Prehistoric Roots of Romanian and Southeast European Traditions, Volume I

Prehistoric Rootsby Adrian Poruciuc (2010)
Illustrations by Aneta Corciova
Edited by Joan Marler and Miriam Robbins Dexter

Contents:

Introduction

I. The Romanian dolf ‘sea-monster’ in Connection with a Greek Lexical Family and with Early Signs of Eurasian Religion

II. The Sea and the Sea Flood Motif in Romanian Folklore

III. The Shape of Sacredness from Prehistoric Temples to Neo-Byzantine Churches

IV. Demeter as ‘Earth Mother’ and Dionysos as ‘Earth’s Bridegroom’

V. Thracian Lions and Romanian Lion-Carols

VI. Orpheus: Name and Function

VII. Folk-Orphic Survivals and Christianized Variants

Instead of an Epilogue