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Romanian teens in traditional clothes are dancing A traditional house in the Village Museum. The folklore of Romania is the collection of traditions of the Romanians.A feature of Romanian culture is the special relationship between folklore and the learned culture, determined by two factors.
Pages in category "Romanian mythology" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Radu Anghel;
"Moses Gaster și colecția sa de povești populare ale țiganilor din România" [Moses Gaster and His Collection of Romanian Gypsies' Folk Tales]. Anuarul Muzeului Etnografic al Moldovei [The Yearly Review of the Ethnographic Museum of Moldavia] (in Romanian). 18: 305–324. ISSN 1583-6819. Pavelčík, Nina; Pavelčík, Jiří (2001).
Romanian ethnobotanist Simion Florea Marian described the Solmonari in his article on "Daco-Romanian Mythology" in the Albina Carpaților (1879. [22] Marian collected this folklore orally from the people in Siebenbürgen (Transylvania) and the adjoining Bukovina - Moldavia region.
Roman statue of the infant Hercules strangling a snake. Hercules, god of strength, whose worship was derived from the Greek hero Heracles but took on a distinctly Roman character. Hermaphroditus, an androgynous Greek god whose mythology was imported into Latin literature. Honos, a divine personification of honor. Hora, the wife of Quirinus.
Glycon, also spelled Glykon (Ancient Greek: Γλύκων Glýkōn, gen: Γλύκωνος Glýkōnos), was an ancient snake god.He had a large and influential cult within the Roman Empire in the 2nd century, with contemporary satirist Lucian providing the primary literary reference to the deity.
The Zmeu (plural: zmei, feminine: zmeoaică / zmeoaice) is a fantastic creature of Romanian folklore and Romanian mythology. Though referred by some sources as a dragon, the zmeu is nevertheless distinct, because it usually has clear anthropomorphic traits: it is humanoid and has legs, arms, the ability to create and use artifacts such as ...
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore. "Roman mythology" may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period.