VALENCES OF RELIGIOUS IMAGINARY REFLECTED IN ROMANIAN FAIRY-TALES
VALENCES OF RELIGIOUS IMAGINARY REFLECTED IN ROMANIAN FAIRY-TALES

Summary/Abstract: In many fairy-tales is presented the human evolution as an initiationtrip,through which one has to master one’s wisdomand the mysterie. The main character, also known as the hero, is involved in many tensions followed by punishmentsand that is when he comes to maturity. By this initiation trip, the hero acquires a series of spiritual values. The road to initiation is a trip towards himself, so to make use of human values means to open the gates of self improving. The narrator is obviously very interested in offering him ethic values which he illustrates through the humaniyed fantastic, avoiding, this way, to present difficult or abstract models. The modern terms used for interpreting fairy-tales translate the religious eexperiences of the origins. The most frequent events presented from human life, which are also presented in fairy-tales, are: the birth, the marriage and the death. Il happens many times in Romanian fairy-tales to encode a message through the religious imaginary.

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