HENOTHEISM, MONOTHEISM AND SYNCRETISM IN THE ROMANIAN CULTURE
HENOTHEISM, MONOTHEISM AND SYNCRETISM IN THE ROMANIAN CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: The incipient mythologies have mostly a solar structure, because the primitive man chooses the symbolic heroes of those who can be likened to the sun in the struggle with the darkness, the descent into the death and the resurrection, just as the zoolatria descends a man in death and returns it as a predator. The myths, these forms of pre-religion, influence and organize the spiritual life from the cultural beginnings of the population from the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic space to the henotism of the faith in the Zamolxis god-god to the monotheism introduced by Christianity. The ancestrals beliefs inherited or borrowed from those who came to contribute to the completion of the transformation of the inhabitants of the Carpatho-Danubian-Pontic space into Romanian people have accompanied Christianity all the way to today. The incipient man's dualism, the lunar symbolism and the solar structure of an ancestral mythology, continues under the cult of Zamolxis, while maintaining Bendis as a feminine side of religious culture, maintains its line of continuity after the Romanization of Dacia and then the Christianization of the DacianRoman population. One can observe an overlap of monotheistic religion over the henotism and the polytheism that survived in Dacia, an overlap that in its incipient forms can not eliminate the existing mythical background, so the customs, beliefs and pre-Christian traditions coexist with the monotheistic ones, filtered over time by the mythological visions of primitive Christianity.

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