THE CULT OF THE SUN, HORSE AND WEAPONS IN CĂLUŞARII ROMANIAN CUSTOM
Among the Romanian ritual dances, Căluşarii undoubtedly holds the most important position. It is both a dance and a custom performed in one and the same act. More than any other Romanian custom, the Căluşarii appears as putting together rather different, sometimes contradictory elements. The or...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Bukovinian State Medical university
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Актуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини |
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| Summary: | Among the Romanian ritual dances,
Căluşarii undoubtedly holds the most important position. It is both
a dance and a custom performed in one and the same act. More
than any other Romanian custom, the Căluşarii appears as putting
together rather different, sometimes contradictory elements. The
origin of Căluşarii was a favourite topic for several generations of
specialists in the field, especially for ethnographers and folklorists.
Nowadays, it is needed to reanalyze these cultural manifestations in
a wider interdisciplinary view. We will tackle the matter from two
viewpoints: deciphering the significance of the elements compos-
ing the dance; giving a new explanation to the origin of this cultural
manifestation. There is a rather difficult approach. Yet, the identifi-
cation of the cultural and historical strata out of the whole ensem-
ble of rituals and ceremonies reconstructed on the basis of the
available information is not certain. But, in this case, it is the only
way we can study the primitive cultural forms. As you will see, in
Căluşarii custom we deal with cultural remains older than the ap-
pearence and spreading of the Christianity, attested under variuos
forms in Ancient epochs, on a large territoriy inhabited by the
Thracians. What we today call Căluşari is a very ancient solar and
warrior dance performed at the feasts of the death and rebirth of the
supreme God, Sun. |
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| ISSN: | 2311-9896 2411-6181 |