GRÂUL – MATERIE HRĂNITOARE ŞI ELEMENT RITUAL CU VALENŢE SIMBOLICE ÎN PRACTICILE DIN OLTENIA
WHEAT – A NUTRITIOUS AND RITUAL ITEM IN TRADITIONAL PRACTICES FROM OLTENIA

Summary/Abstract: In the Oltenian ethnographic space, the ritual element that concentrates a well-defined symbolism is the wheat. Particularized and identified through an exceptional cultural background, the wheat gathers a multitude of symbols and values, meant to harmonize all the existential sides, in this way preparing, auspiciously, the entering into a new order. At the level of the collective thinking, the wheat gains symbolic values, being always present in performing the ritual and ceremonial sequences, during the various holidays or the customs that belong to our lives. Its rather prosperous ritology, recommend it as a symbol of the rebirth, renovation and also fertility.

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