"It is wary much possible that Albanians come from far east.
post any evidence that your origin is illyrian." (Marko T)

ok lets start with remnants of Illyrian culture found in Albania;


ALBANIAN LANGUAGE - an extract from 'Universal Geography' by M. Malte-Brun 1829 p.112

'We now come to the third division of the Albanian language, which consists of unknown roots, or at least of such as have not hitherto been explained; we might at first have been apt to leave the examination of the subject to orientalists, and to suppose that these words were exclusively of Asiatic origin, because they are apparently foreign to every known European language. But as we have ocassionaly been able to account for some of these roots, and to connect them, in spite of their irregularity, with the Hellenic and other European dialects, we were led to conclusion that the primitives of a pure and indigenous language like the Albanian, must have been at one time common to the Thracian, Illyrian, Phrygian and Lydian, and that the uknown roots are not the least valuable part of each or all these languages. The Albanian .. might become as useful, in an historical point of view, as the language of the Orpheus or Deucalion, and might enable us to explain the meaning attached to the names of many ancient people and places '

Morever, there are also a number of Illyrian gods and godesses, that today survive in the Albanian culture, folkore, and language. To name a few:

1. EN - An old Illyrian God whose name lives on in the Albanian word for Thursday. With the comming of Christianity, EN was denoted to demonic status (Lurker 2004:57) -------------- E ENJTE

2. PRENDE (North Albanian: PRENNE) - Old Illyrian Godess of Love, the female partner of the Thunder-God ; Perendi.
Today, she is nothing more than a Catholic Saint, But in Albanian folk-beliefs she still rates as 'Zoja e Bukurise' (Queen of the Beauty). Friday is the day sacred to the 'Godess of Love' (Lurker 2004:155) ---- E PREMTE

3. PERENDI - Old Illyrian name for God, related to the Lithuanian - 'Perkunas', the God of Thunder, and the Greek word, 'keraunos = lightning. That is to say Perendi was a storm-god (Lurker 2004)