REPERELE STRUCTURII MITULUI ÎN CONCEPŢIA LUI VASILE PÂRVAN
The Structure of the Zamolxian Myth in the Concept of Vasile Pârvan

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyze the structure of the Zamolxian mythand the implications that follow from the perspective of historian and philosopher VasilePârvan. Zamolxe, the god and the King of the Geto-Dacians, are in the center of hisdoctrine the thesis that man is a whole of two essential elements: sphere and soul. AsSocrates also points out in the Charmide Dialogue, the great importance is the state inwhich the soul is found, which prevails in front of the body. Moreover, the state of thesoul undoubtedly determines the state of the body after. The soul in relation to the bodyof the flesh, prone to suicide, is the very essence of the essence, because “everyone herestarts from the soul.” The asprime of life does not prevent the Getae from believing inimmortal eternity, in another world encountering Zalmoxe. For Eliade, Zamolxis is a“daimon or a theos,” which reveals a doctrine that “depends on the ontological regimeof post mortem existence.” Zamolxis is not from the beginning a supernatural being, heappears in a “religious history of eschatological type “, the coordinates of which are occultand epiphany. In the center of this doctrine is placed the idea of the immortality of thesoul.

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