Paraskeva Friday

Paraskeva Friday
Saint Paraskeva-Friday, Galich, Russia, photo before 1917
Venerated inFolk Orthodoxy
Equivalents
Indo-European equivalentPriyah
Norse equivalentFreyja
Slavic equivalentMokosh[1]
Wooden sculpture of St. Paraskeva. Late seventeenth - early eighteenth century
Icon "Paraskeva Pyatnitsa" in the case. The Urals, circa 1800

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]

  1. ^ Paraskeva Pyatnitsa / Levkievskaya E. E., Tolstaya S. M. // Slavic Antiquities : Ethnolinguistic Dictionary: in 5 volumes / under the general ed. N. I. Tolstoy; Institute of Slavic Studies RAS . - M .  : Interd. relations, 2009. - V. 4: P (Crossing the water) - S (Sieve). - S. 631–633. - ISBN 5-7133-0703-4, 978-5-7133-1312-8 Page 631–632
  2. ^ a b Levkievskaya, Tolstaya 2009.