Imagini ale feminităţii în mitologia populară românească
Images of femininity in Romanian folk mythology

Summary/Abstract: In this study, I had in view pointing out the negative capitalization of the womanhood as part of an anthropogonic and cosmogonic scene of Romanian folk tales. The two gods who built the universe were the Brother (Fârtatul) and the Non-Brother (Nefârtatul). They actually are the Brother and the Sister, for the negative prefix doesn't exclusively have to be interpreted like an ethical opposition, but it can recall the antagonism of the male/ female principles. On this point of view, I analyzed the folk ballad named The Sun and the Moon. I caught the pull in the plane of the mentality and the mythical-religious imaginary from a feminine matriarchy worship which improved the incest between brother and sister to a male solar worship which became an interdiction.

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