The Aiyy Faith is a neo-Tengrist Yakutreligious organization has been registered since 2015 in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia. It is former organization Kut-Siur founded in 1990 and established in 1993 in Yakutsk. Its founder is philologist Lazar Afanasyev, PhD alias by ethnic nameTéris, who studied shamanism in the Soviet years. His teaching is a monotheistically modernized Yakut version of Tengrism and is set forth in the book "Teachings of Aiyy." Aiyy —Creator God—in the 9th Heaven. All the other 63 deities of the Yakut pantheon are his manifestations. "White shamans" serve him. Man consists of three souls : the soul-earth, soul-air, and soul-mother, returning to Aiyy. When some traditionalists ask about the sources of this teaching, he replies that he received from "white old spirit". Main posts of organization are Philosopher and Toyon. It has the Aiyy houses and yurts in the villages in which common prayers and bloodless sacrifices with fermented mare's milk are performed. The doctrine influenced the content of teaching national culture in schools and especially on the training of personnel at the local College of Culture. , Russia, taken away by the authorities. From the very beginning, the organization collaborated closely with the Yakut national movement "The Future of the Yakuts" led by Ivan Ukhkhan. Together they requested from the beginning of the 1990s allow the construction of the temple: in 1999, by a decree of the republican authorities, the House of Purification, the building from a wood, glass and metal wonder composed in the form of three gigantic yurts was laid down and opened in 2002. However, back in 2001, the localOrthodox archbishop sharply criticized the construction of the "pagan temple". And after the new President of Yakutia was elected in 2002, the pro-Orthodox course of the authorities began, representatives of ethnic religions ceased to be invited to inter-religious meetings. The House of Purification was taken away and transferred to the city, which turned it into a house of culture. Religious and political activists demand to return it, as well as build the "Three Birch" National Park promised by the authorities and a pagan school in Yakutsk. However, the authorities stopped trying to prevent the spread of Aiyy Faith at the grassroots level in the villages.
