Prende
deity sky Albanian single tradition · 3
Prende or Premte is the dawn goddess, goddess of love, beauty, fertility, health and protector of women, in the Albanian pagan mythology. She is also called Afër-dita, an Albanian phrase meaning "near day", "the day is near", or "dawn", in association with the cult of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star. She is referred to as Zoja Prenne or Zoja e Bukuris ("Goddess/Lady Prenne" or "Goddess/Lady of Beauty").
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Worshiped by Illyrians in antiquity; worshiped in northern Albania until recent times. Churches dedicated to her in the 16th-19th centuries.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Saint Anne, Saint Veneranda, Greek Paraskevi, Romanian Sfânta Paraschiva, South Slavic Petka
- co occurs with
- Gjin, Afërdita, Eos, Aya, Hausos, Ayg, Arshaluys, Ēostre, Dellingr, Aurora, Mater Matuta, Zorya, Aušra, Aušrinė, Austra, H₂éwsōs, Zojz, Dievas, *Dyēus, Brigid, Zeus, Uṣas
- child of
- Zojz
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“Albanian goddess Prende.”
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“Albanian – Afërdita (lit. 'near the day'), Prende”
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“the Albanian goddess Prende was regarded as the daughter of the sky god Zojz”
#18257 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5