Payna or Paynaqan is a winter feast and festival Turkic Tengrism and Altai folklore.
Payna was a mythological female character associated with winter and snow time in early Turkic mythology, particularly within Altai, Siberia and Central Asia.
[2] Along with her male companion Pakta (autumn spirit), she was associated with rituals conducted in rural areas during winter.
In Turkic mythology, the beautiful woman called "Payna" lived on atop mountains, where they discussed the fate of crops and of human inhabitants.
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