Also known as Shakhta iyesi (Tatar: Şahta İyäse; "Protector of Mine-pit").
Then, he alerts te miners against dent with the cat sound tone or whistling.
They will also lead them to veins of ore. To people who are evil or insult them they are deadly; pushing them into dark chasms or send tunnels crashing down upon them.
Shakhta Ata or Shahta Baba (Tatar: Şahta Ata; Uzbek: Shaxta Ota, "Father of Pit") is male form and akin of Ergene iyesi.
The word Şahta / Şaxta (Russian: Шахта, German: Schacht) means mine pit in Turkic and Slavic languages.