CARMINA BURANA: MYTHOLOGY, HUMANITY, PROFANE

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• Diana Brindusa FARCAS Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, I. MYTHOLOGY, The first chapter deals with the study of mythological aspects,, analyzing how they have influenced human life and thought in Antiquity, and the Middle Ages, mainly in the Latin and Greek worlds. For a clearer, understanding, we will try to define the term myth (from the Greek, mythos) using the explanation provided by Encyclopedic Dictionary of the, Romanian Language: “story from the world of the sacred, the divine, the, gods and the heroes designed to explain the origin of the gods, the world, and its phenomena, and human origin, perfection and destiny. Unlike, legends, a myth is always based on religion.” We will also take into, account what Meillet says in Dictionnaire de la langue latine: “fabula,-ae:, propos de la foule conversation”1, and the translation we find in George, Guţu’s Latin-Romanian Dictionary: “fabula,-ae: vorbe, subiect de vorbe,, poveste, povestire, fabulă (hearsay, talk, story, account, fable)”.2, From the start, we must admit that determining the origin of, myths is very difficult, since historical data available to the contemporary, world are heterogeneous, having undergone various changes influenced, by the historical period in which they were formed, by the geographical, area, the level of civilization. From the earliest of times, one thing is, certain: people have been fascinated by nature and have always tried to, subdue it. At the same time, men faced strange and unknown things that, made them question things unanswered at that time. Thus, the Indo-, European peoples began to follow the natural phenomena, the path of the, sun, the relationship between the sun and the moon, the seasons, storms,, eclipses, which they have tried to explain according to their level of, 1 A.Ernout et A.Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine, Libraire Klincksieck,, Paris, 1959, p. 652, 2 Gheorghe Guțu, Dicționar latin-român (Romanian-Latin Dictionary), Humanitas,, București, 2012, p. 252 Author