In the ancient believes of the shamanist Turks, the White Mother who carries on her shoulders the cycle of life and, who by gathering in herself the primary forces of nature symbolizes the infinite unconscious Secret, lives nearby a magical milk lake situated on the top of the highest mountain of the world. One of her servants named Ayıısıt brings from this lake a drop of milk which she puts in the mouth of every new born baby, giving it thus a spirit and life.

Anatolia, the land of mothers, had been for ten thousand years the land where the Mother Goddess was worshiped by its inhabitants. But with the appearance of the Greek gods this holy woman was torn into pieces and her different aspects were projected to different female figures as if one could not bear the co-existence of both the mothering and sexual aspects of the woman in the same person. This is perhaps due to the danger of incestuous encounter with the mother.