Rite – mythe – symbole. Les croix votives roumaines entre la tradition populaire et la création culte
Rite – Myth – Symbol. Romanian Votive Crosses between Popular Tradition and Cult Creation

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian Pre-Christian Pantheon ispresented connected to the themes of cosmogony, having as background themytical-magical and ritualistic-symbolical thinking, thus underlining theimportance of the mythical-historical-religious dimension, and also thedefining of sacred space in our Romanian perception. Moreover, the conditionof artistic form, as a bearer of the spiritual message, is necessary for theidentification of ancient motifs and of the way in which they influence art.These ancient motifs, of great symbolical depth, are connected to the solar cultand are preserved in decorations which can be found in the studied monuments:the cross, the column of the sky, the troiţa (a big cross made of wood or stone,adorned with paintings, sculptures, inscriptions and sometimes framed by asmall construction, usually placed at crossroads, near fountains or places thatare connected to an event; an icon, formed of three parts, the lateral ones are inhinges, like some shutters, connected to the one from the middle; a tryptich),the icon…

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