Paraskeva Friday

Paraskeva Friday
Saint Paraskeva-Friday, Galich, Russia, photo before 1917
Venerated inFolk Orthodoxy
Equivalents
Indo-EuropeanPriyah
NorseFreyja
SlavicMokosh[1]
Wooden sculpture of St. Paraskeva. Late seventeenth - early eighteenth century
Icon "Paraskeva Pyatnitsa" in a riza. The Urals, circa 1800

In the folk Christianity of Slavic Eastern Orthodox Christians, 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.[1] 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.[1] Typologically, Paraskeva Pyatnitsa has parallels with day-personifications of other cultures, for example, the Tajik Bibi-Seshanbi ('Lady Tuesday').[2]: 368 

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