Simbolismul antropocosmologic al nuntiri / jertfei în Mioriţa
Anthropo-cosmological symbolism of the wedding (sacrifice) into Mioriţa
Author(s): ION MARIUSSubject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: myth; rite; symbol; mioritic topofany; dogma-myth;
Summary/Abstract: Mioriţa is one of the fundamental myths of the Romanian people - the myth of pastoral existence - in relation to literary and ethnogenetic aspects, polyvalent in mythical function, ritualistic and symbolic; furthermore, it rises to a mito-dogmatic consciousness able to establish and structure an ethos. Carol-rite-myth, Mioriţa is a dogmamyth par excellence - which contains paradigmatic valences under an ancient antropocosmologic ante-Romanian aspect - formulated in terms of an archaic-liturgical poem. The poem - according to actual reminiscences - descended from a rite of initiation or rite of passage (transition) of the soul interpreted as a carol, and in secular form as a pastoral ballad. Mioriţa - followed closely by Legends of God’s Mother - is the quintessential of Romanian Cosmic Christianity, but it is also function of the ciclico-anamnesis embodiment of the sacred-hypostatic which arises into mioritic topofany.
Journal: SAECULUM
- Issue Year: 38/2013
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 135-143
- Page Count: 9
- Language: Romanian
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