Fountain - the architecture and custom of “pushing icons to the spring,” Andreesti commune, Gorj county (1990)
"Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum

Fountain - the architecture and custom of “pushing icons to the spring,” Andreesti commune, Gorj county (1990)

Paul Teodor Pleșa · 1990

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"Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum

Photography is part of the Research Report No. 186 with the theme “The customs of the calendar cycle practiced in spring - the practices and customs committed within the pascal cycle,” author Paul Teodor PleFotogra. The investigation took place from 10 to 17 April 1990, in Andreesti village, Gorj County. Pictured fountain with stone and wheel acorn that acts the spindle on which the bucket chain is wrapped Here is located icon in memory of the missing, so that they can adhere to the long and hard way that every soul has to go to the Great Judgment and after that, in eternal life, beyond.

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