawing on pre-Islamic Turkic spiritual traditions, a deliberate cultural repatriation effort that accelerated after independence and has grown more systematic in the 2020s.
Aiy is a figure from Kazakh mythology — a beneficent celestial spirit associated with light, fate, and protection of the newborn. The National Bank of Kazakhstan has issued several collector coins drawing on pre-Islamic Turkic spiritual traditions, a deliberate cultural repatriation effort that accelerated after independence and has grown more systematic in the 2020s.