Lacul Panonic Cuaternar: Marea Albă a mitologiei româneşti
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| Excerpt | In this paper we intend to support the idea that the White Sea of the Romanian mythical stories, the usual „sea” frequently mentioned in these narrations, existed as a geographical reality of the Pannonian Basin, so of the actual Middle Danube Depression, until about 11.560 years ago, so until the end of the Pleistocene (i.e. until the end of the Palaeolithic). This „sea” corresponds to the Relict Pannonian Lake (late successor of the Pliocene Pannonian Sea) located in a non-endoreic space (with the Danube Gorge already sketched), lake maintained towards the south-eastern area of the Pannonian Basin with the shoreline at about +100 m. elevation. The Romanian mythical stories describe a fresh water sea with freshwater fish, with major bays (coade), that housed several important islands (ostroave) and freezing during heavy winters. Other important features of this unusual sea are also reflected by some usual syntagmes of the mythical stories such as „puddles of the sea”, „swamps of the seas” and „swirl of the sea”. In relation to this White Sea it is possible to locate effectively mythical lands like the Kingdom of the White Emperor (to the south-eastern zone of the sea), Green Emperor (to the south-western shoreline) or the lands which were under the control of the fairies (Fruška Gora moutains as an island of the sea or the bay of the Old Tisa as a reference area for Ileana Cosânzeana). In addition on the surface of this sea can be drawn the waterways of the heroes of some mythical stories, given that this palaeogeographically framework meet at the same time, surprising, the spatial type requirements of a large category of such mythical narrations. Finally, we can support that the Romanian mythical stories reflect also geographical realities subsequent to the gradual disappearence of this „sea” as the severe windening of the old Pannonian plain, the appearence of some sandy deserts on the bottom of the former sea, the formation of the actual hydrographic network of the Middle Danube Depression as well as the completion of the Danube course whose name appears explicitly in many such mythical narrations. |
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| Editura | Publicat de: Muzeul Municipiului Bucureşti |
| Loc publicare | Bucureşti |
