Culture of Romania

Arts

Literature Music Fine arts Brancusi The Kiss gate Târgu Jiu public domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The culture of Romania is part of the culture of Europe. ... Romanian literature is literature written by Romanian authors, although the term may also be used to refer to all literature written in the Romanian language. ... Romania is a European country whose population includes ethnic Romanians, Hungarian and Roma (Gypsy) populations. ... The art of Romania describes the artists and artistic movements in Romania. ...

Traditions

Cuisine Folklore Mythology Spirituality Romanian cuisine is diverse, blending the dishes of several traditions which it came into contact with, as well as maintaining its own character. ...

Artists

Actors Composers Painters Poets Writers Movie and Theater Mircea Albulescu, actor Leopoldina Bălănuţă, actress Åžtefan Bănică, actor Åžtefan Bănică, Jr. ... The following is a list of famous or notable Romanian language poets: Vasile Alecsandri Grigore Alexandrescu Tudor Arghezi George Bacovia Ion Barbu Ana Blandiana Lucian Blaga Emil Brumaru (born 1939) George Cosbuc Mircea Dinescu Ştefan Augustin Doinaş (1922 - 2002) Mihai Eminescu Octavian Goga Nicolae Labis Alexandru Macedonski Gellu Naum (1915... This is a list of Romanian writers // Prose Ion Creangă (1839-1889) Ioan Slavici (1848-1925) Urmuz (1883-1923) Liviu Rebreanu (1885-1944) Panait Istrati (1884 - 1935) Vasile Voiculescu (1884-1963) Mihail Sadoveanu (1889-1961) Camil Petrescu (1894-1957) Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) Marin Preda (1922-1980) Augustin Buzura (born...

Monuments

Castles Museums Religious UNESCO WHS This is a List of religious buildings in Romania comprising cathedrals, churches and monasteries. ...

This article on Romanian mythology covers both the mythology traditional to the Romanian people and to certain earlier civilizations that occupied the same geographic area, and whom the ethnic Romanians tend to claim either as spiritual or as more literal ancestors. Thus it covers Dacian and Thracian gods, but does not cover Hungarian mythology. Mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Dacian mythology

Dacian and Thracian gods

• Zalmoxis (Zamolxe) - prophet, god - subterranean
• Gebeleizis - ultimate god - heavenly
• Bendis - the goddess of moon, forests and magic (associated with Diana, Artemis)
• Derzelas
• Kotys - mother goddess
• Heros - (Herous, Horus) the horseman god
• Vesta (Hestia) - god of flames and fireplace

Detail of the main fresco of the Aleksandrovo kurgan. ... Gebeleizis (or Nebeleizis) was the god of lightning and the horizon for the Dacians. ... Bendis was a Thracian goddess of the hunt whom the Greeks identified with Artemis, and hence with the other two aspects of the former Minoan Triple Goddess, Hecate and Persephone. ... Getae-Dacian god of health and human spirits vitality, also known under the names of Great God Gebeleizis, Derzis or the Thracian Knight. ... Kotys was a Thracian goddess, worshipped with much revelry by both Thracians and Edonians. ... In Romanian mythology, Heros was a god of the underworld. ... Vesta was the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman mythology, analogous to Hestia in Greek mythology. ...

Places/Concepts

• Kogaion (holy mountain)

See Kogaionon for the mammal genus from the Upper Cretaceous Kogaion was the mythical holy mountain of the Dacians, the place where Zalmoxis stayed in a underground cave for three years. ...

Romanian Folklore

Personages

• Baba Dochia
• Balaur
• Baubau, variant form Babau (similar to the Bogeyman)
• Căpcăun
• Ileana Cosânzeana
• Fat-Frumos
• Luceafăr - similar to Lucifer
• Moroi (a type of vampire)
• Muma Pădurii
• Pricolici (a vampire or demon)
• Solomonari
• Sânziana (or Drăgaică)
• Spiriduş
• Stafie - similar to Ghost
• Strigoi
• Uriaş - similar to Giant
• Ursitoare
• Vasilisc - similar to Basilisk
• Vârcolac
• Zână
• Zburător
• Zorilă
• Zmeu

In Romanian mythology, Baba Dochia, or The Old Dokia, is a name originating from the Byzantine calendar which celebrates the Martyr Evdokia on 1 March. ... In Romanian folkore a balaur is a creature similar to a dragon, although distinct: dragons as such also exist in Romanian folklore. ... The bogeyman, also boogeyman, boogyman, or bogyman, is a ghost-like monster that children often believe is real. ... Capcaun means ogre in Romanian. ... Ileana Cosânzeana is a figure in Romanian mythology. ... (fat: son, infant; frumos: beautiful) Fat-Frumos is a knight hero in Romanian folklores mythology. ... Luceafar is the name of the morning star (the planet Venus) which in Romanian folklore is associated with Demons but also hints to the Greek Titan Hyperion. ... Lucifer as depicted in Collin de Plancys Dictionnaire Infernal (1863) Lucifer is a Latin word made up of two words, lux (light; genitive lucis) and ferre (to bear, to bring), meaning light-bearer. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Muma Pădurii (literally the Mother of the Forest) is one of the many female monsters in the Romanian folklore (others being Zgripţuroaica, Scorpia) which together form a triumvirate similar to the Greek Gorgons. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... St Anthony plagued by demons, as imagined by Martin Schongauer, in the 1480s In religion, folklore, and mythology a demon or demoness is a supernatural being that has generally been described as a malevolent spirit but outside Christian circles was viewed as a sort of elemental spirit: compare Daemon and... Sanziana is the name of a flower and also the name for a a group of young, nice girl-spirits. ... A Spiriduş in Romanian mythology is an evil little creature, similar to the leprechauns. ... Reputed ghost of a monk. ... In Romanian mythology, strigoi (same form singular or plural) are the evil souls of the dead rising from the tombs during the night to haunt the neighbourhood. ... For other meanings of the word giant, see Giant (disambiguation) Giants are humanoid creatures of prodigious size and strength, a type of legendary monster that appear in the tales of many different races and cultures. ... In Romanian mythology, the three Ursitoare are supposed to appear three nights after a childs birth to determine the course of its life. ... In Greek and European bestiaries and legends, a basilisk (from the Greek basiliskos, a little king, in Latin Regulus) is a legendary reptile reputed to be king of serpents and said to have the power of causing death by a single glance. ... The vârcolac is a wolf demon from Romanian mythology. ... Zana (plural Zane) is the Romanian equivalent of the Greek Charites. ... In translation it means the flying thing. It usually referes to the dacic heraldic symbol and also their fighting flag nmed dracone which was a flying dragon with a woolf head. ... The Zmeu (plural: zmei, feminin: zmeoaică/zmeoaice) is a fantastic creature of Romanian folklore and Romanian mythology. ...

Myths

• Mioriţa
• Meşterul Manole

Mioriţa (The Little Ewe) is an old Romanian pastoral balad and considered one of the most important pieces of the Romanian folklore. ... In Romanian mythology, Mesterul Manole is the architect of the Curtea de Arges Monastery in Wallachia. ...

Places

• Apa Sâmbetei
• Apa Vie/Apa Moartă

Apa Sambetei generally means for nothing, to no result, or that what you have done was destroyed or is rendered useless after you finish it. ... In Romanian mythology, Apa Vie means the water from which heroes drink so that they come back to life after healing their wounds. ...

Romanian myths part of international culture

• Vampyre
• Werewolf (Vârcolac)
• Dracula

Further reading Christopher Frayling - Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula 1992. ... A German woodcut from 1722 A werewolf in folklore and mythology is a person who changes into a wolf, either by purposefully using magic or by being placed under a curse. ... Bela Lugosi as Dracula; U.S. postage stamp Count Dracula is a fictional character, unarguably the most famous vampire in literature. ...

Rituals

• Paparuda

See also: Romanian culture, Romanian folklore, Dacian mythology Paparuda Paparuda, probably of pagan origin (the name is derived from the Slavic goddess Perperuna), is a Romanian rain ritual, performed in the spring and in times of severe drought. ... Romanias culture is very similar to other European culture, including that of Western Europe and Central Europe. ... Gods Zalmoxis (Salmoxis, Zalmoxe, Zamolxis) - prophet, god - subterranean Gebeleizis - ultimate god - heavenly Bendis - the goddess of moon, forests and magic Derzelas Kotys - mother goddess Heros - (Herous, Horus) the horseman god Vesta (Hestia) - god of flames and fireplace Places/Concepts Kogaion (holy mountain) Categories: Mythology stubs | Mythology by culture ...