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Albanian tattoo patterns: 19th century (top), early 20th century (bottom). They are symbols of the Sun ( Dielli ) and the Moon ( Hëna ); the cross (also swastika in some tattoos) is the Albanian traditional way to represent the deified Fire – Zjarri , evidently also called with the theonym Enji .
[1] [2] The tattoo practice, which has been widespread among Albanians (see Albanian traditional tattooing) and also Vlach women, native populations of the western Balkans, predates the Slavic migrations to the Balkans, and consequently Christianity itself, tracing back to Illyrian times, although scholars documented it in the 19th century.
The cross (also swastika in some tattoos) is the Albanian traditional way to represent the deified Fire – Zjarri, evidently also called with the theonym Enji. [2] Also appearing in other expressions of Albanian traditional art, [ 3 ] they represent celestial, light, fire and hearth worship, expressing the favor of the light within the ...
In Albanian tradition the Sun is referred to as "the Beauty of the Sky" (i Bukuri i Qiellit), [32] a phrase used for the god who rules the sky.[33]According to a modern interpretation, the ancestors of the Albanians presumably had in common with the Ancient Greek theogony the tripartite division of the administration of the world into heaven, sea, and underworld, and in the same functions as ...
A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, ... Albanian traditional tattooing;
The Albanian word hënë (definite form: hëna; Gheg: hanë, def. hana) is generally considered to be from the Late Indo-European *skond-nah₂ "the shiny one". [9]As an Albanian theonym, Hana/Hanë is recorded as early as 1685, in the Cuneus Prophetarum ("The Band of the Prophets") by the Old Albanian writer Pjetër Bogdani, as the Albanian rendering of Roman goddess Diana.
Albanian culture or the culture of Albanians (Albanian: kultura shqiptare [kultuˈɾa ʃcipˈtaɾɛ]) is a term that embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, musical, political and social elements that are representative of ethnic Albanians, which implies not just Albanians of the country of Albania but also Albanians of Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro, where ethnic Albanians are a ...
The zero grade radical of *di̯ḗu̯s and the epithet "father" are thought to be contained in an Albanian noun for "god" and the supreme entity – Zot.It is traditionally considered to be derived from Proto-Albanian *dźie̅u ̊ a(t)t-, an old compound for 'heavenly father' stemming PIE *dyew-('sky, heaven, bright') attached to *átta ('father'), thus a cognate to PIE *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr and ...