Paraskeva Friday | |
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Venerated in | Folk Orthodoxy |
Equivalents | |
Indo-European equivalent | Priyah |
Norse equivalent | Freyja |
Slavic equivalent | Mokosh[1] |
In folk Christianity of Orthgodox Cristians, Paraskeva Friday is a mythologized image based on a personification of Friday as the day of the week and the cult of saints Paraskeva of Iconium, called Friday and Paraskeva of the Balkans.[2] In folk tradition, the image of Paraskeva Friday correlates with the image of Saint Anastasia of the Lady of Sorrows, and the Saint Nedelya as a personified image of Sunday.[2]