Cântecul ritual funerar „Trei surori la flori”
The funerary song Three sisters gathering flowers

Summary/Abstract: The discovery of the eternal youth secret, or the continuation of the existence on another ontological level, have been permanent preoccupations of the man and have constituted the motivation for which numerous beliefs and myths appeared, which intended to shed light on the origin and the meaning of death, which was nevertheless fascinating, and on what was beyond the existential threshold. Accepted as a natural law, death has been seen as a long and mysterious voyage, towards another world that can be only accomplished, firstly, after the carrying out of specific funerary rites and rituals that allow the safe leaving of This-Side World, and the aggregation in that of the ancestors. In the funerary song Three sisters gathering flowers that accompanies the funerary rites, the entering into the land of the total silence and motionlessness is presented as a wandering, a lingering while gathering flowers. One of the most well-known motifs, from this ritual song, is the gathering of flowers, as an action that takes place on the “realm of death” and the lingering of those who left for “picking up”, in this place. By (re)discovering the significations of the symbols that are found in the song Three sisters gathering flowers, we intended to bring back to life the image of the cosmic sacredness, characteristic to the Romanian peasant.

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