Cultural Confluences


Constantin Brâncusi
- Wisdom of Earth


Lying at the crossroads that link the Orient and the Occident, Romania claims to belong to both.
If modern Romanian literature is the offspring of Romanian culture grafted onto Western cultural trends, the old Romanian legends and beliefs lie under the sign of another spiritual zodiac, that of myth and ancient sages.
Mircea Eliade emphasized that what is characteristic to Romanian culture and differentiates it from the European one is, in fact, its affiliation to the ancient background of universal values.
The Indian values which reached Romania directly or indirectly have represented for the Romanians a world in which they have re-discovered their own cultural vitality.

• Dacian-Getic invasion by the Roman conquerors is somewhat similar to that of India's invasion by the Aryans.
• "Miorita", the most widespread Romanian myth, has been found to practice a doctrine resembling ahimsa - non-violence.
• The entire work of Brancusi, inspired from the endless source of ancient Romanian folklore, represents the reiteration of India's cultural ethos through the centuries.

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