EXERCITIUL DISTANTEI SI ELEMENTUL ASCENSIONAL ÎN BASMUL FANTASTIC ROMÂNESC/The Exercise of Distance and the Ascensional Element in the Romanian Fantastic Fairytale

Primordial element, dominated by mythological and mythofolklore connotations, air is a kernel by itself of collective imagination, which has generated story (epic as a species). Being in a limited spatiotemporality (given by the inaccessible nature to anyone and/or anyway), this archetypal element is reserved for a spiritual elite (God, Saints, fairies, astral elements), with a cosm(ogon)ic role, and it can be accessed only temporal and in virtue of some initiations done by someone already initiated. In this study, I tried to capture, from the perspective of hermeneutics, just the need of an upward imaginary of the Romanian traditional community, generating and/or consuming fairy tale, which has tried, through specific imagology means, to access this intangible space otherwise. At the same time, through the examples offered by the collection of fairy tales, I have tried to underline the contributions and the conditionings, which the technical progress has imposed on this field, the mythical (or magic) content of tale, being replaced with technical references (new means of aerial locomotion), which change the symbolic expression of these (imaginary) air travels to concrete, daily, easy.