SEXUALITATE INIȚIATICĂ ȘI SIMBOLISM RITUALIC ÎNTR-UN BASM ROMÂNESC
INITIATIC SEXUALITY AND RITUAL SYMBOLISM IN A ROMANIAN TALE

Summary/Abstract: Sexuality has not really become "bad" except through the influence of Christian morality that demonizes the body and its "natural" instincts caused by the magnetic attraction of woman's beauty. The Romanian tale "Țugulea, fiulunchiașuluiși al mătușii" preservesequally the metaphysical dimension, the magical and ritualistic implications of sexuality in the complex process of male maturation, converting them into "story". Sexuality was considered very important, because it was directly related to fertility and, inevitably, to the perpetuation of life. As a result, since ancient times, specific rituals and rites (such as the rites of passage) have been practiced, through which boys were initiated to become men and the girls, wives and mothers. Associated with the night and, inevitably, its stars, with the subterranean darkness, its underground waters and its monstrous lives, female sexuality has been tabooed and loaded with countless negative stereotypes, so many fears of the masculinity, poetic connotations in the fairy tale through "tests", "thresholds" or "bridges" that must to be passed by the naive and ignorant young man to become a man.

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