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Zojz [a] is a sky and lightning god in Albanian pagan mythology. [2] Regarded as the chief god and the highest of all gods, traces of his worship survived in northern Albania until the early 20th century, and in some forms still continue today. [3] The old beliefs in the Sky (Alb. Qielli) are pagan beliefs preserved by Albanians since ancient ...
Lockyer, Herbert, All the men of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing House (Grand Rapids, Michigan), 1958; Lockyer, Herbert, All the women of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28151-2; Lockyer, Herbert, All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28041-9; Tischler, Nancy M.,
The team discovered that within the King James Version Bible, a total of 3,418 distinct names were identified. Among these, 1,940 names pertain to individuals, 1,072 names refer to places, 317 names denote collective entities or nations, and 66 names are allocated to miscellaneous items such as months, rivers, or pagan deities.
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere
Abel can be translated as "breath", "temporary" or "meaninglessness" and is the word translated as "vanity" in Ecclesiastes 1:2 in the King James Version. The name Jael also appears to refer to El in English, but contains ayin rather than the aleph of El.
An Albanian attested sky and lightning god is Zojz, from PIE Dyeus (Daylight-Sky-God). [14] From the Albanian verb perëndoj ("to set of the sun"), ultimately derived from Latin parentari, the passive correlate of parentare ("a sacrifice to the dead, to satisfy"). [22] This etymology could relate the word perëndi with the ancient Albanian Sun ...
The alphabet, like the manuscript, is named after the city of Elbasan, where it was invented, and although the manuscript isn't the oldest document written in Albanian, [3] Elbasan is the oldest out of seven [2]: 4 known original alphabets created for Albanian. [2]: 3 Its 59 pages contain Biblical content written in a script of 40 letters, [2 ...
The name of the mythological figure is an old Albanian word. Therefore, several Albanian dialectal variants exist, such as zânë, zënë, zërë, xanë, xânë, etc. (and their definite forms: zâna, zëna, zëra, xana, xâna, etc.). [8] Arbëreshë Zónja or Zónja të Jáshtëme are also used, the latter is found also in standard Albanian as ...