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Albanian warrior dance in circle around fire (), drawing from the book Childe Harold's Pilgrimage written by Lord Byron in the early 19th century. Practiced for several hours with very short intervals, the dance gets new vigour from the words of the accompanying song that starts with a battle cry invoking war drums, and which is of a piece with the movement and usually changed only once or ...
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.
A marble statue of Jupiter, king of the Roman gods. Paganism (from Latin pāgānus 'rural', 'rustic', later 'civilian') is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, [1] or ethnic religions other than Judaism.
The traditional Albanian clothing (Albanian: Veshjet Tradicionale Shqiptare; Veshjet Kombëtare; Veshjet Popullore or Kostumet Kombëtare) includes more than 500 different varieties of clothing in all Albania and the Albanian-speaking territories and communities (including the Arbëreshë in Italy, Arvanites in Greece and Arbanasi in Croatia).
Dialectal variants include: Gheg Albanian P(ë)rende (def. P(ë)renda), Pren(n)e (def. Pren(n)a); Tosk Albanian: Premte (def. Premtja), Preme (def. Prema). Prende is also called Afërdita [21] (Afêrdita in Gheg Albanian [9]) in association with the cult of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star, which in Albanian is referred to as (h)ylli i dritës, Afërdita "the Star of Light ...
The Xhubleta is an undulating, bell-shaped folk skirt, traditionally worn by Albanian women in northern Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro.It is a garment that survived from ancient times exclusively in Albanian inhabited territories, [1] and it is a unique type of dress for its particular shape, structure, and decorating system. [2]
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The slava is a reinterpretation of a Serbian pagan rite: [4] the ancestor-protector became a Christian saint, [5] frequently St. Nicholas, [4] with the pagan rite being reduced of many religious elements and frequent ceremonies and becoming a social event with the annual meeting of the family and friends. [5] [6]