by 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