Title: | Iniţierea. Definiri europene şi tipare folclorice româneşti |
Author: | Adina Hulubaș |
Publication: | Distorsionări în comunicarea lingvistică, literară și etnofolclorică românească și contextul european, Section Etnologie, p. 597-613 |
ISBN: | 973-8953-92-5 |
Editors: | Luminița Botoșineanu, Elena Dănilă, Cecilia Holban, Ofelia Ichim |
Publisher: | Editura Alfa |
Place: | Iași |
Year: | 2009 |
Abstract: | [Romanian Initiation Patterns in the Context of European Definitions] The initiation before marriage has not yet been the subject of an extensive Romanian research; hence it is an exaggeration to speak about distortions when approaching its ritual. Our work identifies some specific implications of the completely metaphorical practices revealed mainly by profane carols, fantastic ballads and fairy-tales. Totemic bounds are fundamental when entering this rite of passage and this connection becomes visible with the symbolic presence of the stag and the deer. The former has a mythical power over nature and his acts are felt and heard only by the lad. Also he transforms himself into a golden stag, under the same magical resorts as the maid who becomes a hunted deer in carols and wedding orations. All psychoanalytical perspectives see the neophyte as departing from the maternal world, but Romanian traditional culture transforms the mother image into a reference throughout initiation. Real practices meant to induce the feeling that the neophyte is in fact dead suffered an artistic transformation, which, nevertheless, testifies for the existence of such rituals very long time ago. The general perspectives on Romanian initiation motifs show a coherence with universal beliefs analyzed by European researchers, and yet a distance from the usual pattern, given by the local mystical feeling. |
Language: | Romanian |
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