RITES AND RITUALS IN THE BURIAL TRADITION IN OLTENIA BELOW THE MOUNTAIN

THE ONLY CERTAINTY IN LIFE IS DEATH. WHATEVER THE DEFINITION OF DEATH, DEATH IS A UNIVERSAL PHENOMENON THAT CANNOT BE AVOID ED AND THAT CHARACTERIZES ALL LIVING THINGS. THIS PHENOMENON HAS RAISED MANY QUESTIONS IN ALL CULTURES AND IN ALL SUCCESSIVE PERIODS OF TIME. DEPENDING ON THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY AND THE PERIOD OF THE ERA WE ARE DISCUSSING, SOME OF THE TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS THAT HAVE BEEN PASSED DOWN BY WORD OF MOUTH, FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, ARE ON THE WAY TO EXTINCTION, AND THUS THEIR CONVERGENCE IS REQUIRED AS THEY ARE PART OF THE CULTURE OF EVERY PEOPLE . THUS, WE AS ROMANIAN PEOPLE ALSO HAVE SPECIAL CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS THAT MUST BE PRESERVED IN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE AS THEY CONTRIBUTE TO DEFINING OUR IDENTITY. WE EXEMPLIFY IN THIS SENSE, AT FUNERAL CEREMONIES, THE "DAWN" RITUAL.

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