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Romanian plug ‘plough’ (Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian plug id) is considered to be of Slavic origin, namely from OCS plugъ id., from Miklosich and Cihac (second half of 19th century, and all…
In the 19th century, a Hungarian baron Jόsef Kemény concocted an inscription, in a ‘Proto-Hungarian’ dialect, which was said to have been written on a statuette representing a winged sphinx,…
Most ancient Greek proper names either names of gods, humans or animals as well as toponyms and hydronyms cannot be explained by Greek language, but by other Indo-European language which…
The book Cultural Hybridization in the Contemporary Novel is concerned with the issue of cultural hybridization, deemed by the author to be a key concept for defining the world in…
Many researchers agree that “myth… is the counterpart of ritual; myth implies ritual, ritual implies myth, they are one and the same.” (E. R. Leach 1954: 13-14), while others may…
There seems to be a general consensus amongst the population that Romania is not good enough, that it is better to live in other places and that it will never…
Out of all the definitions scholars gave to the concept of a modern nation the one that best fits our approach refers to the nation as a “virtual community”. We…
The powerful mythical figure of Neolithic, the Great Goddess, survived in the Indo-European pantheon, with characteristics surfacing in almost all the feminine divinities of the classical mythologies. In the Romanian…
The musicological byzantine literature of the nineteenth century is full of creative personalities who, revaluating the structures canonically established through the Chrisantic reform, became visible in the world of Psalter…
The study of children’s games and toys by the Romanian researchers gained momentum in the second half of the 19th century with the studies of Petre Ispirescu and Alexandru Lambrior,…