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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 ...
Drangue features the attributes of a sky and lightning deity, apparently an Albanian reflection of the Indo-European sky god [8] (Zojz in Albanian tradition [9]). The legendary battle of a heroic deity associated with thunder and weather – like drangue – who fights and slays a huge multi-headed serpent associated with water, storms, and ...
Zeus – God of lightning and storms; Zennyo Ryūō – Rain-making dragon; Zhar-Ptitsa – Glowing bird; Zhulong – Pig-headed dragon; Zhū Què – Fire elemental bird; Žiburinis – Forest spirit in the form of a glowing skeleton; Zilant – Flying chicken-legged reptile
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This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with Z in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.
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 ...
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 ...
Zana (Zanë in Gheg or Zërë in Tosk, [1] [2] pl. zanë(t), see other variants below) is a nymph-like figure in Albanian mythology and folklore, usually associated with mountains, springs and streams, forests, vegetation and animals, human vital energy and sometimes destiny. [3]