Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Discover Kotys (Kotyto), the Thracian goddess of orgiastic and ecstatic rites — a deity of fertility and the wild whose festival the Kotyttia was
Discover Bendis, the great Thracian goddess of the hunt, moon and wild — identified with Artemis and so significant that her cult was adopted at Athens,
Discover Sabazios, the sky-father and horseman-god of the Thracians and Phrygians — identified with both Zeus and Dionysus, whose ecstatic mystery-cult
Discover Zalmoxis, the great god of immortality of the Getae and Dacians — the deity who grants eternal life, taught by legend to have been a man who
Discover E Bukura e Dheut, “the Beauty of the Earth” — the dazzling magical fairy-princess of Albanian folktales, a being of supernatural beauty and power
Discover the Zana, the fierce and beautiful mountain-fairy of Albanian myth — a martial nature-spirit of the high peaks who empowers heroes with
Discover the Kulshedra, the great she-dragon of Albanian myth — a multi-headed, fire-spitting monster of drought and chaos who hoards the waters and
Discover the Drangue, the winged hero-protector of Albanian myth — a semi-divine champion born with wings who wields lightning in storm-cloud battles
Discover Prende, the Albanian goddess of love, beauty and the dawn — radiant patroness of women and consort of the thunder-god, associated with the
Discover Zojz, the sky-father and supreme god of ancient Albanian myth — deity of the bright heaven, thunder and lightning, the Albanian cognate of Zeus
